Some of us find it deeply offensive that the MAGAs always presume to have God on their side of the spectrum. Of course, if a lot of your platform is racist, and you look around at your political rallies and everyone looks the same, you probably ought to gulp and think it out a little better.

If God wanted a world that looked like a MAGA rally, then why does the world look like a Biden rally?

These are the types of questions that Kent Christmas, pastor of Regeneration Nashville, apparently doesn’t ask himself. According to Right Wing Watch, on July 4th, of all days, the bad pastor took to the stage of the Grand Ole Opry who took to the stage to warn that “God is going to begin to kill wicked men and women in this nation.”

Strange. We don’t remember Jesus teaching us about this particular “God.” Sounds like an asshole. We remember the story a bit differently. Tell us more:

“In 2015, [God] spoke to me and said Donald Trump would become president. Did not look possible. He became president. Most of us thought that he would become president again this time, and he was. He won it by about 80 million votes.”

If God knew that Trump won, couldn’t God do a little better than rounding to “about 80 million”? Sounds fishy to us, like his God might tell us that we’re going to make “about 80 million dollars” this year. Skipping toward the end, Christmas says:

When you go back and you read the scriptures, one of the things that’s going to happen before Jesus Christ comes back—the first thing that’s going to happen is the Bible said that God is going to release angels into the Earth and they are going to remove those that offend and commit iniquity in the body of Christ. And there is a death release from God that’s getting ready to hit the wicked—I’m not talking about spiritual death; I’m talking about natural death—that God is going to begin to kill wicked men and women in this nation that have stood and opposed the authority of the Holy Ghost.”

There is nothing this country and this world needs more than for an army of angels to descend down and help straighten us out. But the good pastor might be missing something here.

He specifically says he’s talking natural death and he’s talking about it during an epidemic where one side has become virulently anti-vaccination. Do not blame us, the pastor brought it up.

Part of the problem with the far right is that they want the end of the world to come about. Perhaps they see Trump as the one most likely to bring it about. (On that, we agree). Most of us are not sitting around hoping the world will end.

Most of us would like it more if our children got to spend decades enjoying their own grandchildren and we have this suspicion that that is what Jesus wants, too. It is almost like we’re talking about two entirely different people named Jesus, and different Gods and the pastor is the one who is saying we can’t both be right.

Strange. But if we’re putting it all on the line, we want to do it surrounded by people that look like the entire world.

Right-wing pastor Kent Christmas held a rally at the Grand Ole Opry on Independence Day during which he proclaimed that "God is going to begin to kill wicked men and women in this nation." https://t.co/Sn8oARPjVa pic.twitter.com/7L42YuiEig

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 14, 2021

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