Oh HELL No.
I am so sick of this.
Been sick of it for decades.
This year I am just NOT HAVING IT.
I am especially not having it because I was profoundly moved by the way the four nights of the DNC managed to include many, MANY testaments to faith, genuine faith, faith in action, without the kind of in-your-face proselytizing the GOP will try to stuff down our throats next week.
I’m not even sure how he ended up in my Twitter feed since I certainly don’t follow him or anyone like him.
Fortunately I was able to rein myself in before my blood could start boiling.
First of all, I kept myself calm because that’s exactly the kind of “own the libs” reaction Franklin Graham and his ilk want when they post this kind of nonsense.
Second, I kept myself calm because the very next thing in my feed was the joyful noise of #ProgressiveChristianTwitter with an abundance of clapback to soothe my soul and remind me I am not alone:
My main man JohnDPav linked to his fabulous essay defending JRB, stating the obvious: in comparison to DJT, Biden is not the “lesser of two evils”, he is straight up the better man:
Benjamin Dreyer asks a rhetorical question and gets a perfect answer:
The New South rising:
Hateradio has been spreading a talking point that Dems took “under God” out of the Pledge of Allegiance. This was smacked down many times.
The two people below are responding to a tweet that was later deleted in embarrassment after multiple folks posted video of Dems saying the under God” version of the pledge:
Nurse Jules called Graham out for the bigotry of Samaritan’s Purse during the height of the C-19 crisis in NYC:
Katty McCatnip added with one of my favorite redhat memes:
Andrew Goss and G Shep said a lot with a very few words:
So by the time I jumped in it felt like a mere afterthought, but I wanted to add my four tweets and my two cents:
they dream in color, they dream in red… can’t find a better man
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