Roy Moore standing on his victory podium waving his gun.
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When former judge Roy Moore bounded onto stage Tuesday night to declare victory in the Alabama Republican primary, he was quick to offer his own explanation for his resounding nine-point win.
“There’s one you don’t see up here [on stage], and let me just tell you, He’s done more for my campaign than anybody — and that’s almighty God,” Moore said to a raucous crowd. He then quoted a passage from Isaiah 40 before declaring: “We have to return the knowledge of God and the Constitution of the United States to the United States Congress.”
Moore’s fusion of faith and politics doesn’t fit neatly into any of the well-worn political narratives used by pundits to characterize his path to the Senate. Some framed his primary win as a blow to Donald Trump, who endorsed Moore’s opponent Luther Strange, and a cheeky win for former senior White House adviser Steve Bannon, who backed Moore. Others read it as a sign the GOP establishment that rushed […]
Christofascists are slowly dwindling in numbers as America becomes a more secular nation, as more and more people realize that religion and the church were created (by man) to control the masses by using fear. Living a fear-based life was man’s invention, not God’s. Fear leads to hate, and hate narrows consciousness. Judge Moore lives a life based in fear (hate), and that is a terrible perspective from which to govern.