Speaking at a church event in Wichita [in 2014], then-Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas), the newly confirmed Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, said radical Muslims want “to wipe Christians from the face of the Earth,” and that Christians need to pray, fight, and understand that “Jesus Christ our Savior is truly the only solution for our world.”
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“But I can tell you that this threat to America is from people who deeply believe that Islam is the way and the light and the only answer,” said Pompeo.
“So, as we think about what U.S. policy needs to be, how we will begin to combat this, we need to recognize that these folks believe it is religiously driven for them to wipe Christians from the face of the Earth,” he said.
Right. You think your god [placeholder] is the way and the light and the only answer. You believe, as a christian, you are religiously driven to wipe muslims from the face of the earth, and you want to force your religious beliefs on everyone. As usual, such fanatics completely ignore the fact that you aren’t fighting over two gods [placeholder], it’s the same fucking one. Abrahamaic religions: Judaism, Islam, Christianity. Same fucking god. (If you’re confused, ‘god’ is a generic word, a placeholder for a specific god; ‘allah’ is the same thing, means ‘god’. Unless you specify, ‘god’ in any language could be applicable to thousands of imaginary beings.)
You bloodthirsty christian assholes want a jihad, you want to kill, slaughter, and most likely torture first. No room to talk here, a fanatic is a fanatic, and all you idiotic fanatics want to do this over different interpretations. It’s fair enough to say most christians just want to live their lives, like everyone else, and be left in peace. It’s fair enough to say the very same thing about most muslims. I dearly wish we could just lock up all you fucking religious fanatics in a room, lock it, and walk away.
“But these folks are serious and they abhor Christians,” said the future CIA director. “And [they] will continue to press against us until we make sure that we pray and stand and fight and make sure that we know that Jesus Christ our Savior is truly the only solution for our world.”
Yes, some fanatical assholes do abhor christians. Just like some fanatical assholes abhor muslims. Can’t say I’m altogether fond of fanatics of any stripe, but here in the States, where I live, it’s christians who constantly prove to be a threat to all people who don’t measure up to their fucked up immoral standards. Turn that laser focus on yourself, sir, and let that ‘god’ of yours fight its own fucking battles.
Unsurprisingly, Pompeo is willing to go along with Trump and bring torture back, because torture good.
Via CNS.
Change the names of the people, gods, and countries, and conservative fundies are the same the world over.
Yep. There are none so blind as religious fanatics.
So why bother accepting the post of CIA director at all? Why not step aside and let Jesus do it? I think a leaderless CIA might do less damage than he will.
Jesus is probably busy watching teevee and tweeting or something.
My sister’s friend once wrote a song about how Jesus comes unasked into his house, sprawls on the couch, turns the TV on too loud, and eats all the chips (leaving crumbs in the cushions, of course -- I believe the refrain was something like ‘why Jesus why’).
Daesh really has help in high places.
No recruitment video ever as good as the things this administration does.
Giliell:
That’s a fucking fact. Be nice if they ever figured it out.
The observation that seems most appropriate:
‘Generally good people will do good things, and bad people bad things. to get good people to undertake evil requires religion.’
When I was stuck in KS, I loathed Pompeo, but now he’s at the national level? Fuck…..