(Thanks to David Flanders)
"Choose your battles but if this is your hill here is the churchs' # 717-244-2090." @AnnCoulter pic.twitter.com/k5HkYmwwyv
— Matthew Jansen (@TheMattJansen) June 11, 2016
A pastor is decrying an angry phone message and social media posting from a school board member who’s also a Republican convention delegate about a church sign that reads: “Wishing a blessed Ramadan to our Muslim neighbors.”…. The Rev. Christopher Rodkey said he got a call June 11 about the sign outside St. Paul’s United Church of Christ, in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, from an unidentified man who called the sign “despicable” and referred to Islam as a “godless” and “pagan” religion…it belonged to Matthew Jansen, a member of the Spring Grove Area School District and an elected delegate to the Republican National Convention who supports Donald Trump. A photo of the sign was also posted on Jansen’s Twitter page along with the church’s phone number…. Rodkey said he posted the message on the sign because he believes that Muslims are used as scapegoats by the religious right and his church “is interested in religious tolerance.”…. Jansen said he has driven past the church many times and has seen “disturbing things” on its sign, but this one “was over the top as far as I was concerned.” To him, Jansen said, the message was “blasphemous” and deserved a response.
In yet another case of someone being too intellectually challenged to recognize that they are, in fact, severely intellectually challenged, say hello to one Matthew Jansen, a fine, loving representative of the Christian desire to lead a Christ-like life if ever there was one. Then again, if you’re going to be known for being a bigot and a fool, you might as well go all in, right?
As one might imagine, I’m shocked…SHOCKED!…that Jansen is a supporter of Donald Trump…and a confirmed, card-carrying member of The Lowest Common Denominator ©,
MAKE AMERICA HATE AGAIN!!
Jansen is, of course, nothing new. His sort of vile, “Christian” hatred was prevalent long before his arrival and will long survive his passing. He couldn’t lead a Christ-like life if someone handed him an instruction manual (you might know it as a “Bible”) and a Divinity degree.
Interesting, isn’t how Conservative White Christians obsess over the “problem” of radical Islamofascist terrorism…while completely ignoring the far more clear and prevalent danger posed by Conservative White Christian terrorists? Then again, violence and hatred, when undertaken in the name of Jesus Christ, don’t quality as sinful…at least in the eyes of Conservative White Christians.
Here’s a pro tip: If your religious faith allows you to justify acting, like Jansen, in a hateful, bigoted manner, you HAVE no religion. What you have is epic hypocrisy, an absence of simple human decency, a world-class lack of compassion, and a complete absence of any commitment to the teachings of Jesus Christ. Matthew Jansen is a Christian in the same way Timothy McVeigh was a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi.