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Why Are American Christians So Cruel?
The Jesus Principle
Apr 23, 2026

A few weeks ago, I watched a clip of self-described oBible-believingo Christians cheering a politician who promised mass deportations, expanded detention camps, and harsher treatment for asylum seekers, including
families with children. The crowd roared like they were at a revival. Hands
in the air. Smiles on their faces.
Man holding microphone with 'jesus' displayed behind him.
Photo by AMONWAT DUMKRUT on Unsplash

I had a sick thought I couldnAt shake:

If you muted the sound and just watched the faces, could you tell whether
this was a worship service or a rally for state cruelty?

Why do so many American Christians u not all, but a loud, powerful bloc u
now seem to choose cruelty as a badge of faith? Why does the oChristian positiono in public life so often line up with the hardest, harshest, least merciful option on the table?

The numbers behind that question arenAt pretty.
The numbers: punishment over mercy

This isnAt just a hunch. ItAs documented.

Survey after survey shows that white evangelicals, in particular, stand out
as the religious group most likely to:

Support bans or severe limits on refugees and migrants, even when
theyAre fleeing war and persecution.

Back harsh olaw and ordero crackdowns, detention, and deportation policies, even when abuses are well-documented.

Endorse militarized responses framed as holy duty, especially when
wrapped in the language of defending oChristian civilizationo or a ochosen nation.o

Recent polling on Christian nationalism finds that majorities of its
strongest supporters favor expanding ICE, allowing arrests in osensitive locationso like churches and hospitals, and even detaining undocumented immigrants in internment camps. In those same surveys, they are the group
most likely to oppose basic due process for immigrants.

In other words, cruelty isnAt an accident at the edges. ItAs built into the way a certain slice of American Christianity thinks about law, borders, and enemies.

So how did we get here?
Thunder without light: an angry God, a frightened church

One big piece is what IAd call theology by scissors, or cutting the Bible
into usable parts and discarding the rest.

In this cruel version of the faith, God is imagined primarily as:

A stern lawgiver who protects ouso and punishes othem.o

The patron of a chosen nation locked in permanent holy war.

The cosmic enforcer whose main job is making sure people oget whatAs coming.o

Old judgment and conquest texts are ripped from context and treated like a timeless model for how America should act now. Meanwhile, the most
demanding teachings about loving enemies, welcoming strangers, and caring
for the vulnerable are treated as private ideals, not public obligations.

Preaching that fixates on eternal torment and divine rage only amplifies
this. If your core image of God is eternal torture for most of humanity, it becomes easier to justify extreme punishment here and now. If God is
imagined as infinitely violent toward his enemies, state cruelty looks like
a small foretaste of justice, not a betrayal of it.

The older scriptures themselves are not the problem; theyAre full of
commands to love the stranger, defend the widow and orphan, and care for
the poor. The problem is reading them as a blank check for whatever we
already want to do, especially to people we fear.
white page of book
Photo by Susan Holt Simpson on Unsplash
The passage that wonAt behave

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this kind of religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are divided into
two groups. The criteria are devastatingly concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told theyAve done it to him. Those who didnAt are told theyAve turned away from him.

ThereAs no clause that says ounless they crossed the border wrong.o
No footnote that says ounless your party disapproved.o
No escape hatch that says othis isnAt about real policy, just private charity.o

If you put that text at the center of Christian public ethics, a lot of our current oChristiano agenda falls apart. You cannot honestly square cheering for internment camps or omaking life so hard they self-deporto with this picture of what God actually cares about.

ThatAs why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a measuring stick for what kind of politics is even compatible with faith.
A God who always needs enemies

Cruelty doesnAt grow out of nowhere. It grows out of a certain picture of
the world.

If your God:

Always needs a hated out-group to rally the faithful,

Speaks mainly in terms of toughness, conquest, and oorder,o

Is imagined as the patron of your tribe and the destroyer of everyone else,

your faith will train you to look for people to punish.

Christian nationalism formalizes this: oGod and countryo fused so tightly
that whatever is said to protect our nation becomes holy by definition.

Research on white Christian nationalism shows that the stronger a personAs attachment to this ideology, the more likely they are to hold hardline
views on immigration, oppose multiracial democracy, and support using force
to preserve their preferred social order. It often carries an assumption
that oreal Americanso are white, culturally conservative Christians, and
that others should be kept in their place.

ThatAs how we ended up with:

Pastors blessing harsh immigration raids and family separation as obiblical justice.o

oPro-lifeo leaders ignoring or defending policies that predictably increase death and misery for migrants, prisoners, women,and the poor.

Christian media personalities ridiculing empathy as weakness,
owokeness,o or Marxism.

Once youAve baptized the nation and your groupAs dominance as sacred,
anything that protects that dominance u no matter how cruel u starts to
feel righteous.
President Donald Trump
Photo by Library of Congress on Unsplash
Trump as teacher: discipling against empathy

Into that world walked Donald Trump.

For years now, he has modeled and rewarded open contempt for empathy:

Mocking the disabled and the grieving.

Praising humiliation and domination as leadership.

Treating compassion for outsiders as betrayal.

Analysts have described how his style has helped many Christians
reinterpret empathy itself as dangerous: something osoft,o oliberal,o or ounpatriotic.o The harsher he is to the people they fear, the more ocourageouso they find him.

When that sensibility merges with a fearful, punitive theology, believers start to think that caring deeply about what happens to migrants,
prisoners, or enemy civilians means ogoing soft on sino or ohating your own people.o

WeAve reached the point where some will cheer proposals that most of their grandparentsA churches would have recognized instantly as cruel, and then insist theyAre doing it in the name of faith and country, and in the name
of Jesus.

That isnAt just politics. ThatAs moral formation.
Old stories, new weapons

Again: the older scriptures arenAt the culprit. ItAs how theyAre being
used.

Read ancient conquest stories as timeless blueprints instead of time-bound episodes, and youAll bless every modern war you want as a holy crusade.

Camp out in wrath texts without letting them be challenged by the most demanding calls to mercy, and youAll assume anger should always flow
outward at othem,o never inward at ous.o

Treat oobey the authoritieso as the only political verse that matters, and youAll justify almost any cruelty the state labels olaw and order,o even
when it clashes with the clearest commands to protect the vulnerable.

The result is a kind of religion that has plenty of verses, but very little moral spine. It can always find a text to bless whatever the tribe already wants to do.
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On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this kind of religion: >Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are divided into >two groups. The criteria are devastatingly concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told theyAve done it to him. Those who didnAt are told >theyAve turned away from him.

ThereAs no clause that says ounless they crossed the border wrong.o
No footnote that says ounless your party disapproved.o
No escape hatch that says othis isnAt about real policy, just private >charity.o

If you put that text at the center of Christian public ethics, a lot of our >current oChristiano agenda falls apart. You cannot honestly square cheering >for internment camps or omaking life so hard they self-deporto with this >picture of what God actually cares about.

ThatAs why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel Christianity, turned >into a vague fundraising verse, not a measuring stick for what kind of >politics is even compatible with faith.
A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty
and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited
me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked
after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.A

37 oThen the righteous will answer him, aLord, when did we see you
hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing
clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?A

40 oThe King will reply, aTruly I tell you, whatever you did for one
of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.A

41 oThen he will say to those on his left, aDepart from me, you who
are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his
angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and
you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and
you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look
after me.A

44 oThey also will answer, aLord, when did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did
not help you?A

45 oHe will reply, aTruly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one
of the least of these, you did not do for me.A

46 oThen they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to
eternal life.o

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&version=NIV>
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Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this kind of
religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are divided
into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told theyAve done it to him. Those who didnAt are
told theyAve turned away from him.

ThereAs no clause that says ounless they crossed the border wrong.o
No footnote that says ounless your party disapproved.o
No escape hatch that says othis isnAt about real policy, just private >>charity.o

If you put that text at the center of Christian public ethics, a lot
of our current oChristiano agenda falls apart. You cannot honestly
square cheering for internment camps or omaking life so hard they >>self-deporto with this picture of what God actually cares about.

ThatAs why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel Christianity,
turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a measuring stick for what
kind of politics is even compatible with faith.
A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty
and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited
me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked
after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.A

37 oThen the righteous will answer him, aLord, when did we see you
hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing
clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?A

40 oThe King will reply, aTruly I tell you, whatever you did for one
of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.A

41 oThen he will say to those on his left, aDepart from me, you who
are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his
angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and
you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and
you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look
after me.A

44 oThey also will answer, aLord, when did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did
not help you?A

45 oHe will reply, aTruly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one
of the least of these, you did not do for me.A

46 oThen they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.o

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&version=NIV>

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"





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In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this kind of >>religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are divided
into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who didn?t are
told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the border wrong.?
No footnote that says ?unless your party disapproved.?
No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about real policy, just private >>charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public ethics, a lot
of our current ?Christian? agenda falls apart. You cannot honestly
square cheering for internment camps or ?making life so hard they >>self-deport? with this picture of what God actually cares about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel Christianity, >>turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a measuring stick for what >>kind of politics is even compatible with faith.
A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty
and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited
me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked
after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we see you
hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing
clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one
of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from me, you who
are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his
angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and
you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and
you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look
after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did
not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one
of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&version=NIV>

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.
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Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in news:MPG.44ac39c76a677cd98c332@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this kind of
religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are
divided into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who didn?t are
told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the border wrong.?
No footnote that says ?unless your party disapproved.?
No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about real policy, just
private charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public ethics, a
lot of our current ?Christian? agenda falls apart. You cannot
honestly square cheering for internment camps or ?making life so
hard they self-deport? with this picture of what God actually cares
about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel
Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a
measuring stick for what kind of politics is even compatible with
faith. A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty
and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you
invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked
after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we see you
hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing
clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did for
one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for
me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from me, you who
are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his
angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty
and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes
and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not
look after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and
did not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for
one of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous
to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&version=N

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.

More than you.




"Man is the one who went unclean
and ate the wrong things. Man wanted
to rule so god gave him the world
and said live in the world and die or
live in me and live. Man chose the
world".
Skeeter, Aug 15 2023
https://tinyurl.com/2p9rvj5k

None of that is in the Bible.





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In article <XnsB47AD71122B29629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in news:MPG.44ac39c76a677cd98c332@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this kind of
religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are
divided into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who didn?t are
told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the border wrong.?
No footnote that says ?unless your party disapproved.?
No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about real policy, just
private charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public ethics, a
lot of our current ?Christian? agenda falls apart. You cannot
honestly square cheering for internment camps or ?making life so
hard they self-deport? with this picture of what God actually cares
about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel
Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a
measuring stick for what kind of politics is even compatible with
faith. A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty
and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you
invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked
after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we see you
hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing
clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did for
one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for
me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from me, you who
are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his
angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty
and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes
and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not
look after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and
did not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for
one of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous
to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&version=N

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.

More than you.

"Man is the one who went unclean
and ate the wrong things. Man wanted
to rule so god gave him the world
and said live in the world and die or
live in me and live. Man chose the
world".
Skeeter, Aug 15 2023
https://tinyurl.com/2p9rvj5k

None of that is in the Bible.

It is.













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Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in news:MPG.44acd79877b6569d98c357@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47AD71122B29629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44ac39c76a677cd98c332@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this kind of
religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are
divided into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly
concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who didn?t
are told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the border
wrong.? No footnote that says ?unless your party disapproved.?
No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about real policy, just
private charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public ethics, a
lot of our current ?Christian? agenda falls apart. You cannot
honestly square cheering for internment camps or ?making life so
hard they self-deport? with this picture of what God actually
cares about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel
Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a
measuring stick for what kind of politics is even compatible
with faith. A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and
you invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you
looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we see
you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to
drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing
clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did for
one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did
for me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from me, you
who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and
his angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and
you did not look after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison,
and did not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do
for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the
righteous to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&versio
n=N IV>

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.

More than you.




"Man is the one who went unclean
and ate the wrong things. Man wanted
to rule so god gave him the world
and said live in the world and die or
live in me and live. Man chose the
world".
Skeeter, Aug 15 2023
https://tinyurl.com/2p9rvj5k

None of that is in the Bible.

It is.

There is a reason you run away every time
I ask you for a Bible passage proving that.



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noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in news:MPG.44acd79877b6569d98c357@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47AD71122B29629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44ac39c76a677cd98c332@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this kind of
religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are
divided into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly
concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who didn?t
are told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the border
wrong.? No footnote that says ?unless your party disapproved.?
No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about real policy, just
private charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public ethics, a
lot of our current ?Christian? agenda falls apart. You cannot
honestly square cheering for internment camps or ?making life so
hard they self-deport? with this picture of what God actually
cares about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel
Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a
measuring stick for what kind of politics is even compatible
with faith. A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and
you invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you
looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we see
you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to
drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing
clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did for
one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did
for me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from me, you
who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and
his angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and
you did not look after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison,
and did not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do
for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the
righteous to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&versio
n=N IV>

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.

More than you.




"Man is the one who went unclean
and ate the wrong things. Man wanted
to rule so god gave him the world
and said live in the world and die or
live in me and live. Man chose the
world".
Skeeter, Aug 15 2023
https://tinyurl.com/2p9rvj5k

None of that is in the Bible.

It is.

There is a reason you run away every time
I ask you for a Bible passage proving that.

Is there? Maybe it because you are a non believer and it's
a waste of time.
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Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in news:MPG.44ad7e6fc0867c6798c35b@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47B51BC01321629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44acd79877b6569d98c357@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47AD71122B29629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44ac39c76a677cd98c332@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this kind
of religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are
divided into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly
concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who
didn?t are told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the border
wrong.? No footnote that says ?unless your party
disapproved.? No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about
real policy, just private charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public
ethics, a lot of our current ?Christian? agenda falls apart.
You cannot honestly square cheering for internment camps or
?making life so hard they self-deport? with this picture of
what God actually cares about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel
Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a
measuring stick for what kind of politics is even compatible
with faith. A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger
and you invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you
looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we
see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you
something to drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or
needing clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit
you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did
for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine,
you did for me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from me,
you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the
devil and his angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison
and you did not look after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you hungry
or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in
prison, and did not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do
for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the
righteous to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&ver
sio n=N IV>

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.

More than you.




"Man is the one who went unclean
and ate the wrong things. Man wanted
to rule so god gave him the world
and said live in the world and die or
live in me and live. Man chose the
world".
Skeeter, Aug 15 2023
https://tinyurl.com/2p9rvj5k

None of that is in the Bible.

It is.

There is a reason you run away every time
I ask you for a Bible passage proving that.

Is there? Maybe it because you are a non believer and it's
a waste of time.

If you cannot back up your claims
just say so, we are used to it now.



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On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:19:48 -0600, Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote:

In article <XnsB47B51BC01321629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44acd79877b6569d98c357@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47AD71122B29629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44ac39c76a677cd98c332@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this kind of
religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are
divided into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly
concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who didn?t
are told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the border
wrong.? No footnote that says ?unless your party disapproved.?
No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about real policy, just
private charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public ethics, a
lot of our current ?Christian? agenda falls apart. You cannot
honestly square cheering for internment camps or ?making life so
hard they self-deport? with this picture of what God actually
cares about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel
Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a
measuring stick for what kind of politics is even compatible
with faith. A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and
you invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you
looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we see
you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to
drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing
clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did for
one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did
for me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from me, you
who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and
his angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and
you did not look after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison,
and did not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do
for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the
righteous to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&versio
n=N IV>

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.

More than you.




"Man is the one who went unclean
and ate the wrong things. Man wanted
to rule so god gave him the world
and said live in the world and die or
live in me and live. Man chose the
world".
Skeeter, Aug 15 2023
https://tinyurl.com/2p9rvj5k

None of that is in the Bible.

It is.

There is a reason you run away every time
I ask you for a Bible passage proving that.

Is there? Maybe it because you are a non believer and it's
a waste of time.

More likely because there's no such passage and you're just full of
shit.
--
Latest from the left wing rumor mill.

It's been a weird week: Pool Around And Pond Out edition

<https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vO_jLDzuK8Q>

MAGA: "embrace the suck".
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Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in news:pvb84l1icvdjea96tkrji088rcr6hcuk12@4ax.com:

On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:19:48 -0600, Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote:

In article <XnsB47B51BC01321629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44acd79877b6569d98c357@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47AD71122B29629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44ac39c76a677cd98c332@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this
kind of religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are
divided into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly
concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who
didn?t are told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the border
wrong.? No footnote that says ?unless your party
disapproved.? No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about
real policy, just private charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public
ethics, a lot of our current ?Christian? agenda falls apart.
You cannot honestly square cheering for internment camps or
?making life so hard they self-deport? with this picture of
what God actually cares about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel
Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a
measuring stick for what kind of politics is even compatible
with faith. A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger
and you invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you
looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we
see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you
something to drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or
needing clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit
you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did
for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine,
you did for me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from me,
you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the
devil and his angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison
and you did not look after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you hungry
or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in
prison, and did not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not
do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the
righteous to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&ve
rsio n=N IV>

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.

More than you.




"Man is the one who went unclean
and ate the wrong things. Man wanted
to rule so god gave him the world
and said live in the world and die or
live in me and live. Man chose the
world".
Skeeter, Aug 15 2023
https://tinyurl.com/2p9rvj5k

None of that is in the Bible.

It is.

There is a reason you run away every time
I ask you for a Bible passage proving that.

Is there? Maybe it because you are a non believer and it's
a waste of time.

More likely because there's no such passage and you're just full of
shit.

Watch this space for the "just read your Bible" defense.





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In article <XnsB47B7F550CABD629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in news:MPG.44ad7e6fc0867c6798c35b@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47B51BC01321629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44acd79877b6569d98c357@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47AD71122B29629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44ac39c76a677cd98c332@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this kind
of religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are
divided into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly
concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who
didn?t are told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the border
wrong.? No footnote that says ?unless your party
disapproved.? No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about
real policy, just private charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public
ethics, a lot of our current ?Christian? agenda falls apart.
You cannot honestly square cheering for internment camps or
?making life so hard they self-deport? with this picture of
what God actually cares about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel
Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a
measuring stick for what kind of politics is even compatible
with faith. A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger
and you invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you
looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we
see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you
something to drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or
needing clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit
you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did
for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine,
you did for me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from me,
you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the
devil and his angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison
and you did not look after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you hungry
or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in
prison, and did not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do
for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the
righteous to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&ver
sio n=N IV>

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.

More than you.




"Man is the one who went unclean
and ate the wrong things. Man wanted
to rule so god gave him the world
and said live in the world and die or
live in me and live. Man chose the
world".
Skeeter, Aug 15 2023
https://tinyurl.com/2p9rvj5k

None of that is in the Bible.

It is.

There is a reason you run away every time
I ask you for a Bible passage proving that.

Is there? Maybe it because you are a non believer and it's
a waste of time.

If you cannot back up your claims
just say so, we are used to it now.

TINW
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In article <pvb84l1icvdjea96tkrji088rcr6hcuk12@4ax.com>, governor.swill@gmail.com says...

On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:19:48 -0600, Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote:

In article <XnsB47B51BC01321629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44acd79877b6569d98c357@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47AD71122B29629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44ac39c76a677cd98c332@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this kind of >> >> >> >>religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are
divided into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly
concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who didn?t
are told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the border
wrong.? No footnote that says ?unless your party disapproved.?
No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about real policy, just
private charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public ethics, a >> >> >> >>lot of our current ?Christian? agenda falls apart. You cannot
honestly square cheering for internment camps or ?making life so >> >> >> >>hard they self-deport? with this picture of what God actually
cares about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel
Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a
measuring stick for what kind of politics is even compatible
with faith. A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and >> >> >> > you invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you
looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we see
you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to
drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing
clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did for >> >> >> > one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did
for me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from me, you
who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and >> >> >> > his angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and
you did not look after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison,
and did not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do
for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the
righteous to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&versio >> >> >> > n=N IV>

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.

More than you.




"Man is the one who went unclean
and ate the wrong things. Man wanted
to rule so god gave him the world
and said live in the world and die or
live in me and live. Man chose the
world".
Skeeter, Aug 15 2023
https://tinyurl.com/2p9rvj5k

None of that is in the Bible.

It is.

There is a reason you run away every time
I ask you for a Bible passage proving that.

Is there? Maybe it because you are a non believer and it's
a waste of time.

More likely because there's no such passage and you're just full of
shit.

Not worded the way I said it but if you actually read the
bible you would plainly see it.
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In article <XnsB47BD3A05AB5F629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in news:pvb84l1icvdjea96tkrji088rcr6hcuk12@4ax.com:

On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:19:48 -0600, Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote:

In article <XnsB47B51BC01321629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44acd79877b6569d98c357@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47AD71122B29629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44ac39c76a677cd98c332@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this
kind of religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are
divided into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly
concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who
didn?t are told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the border
wrong.? No footnote that says ?unless your party
disapproved.? No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about
real policy, just private charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public
ethics, a lot of our current ?Christian? agenda falls apart.
You cannot honestly square cheering for internment camps or
?making life so hard they self-deport? with this picture of
what God actually cares about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel
Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a
measuring stick for what kind of politics is even compatible
with faith. A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger
and you invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you
looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we
see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you
something to drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or
needing clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit
you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did
for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine,
you did for me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from me,
you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the
devil and his angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison
and you did not look after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you hungry
or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in
prison, and did not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not
do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the
righteous to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&ve
rsio n=N IV>

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.

More than you.




"Man is the one who went unclean
and ate the wrong things. Man wanted
to rule so god gave him the world
and said live in the world and die or
live in me and live. Man chose the
world".
Skeeter, Aug 15 2023
https://tinyurl.com/2p9rvj5k

None of that is in the Bible.

It is.

There is a reason you run away every time
I ask you for a Bible passage proving that.

Is there? Maybe it because you are a non believer and it's
a waste of time.

More likely because there's no such passage and you're just full of
shit.

Watch this space for the "just read your Bible" defense.

Ublike the BUTWHATABOUT?
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Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in news:MPG.44aebdd072e5b9e198c363@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <pvb84l1icvdjea96tkrji088rcr6hcuk12@4ax.com>, governor.swill@gmail.com says...

On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:19:48 -0600, Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote:

In article <XnsB47B51BC01321629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44acd79877b6569d98c357@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47AD71122B29629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44ac39c76a677cd98c332@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this
kind of religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People
are divided into two groups. The criteria are
devastatingly concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who
didn?t are told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the
border wrong.? No footnote that says ?unless your party
disapproved.? No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about
real policy, just private charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public
ethics, a lot of our current ?Christian? agenda falls
apart. You cannot honestly square cheering for internment
camps or ?making life so hard they self-deport? with this
picture of what God actually cares about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel
Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a
measuring stick for what kind of politics is even
compatible with faith. A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I
was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a
stranger and you invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you
looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit
me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we
see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you
something to drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or
needing clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit
you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you
did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of
mine, you did for me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from
me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for
the devil and his angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in
prison and you did not look after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you
hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick
or in prison, and did not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not
do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the
righteous to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&
versio n=N IV>

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.

More than you.




"Man is the one who went unclean
and ate the wrong things. Man wanted
to rule so god gave him the world
and said live in the world and die or
live in me and live. Man chose the
world".
Skeeter, Aug 15 2023
https://tinyurl.com/2p9rvj5k

None of that is in the Bible.

It is.

There is a reason you run away every time
I ask you for a Bible passage proving that.

Is there? Maybe it because you are a non believer and it's
a waste of time.

More likely because there's no such passage and you're just full of
shit.

Not worded the way I said it but if you actually read the
bible you would plainly see it.

You have never read the Bible, that is
why you cannot cite any passage backing
up your claim.




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On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 07:03:03 -0600, Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote:

In article <XnsB47BD3A05AB5F629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:pvb84l1icvdjea96tkrji088rcr6hcuk12@4ax.com:

On Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:19:48 -0600, Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote:

In article <XnsB47B51BC01321629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44acd79877b6569d98c357@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47AD71122B29629555@185.151.15.109>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote in
news:MPG.44ac39c76a677cd98c332@usnews.blocknews.net:

In article <XnsB47A58D9A5C36629555@185.151.15.118>,
noemail@aol.com says...

Governor Swill <governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote in
news:oc444lt0bc8olem5a4a675vbc7t18ubfe4@4ax.com:

On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:30:03 -0000 (UTC), President Trump
<sdaa@sedra.org> wrote:

There is one passage, though, that keeps blowing up this
kind of religion: Matthew 25.

In that chapter, Jesus describes a final sorting. People are
divided into two groups. The criteria are devastatingly
concrete:

Did you feed the hungry?

Did you give water to the thirsty?

Did you welcome the stranger?

Did you clothe the poorly dressed?

Did you visit the sick and the imprisoned?

Those who did are told they?ve done it to him. Those who
didn?t are told they?ve turned away from him.

There?s no clause that says ?unless they crossed the border
wrong.? No footnote that says ?unless your party
disapproved.? No escape hatch that says ?this isn?t about
real policy, just private charity.?

If you put that text at the center of Christian public
ethics, a lot of our current ?Christian? agenda falls apart.
You cannot honestly square cheering for internment camps or
?making life so hard they self-deport? with this picture of
what God actually cares about.

That?s why Matthew 25 tends to be sidestepped in cruel
Christianity, turned into a vague fundraising verse, not a
measuring stick for what kind of politics is even compatible
with faith. A God who always needs enemies

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger
and you invited me in,

36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you
looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.?

37 ?Then the righteous will answer him, ?Lord, when did we
see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you
something to drink?

38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or
needing clothes and clothe you?

39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit
you??

40 ?The King will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did
for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine,
you did for me.?

41 ?Then he will say to those on his left, ?Depart from me,
you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the
devil and his angels.

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was
thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed
clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison
and you did not look after me.?

44 ?They also will answer, ?Lord, when did we see you hungry
or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in
prison, and did not help you??

45 ?He will reply, ?Truly I tell you, whatever you did not
do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.?

46 ?Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the
righteous to eternal life.?

<https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025&ve
rsio n=N IV>

Biblegateway is a great site, especially when the
religious fanatics try to pass off an embarrassing
Bible passage as "just an allegory" or a "translation
error"

Like YOU know so much.

More than you.




"Man is the one who went unclean
and ate the wrong things. Man wanted
to rule so god gave him the world
and said live in the world and die or
live in me and live. Man chose the
world".
Skeeter, Aug 15 2023
https://tinyurl.com/2p9rvj5k

None of that is in the Bible.

It is.

There is a reason you run away every time
I ask you for a Bible passage proving that.

Is there? Maybe it because you are a non believer and it's
a waste of time.

More likely because there's no such passage and you're just full of
shit.

Watch this space for the "just read your Bible" defense.

Ublike the BUTWHATABOUT?

Looks like he went for the fifth of Jack instead.
--
No I don't want a cowboy I want a cowman
Nobody give a yeehaw like he can
More Southern than a Georgia pecan
Don't want a cowboy
I want a cowman
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDcHBgVsGvE>
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On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 07:02:32 -0600, Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote: >governor.swill@gmail.com says...

On Tue, 30 Jun Skeeter <invalid@none.com> wrote:

noemail@aol.com says...

<snip>

There is a reason you run away every time
I ask you for a Bible passage proving that.

Is there? Maybe it because you are a non believer and it's
a waste of time.

More likely because there's no such passage and you're just full of
shit.

Not worded the way I said it but if you actually read the
bible you would plainly see it.

I've read it sequentially twice and read within it much, much more.

It's a lot of words, about three quarters of a million. It takes
weeks, even months to read it all the way through. It's said that you
can prove almost anything by the Bible. Your problem is *you* can't
do that. You just invoke the word "Bible" as if somehow that will
sanctify the latest spew of sewage from your pie hole.

I was raised Fundamentalist. Ours was a so-called "Holy Roller"
church and though we didn't handle snakes, there were two enormous
snake skins nailed to the wall above the pulpit. I was told they were
pythons. Above them in the "V", God in His crimson and purple robes
throws a thunderbolt against a backdrop of dark clouds looking not
unlike Charleton Heston (I snit you not). Below, Jesus, surrounded by
His indigo and golden aura, offers His hands that we might inspect
them, presumably to make sure it's really Him.

The Holy Trinity doesn't really work with an elongated X shape but
human ingenuity prevailed on the right side of the skins with a puff
of flame for the Holy Spirit and on the left with the Star of
Bethlehem.

When a woman fell on the floor speaking in tongues, it was not enough
that she was wearing an ankle length skirt, over-the-calf thick socks
and "sensible" shoes; an usher would rush forward flapping open a lap
robe to cover her with.

Yeah, I've read the Bible a good bit. So, what is this Bible passage
you keep running from?
--
No I don't want a cowboy I want a cowman
Nobody give a yeehaw like he can
More Southern than a Georgia pecan
Don't want a cowboy
I want a cowman
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDcHBgVsGvE>
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