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Trump's Cabinet Has A Higher Net Worth Than One-Third Of Americans

January 26, 2017, 10:48 pm
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Do The 17 Picks For Donald Trump's Cabinet Have A Higher Net Worth Than One-Third Of All Americans?

Politifact

"Plutocracy Triumphant"
Cartoon Compendium

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts: Plutocracy, Economic Inequality & Collapse Of Conservatism

"Politics And Economics: The 101 Courses You Wish You Had"

Pope Francis: Quotations On Finance, Economics, Capitalism And Inequality

Teddy Roosevelt: "Malefactors Of Great Wealth... Are Curses To The Country"

Why Are Americans So Poorly Paid. This One Chart Will Even Shame The 1%

Inequality: Joseph Stiglitz Brilliant Reflection On Obama's State Of The Union Address

"Of The 1%, By The 1%, For The 1%,"
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz

American Plutocracy: Who's Punished And Who's Not
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/american-plutocracy-whos-punished-and.html




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Ansel Adams: "It Is Horrifying..."

January 26, 2017, 11:09 pm
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Lawmakers: Trump's Mexican Border Tax Would Hurt The United States - Twice Over!

January 27, 2017, 7:47 am
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Why Judgment Itself Causes Judgmental People To Fail

January 27, 2017, 8:07 am
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"We know to the extent we love."
St. Augustine of Hippo

James' Epistle: "Judgment Without Mercy Will Be Shown To Anyone Who Has Not Shown Mercy"


Alan: If you consider yourself a Christian and are proud of your ability to judge between "The Saved" and "The Damned," what do you think Jesus means when he says "Judge not lest you be judged?"

Matthew 7

7 Judge not, that you may not be judged,
2 For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.

3 “Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? 4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when the beam is in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

In modern speech:

Judging Others

7 Don’t condemn others, and God won’t condemn you. 2 God will be as hard on you as you are on others! He will treat you exactly as you treat them.
3 You can see the speck in your friend’s eye, but you don’t notice the log in your own eye. 4 How can you say, “My friend, let me take the speck out of your eye,” when you don’t see the log in your own eye? 5 You’re nothing but show-offs! First, take the log out of your own eye. Then you can see how to take the speck out of your friend’s eye.


"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"

"Bad Religion: A Compendium"

It Is Important To Know These Things So Religion Doesn't Do You More Harm Than Good

What Too Many Christians Get Wrong

Pope Francis Warns Against Rigid Seminarians: "There's Always Something Ugly Behind It"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/09/pope-francis-warns-against-rigid.html

Pope Francis On Fundamentalism: The Horror Of Turning God Into Ideological Pretext
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/06/pope-francis-describes-horrors-of.html

Pope Francis: The Horror Of Religious Fundamentalism And What's Wrong With Religion
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/12/pope-francis-horror-of-religious.html

Where Conservative Christians Go Wrong
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/08/where-conservative-christians-go-wrong.html

Jesus: Festive Tippler And Friend Of Whores, Publicans, Tax Collectors And Sundry Sinners
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/jesus-festive-wine-bibber-and-friend-of.html

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Trevor Noah: "Trump Gets His Intelligence From The Same Place Your Racist Grandpa Does"

January 27, 2017, 8:23 am
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Donald Trump Promising Better Healthcare At Lower Cost Is Like Mother Teresa Promising...

January 27, 2017, 8:47 am
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The Borowitz Report: "Trump Enraged As Mexican President Meets With Meryl Streep Instead"

January 27, 2017, 9:54 am
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Trump Enraged As Mexican President Meets With Meryl Streep Instead

MEXICO CITY (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump’s personal war with Mexico escalated further on Friday after Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto cancelled his meeting with Trump and scheduled one with Meryl Streep instead.

“The American people are a great people, and no one personifies that greatness better than Meryl Streep,” Peña Nieto said in an official statement.

The summit with Streep was widely seen as a prelude to Mexico establishing full diplomatic relations with the Academy Award-winning actress.

At the White House, Trump’s advisers were reportedly considering a host of retaliatory measures, including Steve Bannon’s proposal that the President of Mexico be told to “shut up.”

During his daily press briefing, the White House spokesman Sean Spicer called Peña Nieto’s decision to meet with Streep instead of Trump “absurd.”

“President Trump is a much greater American than Meryl Streep and has won way more Oscars than she has, period,” Spicer said.



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Mikhail Gorbachev: "It All Looks as if the World Is Preparing for War"

January 27, 2017, 10:17 am
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Top Download From Any Federal Site Right Now Is Park Service Report On Global Warming

January 27, 2017, 10:24 am
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"Trump Has A Plan -- A Pretty Good One -- For Tackling Student Debt," LA Times

January 27, 2017, 10:32 am
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Mexicans Launch Boycotts of U.S. Companies in Fury at Donald Trump; Threaten To Quit NAFTA

January 27, 2017, 10:39 am
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Good Work Being Done On "Christians Tired Of Being Misrepresented" Facebook Page

January 27, 2017, 11:31 am
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"Corpse Evangelists" And The End-Time Decadence Of Make-Believe Christians

January 27, 2017, 1:49 pm
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Dear Tig,

I think you'll enjoy "Christians Tired Of Being Misrepresented." 

Back in the day I could deal with Christianity's authoritarian inclination which occasionally degenerated into formalized fascism - Italy, Argentina, Guatemala. 

Although it is probably a red herring to mention Hitler's cradle Catholicism, there it is. For what it's worth. 

In any event, it is incontrovertible that Catholicism has a VERY checkered relationship with Judaism and Jewry, even though its founder was a practicing Jew as were the authors of every book in the New Testament but two. (25 of 27 books is the customary count.)

It was Thug-Pope Paul IV who first locked Jews in ghettos and made them wear identifying garments - the same pope whom many Catholic conservatives now revere as the author of antediluvian-but-supposedly-infallible comments such as his (in)famous dictum: "Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus" - "Outside the (Catholic) Church there is no salvation."


Nowadays, it feels like I'm branded with the indelible mark of these manifestly lunatic people who prefer Armageddon to compromise, absolutely certain they are God's Exceptional gift to humankind.

Increasingly, I conceive God as an ironist for despite the trumpeted pretenses of "The Saved!" we are living in a political madhouse almost entirely of their making.

"Let's Just Say It: The Republicans Are The Problem"
Conservative Scholar Norman Ornstein
The American Enterprise Institute

And now, as we move into The Post-Truth Era (oh yeah... this is gonna end well) these mad, self-righteously vengeful people elect a solipsistic sociopath as their political (and religious) savior.

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Best Photographic Evidence Of Trump Inaugural Crowd Size 

Viewed From The Swearing-In Stage And From The Washington Monument


It is surpassingly difficult to refrain from the use of expletives when talking - as honestly as I can - about these despicable "Christians," whom, often through no fault of their own, have been terminally mislead, as Bob Dylan put it, by "corpse evangelists."

I imagine Saint Peter at The Pearly Gates familiarizing himself with the acronym, "WTF."

Love

Alan
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Head Out Of Sand

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We Are Marvelously Made... And Cannot Imagine What Went Into The Making

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Learning To Fly... And He Ain't Got Wings

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