My Cousin posted this on FB today , needless to say he won’t get many hits from my Mother’s side of the family . They are Southern Baptist, we have quite a few of my cousins who are pastors of their own churches, good people , they won’t argue with anyone about there faith. They are quick to say however “ The Lord Calling them home “.
Crickets on the post so far !!
Perfect! The same attitude goes for those who gay, and so many more! The PHONY "christians" use their "religion" as an excuse for damning EVERYTHING they HATE! Oh, and for everything they LOVE about anyone who backs them up: "Trump is the "Chosen One."
"There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know. -- The proverb has been traced back in English to 1546 (John Heywood), and resembles the Biblical verse":
Jer. 5:21 (King James version): "Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not."
"It was used by Jonathan Swift in his 'Polite Conversation,' and is first attested in the United States in the 1713 'Works of Thomas Chalkley'..."
And George Orwell, in "1984" called it Doublethink:"
“To know and to not know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy is impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy. To forget, whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself”
Please explain the, "Crickets on the post." expression, it sounds like fun and it is not one we use in the UK.
It’s new to me also.
Lmao . Well crickets are generally chirping making a bunch of noise, but when you get close they get quiet , and as you walk away they start again. My Cousin lets his perception be known about things and generally there are plenty who have something to say but not this time !! Lol In the United States we see it all the time with Trump supporters, but when he blunders they get real quiet . Hopefully that makes sense .
Ain't it the truth. Athletes give him credit when their team wins, but never they never blame him when their team loses.
The BEST example of that kind of mindset, I think, comes from IDIOTS who praise their "God" for saving them from some disaster, while others died.
Example: Flight 800 that blew up over the Atlantic:
I heard a woman on the news say, "GOD SAVED me from getting on that flight!" And I was like, "You IGNORANT, SELFISH, STUPID BITCH! Yeah, your Sky Daddy saved YOUR SORRY ASS, while HUNDREDS, including, men, women, children and BABIES were blown out of the sky!"