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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷7/27/2021 12:21:46 am PDT

Dayum.

Editorial: Calling out so-called ‘prophets’ who miscalled Trump’s election victory (Editorial Board of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 24, 2021, opinion piece)

Evangelical groups are calling their own preachers to task for a spate of so-called prophecies — nearly all in support of far-right political causes and former President Donald Trump — that never came to pass. Prominent pastors are wisely urging their colleagues to commit to standards of prophecy that reject the mixing of personal political beliefs with what they claim to be divine inspiration.

Editorially, we try to avoid opining about religious faith. But invoking divine guidance to advance partisan causes smacks of the worst kind of manipulation, opening the door to abuse and financial exploitation. Pentecostal and charismatic Christian leaders have laudably begun insisting that the false prophets among them cease and desist.

“Why were most of the prophets wrong when it came to predicting the outcome of the 2020 election?” host Jan Markell, founder of Olive Tree Ministries, asked on her “Understanding the Times” Christian radio show on June 25. She followed that question with a lengthy series of pre-election recordings in which a variety of prominent evangelical preachers claimed that God had told them Trump would be reelected.

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I’ve read the Bible; atheists do it for self-defence. False prophets are supposed to be killed, preferably by stoning. Where are all of these Old Testament fire-and-brimstone preachers demanding they be stoned to death. (I know the answer to this: They actually don’t believe the horseshyte they shovel by the truckload to their parishioners. If they did believe this, someone might come for them next.)