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Karoline Levitt ditches religious necklace after Jon Stewart’s brutal joke: ‘Some sort of weird Pinocchio cross’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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So when it came down to a choice between her faith and Trump, she ditched her faith. Yeah, that checks.
I grew up with people like this. The cross is purely for virtue signalling. It has no real value to them other than being like a Costco membership card to get access to manipulate people who are easily manipulated by such things.
Near where I live a church put up one of those 50 foot tall aluminum-siding crosses.
There are still hungry and homeless people, but that's how you choose to spend your money?
If you have to put up a giant symbol to show you're a church, you're probably not a very good church. After all, as some guy who I'm totally blanking on his name once said, you will know a tree by the fruits it bears.
Are you 100% certain it's not a cell phone tower?
These are often just appear as a sheet metal pillar from the outside. If you see a small windowless concrete hut surrounded by a fence somewhere on the property, the church could be leasing to a telecom and hiding the antennas inside their oversized idol. Icing on the cake is that this is often a method the telecoms use to hide their operations from local municipalities so that they can avoid taxes until caught.
I am, yeah. I have to drive past it every day so I saw it during construction and at no point was any equipment installed inside it. It's tall enough to be seen from the interstate but not tall enough to be a cellular tower. Also there's no equipment vault nearby either.
Insert "awkward look monkey puppet" meme dressed as a bishop with an ornate Gothic cathedral in the background
Grifters like Trump are her faith. Now she's just being honest.
I'm sure she was a model Christian before Trump got to her.
/s ?
Yes.
Here is an easy way to tell: If someone wears a cross, that isn't a strong indication of faith. If a cross wears them, that's a pretty strong indication of faith.
Why would she have to give up her faith to be duplicitous and deliberately cruel?
"faith" is just a politically correct propaganda word. It's better to use the more valid term "dogma".
Or 'indoctrination'.