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My guess is that his swindle is being subsidized via his federal tax exemption. Too bad the irs is giving these frauds a pass when they violate partisan politicking laws.

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I agree, and we need an army of volunteers to go into these churches and then file a complaint with the IRS for tax fraud. Let us tap into their untold wealth that they get from grifting off of the naive people in their congregations.

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Wow! Wallnau's statements about Harris being the devil's instrument are truly the biggest load of horseshit grift I think I have ever heard! Sad and pathetic that some people will take him seriously. No bottom for these folks, and no class either. Wow!

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The same load they dumped on Obama and Hillary.

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It’s being echoed by local MAGA evangelical churches here in Orange County, CA. The pastors are specifically labeling Democrats as “demonic.”

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Lance Wallnau personifies mental imbalance and paranoia, right up Trump's alley. Thank you Judd and Noel for investigatingt his bedrock of the perversion of Christianity and natural wisdom. "Love One Another" seems to be the Democrat's approach, whereas the opposite shapes Trump, Vance, and the religious frauds who support them,

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Valerie it's me hiding under a different name because the MAGA came after me at home. Send me a message.

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don't know how to send you a message... Tell me how?

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Valerie, click on her name. It goes to where a pm can be sent.

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Even this doesn't convey the depth of the ongoing connection and influence of the NAR, their MAJOR role in January 6, and their profound contribution to Project 2025. Roger Stone and General Mike Flynn are featured speakers in and leaders of this movement, Gini Thomas is deeply involved, and the Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor in 2022 is a leading Christian Nationalist. Alliance Defending Freedom, Moms For Liberty, Gays Against Groomers - all NAR/7 Mountains/Nat-C from top to bottom. Jennifer Cohn of the Bucks County Beacon, Bruce Wilson, Kira Resistance and others are doing amazing reporting on this - read and heed.

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Project 2025 Is a Christian Nationalist Blueprint for turning the USA into a CN Theocracy.

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Indeed, it is.

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Yes. I looked up who were the wealthiest pastors and there were many different lists, with some overlap. The amount of money was mind boggling, and this is tax exempt. I think if you earn over a certain amount you should have to pay taxes on it anyway.

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I am not religious, but I am pretty sure none of this snake oil has anything to do with Jesus, Christianity, or prophecy. When will people quit using religion to cudgel others into submission? It’s the oldest civilization trope, and we can’t seem to shake it

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There is no bottom, no below, no measuring the depths some folk will sink to. So, Wallnau promotes a mash-up o Jesus and Trump to the masses instead of loaves and fishes? More madness is on the horizon!

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It got Trump in during the 2016 election, but Covid got him out. So, will 2024 be like 2016 or like 2008?

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2024? Like 2008? Please?

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As a child, I and my siblings were on the Jim and Tammy Show. (That's how the Bakkers got started.) Every time I hear about one of them, I cringe with disgust. Everything that is connected in any way to the Bakkers is filth. I'm not at all surprised by what has risen up out of their muck.

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It never fails to amaze me how stupid and gullible people can be. Snake oil salespersons hone in on them and make a fortune for themselves. And the stupid and gullible will wallow in self pity wondering why their "savior" didn't save them.

Please get out the vote, people. The last thing we need are these shysters in charge.

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I suspect many of these people were the same folks that bought into the fake reality shows like " The Apprentice, " that baby booboo show..whatever that was named & Duck Dynasty. I heard the names, but other than via channel flipping, or some co- workers mentioning them, i dont " invite" crazy into my home. All I can say is most of them foster " stupidity," & conspiracy theory. Terms of fostering of

critical thinking skills, not at all.

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It will come down to the issues that people care about more that get them out to vote. Many empty headed, unsure people, will just stay home.

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Andra Walkins has been really helpful to clarify for my Project 2025 book club the role of Christian Nationalists in it. So, recently, when Jeff Tiedrich posted these 3 CN males calling Kamala a Jezabel, I asked for her input. She did a whole article on it. I had been learning about CNs and NARs from her and their different End-of-Days beliefs.

https://project2025istheocracy.substack.com/p/what-is-the-new-apostolic-reformation

Then, last Friday, I heard on Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat's Substack Lucid Zoom meeting where she had Matthew D. Taylor and another expert on to talk about CN. We know that Project 2025 is written by CNs, and that is why I am saying that Project 2025 is a blueprint for Trump to turn the USA into a third world, conservative, limiting, Christian Nationalist Theocracy, much like Iran, which CNs hate, but are very similar to in their beliefs about the roles of men and women. It frightens me just as much as the nuclear aspects of a Trump presidency, because these people are THE DEVIL, pretending to be otherwise. I am not religious, but this is pure evil.

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I find it interesting that they are promoting stem cell therapy. I'm no expert but isn't the big controversy over stem cells that embryonic stem cells come from embryos? As in fertilized eggs as in incompatible with the fetal personhood movement? If they ban IVF where are they planning on getting all these embryos?

These folks are nutjobs.

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Always a grift at the end of the script. ALWAYS.

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Christian Nationalists = Domestic Terrorists

People like these common grifting cult mind control messiahs should be on the FBI’s most wanted list.

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Unbeknownst to the Christians who seek to dominate, in the worst expression of this word, those citizens who resist the political world the Christians desire to form they will not tear down the gates of Hell, but will discover they are the guardians of it.

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Christian Nationalists are not considered to be truly Christian because of their skewed interpretation of the Bible. Here is an organization called Christians Against Christian Nationalists. https://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org/

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Fortunately there is a growing opposition in an organization called Evangelicals for Harris that is featured in an article on the New Yorker magazine available on line. It crosses party lines and includes evangelicals who’ve left their churches in recent years because of the views and attitudes espoused by Wallnau and the others in this hate filled, racist, anti-Christian movement.

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Whatever the IRS scam is that they’re running, it should be stopped and Lance and his pals put in jail where, I hear, god does some of his best work.

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Stupid people, believing stupid ideas, produces stupid results. This movement is in the business of monetizing illusion, Trump calls it "branding". It is marketing nothing. Nothing cost nothing, and the supply of nothing is inexhaustible. People who buy this will end up with nothing.

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