re: #72 Shiplord Kirel: From behind wingnut lines

Earlier today:

The right picture had Jesus in it, it’s been doctored. Metaxas has blocked me since 2016 because I pointed out (along with many other people) that a quotation from Dietrich Bonhoeffer that he kept posting was a fake. The quote was to stir people to vote for DJT. Metaxas could get away with it because he was considered an “expert” on Bonhoeffer, as he’d written a biography for the Evangelical crowd. Actual Bonhoeffer scholars considered it awful, but were nice about their criticism. Me, I just looked at the “works cited” and didn’t even see that he’d consulted the Bonhoeffer Werke in English (why yes, that exists, you can purchase those from Fortress Press), and decided it was a flaming county-wide tire fire.

Ever since he published his Bonhoeffer “biography,” Metaxas has absolutely slipped into utter Trump worship. During the “RNC” in DC in 2020, he sucker-punched an anti-Trump bicyclist. And of course he’s been all over “fake elections.” Whatta guy.

ETA: It’s unclear if Jesus was ever convicted of anything. I mean, it was the Roman procurator and he didn’t have to follow anything like the rule of law. If he thought Jesus (or anyone else) was a pain in the ass and a threat to his control of Judea, he’d execute them. And in fact, scholars STILL disagree on why Jesus was executed, even today. Because it’s unclear as hell.