The churches who are not loudly fighting against the fascism and the disappearing and the corruption have ceded all of their moral authority.
The churches who are not loudly fighting against the fascism and the disappearing and the corruption have ceded all of their moral authority.
A thousand percent!!!!!!!!!
Much less, fukin children too
They ceded their moral authority when they went around colonizing calling it "missionary" work (the mission was to infiltrate undermine) hiding the sex abuse and exploitation their teachings facilitate
America’s Christians would have crucified, scorned, and mocked Jesus. I heard a Christian say he’s ‘not the kind of Christian’ that ‘helps others’ because ‘helping is weak’.
But by golly they still don't pay any taxes!
Amen
Religion in government affairs is called Fascism...
Fascism is a religious concept. Benito Mussolini Our movement is Christian. Adolf Hitler I love the poorly educated! Donald J Trump
The little they had left.
Catholic priests are accompanying people to immigration court. At least they were. Sure they can and probably will do more. This is something we need more of.
www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...
Laughable at best. The Catholic Church has been corrupt for centuries.
No, it is not laughable at all. That corruption has done a lot of damage to mankind. And is still doing it.
JD Vance is a Catholic and he supports the other side. As do many other Catholics.
JD Vance is not Catholic. He says he is. He is a liar.
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Bull! Not buying it. I listen when he speaks. He is not Catholic.
There are all sorts of Catholics. I went to catholic schools all my life. Most of the Catholics i went to school with are Trump fans. A lot of priests are too. They like having authority figures. They like tax breaks for the rich. (A lot of Catholics i went to school w/ are also rich)
Yes. There are all sorts of Catholics. I accept that. JD Vance is not. IMO. Now if the Catholic Church wants to embrace him. Far be it for me to jump in front of that train.
This is a general problem with organized religion. They all are human made structures and with hierarchies. Words that people say and write are what matters. ...
Esclusively human criteria have to be met to be formally admitted. Words, statement of beliefs, the acceptance of other people's proclamations as truths, the acceptance of other people's authority over oneself's life and so on. Human actions. With human limitations, errors, idiocies and sinfulness.
There's a whole spectrum. Biden and Vance. Both Catholic. Lol
JD Vance is not unlike a whole lot of Catholics. (But there are also Catholics who believe in Jesus and his message.)
www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/258347/...
You can give me 113 reasons. Still not buying it.
You can't, I am not selling.
He certainly is trying.
That again doesn't concern me. I am not in the Catholicism qualifying business nor a potential buyer of such.
thecatholicobserver.substack.com/p/in-his-own...
Yeah, those are the words that convinced me the most he’s not Catholic. Anyone can say the words. It’s those nasty deeds and choices he makes.
Unfortuntely, for his admission to the club your personal convictions don't matter.
For now you’re right. For now.
They are making baby hats and doing missionary work
Not just endorsing him but NOT HAVING A PRESENCE to defend the persecuted. Put yer damned money where yer mouth is.
Churches, IF following teachings of Jesus Christ, would be organizing their congregations to stand up against the inhumane tactics of ICE, the concentration camps, dismantling of social safety programs, destruction of public education, healthcare, & critical environmental protection...Wouldn't they?
Sounds more like something atheists would do than anyone led by Jesus or his cohort of trump loving nazi freaks
You are spot on! This Pastor speaks out against Trump and his cronies, participated in demonstrations, gets off his dead weight to try to make change
But they got the right to endorse political candidates without risking their status, so why wouldn’t they?
Amen!
they cooperated with the nazis
Churches never had moral authority.
Amen
Well, you have to admit that we now know how “it happened in Germany” as so many have pondered through the years about why people “let the Naxis take over.”
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Why should they fight facsists? The church has always supported hitler, mussolini, franco and putin and orban, and trump..
Churches? Moral authority? Since when did they have that?
Exactly
which has, IMO, always been in question.
Amen!
No person who is or votes for Republicans can be a Christian. MAGA and Christianity are mutually exclusive!
When has any church in the history of the US held moral authority
It was a rare church that spoke against slavery here or Nazism in Germany. The overwhelming pattern in both cases was either institutional silence, complicity, or active support. Only the healthiest churches are intentionally confessional—not just performative.
And now those same churches can back political candidates.
Legally. The skeezie little criminals have been.
Organized hatred…
Lots of churches ceded their moral authority in 2016 when they spoke about voting for Trump passively in sermons
Churches that don't implement Jesus teaching to "love your neighbor as yourself" are RELIGIOUS CLUBS, not churches.
Fellowship with insular people - not faith to Jesus is what nearly all a US churches are about
It all comes down to money and power.
Welcome to the mega evangelical church
His name was high jacked, the message corrupted, in order to create a cult that could be controlled. From there many different ones broke away and formed new ones. The message still seeps through, just ignored by most. Religion and spirituality are completely different.
A jewish, poor, woke brown man
Perfectly put.
How do they not see that?
Spot on!
Churches are part of the problem..they are political machines..Tax free ..
Did they have any ? 🤔
100%
Considering churches are just a real estate scam attached to a child sex abuse ring, I’m not sure they ever had moral authority.
And yet will maintain tax exempt status.
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Churches are where this fascist regime started and how they hold power to continue it.
I was in an Episcopalian church in Orange Park, FL, in early December 2000 when two things happened: a couple were lauded for tithing their salaries to the church and the priest gave the sermon to Rep. Anders Crenshaw (R) who proceeded to campaign against Gore from the pulpit. Never went back.
They're in on all this
Amen
It’s not just the evangelical maga christians who are to blame but everyone on the religious right. Every single Republican who still supports trump is culpable but the christian Republicans are definitely the most egregiously hypocritical and disgusting in all of this inhumanity and corruption.
Churches only pretend at having moral authority to give attendees the illusion of high ground. One doesn’t need a poƃ or church for moral authority; It’s human to be good to others. Tenet I: One should strive to act with compassion and empathy toward all creatures in accordance with reason.
I'm proud of the Catholic church. I'm no longer practicing, but I'm following the news, and Pope Leo XIV is not sitting idly by. They need more from all religions and all ranks. This is the time to reflect and ask, "What would Jesus do?"
This is why I no longer follow ANY religion! They are exactly like MAGA at this point in time.
Every bit of it.
Times like these reveal the character of supposed moral authorities
Every religion in this country is now 7 or 8 child sex scandals past the point they should have been shoved into the ocean. They all have difficulty keeping up with ordinary morality as it is. The others are covertly waiting for next time.
The evangelicals surrendered to power and evil long ago.
Any church that endorsed trump did that long ago
Well said
Everyone needs to turn on Netflix and watch "apocalypse in the Tropics". On point and frightening similarities to US
Ceded? Hahahahaha. I, too, have ceded the 200 lbs of gold bars I kept in my closet.
And there are no churches fighting against this regime... They won't fight, they've sold their souls for power
I’m certain they did that long before they replaced Jesus with Trump
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Whilst I agree… Morality is NOT seated in churches. Their histories of abuse, theft, crimes against children, and support of self-serving wars speak volumes. Turning to RW, specifically white nationalists churches, Jesus would piss on them. They traded empathy (woke) & equity (DEI) for cruelty.
They cede their moral authority and claim their immoral authority. Preys be.
They are not churches but country clubs for the self-righteous.
Baptist churches and those money factories the big evangelical ministries absolutely. The Catholic Church has been pretty vocal in opposition. Obv learned a lesson from WWII
They never had any to begin with.
ABSOLUTELY TRUE ! WHERE ARE the so-called 'christian churchs' who are APPALLED about the NAZI CONCENTRATION camps used as 'dumping grounds of IMMIGRANTS & abuse' by their MAGA 'supremo' 'trumpy dumpy aka EL PAYASO DEMENTE' - WHERE ARE YOU? . . . OH, 'evangelical-christian PRETENDERS'... Get It
If the churches actually have any moral authority, it ends with their members. Not one of them has any moral authority over a secular world.
Don’t you know that only white people are true Christians? Everyone else is evil! /maga beliefs
They ceded that the day they were made up by men to satisfy their need for power & control over women. They truly have never had moral authority. Learn the history of the Christian Crusades and that should open a few eyes. 🤔
They really did not have that much moral authority to begin with. Cheer leading for Tangerine Mussolini, whether they understood it or not, put a big dent in their influence on the general public. Life is hard enough w/o having some idiot preacher high on political bs preaching crap at you.
The overwhelming white churches who have been quiet are the ones pushing such policies and actions to begin with. They never had moral authority
They never had any moral authority. The church isn't the first or last to lie and cover up the rapes of children.
Yes, I presume you are familiar with: bsky.app/profile/john...
They don’t care. Money is their god.
#TaxAllChurches
The time of John Lewis and Hosea Williams crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge with Ministers and Rabbis and Priests is long gone I'm afraid................
Many, if not most, people in those pews voted for this and cheer it on.
Huh? I thought that happened last century. Yikes. Twilight Zone!!🤣
“And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’” — Matthew 7:23 His words not mine.
Yup.
Evangelical churches want WWIII so Jesus will come back.
They did that in 2016 - it’s just they feel they “have to” keep it up….they bought it, they can’t get out BECAUSE they’re 100% complicit!
Amen, sister!
We need massive deprogramming aimed at churches, specifically church leaders who support Trump. I’ve been trying to do this but: 1. I’m winging it because I don’t know how. 2. I’m not well-funded and my attempts to fund-raise have failed.
But most choose religions that suit their politics, worldviews...not the other way around. Its more of a sociocultural thing than a spiritual calling. They create a god made in their own image...
What moral authority? Serious question- when have mainstream US churches ever been against atrocities as long as those atrocities are committed by maintainers of the status quo?
Have we heard from any? I must've missed it.
From January: www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
They had very little, if any, to lose.
How many churches preached against slavery back in the day?
John Brown's anti-slavery views was actually rooted in his xtian faith as did others who condemned the act od slavery back then. Yet still, many xtians, did use passages in the Old Testament to justify slavery.
It's all bullshit. Bronze Age is over man
Oooooh, look at at you, being all edgey and shit! Does that make you feel special? Why don't you ask your mom to heat up a hot pocket and finish your remedial language homework...
Exactly what a Nazi would say
You don't know shit about John Brown. Obviously. You're out of your fucking depth with me, christer.
Now, go eat your Hot Pocket before it gets cold, edgelordmm.
😂😅😄🤣😆 You're a fucking idiot!
She's dead, and you can't spell, fuckface. EDGY. Not "edgey". Why don't you fix the syntax in your second sentence while you're at it. Get Grok to help you! durrrrrr!! Is the hot pocket for you stick your dick in, you subliterate fuckstick?
You're not going to get any sympathy from me if you chose to be a fuckhead contrarian....
Your mon is dead because of the shame she felt having such a 💩head for a son.
There is a beautiful human who is bravely fighting this. youtube.com/@friendlyath...
And thanks to Trump they will now be able to endorse and fund candidates while enjoying their tax exempt status.
And not called out the convicted Rapist. I mean.... There's THAT.
Exactly
... Primarily those Evangelicals living in multi-million dollar homes. And, and, and with a Big Beautiful Focus on Franklin Graham ...
As an outsider I'm shocked at how your political system has ignored separation of church and state now your laws are shaped on evangelical beliefs which are outdated and oppressive of individual rights.
*perceived moral authority. You're welcome.
Which is why a metric ton of us have left our churches since MAGA started.
All churches support fascism
Most churches lack moral fiber to begin with.
MAGA churches hate Christian Churches. You notice they are not generally affiliated with normal churches.
'Rod of iron' just drips with brotherly love ... if ya know what I mean... nudge, nudge ... wink, wink
For real what does the Pope have to say about the Supreme court mostly Catholics allowing trump to ship immigrants to other nations besides their own.
I believe they ceded their moral authority years ago.
Churches have never had any sort of moral authority. Their "morality" is purely extrinsic. The threat of punishment is their only motive to behave in a moral manner. With that kind of motive, it isn't true morality.
According to the latest CNN poll, Republicans are on track to gain seats in 2026.
Indeed
They think they're going to get, finally, after all these years, a Christofascist White Nationalist Nation.
Churches breed and harbor pedophiles - this is not surprising behavior from any church.
Very few ever earned any moral authority, all should be taxed. All should be investigated and zero should have privacy protections for their child abuse, looking at your, AZGOP AZSCOTUS.
Totally agree. If they are now a part of politics then tax them
They ceded moral authority a long time ago
They lost a lot of it through allowing and defending their child abusing priests, vicars or whatever their religions call the leaders of their parish/dioces.
Ex Catholic, 🙅🏻♀️ church due to a host of things… abuse, misogyny, lies, and our then priest said he was retiring, & the diocese moved him to a different diocese 2014ish! BUUUT you might want to 👀 It wasn’t just the Catholics… it’s everywhere! You might check my new post. www.npr.org/2022/05/27/1...
That’s why I included all religions as I know the Catholics aren’t the only religious group/cult abusing their flocks.
Sorry, all those words are Catholic terms. They may used in other churches, but I didn’t know it.
Vicar is used in the Church of England. Couldn’t think of Rabbi, Mullah or orthodox Christian groups at the time of writing.
Preacher man works for me. It's all inclusive of an annoying gnat buzzing around your ear and a predator ready to strike at any moment🤷🏽♀️ hypocrite, predator... All these words convey church leader to me. ANY CHURCH, they're all the same. Just different reasons to prey on the people
I do not disagree, now that I am out of it.
Most, if not all religions are based on men making the “rules”. This girly doesn’t have time for that bullshit
Neither does this one. I haven’t for more than 10 years now.
I’m going on 62 without it. (I’m 62 in a couple of weeks) 😁
Happy birthday I’ll be 75 and have lived without religion for most of those years.
They have also ceded all pretense of religious sincerity by failing to speak out loudly and forcefully against Trump-supporting evangelicals.
It’s always been about 💰. For ALL of those who continue to ignore/lie/acquiesce/obfuscate/obey in advance…anything and everything that can be done to destroy what is good about our country. If it messes with that bottom dollar, they don’t care.
Need to get a mic in their faces right now
No, they are willingly hating.
Yeah, everyone knows jesus locks his enemies in a fully on fire concentration camp, this is just half ass as far as jesus is concerned
Doesn’t anyone besides me wonder why????
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You mean the churches that have been campaigning from the pulpit? Those churches? Yeah, they're THE CAUSE of this bullshit. Churches need to be outlawed or burned to the ground FULL of it's rapists and pedophiles. It's ALL MAKING SENSE...
Well, in their defense, they never had any moral authority to begin with.
The churches ceded authority when they supported Trump first time around. How they do not view him as 666 the anti christ is beyond me.
Yep.
“There’s this whole Catholic-right media landscape that functions like a Catholic Fox News,” says John Gehring, Catholic program director for the liberal advocacy organization Faith in Public Life. www.typeinvestigations.org/investigatio...
Moral authority is attributed -not possessed. Attributed due to behavior -not due to self proclamations. Churches are just a myrid of names and organizations. By itself such means nothing. What they do is who they are.
And they will die in the graves they dig for others
100%. I see them as community centers for cruelty.
Amen
Or never had any to begin with
It sounds like the Catholic Church during WW2
They are no longer churches. They are cult centers.
Felonious POTUS breaks every commandment? Christians say ✔️ Demonizing the poor tired & hungry, including kidnapping & ship to prisons 'round the globe? Christians say ✔️ Pedo priests & felonious enablers? Christians say ✔️ Shoving 10 commandments down school kids throats? Christians say ✔️ Sheesh 🤨
It’s a Lot of Well Known Preacher and Churches, that Support Trump 100% and told their members, they must Vote for him. It’s a big difference between being religious and being Spiritual. Christ was Not Religious. Those of us that Worship Christ, must Worship Him in Spirit and Truth.
Wouldn't be the first time religion has been in cahoots with the oppressor. Or the last.
Religions are Oppressors.
Not inherently, but generally ultimately.
And now these bastions of moral authority will be empowered to lobby for their chosen candidates. Tax the mf’ers
Tax them all!
Truth
Didn't The Crusades, The Inquisition, decades of hate against LGBTQ+, foundational subjugation of women, abuse (of every kind) of children already do that?
And the sky is blue.
The church has never been a beacon of moral authority in its made-up existence.
Moral authority is so fucking ambiguous.
Absolutely mindblowing
All of them in my city. Gone…
They are for profit con centers
They’re fighting — it’s just for the wrong team. The same people that preach the teaching of Jesus actively support a man who is the complete antithesis of him in every way.
1938
well, they've been pretty quiet when Hitler was in power, so there is a precedence. I mean there have even been church leaders who helped with extermination of Jews.
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this christian radical is one of the people who caused it. project 2025 contributer appointed director of management and budget. PBS Frontline
The US is coalescing into two systems, one of Christ's love & the other of MAGA's hate. Christ said his sheep will hear his voice and he knows them. Those are Trump's goats in Christ's sheep clothing. He's their shepherd. Be glad you don't follow the cursed nor hear his call at all! UR doing right.
...and now they can use their lack of moral compass and tax free status to endorse political candidates!
Tax these motherfuckers!
Tax the fuckers now!
There are how many churches in the United States? I have been asking, where are all of the clergymen and women? Why are they not standing up against what is happening with kidnappings, military in our streets, our rights being taken away, the outright lies from the regime. Get them on all media.
The evangelicals are loving this, but the Catholic church is protesting en masse. This happened in my old stomping grounds. During the last No Kings protest, every Catholic church in my area (NW VT) had large groups of protestors including priests and/or nuns. It was encouraging.
There lies your problem giving away your own moral authority to a religion or church.
long since
Incineration of 500 tons of food for starving children. Good job Maga Christians.
Seems like the typical sort of thing these people do.
A major waste that could have fed thousands of people. MAGA and true Christians are not the same.
No such thing as a "true Christian". Jesus was a Jew, why is that so hard to understand. He lived his life as a Jew not a Christian.
The majority of Christians do not know what that means. He lived kosher. He learned the 613 commandments. He kept Shabbat and went to Temple. A lot of his teachings are copied from Hillel the Elder. He would be horrified to know that his followers were killing Jews throughout history.
He would be horrified about Jews and their behaviors as well. Which he was already during his life time.
Being a Jew and a Christian is not a contradiction. And Jesus was no Christian because he was "the Christ" himself.
Those of us who follow Jesus are Christians (Jesus the Christ). ✌️
Well, there wasn’t a lot to lose, I suppose.
The Pope needs to say more. I wish he would visit the concentration camp in Florida.
They ceded that the moment they embraced the 🍊 pedo 10 years ago. Hypocrisy and immorality rule them now.
They ceded that long before that. With every crusade. With every fire lit. With every inquisition. With every thug claiming the name of Jesus under his white hood. With every televangelist begging for cash. With every political stunt. With every single thing the church has done in public.
Say it louder for those in the back! It's a social club, morally-defunct. If they stood for anything good, they would encourage congregations to stand up to this garbage, but no. Now we can praise the Felon from the pulpit as "God" intended. Straight grift and deplorable.
“Churches…” “moral authority…”
And yet here we are.
Reagan was not particularly religious. His worshippers were.
Well, Ray Gun “said it” - he was a lying weasel who put the fascist movement on the road to what it is today. He would say anything to keep control - I doubt he meant this.
It’s his fault we’re here though. Trickle down my ass!
If the evangelicals ever had any to start with
They are not Christian for sure… they are not following Jesus’s teachings… and are not on sound doctrine… so for sure… they need to stop telling people to live by biblical standards that they aren’t living by…
When I say "exploiting our resources" I'm talking resources that US citizens pay into with their taxes, Like Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps etc ... That are reserved for US citizens only ... Not foreigners with stolen SS numbers and They must be deterred from breaking into our castle ...
We have to protect our castle ... The US being our castle filled with registered citizens ... If foreigners want to come into the US they have to come in through the front gates ... If they break into our castle and exploit our resources (Jobs, Housing etc.) they've got to go ...
Churches don't have "moral authority" when it comes to the law ... Otherwise wacko religious fanatics would still be burning witches ... The US Constitutions presides over the law that regulates the land ... Not Church ... Not Sharia law like Mamdani hopes to achieve 1 day ...
On the big scoreboard in the sky there are more kills in the name of Jesus than any other diety.
They never had any to begin with.
They never had it if they are silent about this.
Because of this administration, I now believe that churches are corrupt and run by white men who want women to fall in line and obey their man. 🖕🖕🖕
I have doubts that any church has ever had any "Moral Authority". It's all lies and probably best to just study modern ethics that Bible is really nasty and would say evil is more fitting. At least with the KJV
"churches" are all about money and influence Spirituality is about faith
God's away on business. Sorry.
Yes, they have.
Just like the churches in Nazi Germany.. and any church during WWII that used hate as the foundation of their 'Christian' religion. Religion not faith. Those who were faithful, saw Christ in the people they saved during that time
They did that a long time ago. They are the reason all of this is happening in the first place.
They are the churches of moral rot. I can guarantee if they were snatching up little blue-eyed blond kids, women, and fathers, they would be out there armed and ready.
Jess, they kinda did that 18 months ago when they stood by as our government under both parties funded & supported Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing. There is not coming back form that.
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Many, maybe most, had none to begin with.
When the largest megachurch in the state leaves their denomination to join the NAR movement, it does not bode well for our future.
bullshit, they never had "moral authority" over any decent people, they cater to and depend on the weakest, those that need herds. religion has no place for the brave. Moral authority, God what a delusion, are you aware of the times, Christians hiding under their pews?
Repeating of the Dark Ages
They ceded any claim to morality when they started lying about God anointing Trump has his agent on earth.
And this. What happeded to feed the poor? bsky.app/profile/pamk...
Weren’t they also silent in Germany during the Nazi rule of the 1930s and 40s?
Because they ran a rat line to Spain to S. America