Pretty much every seat in the halls of power of this country is occupied by Christians, Greene. Do they shoulder the blame for where our society is headed? And it wasn't nonbelievers in the Capitol trying to overrule democracy on January 6th.
More Christian privilege. Most of the comments an the sheriff's FB post are supporting him, and the opposition gets shouted down with "separation of church and state ain't in the constitution" and "if you don't like it don't look".
"In God We Trust" on money, sheriff's vehicles, and government buildings have been declared "ceremonial deism" by SCOTUS. But watch them freak out if you suggest those be removed. "Ceremonail deism" is a lie to cover the blatant constitutional violation.
"I have been in law enforcement for over thirty years. My training taught me to value God, family, and my country."
It's a shame none of your training ever taught you to value local or state law, the Constitution, or the greater community you serve. Which includes nonbelievers, FYI. What a waste of thirty years!
"My motivation comes from the greatest motivational speaker of all times, Jesus Christ."
We're talking about a guy whose greatest hits included *motivating* one of his dearest friends to betray him, and *motivating* the local establishment to crucify him... just thinking out loud here, but *maybe* 'ol JC isn't the best motivational speaker there's ever been.
"It is time, past time, to stand up."
Yes. Yes it is. Time for someone to stand up to you and compel you to stop piss-marking government buildings as if their services are only for your own tribe.
"I will not waiver on my stance and Christian beliefs."
Nobody's asked you to waver on your beliefs, numbnuts- but your *stance* is fixing to cost your municipality a significant amount of money.
"The simple fact is that if Greene were promoting anything besides Christianity, the question wouldn’t be whether it needed to stop, but how quickly it was going to happen."
A lot like in Saudi Arabia when it comes to promoting something other than Islam. These people are of the exact same mindset as those radical imams they often complain about but for some reason they get really insulted when we call them the Christian Taliban.
"Merry Christmas to all and Happy Birthday to our lord and savior. To everyone that is working today, we thank you."
I know this is way far down on the list of issues here, but may I please take a moment to gripe about the assumption that everybody wants Christmas off? Personally, I'd LOVE to work over Christmas and take lieu days when everyone else is working, and not everything is closed. A few years back, I walked into the lunchroom partway through a co-worker's rant about how "EVERYBODY should get Christmas off, no exceptions!!!!1!11!!!" I jumped in and asked, "So we should close the hospitals down? No firefighters? Police? EMTs? Sucks to be you if you have a heart attack or your house catches fire on Christmas Day!" So she said, well, yes, of course there have to be SOME exceptions. (Regardless of what she'd just so adamantly stated.) Then I asked her, "What about people who don't celebrate Christmas? I used to be friends with a couple of Jewish brothers who worked at a movie theatre. They volunteered to work Christmas Day and Boxing Day every year, and laughed their asses off that they were making time-and-a-half on what was the same as any other day to them. Why should they be forced to take Christmas off?"
I'm honestly kind of astonished I didn't get hauled into HR, as I said all this standing right outside their office. But I'm so sick and tired of Christianity being the default, I kinda snapped.
"Merry Christmas to all and Happy Birthday to our lord and savior. To everyone that is working today, we thank you."
Christmas Day came on the Sabbath, Sheriff Greene. As a bible-believing Christian, it was your duty and the duty of all believers in the Columbus County Sheriff's Office to go out and execute all those who worked on the Sabbath. This includes any and all of your fellow believers. "Show them no mercy," as the bible and your god often say. Why did you not obey that god?
This is why you never take what you find in the bible literally. The end results are always a horror.
waiver? He means "waver" One is a noun and one is a verb. They are homophones.
But cops in the rural south likely aren't hired and don't advance based on intelligence and educational level. In the rural bible belt, he possibly advanced in his career BECAUSE he is a Jesus freak.
That Christmas message with the images of decorated trees violates Jeremiah 10:1-5. Their own god told them not to cut down, nail down and decorate a tree.
"Just look at where our society is headed."
Pretty much every seat in the halls of power of this country is occupied by Christians, Greene. Do they shoulder the blame for where our society is headed? And it wasn't nonbelievers in the Capitol trying to overrule democracy on January 6th.
More Christian privilege. Most of the comments an the sheriff's FB post are supporting him, and the opposition gets shouted down with "separation of church and state ain't in the constitution" and "if you don't like it don't look".
"In God We Trust" on money, sheriff's vehicles, and government buildings have been declared "ceremonial deism" by SCOTUS. But watch them freak out if you suggest those be removed. "Ceremonail deism" is a lie to cover the blatant constitutional violation.
Why can’t these authoritarian asshole see the danger of a military/law enforcement organization choosing their religion?
Wait… I see it now. Authoritarian Asshole.
"I have been in law enforcement for over thirty years. My training taught me to value God, family, and my country."
It's a shame none of your training ever taught you to value local or state law, the Constitution, or the greater community you serve. Which includes nonbelievers, FYI. What a waste of thirty years!
"My motivation comes from the greatest motivational speaker of all times, Jesus Christ."
We're talking about a guy whose greatest hits included *motivating* one of his dearest friends to betray him, and *motivating* the local establishment to crucify him... just thinking out loud here, but *maybe* 'ol JC isn't the best motivational speaker there's ever been.
"It is time, past time, to stand up."
Yes. Yes it is. Time for someone to stand up to you and compel you to stop piss-marking government buildings as if their services are only for your own tribe.
"I will not waiver on my stance and Christian beliefs."
Nobody's asked you to waver on your beliefs, numbnuts- but your *stance* is fixing to cost your municipality a significant amount of money.
"The simple fact is that if Greene were promoting anything besides Christianity, the question wouldn’t be whether it needed to stop, but how quickly it was going to happen."
A lot like in Saudi Arabia when it comes to promoting something other than Islam. These people are of the exact same mindset as those radical imams they often complain about but for some reason they get really insulted when we call them the Christian Taliban.
If Greene is so hot and heavy for his messiah then let him sell all he has, give the money to the poor, quit the force and become a minister.
He won't, of course.
Real people who were born on December 25th whose birthdays I'd rather celebrate:
* Rod Serling
* Annie Lennox
* Humphrey Bogart
* Sissy Spacek
* Justin Trudeau
* Jimmy Buffet
* Quentin Crisp
To name but a few.
"Merry Christmas to all and Happy Birthday to our lord and savior. To everyone that is working today, we thank you."
I know this is way far down on the list of issues here, but may I please take a moment to gripe about the assumption that everybody wants Christmas off? Personally, I'd LOVE to work over Christmas and take lieu days when everyone else is working, and not everything is closed. A few years back, I walked into the lunchroom partway through a co-worker's rant about how "EVERYBODY should get Christmas off, no exceptions!!!!1!11!!!" I jumped in and asked, "So we should close the hospitals down? No firefighters? Police? EMTs? Sucks to be you if you have a heart attack or your house catches fire on Christmas Day!" So she said, well, yes, of course there have to be SOME exceptions. (Regardless of what she'd just so adamantly stated.) Then I asked her, "What about people who don't celebrate Christmas? I used to be friends with a couple of Jewish brothers who worked at a movie theatre. They volunteered to work Christmas Day and Boxing Day every year, and laughed their asses off that they were making time-and-a-half on what was the same as any other day to them. Why should they be forced to take Christmas off?"
I'm honestly kind of astonished I didn't get hauled into HR, as I said all this standing right outside their office. But I'm so sick and tired of Christianity being the default, I kinda snapped.
"Merry Christmas to all and Happy Birthday to our lord and savior. To everyone that is working today, we thank you."
Christmas Day came on the Sabbath, Sheriff Greene. As a bible-believing Christian, it was your duty and the duty of all believers in the Columbus County Sheriff's Office to go out and execute all those who worked on the Sabbath. This includes any and all of your fellow believers. "Show them no mercy," as the bible and your god often say. Why did you not obey that god?
This is why you never take what you find in the bible literally. The end results are always a horror.
waiver? He means "waver" One is a noun and one is a verb. They are homophones.
But cops in the rural south likely aren't hired and don't advance based on intelligence and educational level. In the rural bible belt, he possibly advanced in his career BECAUSE he is a Jesus freak.
As a sheriff, his job is to uphold the law, not the Bible, and he should already know that. Even his own Bible says not to serve two masters.
I refuse to recognize the authority of mutaween. Fortunately, I live nowhere near that shïthole county.
Fuck you SubStack.
That Christmas message with the images of decorated trees violates Jeremiah 10:1-5. Their own god told them not to cut down, nail down and decorate a tree.
Oops!
... along with the things he can is also shooting people .... innocent or not ..it does not matter
"I have taken many pictures with that Bible verse in that backdrop without a single issue..."
"Argumentum ad antiquitatem," Greene. Look it up.