After her flippant reply to constituents’ worries about health care and food assistance cuts, Sen. Joni Ernst followed up with a brazen video filmed in a cemetery.

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    6 days ago

    Wow, she’s talking about embracing Jesus Christ in the same statement as taking away poor people’s healthcare to give tax cuts to billionaires. These Christians love to wear their mascot like a badge while completely contradicting the explicit lessons of the book.

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      Christianity has become incredibly perverted. So many of those who identify with it would go to hell if it were real.

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      These Christians love to wear their mascot like a badge while completely contradicting the explicit lessons of the book.

      Because they don’t actually believe in anything but greed. They use religion as a tool to gain power. Hypocrisy be damned, they couldn’t care less. It’s the religious idiots that refuse to see this that kill me… But then again it’s completely understandable, we are stuck in a 2 party system where it’s “the ultimate evil” vs “people I generally agree with but don’t particularly like.” (That goes for whatever side you’re on. We all see the politicians the same, except for the insane Trump cultists.)

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      They’ll throw six or seven figures at some charity owned by another rich asshole friend and call themselves Saints. I assume that’s how they trick themselves into thinking they’re anything but parasites.

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        Dude, I’m an atheist, but the old testament is a complete contradiction of the new testament practically. The teachings of Jesus, who these idiots always put front and center, does speak tirelessly on helping the poor and telling the rich to give up their wealth to help others. I was raised catholic in a catholic school and I saw the contradictions as a kid they are so blatant. I’m just pointing out their hypocrisy in being so flippant about poor people suffering to give tax cuts to the rich while waving their Jesus saves bull shit.

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          Jesus endorsed slavery. That’s all I need to know (though unfortunately, I know a lot more and it’s all trash).

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              You like the bible because you’re a conservative and it validates your beliefs. I like the bible because I’m a foot fetishist. We are not the same

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        I am always baffled by how a book that endorses blatantly evil behavior is the one these idiots always trot around as an THE example of morality. If abuse, rape, and murder are morality then I’ll choose to be immoral and not rape or murder anyone.