Fun fact: The United States cabinet had not had a Bible study class in over 100 years until Donald Trump took office. But now every Wednesday a man named Ralph Drollinger convenes some of the most powerful people in the country to delve into Christian scripture.
But Drollinger’s religious musings aren’t relegated only to closed-door White House sessions. He also has a blog, Capitol Ministries, where he shares his thoughts with the world.
And earlier this week he posted what he calls a “biblically astute evaluation” of the coronavirus crisis. It’s a doozy.
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“Yes, America is experiencing the consequential wrath of God,” he says. He lays out five key “identifiers” of why this is, with number three being “a sensation toward homosexuality.”
“Clearly indicative of God’s forsaking wrath is when the abandoned serve the creature rather than the creator,” he writes. “Indicative of forsaking wrath is a proclivity toward lesbianism and homosexuality.”
It’d be one thing if these were just the inconsequential ramblings of a religious wingnut, but Drollinger has direct influence at the highest levels of the federal government. The Intercept reports that his religious justifications were even used by Trump in devising the disastrous policy of separating migrant children from their families in detention.
And Drollinger’s dangerous thinking doesn’t stop there.
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He also claims the Earth is suffering from illness and natural disasters because people worship the “religion of environmentalism.” Environmentalists, he says, are “largely responsible for God’s consequential wrath on our nation.”
So… the people who are trying to combat climate change are actually causing climate change by the very nature of their passion.
As if it’s any great surprise, coronavirus task force leader and Vice President Mike Pence is listed as a host of Capitol Ministries.
Cam
Republicans and right wing evangelicals entire world view is now just based off of hating LGBT people.
TomG
Could that be because in their hearts they are gay as well? The biggest haters are those that have the same feelings and won’t admit it to themselves no less anyone else.
Diplomat-G
Really it’s the gays…So you god is mad at gays but not a lying, adulterous, con artist, rapist, misogynist and gluttonous fool.. its the gays…
Inspector 57
Preach it!!!
Mister P
Wait until Ellen hears about this. She is going to be pissed
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
But wait!!!
It gets more ignorant, repulsive, repugnant and ridiculous!!!!
You can spend some of your isolating alone time immersing yourself in this vile rhetoric from his “Bible study”:
Drollinger states at the beginning of a March 21, 2020 blog post, for students of his Bible study, that “some leading evangelicals” believe that “America is now experiencing God’s judgment.”
Instead of stating whether he is or is not one of those evangelicals, he wrote an entire study guide that he says is a “biblically astute evaluation of the situation” that “strongly suggests that America and other countries of the world are reaping what China has sown due to their leaders’ recklessness and lack of candor and transparency.”
The study guide says that there are different kinds of wrath in the Bible, and that many people in the U.S. have experienced God’s “forsaking wrath.” One of the signs of being forsaken by God is homosexuality.
“Indicative of forsaking wrath is a proclivity toward lesbianism and homosexuality,” Drollinger wrote. Other signs include abortion and how the U.S. is not an explicitly Christian state, and that “the unfaithful” use positions of power in education, politics, the media, and the entertainment industry to spread “tragic, unfortunate, and costly” ideologies.
Environmentalism is also a sign of being forsaken, he says. Drollinger wrote that it “is when the abandoned serve the creature rather than the creator.” He called environmentalism an “aberration.”
This has led to “consequential wrath” on the nation.
“Relative to the coronavirus pandemic crisis, this is not God’s abandonment wrath nor His cataclysmic wrath, rather it is sowing and reaping wrath: A biblically astute evaluation of the situation strongly suggests that America and other countries of the world are reaping what China has sown due to their leaders’ recklessness and lack of candor and transparency,” he wrote in the study guide.
Another absolutely fun fact! This pig pernicious puddle of puke holds weekly Bible study groups in the White House attended by over 50 members of Congress, cabinet members and VP Mike Penisce…..
msfrost
Ignorant superstition, is no excuse!
TomG
Won’t the be disappointed when they finally leave this mortal life to find out that they were wrong all along. I for one would like to see the look that will be on their faces.
JanDivine
I don’t like this guy either. And I certainly don’t like Trump. But remember, collectively we as a nation elected him to office. Elections matter. We have to vote, his supporters certainly will.
Jim
Everyone knows Covid-19 is caused by old white men.
wimo
With orange hair?
bradleyphillip
Caused?
JennyMcPike
Werk!
evanxx
If AIDS was god’s punishment for gays, (even though it started among heteros) then Covid-19 is god’s punishment on churches; because it caused them all to close up. Evangelicals are just pissed because it cut into their cash flow. Awwww, too bad; the private jet will have to wait.
fur_hunter
Evan……You are SO correct. Religion = Control of People and their MONEY!
dezstpete
To this azzhat I only say, Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are! We ALL know, those that scream the loudest, are the ones deepest in the closet…
fur_hunter
Correct! The lady doth protest too much, methinks. Just like Paul who wrote Romans and the guy who wrote Leviticus. All were closeted homosexuals who hated themselves. That’s why they wrote the thins they did.
James
THE IDIOT IS A CERTIFIED NUT JOB.
Mack
The LGBTQ community are the ALMIGHTY. We are responsible for ALL catastrophes. We control the weather-hurricanes-tornadoes-floods. We control ALL DISEASES. We control the collapse of financial institutions. And we do all this as a MINORITY in life. We are the ALMIGHTY. Really I think we need to have tee-shirts, stickers, sweatshirts and so forth with “LGBTQ are the ALMIGHTY” on it.
Inspector 57
1) LMAO!!!
2) Great point!!!
okbye
You would think that since they know gay people are responsible for all the bad things in the world they would be much nicer. Piss off the community and you’re gonna get another disaster!
If trump somehow gets re-elected I’m putting in for a massive tornado in Washington DC. Sweep the entire political body off to Oz.
madtown52761
Trump has a personal Bible teacher? I wonder if he knows…
GayEGO
Oh, so only gays are getting the coronavirus? My My, Trump’s bible teacher matches up with Trump and his fake news, a couple of idiots!
JPB
Wow. If you’re a gay environmentalist – you are doomed!! LOL
justyouandi
It was Obama who first separated migrant children from their families in detention. And he was right to do so, as was Trump. There were good, sensible reasons for that practice.
ShiningSex
you’re speading lies. Obama was not the first to do that even your ignorant right wing media will say otherwise. Trump had families in entirely different facilities and Obama did not do that at all.
Sit down and shut up with your fake news.
ShiningSex
these people are idiots. anyone who follows these kind of religious nuts are true devils.
Gz8p
Wow. Just wow
Joshooeerr
The real evil here is a religion that revolves around a vengeful God who, according to scripture, likes nothing more than to send plagues and pestilence to punish his people for all manner of perceived wrongs. For centuries this has put the clergy in a position to blame every disaster or health crisis on whomever they wish to demonise, whether it’s communists, feminists, gays or transsexuals. It’s all about consolidating their power and spreading fear, and if they have to marginalise and stigmatise some minority to achieve that, then so be it. We won’t be free of this until every last well-meaning religious follower finally acknowledges and rejects this most disgusting behaviour. It’s not enough to quietly disagree and believe that “your God” is not so vengeful. As long as you support these churches, you support bigotry and persecution.
fur_hunter
Josh…….When folks finally understand that Religion = Control of People and their MONEY, they will understand the reasons for HATE.
Norm
We’re being punished because of the gays? God is sitting up there looking at us and saying, “How can I punish those bastards now?” God is punishing everybody, that’s his thing. Do these people think kissing gods ass is going to help them? Don’t these people remember? Eve, the woman ate the apple and that’s when god kicked them out of the garden of Eden to punish them because eve ate the apple. Then he decides, I think I’ll punish everybody that is ever born for what she did. These new people didn’t do anything but so what, I’ll punish them too. Can you imagine if I did that? Yea, if you believe in that stuff, then that’s what’s going on, it’s god punishing everybody so shut up and take your punishment and stop trying to kiss you stupid gods ass to get out of being punished. You people aren’t the chosen ones, so shut up! Send this letter to them and rub their face in it and explain to them their own god and what he did, and what he’s doing. Throw their own bull s… back at them, rub their faces in it and kick them to the curb while laughing.
john.k
I’m confused – another pastor says it’s transgender people who are to blame. And would somebody take this guy aside and explain to him that environmentalists are actually trying to take care of God’s creation!
ScottOnEarth
What kind of unintelligible, completely illogical thought process do these dipshits engage in to blame these worldwide atrocities on gay people? I guess having a fake president who has cheated on all of his wives, lied about it and lusts after his own daughter is ok, then?
wikidBSTN
Like trump has a Bible teacher. Right….
CityguyUSA
Like I said last week. I saw this coming a mile away and all it needed for fuel was the one story of the sex party in Amsterdam, I think it was, where the attendees are now testing positive for COVID-19 and the blame is all on the gay males. This has the potential to go the way of Ronald Reagan’s GRID.
Keep your pants on for a few weeks or is that just expecting too much? Does your dick really have that much control of you?
Stephen
This is a wrathful god. Old Testament. Jealous and Wrathful. In the Jewish text, in the Old Testament. From Aramaic to Hebrew to Latin to German to English it left out culture issues. Incest and sexual enslavement of human trafficking.
The New Testament says nothing about homosexuality. Why? Because the New Testament is about love, forgiveness, accepting, owning our own flawed nature as no better or worse than any others. The revolutionary new God of Love and Integrity. ‘Do unto others …’ is in most religions and philosophy approaches since time began.
2020, same problem. Incest and human trafficking. 25 million women, children are human trafficked worldwide, conservative estimate. Also men, sex trade 7% men. But children of all ages. Children born are kept to weaning ages and sold off for tens of thousands of $. Some cultivated to 6-12 years old for Pedophiles.
The Old Testament was trying to stop slave owners and/or fathers from incest and rape. A slave giving consent is rare because of the power imbalance. So consent is like saying a child gave consent for an incestous crime. Drunks, children, slaves cannot give consent. It’s not sex it’s power abuses. The Old Testament was trying to stop people from sexual molestation of others. Family or slaves and children of both sexes.
My high school best friend was traded sexually at 14 to his parent’s friend. But sexualized with his sister for rape by both parents at 9 years old. 13 yrs old functioning sexually with his mother. He thinks it may have been earlier. But definitely remembers 7-8 years of abuse before quitting school, lighting the house on fire, stealing money and bussing 1000 miles awáy. All Uber rich upper middle class. Now drug addicted, bi Polar, friendless and moves every 2-4 months, unable to hold a job or relationship or sobriety. Sadly his sister shot herself in front of her mother at 18. They were cultivated into sex by parents who were ‘home nudists!’ Yeah right. I only knew at 50 what really happened. I stay in touch but am asked not to visit. High school. Best friend! Was I naive!
Old Testament says before the first century we know slavery, homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality and pedophiles existed. These are ñew words. The Old words only existed as ‘chattle or slaves’. Sex slaves for middle to upper class. Lower class; socio economic group, were families where a father had full rights to use his sons añd daughters for sex, at anytime. This was a very big social problem. So that’s the exact reference.
Loving monks were married in bonding ceremonies by the church up until the 8th century. Homosexuality is in 267 species as a population control method by nature.
Chastity was only introduced after several centuries as a priest died the church threw out the family. The families sued and won. So protests, and settlements were the issue to see a virtue in ‘celibacy’. For saving family court settlement costs and real estate and being forced to care for families of deceased priests. Ninth century.. So real estate was the is?ue, not purity to God or Christ-like behaviour.
A Rabbi could not be a practicing rabbi without a wife. Aside was a safe guard to other women and children. Flawed premise but we have to therefore assume Jesus had to marry, Caneen wedding, his own, in order to preach and give healings & guidance to others in 30 AD.
The crooks liars thieves and backwáter bullshitters advising a president are the pond sediment. The draining of the swamp? The draining old and replacing it with more polluted swamp gas bags and unchristian like approvals of amoral presidents, non science oriented literalists that are the scammers of modern Christianity. Bible Belt appeasement efforts. It’s full mockery of the spirit of modern Christianity.
woodroad34
Lack of information, lying, ignoring that this all started in China, hiding his bigotry behind religion–not enough justifiable honor or christianity to listen to this amoral yutz. “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. ” Matthew 7:15.
lord.krath
At least it wasn’t the Jews this time???
FFS these people are nuts.
scotty
if you could reason with relgious people, there would be no religious people.
SteverB1
I was told that we were only responsible for hurricanes and floods. Now COVID too? That seems a bridge too far.
Tombear
Anybody know where I can find a talking serpent cheap? They are a riot at parties!