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Saturday 20th of April 2024

Bullshitters say Easter's a very special day for me. Donald Trump, a nullifidian, playing to his evangelical Christian base © 2020 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Factor by which a U.S. Christian is more likely than a nonreligious person to think poverty is a personal failure: 2 Harper's Index, November 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage change since 1961 in the portion of U.S. residents who are Christian: −24 In the portion of congresspeople who are: −4 Harper's Index, March 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Christian right Five years ago, many evangelical voters still felt distaste for Mr Trump's libertine personality. They quickly learned he was the kind of pugilist they wanted. The likely Supreme Court confirmation next week of Amy Coney Barrett, and that of Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch before her are testaments to that. America's Christian right has embraced its inner Vladimir Lenin – the end justifies the means. Edward Luce, Financial Times, October 15, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Christianity According to a recent Pew Research poll,  60 percent of Americans believe the country was founded to be a Christian nation, and nearly half (including 81 percent of white evangelicals) think it should be one today. Linda Greenhouse, New York Review of Books, February 8, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Christianity Better sleep wiih a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Ishmael in Moby Dick © 2022 Kwiple.com
Christianity Camels and Christians receive their burdens kneeling. Ambrose Bierce © 2015 Kwiple.com
Christianity Donald Trump's leaked remarks to evangelical leaders last month contained a telling choice of possessive pronoun: “I just ask you to go out and make sure all of your people vote.” Another Republican president might have referred to “our people”. This one does not feign membership of the flock. He tables an earthly bargain: it is me, or a Democrat; Brett Kavanaugh, or a liberal justice, on the US Supreme Court. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 5, 2018 © 2018 Kwiple.com
Christianity Evangelism created a safe harbor for white people who wanted to be counted as Christian without having to accept what ecumenical leaders said were the  social obligations demanded by the gospel, especially the imperative to extend civil equaliiy to nonwhites. David A. Hollinger, Christianity’s American Fate: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular © 2023 Kwiple.com
Christianity The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. Malcolm X, in Autobiography of Malcolm X  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Christianity He began with a quotation to the effect that, when the Christian arrived in Africa, he had the Bible and the African had the land; but that, before long, the African had the Bible and the Christian had the land. James Baldwin, quoting a Jamaican priest, “Princes and Powers” © 2016 Kwiple.com
Christianity There is a bit of Protestant folklore that sheds light on the social position of the various churches. A Methodist, it was said, is a Baptist who wears shoes; a Presbyterian is a Methodist who has gone to college; and an Episopalian is a Presbyterian who lives off his investments. Richard Hofstadter, Anti-intellectualism in American Life © 2021 Kwiple.com
Christianity Two Corinthians 3:17, that's the whole ballgame. … Is that the one you like? Donald Trump, to students at evangelical Liberty University, where the verse is etched on a building © 2016 Kwiple.com
Christianity What has happened to American Christianity is there is this afterglow of what a candidate is supposed to represent. It is no longer moral character. It is policy positions on things that bother evangelicals. Wayne Flynt, reflecting on the overwhelming support among evangelicals for Trump in 2016  © 2017 Kwiple.com
Christianity You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness? Adolf Hitler © 2015 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say No one reads the Bible more than me. Donald Trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Cocks of the walk say You know, nobody has done more for Christianity, nobody has done more for religion of all types, than me. Donald Trump, May 4, 2022, to CBN News, an evangelical network © 2022 Kwiple.com
Death It was possible to insist on the corruption of the dead body, and the dishonour of its begetting, while there was a living belief in the incorruption and the glory of the immortal part. But in England, at any rate, the belief in the future life as taught in Christian doctrine, is very uncommon today even in the minority who make church-going or prayer a consistent part of their lives; and without some such belief natural death and physical decomposition have become too horrible to contemplate or to discuss. Geoffrey Gorer, “The Pornography of Death” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Death The more Christian a country is the less  likely it is to regard the death penalty as immoral. … I attribute that to the fact that, for a believing Christian, death is no big deal. Antonin Scalia © 2016 Kwiple.com
Making money the old-fashioned way Being a mendicant friar © 2023 Kwiple.com
Money Christians and Muslims who could not agree on religious beliefs could nevertheless agree on a monetary belief, because whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something. Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens © 2016 Kwiple.com
Reich wingers say I want to remind people that, you know, the Nazis weren't able to take the Jews to the crematoriums immediately. The German people wouldn't have allowed for it. Instead, the Nazis had to change public opinion. They marginalized the Jewish people, disparaged them, and made them objects of contempt. Robert James Jeffress, pastor and Fox News contributor who claims American Christians are being marginalized © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Christians have rights others don't, like discriminating against gays and getting paid for not doing their job © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Make Christianity America's offical religion © 2015 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Real Americans are native-born, English-speaking, rural white Christians © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say What part of this is a Christian country don't you understand? © 2015 Kwiple.com
Segregation At 11:00 on Sunday morning when we stand and sing and Christ has no east or west, we stand at the most segregated hour in this nation. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order. Miuke Pence © 2016 Kwiple.com
Selfie I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths. Marco Rubio © 2015 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say We are living in perilous times where people who are Christian are on the brink of being criminalized for their convictions. Mike Huckabee © 2015 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I don't think Donald Trump has figured out that he chained himself to the Apostle Paul. Donald Trump portrayed by Ralph Drollinger, the pastor who leads about a dozen evangelical members of Trump's cabinet in weekly Bible studies sessions © 2017 Kwiple.com
Surely you jest The “life size replica” of Noah's Ark floating atop 102 concrete pillars and $18 million in tax breaks © 2016 Kwiple.com
Tribalism black pants and shoes + white shirt with a tie + name tag on the pocket + “Knock, knock” © 2018 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say As a Christian, I certainly believe that's possible. Mike Pompeo, when asked, “Could it be that President Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this, just like Queen Esther, to help save the Jewish people from the Iranian menace?” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say Cain commented to God, “Am I my brother's keeper?” The obvious answer is no. No, I am not my brother's keeper. But just don't kill him. Jeanette Ward, a Christian nationalist member of the Wyoming House of Rrpresentatives © 2023 Kwiple.com
< Trumpists say The Godless left is relentlessly attacking me for my Christian faith. I am a proud Christian  and a proud American. That's why I am a proud  Christian Nationalist. Claim your Proud Christian Nationalist shirt now and share your love for our great country. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jul 29, 2022, 11:03  © 2022 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say He’s become a Christian, but he won't admit it now or tell people about it because they'll put him down; they'll kill him. All the Christians are being killed today. Jimmy Fisher, an 84-year-old Georgia Republican attending the June 9, 2023, state GOP convemtion, on Donald Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say It's just like God to use a young Jewish couple to help Christians. David Jeremiah, pastor of a Southern Baptist megachurch in El Cajon, California, comparing Jared and Ivanka to Joseph and Mary © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say A liberal Catholic is oxymoronic. C. John McCloskey, Opus Dei priest who converted Sam Brownback, Newt Gingrich and other prominent Republicans before being accused of sexual misconduct by an adult woman © 2020 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say This is a war on Christianity. The Ukrainian government is attacking Christians; the Ukrainian government is executing priests. Russia is not doing that. They are not attacking Christianity. As a matter of fact, they seem to be protecting it. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Putinist, who thinks Ukrainians are not Christians and bombing hundreds of their churches is, 11:52 AM – Apr 8, 2024  © 2024 Kwiple.com
Voting So many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome: good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down. Paul Weyrich, Republican religious conservative, New Right founder © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Warmongers say We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now. We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. Ann Coulter © 2015 Kwiple.com