By Tom Boggioni
Raw Story (8/30/20)
According to a report from the Religion News Service, a website dedicated to raising funds for Christian endeavors has allowed supporters of accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse to accumulate over $220,000 for his defense.
Rittenhouse, 17, is facing extradition to Wisconsin and has been charged as an adult with two counts of first-degree homicide and one count of attempted homicide in addition to charges of recklessly endangering two other victims and possessing a weapon while under the age of 18.
As RNS reports. the fundraising site Give Send Go has been hosting the plea for money for Rittenhouse, reaching $223,000 by early Sunday morning — exceeding its goal of $200,000. …
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Jerry Falwell Nemesis Larry Flynt Takes A Victory Lap Over Jr’s ‘perverted’ Fall From Grace
By Travis Gettys
Raw Story (9/1/20)
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt took a victory lap after the “huckster” son of his long-ago nemesis Jerry Falwell fell from grace amid a sex scandal.
Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned from Liberty University founded by his namesake father, who famously feuded with Flynt, and the pornographer gloated over the son’s “gross hypocrisy” in a new column for The Daily Beast.
“Ironically, Falwell Sr. and I actually became friends later,” Flynt wrote. “We enjoyed many cordial visits, participated in debates across the country, and even exchanged Christmas cards. I have to concede that his friendship with me proves that, for the most part, he was practicing an essential tenet of his faith, forgiveness, and was a sincere Christian.”
But he lumps the son into a group of “false prophets” along with megachurch pastor Paula White, the spiritual adviser for President Donald Trump. …
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Police Say Evangelical Pastor & Brazilian Congresswoman Ordered Husband’s Murder
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Prosecutors charged a Brazilian congresswoman, Evangelical pastor and Gospel singer Monday with ordering her children to murder her husband, a fellow pastor, last year in a dispute over money and power.
Famous for adopting dozens of street children from Rio de Janeiro’s slums, Congresswoman Flordelis dos Santos and pastor Anderson do Carmo were a power couple of Brazil’s burgeoning Evangelical Christian movement until he was killed in a hail of bullets at their home in the Rio suburb of Niteroi in June 2019.
Prosecutors charged a Brazilian congresswoman, Evangelical pastor and Gospel singer Monday with ordering her children to murder her husband, a fellow pastor, last year in a dispute over money and power.
Famous for adopting dozens of street children from Rio de Janeiro’s slums, Congresswoman Flordelis dos Santos and pastor Anderson do Carmo were a power couple of Brazil’s burgeoning Evangelical Christian movement until he was killed in a hail of bullets at their home in the Rio suburb of Niteroi in June 2019.
In a bombshell statement, Rio de Janeiro state prosecutors said Dos Santos, 59, had tried to poison her husband at least six times before ultimately ordering several of her more than 50 biological and adopted children to kill him.
Do Carmo, 42, was shot 30 times in the couple’s garage. …
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How QAnon Conspiracy Is Spreading In Christian Communities Across The U.S.
All Things Considered / NPR (8/21/20)
NPR’s Ari Shapiro talks with journalist Katelyn Beaty about the spread of the QAnon conspiracy theory in Christian communities in the United States.
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QAnon: A Deep Look Inside Latest Pro-Trump Christian Conspiracy Theory Eating America
By Robert Guffey
Salon (8/30/20)
QAnon’s deranged theories are drawn from numerous sources — and contain tidbits of truth. But what’s the point?
n the previous two installments of this series, I chronicled the attempts made by an old friend to convince me of an outlandish conspiracy theory being promoted by the group of rabid online Donald Trump supporters known as “QAnon.” According to my friend, initiates of the Illuminati had teamed up with subterranean demons to torture, rape and eat kidnapped children in underground military bases ruled by Trump’s mortal enemies. Not surprisingly, none of the so-called “evidence” provided by my friend proved any such thing. Onward from there we go …
(Commoner Call cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2020. Open source and free for use with link to www.thecommonercall.org )