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Post by mikef6 on Feb 5, 2021 17:22:10 GMT
It didn’t take long after the inauguration of the nation’s first woman vice president for some pastors in the Southern Baptist Convention to start comparing her to the Bible’s most nefarious woman. Two days, to be exact. On Jan. 22, Tom Buck, pastor of First Baptist Church of Lindale, Texas, equated Kamala (pronounced “COMMA-luh”) Harris with the biblical Jezebel.
“I can’t imagine any truly God-fearing Israelite who would’ve wanted their daughters to view Jezebel as an inspirational role model because she was a woman in power,” Buck tweeted.
Then on Thursday, Steve Swofford, of Rockwall First Baptist Church in Texas, preached about President Biden, calling him “cognitively dysfunctional,” and adding: “What if something happens to him? Jezebel has to take over — Jezebel Harris; isn’t that her name?”
Of course, many Southern Baptists, like the majority of evangelicals, are Republicans who have professed undying support for former President Trump. But now, some of its leaders appear to be imitating Trump’s penchant for incendiary rhetoric — albeit with a biblical twist.
Jezebel appears in the Hebrew Bible as evil incarnate. She first appears in the Book of 1 Kings as a foreign royal wife of King Ahab. She is principally known as a patron and devotee of the Baal, the Canaanite god.
In the United States, Jezebel has become a racist trope for a sexually promiscuous Black woman (or any woman) — a description that began in slavery, and continues today.
Headlines in the magazine Charisma point to Jezebel as the source behind the popularity of Harry Potter. One Baptist pastor said Jewish comedian Sarah Silverman is a Jezebel, witch, and Jewish false prophet. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a United Methodist, is also associated with Jezebel, as is the media, according to guests on “The Jim Bakker Show.”
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Post by politicidal on Feb 5, 2021 17:47:35 GMT
Perhaps if she sleeps with Stormy Daniels, they may respect her more.
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