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There has never been any shortage of hucksters and hypocrites exploiting religion for their own self-serving purposes, and ever since Donald Trump endorsed the $59.99 “God Bless the USA Bible,” there has been an increasing number of people accusing Bad Orange Man being both of those things and more. Few of Trump’s accusers, however, if any, have been as cynical and apparently devoid of any capacity for self-reflection as the Rev. Al Sharpton, a man who has been exploiting religion for his own self-serving purposes for decades.
Sharpton appeared on MSNBC’s morning anti-Trump hatefest, commonly known as “Morning Joe,” on Thursday to denounce Trump in his Bible salesman mode. Sharpton said, “People ought to realize how offensive this is to those of us that really believe in the Bible. He’s doing this during Holy Week. I mean, tomorrow is Good Friday. Sunday is Easter. Of all of the times you want to hustle using the Bible, why would you do it during Holy Week, which is really a spit in the face of people that really believe in the Bible from a Christian point of view.” Preach! After all, if anyone knows how to spit in the face of those who believe the Bible, it’s Al Sharpton.
After all, Sharpton is the man who gave us Tawana Brawley. In 1987, Brawley, a black teenager in Dutchess County, N.Y., claimed that a group of white men had kidnapped and raped her, and finally smeared her with feces and left her by the side of a road in a plastic bag. A grand jury investigated her claims thoroughly and found ultimately that she had fabricated them, whereupon one of the accused, former Dutchess County prosecutor Steven Pagones, won a defamation suit against Brawley, her attorneys, and Sharpton, who had made the case into a national controversy. Sharpton was found guilty of making defamatory statements about Pagones and paid him $65,000.
Some might say that leveling a false accusation against an innocent man that could have destroyed the victim both professionally and personally and left him under a cloud for the rest of his life is a spit in the face of those who really believe in the Bible. And that is not the only shameful episode in Sharpton’s storied career. He was accused of inciting riots against Jews in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section, and of stirring up tensions (again with false accusations) that led to the destruction of a Jewish-owned store, Freddy’s Fashion Mart, in Harlem.
Of course, no one knows the true state of anyone else’s soul. It could be that Sharpton is contrite about his early days as a race huckster and agitator and sincerely regrets his role in poisoning race relations with trumped-up stories such as that of Tawana Brawley. If so, however, he has been very quiet about this change of heart. Still, Jesus said: “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” (John 8:7).
The same advice, however, applies to Donald Trump. Unlike Sharpton, whose entire career has been directed toward increasing racial tensions under the guise of fighting for justice, Trump, for all his personal faults and foibles, is actually standing with Christians in America against the Biden regime, which has treated them like enemies of the state and is hardly their friend in the best times. If only sinless men can sell Bibles, no Bibles will be sold.
Sharpton, however, was full of indignation at the very idea of a Trump Bible, fuming: “I wonder how many ministers or conservative evangelicals that [sic] will go to their pulpit tomorrow or on Sunday Easter using the Trump Bible. They ought to be defrocked if they would even try and act like this is nothing but what it is, and that’s a hustle.” Defrocked! Would Sharpton recommend the defrocking of any ordained minister who relentlessly defamed an innocent man in service of a race-baiting lie? Alas, he didn’t say.
Sharpton even questioned the Christian commitment of evangelicals who did not denounce Trump. “For those in the Evangelical community not to come out and say, ‘Wait a minute, during Holy Week, that’s a step too far,’ makes us wonder where their commitment really is,” he said.
Trump, meanwhile, when he was selling the Bible, said, “It’s a very sad thing that’s going on in our country. But we’re gonna get it turned around. Religion and Christianity are the biggest things missing from this country.” How could Al Sharpton, an ordained Christian minister, object to such a statement?
Its nice to have the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and Pledge Allegiance in the book as well as the Holy Scriptures. As Ronald Reagan said, “A nation without God is a nation gone under.”
someone needs to tell sharpton the word “trump” is in the king james version of the bible 137 times. no coincidence. i wonder if the coopers are still making buckets? what the heck are the smiths making these days? oh well maybe someday big al will crack the cover and let all the moths out, or maybe we just send him a trump verse daily.. I like that idea, ai bot sending daily trump verse spam to the christian subverts. Or tele stalker bots calling to give the daily trump verse. i would not mind getting that call.
Frankly, Sharpton, Morning Joe, and their ilk, are a spit in the face of any literate person with an I.Q. larger than their shoe size.
Precisely.
Who has been more of an insult than to religion than that grifter living off commercial racism all his sick life.
Al Sharpton…the original ‘hurdy gurdy ‘ man.
All he can do is attack….conservatives and Donald Trump.
He has nothing in his bag of trick which he can toss out as support for Biden.
Absolutely ZERO!
Is that the “reverend” who told Jews in NYC to pin their yarmulkes on backwards?
Here’s a challenging question for members of MENSA. Who’s the bigger anti-Semite, “Reverend” Jesse Jackson or “Reverend Al Sharpton.”
Next question; what is his body count?
SHARPTON IS A CINO…. Christian in Name Only, and so is Jesse Jackson, BOTH FAKES who preach the Gospel of Marx.
During the 2004 protest in NYC, organized by the Communist Party’s United for Peace and Justice, there was a front-page photo in the World Weekly that shows a very large banner held up by organizers and supporters. AL SHARPTON, JESSE JACKSON, DANNY GLOVER, AND MEDEA BENJAMIN/Code Pink among about twenty others.
What about that Al? Siding with COMMUNISTS who have burned churches down, banned services, arrested followers, and like Communist Daniel Ortega, the President of Nicaragua, installed, protected, and supported by Democrats, WHO JUST ARRESTED A BISHOP AND NINE PRIESTS.
DID AL CRITICIZE MUSLIMS for burning down Christian churches and committing murder, OPENLY?
DID AL CRITICIZE the burning of a trailer full of Bibles ON EASTER SUNDAY? Would he be equally outraged if even one Koran was burned?
DOES HE SHED TEARS with all the Black-on-Black shootings and murders or he’s only outraged when a White or a cop kills a Black so he can make money like that scumbag Crumb? What… those Black Lives DON’T Matter? No agenda? Or is it that he doesn’t want to expose Democrat city and state leaders?
OH HI AL, I know you’re reading this because you just love to be a focus of an article! “You are the SCUM of the Earth!”
“Spit In The Face Of Real Christians” — the perfect title for “Reverend” Al Sharpton’s autobiography.
“Religion and Christianity are the biggest things missing from this country.”
The biggest things missing from this country are reason, rationality, logic, objectivity, and objective law.
“RELIGION VS. AMERICA” by Leonard Peikoff
Dear THX:
Speaking objectively, your pointing out hypocrisy in a person or an institution is not a reasoned argument against the existence of a Creator God nor against those who believe the Bible is true.
Rather, it is a cheap ad hominem attack that does absolutely noting to advance the discussion.
Are. you interested in finding truth?
What are you talking about, I offered an observation and reason based argument for the existence of existence — the Law of Identity and its corollary the Law of Causality. Do you need to read it again, here it is:
The question still stands, what is God, what is God’s identity, nature, properties? Without a definition of what God is the word “God” becomes contentless, it becomes just a sound and a symbol identifying nothing.
To exist is to have identity, to be identifiable, to have definite properties, to have definition. to have limits, to have finitude.
This is not simply a scientific question but a philosophical question. The philosophical conflict is the primacy of existence versus the primacy of consciousness.
Is God a super-consciousness that creates existence? The rational and objective concept of “consciousness” identifies a property of some biological organisms, it is identifiable as a cognitive faculty that PERCEIVES that which exists but does not create existence. Therefore to call God a super-consciousness that creates existence ex nihilo is to obliterate the actual meaning of consciousness. Whatever God is, if God exists, cannot be any kind of consciousness. You would need a whole different concept and word for God to identify God.
To reiterate, existence is identity, to exist is to be some-thing, a-thing, a specific thing, with specific, limited, and finite properties.
“But let us confine the discussion here to the popular notion of God. Is God the creator of the universe? Not if existence has primacy over consciousness. Is God the designer of the universe? Not if A is A. The alternative to “design” is not “chance.” It is causality. Is God omnipotent? Nothing and no one can alter the metaphysically given. Is God infinite? “Infinite” does not mean large; it means larger than any specific quantity, i.e., of no specific quantity. An infinite quantity would be a quantity without identity. But A is A. Every entity, accordingly, is finite; it is limited in the number of its qualities and in their extent; this applies to the universe as well.”
― Leonard Peikoff, Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
the galaxy song from monty python meaning of life always makes me feel better. when taking up the subject of god.
creator think is the only plausible explanation. further supported by the recent theory’s in dark matter. leaving us to wonder our very existence while knowing physically everything is really nothing.
to attempt to define god is to opine infinity of which we know nothing. philosophically speaking if a man were to give a true definition of god, it would immediately become false. this is the nature of infinity with endless possibility’s and endless change. dark matter is similarly elusive like a fleeting thought. about the time scientists find dark matter it is gone.
be thankful we can ponder such things because it is extremely unlikely your birth. everyday we live here on earth is so statically unlikely that the definition of god is moot. better to give thanks to the creator and love one another as is commanded. relish any knowledge god has deemed you worthy to receive.
if you care to further this rabbit hole experience. consider the physical restraints we endure to achieve infinity. we as humans are physically incapable of light speed. yet we can see millions of light years into infinity and the further we look, the further we go back in time.
it is a beautiful creation.
“to attempt to define god is to opine infinity of which we know nothing.”
“When the atheist is told that God is unknowable, he may interpret this claim in one of two ways. He may suppose, first, that the theist has acquired knowledge of a being that, by his own admission, cannot possibly be known; or, second, he may assume that the theist simply does not know what he is talking about….
The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances….
The theist must present an intelligible description of god. Until he does so, god makes no more sense than “unie”; both are cognitively empty, and any attempt at proof is logically absurd….
The argument from design is ultimately an appeal to miraculous causes, i.e., causes that do not, and cannot, occur in the natural course of events. This is why an explanation via design is not a legitimate alternative to scientific and other naturalistic modes of explanation. To refer to a miraculous cause is to refer to something that is inherently unknowable, and this sanctuary of ignorance explains nothing at all. However much it may soothe the imagination of the ignorant, it does nothing to satisfy the understanding of a rational person.” — George H. Smith
the first step is recognition.
understanding where you are in the scope of an infinite realm should give cause to ponder the limited knowledge and logic we have.
to attempt anything else is like a toad trying to operate the nuclear football. we have neither the aptitude or physical capabilities by design.
scientifically our entire physical world is made of nothing tangible. our thoughts are not tangible. the space we live in is infinite and intangible. why such a far stretch for god to be intangible to the toad bent on nuclear self destruction? the science supports it.
i do not intend to curb your enthusiasm for knowledge. only to give perspective of where we all are in this infinitely expanding universe. to take up the quest for knowledge is as it should be, a never ending journey. thankfully our minds are capable of such thoughts. to stop the journey for knowledge because of our physical limitations is self destructive. continue your quest and when the logical stumbling blocks get you down, get back up and move on. i believe our minds are capable of much more. prayer comes to mind. remember there is no defense for love. jesus christ taught us to love one another. it is the binder and defense. what kind of world could this be when all people love one another? could it be that is the next step of our quest. to essentially combine into one act of love? america the great experiment is the petri dish. it is imperative to support free agency or suffer the self destruction of past civilizations.
Thanks, I’ll pass….again.
It stands because you say it stands. It only stands in your small little world. No where else.
The rest of us are living our lives. B is B, but never mind that.
You are a bigger fraud than Sharpton will ever be.
reason, rationality, logic, objectivity, and objective law…..by whose standard? Yours. If we followed THX’s rules of order we would be in the crap house forever.
You will always be an insufferable effete fool.
Sharpton is a Reverend like Pedo Joe is Catholic.
Tom Wolf satirized Sharpton. Those were the good old days when Sharpton dressed like a thug from the hood.
Many years ago, before his impressive weight loss, National Lampoon magazine once described Sharpton as a “rare form of slime mold.”
Hey Al, paid your taxes yet?
This is the very same idiot who has tried to instigate Riots this troublemaker along with Jessie Jackson are just two of the big time idiots Louis Farrakhan(Nation of Islam)is another
Al Sharpton is a depraved psychopathic murderer racist liar anti-Semitic corrupt greedy demagogic louse.
That’s about the best that can be said of him.
By all that is sane and historical Al Sharpton is in no manner, shape or form a “holy man:”. He serves a singular entity from a much lower place.
He’s as holy as Joe S. is journalistic.
Al Sharpton is a major insult to Christianity and decent people of all colors and religions.
This ‘bag of bones’ hasbeen is a spit in the face of all decent Americans….black, white, red, brown and yellow.
Al Sharpton criticizing the faith of anyone is rich. He carries a bag which is his true ministry. The bag is for extorted donations that are tax free. An occasion office fire makes records unavailable to the IRS.
Hey Al Sharpton, thank you for alerting us to the fact that there is a Trump Bible. I never knew that. Thanks to your comments a lot of us are going to now know about it and soon be proud owners of one.
Booker T Washington, former slave who once freed walked over 200 miles to enter a school of learning:
““There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds-out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”
Sounds like he was talking about Sharpton, Jackson, most Dems.
Sharpton wouldn’t know a real Christian if one jumped up in front of him and laid hands on him.
(Real) Rev. Roy………..<
I had to read this article. First, because it was written by Robert Spencer (I enjoy his articles and analyses). Secondly, and actually what first caught my attention, was the headline: Noted Holy Man Al Sharpton….
Both these, in their place, were 1) wonderfully written, and 2) Hilarious!
By the way, doesn’t Al Sharpton now look like the very definition of “wizened.” His face has become so creased that he looks like the African-American version of “The Portrait of Dorian Grey.”
Sharpton is a textbook example of a false prophet. He also will here the words below from the lips of Christ- “Depart from Me ye workers of iniquity, I never knew you!?
This is the very same Imbecile who said his people was building Nations when Whites were still living in Caves His biggest troubles is his big mouth and small mind
Sharpton must have missed the parts in the Bible about not bearing false witness and rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s (he’s a tax cheat). Guess the Bible he seems to know so much about was missing those things.