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The Debates: The Grand Inquisition of the Heretics Trump and Pence

Oct 11, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer 22 Comments

My latest in PJ Media:

Back in May, I wrote here at PJ Media that “Donald Trump is a heretic. He is persecuted by the Church.” Trump “is a heretic from the Leftist church, the secular religion of today’s political and media elites, and as such he must be treated as heretics were in the old days of the Spanish Inquisition: he must be burned at the stake.” But before the burning comes the Inquisition, in which the heretic is asked to abjure his heresies and rejoin the fold. As both the presidential and vice presidential debates have shown, that’s the purpose of the debates: to establish Trump and Pence as heretics, after which they are to be cast into the outer darkness, where men will week and gnash their teeth.

The religious character of the debates came clear in many of the questions that were asked. By way of comparison, it is useful to recall that the Roman Catholic baptismal service contains a series of questions: Do you reject Satan? And all his works? Do you reject sin, so as to live in the freedom of God’s children? Do you reject the glamor of evil, and refuse to be mastered by sin? Do you reject Satan, father of sin and prince of darkness?

After that come the affirmations of belief: Do you believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth? Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was born of the Virgin Mary, was crucified, died, and was buried, rose from the dead, and is now seated at the right hand of the Father? Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting?

Once these questions have been ritually answered, the priest proclaims: This is our faith. This is the faith of the Church. We are proud to profess it, in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now compare this to some of the questions that Chris Wallace asked President Trump:

Do you believe that there is systemic racism in this country, sir?
You have rolled back a number of Obama environmental accords, what do you believe about the science of climate change and what will you do in the next four years to confront it?
You believe that human pollution, gas, greenhouse gas emissions contributes to the global warming of this planet.

There is much more. Read the rest here.

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  1. gravenimage says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    The Debates: The Grand Inquisition of the Heretics Trump and Pence
    ……………………

    This is grimly true.

    Yesterday poster Wellington sent me this insane story:

    “Unhinged Olbermann Suggests Internment for Trump Supporters”

    “Trump can be and must be expunged. The hate he has triggered, the pandora’s box he has opened, they will not be so easily destroyed. So, let us brace ourselves. The task is two fold: The terrorist Trump must be defeated, must be destroyed, must be devoured at the ballot box and then he and his enablers and his supporters and his collaborators, and the Mike Lees, and the William Barrs and Sean Hannitys and the Mike Pences and the Rudy Guilianis and the Kyle Rittenhouses, and the Amy Coney Barretts must be prosecuted and convicted and removed from our society while we try to rebuild it and to rebuild the world Trump has nearly destroyed…”

    https://www.redstate.com/scotthounsell/2020/10/09/unhinged-olbermann-suggests-internment-for-trump-supporters/

    How insane is this rhetoric? Olbermann has always been pretty unhinged, but he is in Stalinist territory here. Imagine if someone said that any Clinton or Biden supporter should be *removed from out society*? Utter madness.

    Reply
    • curious george says

      Oct 12, 2020 at 12:40 am

      gravenimage says

      How insane is this rhetoric?
      …………………………………….

      It’s off the charts!

      What’s most concerning is, the worst is yet to come!

      “As you know, Americans around the country took to the streets this summer to protest racial injustice. Not only is that a constitutionally guaranteed right, but it is a worthy cause. At the same time, some of the images we saw broke my heart – looting and violence, and the use of pepper spray, tear gas, rubber bullets, flash grenades, and helicopters against peaceful protestors.”

      The above is an excerpt from a reply I received from one of my Representatives in Washington, DC. I’ll let the excerpt speak for itself.

      Alarm bells sounding for Biden, Schumer and Pelosi

      https://canadafreepress.com/article/alarm-bells-sounding-for-biden-schumer-and-pelosi

      Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
      – Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

      Reply
      • DazzleMe says

        Oct 13, 2020 at 2:01 am

        +1 curious George

        Reply
    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 12, 2020 at 8:40 am

      gravenimage,

      The irony is that Pres. Trump wants to improve the life of *all* Americans – including the “Unhinged” Olbermann.

      Perhaps Pres. Trump is “too good” for the 50% of the US citizens who *hate* him – no matter what actual good that he accomplishes…

      Reply
    • Giacomo Latta says

      Oct 12, 2020 at 9:16 am

      The Left, like all others who strive to install their kind of tyranny, needs an enemy. With Marxists there are the bourgeoisie to hate. What do they look like? They are rich but can get an exemption if their name is George Soros. Donald Trump is one even though the ”intellectual” Left has been in a lather trying to prove that he has lost a lot of money.
      And of course anyone who gives an opinion not shared by the Left is automatically a target for Leftist hate. Non-Left opinions are divisive whereas opinions from the Left are ”inclusive” and something for everyone to rally around. It is never the other way around.
      As for populist support, in the 60s and 70s these were the hippies who would take to the street. Nowadays ”populist” is a bad word because a majority of people, especially the poor, have voted for Trump.
      This cannot be tolerated. A little more than half the country must be removed from society. If the Left wins the presidency it does not appear there will be any kind of elections anytime soon, outside there own clique.

      Reply
      • E T says

        Oct 12, 2020 at 11:20 am

        How to Create a Socialist State – Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky

        1 HEALTHCARE – If you control healthcare, you control the state.

        2 POVERTY – Increase the poverty level as high as possible. Poor people are easier to control and less likely to attack their source of survival.

        3. DEBT- Increase debt to unsustainable levels. This will allow the government to increase taxes, produce more poverty and further control the people.

        4. GUN CONTROL . – Remove the ability for citizens to defend themselves from their government, thus allowing for a police state.

        5. WELFARE . – Take control of every aspect of their lives and survival: food, housing, healthcare and income.

        6. EDUCATION . – Control what people listen to; control what children are taught in school. Emphasize the progressive ideals only.

        7. RELIGION. – Remove the people’s belief in God from government schools, no ideology can supersede the power of the state.

        8. CLASS WARFARE – Divide the people into warring factions: wealthy vs. poor. This will foster further discontent, animosity and justify raising taxes necessary for redistribution of income through social programs.

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        • curious george says

          Oct 12, 2020 at 4:38 pm

          E T,

          Thanks for the post.

          It’s been a long time since I read Rules for Radicals. It certainly does appear that the plan is working.

          “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.”
          – Hosea 4:6

    • john smith says

      Oct 12, 2020 at 12:13 pm

      I’ve never heard anything like this before, the world is going completely crazy.

      Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Oct 12, 2020 at 10:53 pm

      Thanks for all the great replies.

      Reply
  2. Adam says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    It seems people will suffer evils, rather than right the wrongs of this world. And many, many people know these evils and let them continue.
    Just one small case in point, Dachau concentration camp opened in March of 1933 and wasn’t liberated until April of 1945. I wonder if anyone knew about it ? Sarcasm of course. Plenty knew and did nothing.
    Never underestimate the power of self-preservation. It takes courage to live free and many people wish to be free from the irksome burden of freedom.

    Reply
  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 10:00 pm

    During that first debate Joe Biden exposed that he has the mindset of a rude low class raised teenage boy then he said to President Trump “shut up man.” Then Biden showed that he has the mentality of a elementary school kid by calling names . In that he called the President a ‘fool.”

    It that the most Biden can can do in a debate ? Maybe that is the extent of the mental capacity of the man.

    In either case Joe Biden is an man who still needs to grow up.

    Reply
    • Rufolino says

      Oct 12, 2020 at 3:18 am

      When people resort to abuse it often means they have either lost the argument, or are unable to defend their position.

      Reply
      • Walter Sieruk says

        Oct 12, 2020 at 3:44 am

        Very true.

        Reply
  4. shoehorn says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 10:14 pm

    Methodist theologian Hillary Clinton says Black Lives Matter is a ‘theological statement’.
    https://thewolfofwashington.com/hillary-clinton-out-for-blood-now-targeting-christians/?fbclid=IwAR1Ctqvoi7VKHNiDo9AfY2ltRJfktbX41b3lqcgkV5gxNIWcSrBmG9c4cNY

    Reply
    • curious george says

      Oct 13, 2020 at 12:11 am

      Thanks for the link,

      Hillary Clinton is a liar, a thief and a bandit.

      She claims to speak with Eleanor Roosevelt. I suspect that she is involved in the occult, which is quite disturbing.

      Bill Clinton admits that Hillary is necromancer and talks to dead Eleanor Roosevelt, Oct 23, 2012

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRav-34ufcE

      But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.
      2 Peter 2:1

      Reply
  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 10:15 pm

    To reiterate in a better and more clear way that was made known before is the message that this coming national election in November is a very clear choice between good and evil.

    It’s either voting for President Trump who stands with God and the US Constitution or by terrible contrast voting for Joe Biden, backed by Iran. who stands with socialism /Marxism and his Antifa and BLM allies with their Red/ Green alliance .

    Surely, we are now living in important and epoch times. Joe Biden ,as President of the USA , be nothing but disaster for.America

    Reply
    • James Lincoln says

      Oct 12, 2020 at 8:43 am

      A 100% accurate analysis, Walter.

      The stakes couldn’t be higher…

      Reply
  6. curious george says

    Oct 11, 2020 at 11:58 pm

    Presidential news reporter mystified as ‘no supporters’ show up for Biden

    https://www.wnd.com/2020/10/presidential-news-reporter-mystified-no-supporters-show-biden/

    Reply
  7. andrew mckendrick says

    Oct 12, 2020 at 7:23 am

    Unhinged Olbermann suggests Internment for Trump Supporters , my only question is ,was he foaming at the mouth when he wrote that?

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Oct 12, 2020 at 11:30 pm

      He was pretty much foaming at the mouth when he said it, certainly.

      Reply
  8. Dude says

    Oct 12, 2020 at 9:35 am

    Clearly the reptilian aliens from Venus who have successful infiltrated high levels of both political parties are now exercising control over the American dumb (m)asses.
    Science is befuddled with paradox now: does covid kill, does pollution cause melting glaciers? Do Mathematics and Physics still describe our natural world? Is human life more important than NASDAQ? What’s the ratio, people to points?
    Frankly Scarlet, I don’t give it damn. Just don’t bring that desert Trojan Horse into my neighbourhood! Soon enough, the Climate debate will be over. And we’ll all have to grow up.

    Reply
    • E T says

      Oct 12, 2020 at 11:32 am

      Kary Mullis, the American biochemist who invented the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, the man who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1993, disagreed with climate change.
      He also said of the Academy of Science – “There are no wise men at the top”.
      The word of God vs. The word of the EPA
      Beliefs become facts”

      Reply

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