WI GOP Candidate for Governor: We Need "Good Christian Patriots to Take Over"
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Via: hal-a-lujah • 3 years ago • 62 commentsBy: Hemant Mehta (Friendly Atheist)
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By Hemant Mehta July 22, 2021
Jonathan Wichmann is a Republican running for governor of Wisconsin, and when you're trying to claim an office recently held by Scott Walker, it's clear that the only way to win the GOP primary is by showing your base that you're extreme, ignorant, and Christian, in no particular order.
Wichmann managed to do it all in a speech he gave at a recent "Faith and Freedom Rally" in the state, explaining how Christians should take over the entire government.
After saying, falsely, that Donald Trump was still president, Wichmann explained why his Christianity drove his campaign. He then argued that if anyone demands proof that you've been vaccinated, you should shoot them. (Like a good Christian?)
"Looking at the political scene, I knew we were in trouble," he continued. "There are no truth tellers anymore in this country at the political level. We need to change that. We need good Christian patriots to take over and run for office, and that's what I intend to do."
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"If something goes against your conscience; if you know because God told you — we're all created by God in his image, and God gave us certain rights that no man can trample on — if you know in your heart that something is wrong, that [what] someone is telling you to do is wrong, do not comply," Wichmann said, "It doesn't matter if there's a law on the table or not. Do not go along with that. That's your responsibility. If everyone does that, it all ends today. And if they try to press their luck, we have the Second Amendment."
It's telling that Congress is nearly 90% Christian already, but this idiot thinks that's not enough AND that they're all apparently liars.
It's also no surprise that Wichmann has no problem reconciling his believe that Christianity and morality are synonymous… and his belief that Jesus wants you to murder doctors and scientists for trying to save your life. That's what white evangelical Christianity has become for many people, and pastors are too cowardly to tell their congregations how ignorant they are.
If a Muslim candidate said anything half as batshit crazy as this guy, there would be nonstop fury from the Right. But Wichmann speaks in Christianese so this kind of extreme rhetoric only serves to boost his standing among Republicans.
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Just shoot whoever you think is wrong? If that were reasonable this guy would be dead by now.
looks like he's got the simpleton vote in his pocket...
Huh, so much for religious freedom - I suppose he will favor killing or enslaving non-Christians.
Yeah...let's just throw the First Amendment out the window
But isn't the First Amendment what allows that idiot to spew his garbage and infect others with those brainless ideas - like encouraging shooting people.(And if they try to press their luck, we have the Second Amendment.)
Naturally.
It’s against religious freedom for religious people to decide to run for office?
I guess you need this explained to you.
Read this:
Now do you comprehend the infringement of religious freedom by those who want ONLY Christians running the government?
Are you seriously defending this cretin?
It’s one thing to want it, another thing altogether to actually persuade voters in enough districts to gain such control.
Yes. He said to get involved and run for office. He didn’t say run for office and then take over. I have no problem at all with him urging like minded Christians to run for office from school boards to President.
Is that your attempt to somehow defend what Wichmann said?
By your ill-conceived logic there is no problem with anyone saying anything unless they actually accomplish it.
And what do guns have to do with Christians running for government? [Deleted]
I wonder if Jefferson needs a refresher on Article-6 Section-3 of the US Constitution that forbids a religious test or denies people of others religions from public service such as elected office?
Hi Epistte. One must want to learn for learning to occur.
Glad to see you back here
Or be capable of critical thought and the ability to change when presented with new information.
That doesn't seem likely to happen.
True. No religious test to run for office.
But no law stops voters applying their own religious test when deciding who to vote for.
True. But I can't think of a dumber reason to vote for somebody based on religiosity.
Here is one: Voting for Trump because you believe what Trump says.
He made Mexico pay for the border wall!
Truer words never spoken. George Carlin was a genius.
Fair enough. But religious people don't really care what you think about them.
The feeling is mutual.
Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war....
Err, "Onward Lucifer's Soldiers............"
No we’re not asking secular progressives to run for office…
Religion or lack thereof should never be the benchmark for governance. It was not what our founders intended.
Trumpism is a Satanic death cult.
No, it shouldn’t. Thus there is nothing wrong wrong with anyone of any background running for office and encouraging others likeminded to do so. No religious test still applies.
it does when I vote. freedom from religion.
You are equivocating. Wichmann did not simply encourage other Christians to run for office, he advocated an exclusively Christian government.
Praise the Lord and pass the platter or ammo.
Some of the biggest liars I ever knew were Christians
Mike Huckabuck and Sarah Huckabuck Sanders...
We need good Christian patriots to take over
...like those good xtian patriots in DC were trying to do on 1/6/21.
A theocracy to the south of me? Yikes, can't y'all find another continent to mess up!
What do you expect from a state whose residents wear foam cheese hats and consider themselves fashionable.
Hey! We aren't all cheese loving backward idiots.
There is the Cheesehead mafia.
I know that. I used to go to WI every winter for school. I even met the guy who invented the cheese wedge hat on my flight back one time.
More like idiocy.
First, you probably shouldn’t pretend you have a heart. Second, Typhoid Jonathan, you don’t have the right to spread disease wherever you go.
I’m no psychiatrist, but you might be insane.
I would say your clinical analysis is correct.
We need not blame Christianity for this man's worldview; Jesus was/is a great many things, a "patriot" is not one of those. Christian-nationalist is the proper name for this self--styled, "minister/pastor."
And, the Church is partially beginning to push-back and speak out against Christian-nationalists.
Jesus is apparently anything anyone wants him to be, good or bad, and utterly unconfirmable due to that whole ‘he doesn’t exist’ thing.
Fine, if you do not want Jesus to exist for you Jesus does not exist. Are we good?
False. He just doesn’t exist. If he did exist and is somehow in charge of this shitshow, then he’s not the guy he’s described as. What kind of creepy god sits back and watches his sycophants behave like this without doing something about it? Is he too busy giving kids cancer?
What does "creepy" have to do with Jesus? Are you prejudiced against Jesus? Since you say there is no Jesus - why such a shitty attitude? What's the non-existent Jesus ever do to harm you?
Since you 'hearken' back to it in a form, I was surprised that Jesus, the one of the Book, surrendered to death. I mean surrendering all that power to all that pain would give any human being pause.
This meme is doing a lot of "duty" so can you help me understand it's 'thrust'?
Nailed it.
So the christian dominionist wants to take over?
Well, take over what............And do what with what?
Ultimately I think it something to do with women’s’ vajayjays and murdering the gays.
Clarification is appreciated. Thank you.
I agree with you on this one. Women, homosexuals, and minorities simply do not have a 'home' in White Christian Evangelical heaven and that has big implications.
Women and minorities most certainly do have a place in heaven.
Just as long as they aren’t gay and act as baby factories right?
Well let us start here. Why don't White Christian Evangelicals leave them alone to enjoy their freedoms in this nation?
It seems to me like politics these days is always about winning the election, and rarely about actually governing. So, to answer your question, I think they would do nothing.
IMO it has been that way for decades now.
It's what happens when you have too much of a good thing! Stuff goes awry and indulgence. That is, it's all a complex game of looping self-defeatisms.