QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within says Sen. Ben Sasse (Rep.)

Excerpts from Republican Ben Sasse's article in The Altantic:

Until last week, too many in the Republican Party thought they could preach the Constitution and wink at QAnon. They can’t.

January 6 is a new red-letter day in U.S. history, not just because it was the first time that the Capitol had been ransacked since the War of 1812, but because a subset of the invaders apparently were attempting to disrupt a constitutionally mandated meeting of Congress, kidnap the vice president, and somehow force him to declare Trump the victor in an election he lost. En route, the mob ultimately injured scores of law-enforcement officers. The attack led to the deaths of two officers and four other Americans. But the toll could have been much worse: Police located pipe bombs at the headquarters of both the Republican and Democratic National Committees. Investigators discovered a vehicle fully loaded with weaponry and what prosecutors are calling “homemade napalm bombs.”

The violence that Americans witnessed—and that might recur in the coming days—is not a protest gone awry or the work of “a few bad apples.” It is the blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago and has been nourished by treachery, poor political judgment, and cowardice. When Trump leaves office, my party faces a choice: We can dedicate ourselves to defending the Constitution and perpetuating our best American institutions and traditions, or we can be a party of conspiracy theories, cable-news fantasies, and the ruin that comes with them. We can be the party of Eisenhower, or the party of the conspiracist Alex Jones. We can applaud Officer Goodman or side with the mob he outwitted. We cannot do both.

The newly elected Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. She once ranted that “there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.” During her campaign, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had a choice: disavow her campaign and potentially lose a Republican seat, or welcome her into his caucus and try to keep a lid on her ludicrous ideas. McCarthy failed the leadership test and sat on the sidelines. Now in Congress, Greene isn’t going to just back McCarthy as leader and stay quiet. She’s already announced plans to try to impeach Joe Biden on his first full day as president. She’ll keep making fools out of herself, her constituents, and the Republican Party.

Conspiracy theories are a substitute. Support Donald Trump and you are not merely participating in a mundane political process—that’s boring. Rather, you are waging war on a global sex-trafficking conspiracy! No one should be surprised that QAnon has found a partner in the empty, hypocritical, made-for-TV deviant strain of evangelicalism that runs on dopey apocalypse-mongering. (I still consider myself an evangelical, even though so many of my nominal co-religionists have emptied the term of all historic and theological meaning.) A conspiracy theory offers its devotees a way of inserting themselves into a cosmic battle pitting good against evil. This sense of vocation that makes it dangerous is also precisely what makes it attractive in our era of isolated, alienated consumerism.

Read the full article, it's well written at:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...y-theories-will-doom-republican-party/617707/

Pastors need to address Qanon. They are more than just political or seekers of justice. They have end time prophetic events that they believed Trump would help usher in. The group makes it sound harmless as saying all you must do is search for the truth. But they are guided in what to search for. When they search for it, it leads to some known news event but then includes the conspiracy theories of others. Sometimes they throw in things like JFK's brother may not have died just to possibly get others to go further down their rabbit hole.

It is dangerous and their end time events are not Biblical. Be careful. This group needs to be studied in worldview, ideology, and theology. And then addressed through a Biblical worldview.

I have no doubt Epstein had a lot of people caught up in the sex trade, and that it goes much deeper than we could imagine. We have evidence for this. But to the depths of Qanon, I do not see strong enough evidence.

I am glad so many want to attack the pedophile and sex trade but all the other stuff is too much for me.

You think QAnon ( https://qalerts.app/ ) might be a Mosad psyop operation, to usher in the expected Jewish messiah (the false messiah / antichrist, to be faked as the return of Christ Yeshua as his faked second coming, for Christ Yeshua expecting Christians and Muslims), in the shape of a human being, here on earth? Who will be entering the temple in Jerusalem and proclaiming himself to be the only god to be worshipped, only after some time later, when the God-fearing Jews will also reject him as the antimessiah / antichrist, as they do not believe currently that their messiah should be worshipped, but that God (they believe in God the Father and God the Holy Spirit only currently, not in God's Son to be worshipped as Messiah) only shall be worshipped. Although they are currently still denying the Trinity of God the Father, Son Chist Yeshu and God's Holy Spirit - they will realise that Christ Yeshua is Messiah in the flesh of His glorified body, currently sitting in the flesh at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven / Paradise.

We Christians can not be deceived by a false messiah, as we know that when we see our Messiah Christ Yeshua again, it will be with us being in the clouds, in our raptured transfigured glorified bodies, together with the resurrected raptured believers in their glorified bodies.

After believers meet the true Jewish Messiah, Christ Yeshua, in the clouds, He descends to earth immediately afterwards to conquer the earth from all the unbeliever who remained after the rapture. He then establishes His Millennial Kingdom here on this earth. At the end of the Millennial Kingdom at its conclusion, satan will be released to gather the nations for the battle of Gog and Magog against Jerusalem's believers. God will struck them all down, and then we have the Great White Throne judgement, where the damned are thrown into the pool of fire, and the elect, saved by grace believers in Christ Yeshua, receives the inheritance of the new earth, new earth and new Jerusalem, where God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit will dwell with us until eternity.

Pastors need to address Qanon.

Excerpts from Republican Ben Sasse's article in The Altantic:

Until last week, too many in the Republican Party thought they could preach the Constitution and wink at QAnon. They can’t.

January 6 is a new red-letter day in U.S. history, not just because it was the first time that the Capitol had been ransacked since the War of 1812, but because a subset of the invaders apparently were attempting to disrupt a constitutionally mandated meeting of Congress, kidnap the vice president, and somehow force him to declare Trump the victor in an election he lost. En route, the mob ultimately injured scores of law-enforcement officers. The attack led to the deaths of two officers and four other Americans. But the toll could have been much worse: Police located pipe bombs at the headquarters of both the Republican and Democratic National Committees. Investigators discovered a vehicle fully loaded with weaponry and what prosecutors are calling “homemade napalm bombs.”

The violence that Americans witnessed—and that might recur in the coming days—is not a protest gone awry or the work of “a few bad apples.” It is the blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago and has been nourished by treachery, poor political judgment, and cowardice. When Trump leaves office, my party faces a choice: We can dedicate ourselves to defending the Constitution and perpetuating our best American institutions and traditions, or we can be a party of conspiracy theories, cable-news fantasies, and the ruin that comes with them. We can be the party of Eisenhower, or the party of the conspiracist Alex Jones. We can applaud Officer Goodman or side with the mob he outwitted. We cannot do both.

The newly elected Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. She once ranted that “there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.” During her campaign, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had a choice: disavow her campaign and potentially lose a Republican seat, or welcome her into his caucus and try to keep a lid on her ludicrous ideas. McCarthy failed the leadership test and sat on the sidelines. Now in Congress, Greene isn’t going to just back McCarthy as leader and stay quiet. She’s already announced plans to try to impeach Joe Biden on his first full day as president. She’ll keep making fools out of herself, her constituents, and the Republican Party.

Conspiracy theories are a substitute. Support Donald Trump and you are not merely participating in a mundane political process—that’s boring. Rather, you are waging war on a global sex-trafficking conspiracy! No one should be surprised that QAnon has found a partner in the empty, hypocritical, made-for-TV deviant strain of evangelicalism that runs on dopey apocalypse-mongering. (I still consider myself an evangelical, even though so many of my nominal co-religionists have emptied the term of all historic and theological meaning.) A conspiracy theory offers its devotees a way of inserting themselves into a cosmic battle pitting good against evil. This sense of vocation that makes it dangerous is also precisely what makes it attractive in our era of isolated, alienated consumerism.

Read the full article, it's well written at:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...y-theories-will-doom-republican-party/617707/

They should indeed.

The first line of the sermon should be this;

"QAnon offers false hope because it is a false movement based on false doctrine"

Excerpts from Republican Ben Sasse's article in The Altantic:

Until last week, too many in the Republican Party thought they could preach the Constitution and wink at QAnon. They can’t.

January 6 is a new red-letter day in U.S. history, not just because it was the first time that the Capitol had been ransacked since the War of 1812, but because a subset of the invaders apparently were attempting to disrupt a constitutionally mandated meeting of Congress, kidnap the vice president, and somehow force him to declare Trump the victor in an election he lost. En route, the mob ultimately injured scores of law-enforcement officers. The attack led to the deaths of two officers and four other Americans. But the toll could have been much worse: Police located pipe bombs at the headquarters of both the Republican and Democratic National Committees. Investigators discovered a vehicle fully loaded with weaponry and what prosecutors are calling “homemade napalm bombs.”

The violence that Americans witnessed—and that might recur in the coming days—is not a protest gone awry or the work of “a few bad apples.” It is the blossoming of a rotten seed that took root in the Republican Party some time ago and has been nourished by treachery, poor political judgment, and cowardice. When Trump leaves office, my party faces a choice: We can dedicate ourselves to defending the Constitution and perpetuating our best American institutions and traditions, or we can be a party of conspiracy theories, cable-news fantasies, and the ruin that comes with them. We can be the party of Eisenhower, or the party of the conspiracist Alex Jones. We can applaud Officer Goodman or side with the mob he outwitted. We cannot do both.

The newly elected Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. She once ranted that “there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.” During her campaign, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had a choice: disavow her campaign and potentially lose a Republican seat, or welcome her into his caucus and try to keep a lid on her ludicrous ideas. McCarthy failed the leadership test and sat on the sidelines. Now in Congress, Greene isn’t going to just back McCarthy as leader and stay quiet. She’s already announced plans to try to impeach Joe Biden on his first full day as president. She’ll keep making fools out of herself, her constituents, and the Republican Party.

Conspiracy theories are a substitute. Support Donald Trump and you are not merely participating in a mundane political process—that’s boring. Rather, you are waging war on a global sex-trafficking conspiracy! No one should be surprised that QAnon has found a partner in the empty, hypocritical, made-for-TV deviant strain of evangelicalism that runs on dopey apocalypse-mongering. (I still consider myself an evangelical, even though so many of my nominal co-religionists have emptied the term of all historic and theological meaning.) A conspiracy theory offers its devotees a way of inserting themselves into a cosmic battle pitting good against evil. This sense of vocation that makes it dangerous is also precisely what makes it attractive in our era of isolated, alienated consumerism.

Read the full article, it's well written at:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...y-theories-will-doom-republican-party/617707/

A conspiracy theory offers its devotees a way of inserting themselves into a cosmic battle pitting good against evil.

Mmm humm, and while they're at it they need to inform their congregation of the false hope and doctrine of socialism/communism that the radical left is pushing. And also that they are now considered an enemy in their own country. Loyalty to the one party system is now required, no dissenting opinions allowed.

They should indeed.

The first line of the sermon should be this;

"QAnon offers false hope because it is a false movement based on false doctrine"

They should indeed.

The first line of the sermon should be this;

"QAnon offers false hope because it is a false movement based on false doctrine"

Maybe this article will help you, read carefully!

Enough is Enough

Moreover, too many people—including within the church—have used apocalyptic language for everything except the actual Apocalypse. Every election is supposed to be the last one for our freedom. Every group of people with whom we disagree are just about to destroy the country irreparably. Every election is supposed to be the last one for our freedom.

Every group of people with whom we disagree are just about to destroy the country irreparably. And what is the result of a Flight 93 Lifestyle? An entire generation of people who have grown cynical because they know that not only do such things not end up happening—the next existential crisis means the last one is forgotten—but also because they know that, quite often, the people saying such things don’t believe it themselves.

CURRENT EVENTS
The Gospel in a Democracy Under Assault
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/the-gospel-in-a-democracy-under-assault/

Mmm humm, and while they're at it they need to inform their congregation of the false hope and doctrine of socialism/communism that the radical left is pushing. And also that they are now considered an enemy in their own country. Loyalty to the one party system is now required, no dissenting opinions allowed.

Maybe this article will help you, read carefully!

Enough is Enough

Moreover, too many people—including within the church—have used apocalyptic language for everything except the actual Apocalypse. Every election is supposed to be the last one for our freedom. Every group of people with whom we disagree are just about to destroy the country irreparably. Every election is supposed to be the last one for our freedom.

Every group of people with whom we disagree are just about to destroy the country irreparably. And what is the result of a Flight 93 Lifestyle? An entire generation of people who have grown cynical because they know that not only do such things not end up happening—the next existential crisis means the last one is forgotten—but also because they know that, quite often, the people saying such things don’t believe it themselves.

CURRENT EVENTS
The Gospel in a Democracy Under Assault
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/the-gospel-in-a-democracy-under-assault/

Me thinks you have communism tourettes. The new McCarthyism.

Me thinks you have communism tourettes. The new McCarthyism.

What is the doctrine of QAnon, and why false?

This isn't nice to use a mental disorder as a joke.

This isn't nice to use a mental disorder as a joke.