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Some Capitol rioters believed they answered God’s call, not just Trump’s (WaPo)
WaPo ^ | Peter Manseau

Posted on 02/12/2021 5:23:42 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Ten weeks before the election and four months before President Donald Trump summoned his supporters to Washington and called on them to “walk down Pennsylvania Avenue” to the U.S. Capitol, where they staged a brutal and chaotic insurrection, one of his staunchest allies sat for an interview, the Capitol visible behind him. There was no sign yet of the fury that would soon overtake its dome, but evangelical leader Franklin Graham painted a harrowing picture of a battle on the horizon.

What would happen, the Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody asked, if Trump lost? Graham’s reply stated plainly the stakes as he saw them. “I’m just asking that God would spare this country for another four years to give us a little bit more time to do the work before the storm hits,” he said. “I believe the storm is coming. You’re going to see Christians attacked; you’re going to see churches close; you’re going to see a real hatred expressed toward people of faith. That’s coming.” Graham said of Trump: “God has put him in this position” to defend “Western civilization as we have known it.”

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While Trump may have incited the riot at the Capitol that led to his second impeachment, many of his followers already had all the encouragement they needed: They believed God wanted them to do this.

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We have also seen a shocking act of violence committed by Christians: an assault on a symbol of American democracy that left the halls of Congress strewn with shattered glass, 140 police officers injured, and one officer and four others dead. Not only was this assault accompanied by Jesus flags, Bible quotes and loudspeaker sermons, it was undertaken — according to many of the attackers themselves — in Christianity’s name.

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1 posted on 02/12/2021 5:23:42 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: All

Know thine enemy.


2 posted on 02/12/2021 5:24:26 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

To Thine Own Self Be True, Coo coo ca choo.


3 posted on 02/12/2021 5:27:52 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: RoosterRedux

Poor God. The things He gets blamed for.


4 posted on 02/12/2021 5:28:54 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: RoosterRedux

Poor God. The things He gets blamed for.


5 posted on 02/12/2021 5:28:55 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: RoosterRedux

The left’s anti-Christian bigotry will only continue to grow, now that they have declared a full-scale war against all aspects of the First Amendment. Any Christian at this point who knows what the Dems stand for and still supports them is like the so-called “self-hating Jews” that were common in Europe in the early 20th century. They are knowingly giving fodder to those that hate and slander them.


6 posted on 02/12/2021 5:30:58 AM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: RoosterRedux

The Lord works in mysterious ways. Just sayin.


7 posted on 02/12/2021 5:31:00 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: DoodleDawg
The Left is going to impeach God so that none of His servants can occupy the WH in the future.

This will be done in the court of public opinion, though, not in Congress.

8 posted on 02/12/2021 5:35:52 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

When will Pelosi impeach God?


9 posted on 02/12/2021 5:39:32 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: RoosterRedux

Now that they’ve stolen the election, they feel emboldened to come out after their real enemy, Christians, and in doing so reveal themselves for what they really are, and unfortunately they are legion.


10 posted on 02/12/2021 5:40:57 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: RoosterRedux

Their hatreds pour out of every pore.

Get this and get it good WaPo, you bunch of jackasses- Patriots’ priorities are God, family, country. Got it? And as Christians we are commanded by God to fight against evil wherever we find it- and we HAVE found it, in you and the rest of the leftists.

But NOW? We have found the perfect weapon to use against you- the Constitution. And use it we shall. It must have surprised the hell out of you that so many Americans were reading and learning just where the real power lies, and it isn’t with you, DC or globalist corporations. It starts and ends here- local, within the several states in the hands of the PEOPLE.

You can make all the fun of believers that you want to. We will leave you in God’s capable hands. But in the meantime, we WILL take our country back from you haters, traitors and perverts.


11 posted on 02/12/2021 6:06:09 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: RoosterRedux

I still don’t get how this twenty minute fiasco is a “brutal and chaotic insurrection”, while three months of burning cities is “mostly peaceful protest”. The media is the enemy.


12 posted on 02/12/2021 6:12:14 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: RoosterRedux

Not only was this assault accompanied by Jesus flags, Bible quotes and loudspeaker sermons, it was undertaken — according to many of the attackers themselves — in Christianity’s name ,all planned in the open on the internet including zoom training sessions by self avowed Marxist Antifa crises actors and paid for by laundered tax money by seditious rouge democrats and Republicans and admitted to before and after the fact by major media under the ruse of saving democracy with fortification of the blue wave against a red mirage of legal votes to camafloge a coup committed to acquire the power to bring back gulags , struggle sessions , reducation killing fields and genocide against judeo Christianity and non atheist communists would be more accurate imho.


13 posted on 02/12/2021 6:13:22 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran 78 to 84 )
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To: bk1000

The Left is the enemy. The media is merely a Leftist tool.


14 posted on 02/12/2021 6:22:23 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

The things the WaPo comes up tabloid trauma on the march.


15 posted on 02/12/2021 8:56:55 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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