Joni Ernst’s “we’re all going to die” pushes MAGA’s toxic Christian compassion on us all

Senator Johnny ErnestR-IOWA, I definitely absorbed the first rule of Maga: You are never wrong as long as you “excite” the liberals. Friday, He drew anger from her voters in the city hall In the Bater Province, Iowa, with its strange defense of the deportation of medical care for people to pay the costs of tax discounts for billionaires: “Well, we will all die.” The crowd, angry at its plans to vote in favor of radical discounts to Medicaid that would deprive millions of health care, was able to. Ernest, after understanding Donald Trump’s philosophy of always doubling, On Saturday, she replied with a favorite Maga trick, Lady MagaPrevention of being stupid.

“I took an incorrect assumption that every person in the hall understood, yes, we will all perish from this land,” I mocked while walking in a cemetery. “So I apologize, and I am really happy because I did not have to put the subject of dental fairy either.”

Ernst may play a medium BIMBO for the cameraBut she realizes that people do not ask to live forever. They do not want death decades before their time, due to the lack of basic health care. But while most of the media focused on her action, it was a follow -up to her, if any, more cruel. Jesus Christ protested as well to allow people to death easily. “But for those who want to see eternal life and motivation, I encourage you to embrace my Lord and my sincere, Jesus Christ,” I declared frankly.

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For those whose understanding of Christianity depends on sympathy and love, this comment was great. But Ernest understands the second rule of Maga: they copied them from the Christian “love” is cruelty. When Ernest was once asked about her comments by CBS news correspondent on Monday, she picked up. “I am very sympathetic,” we bark while running for an elevator.

The reporter: “Do you want to clarify your comments?” Johnny Ernest: “I am very sympathetic.” In a type of Carella Deville method …

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Sarah Longwell’s speculation from Bulwark on MSNBC Ernest “must have a nervous breakdown.” This is doubtful, as Ernst traveled to the cemetery, recorded herself, and it is likely that you have the younger employees to edit the video and post it to Instagram. This was a deliberate choice, making it more logical in light of the largest direction in White Evangelical circles to redefine sympathy as “sin” He insists that discomfort is a higher form of sympathy. French David also explained in the New York Times:

Meanwhile, the hard right Christians began in the direction with the idea of ​​sympathy. Last year, Ally Beth Stocky, a famous right book, published a selling book entitled “Poisonous sympathy: How progressors take advantage of Christian sympathy.” This month, Joe Renye, a right theological scientist, publishes a book entitled “Sin sympathy: Mercy and Falsification.”

These Christians claim that true sympathy comes from the refusal of sympathy, on the pretext that sympathy hinders talking about what they believe is “difficult facts” who need to formulate alleged sinners. Thus, conservative Christians himself convinced that it is love for people to deny homosexuals, because disguised sexual abuse will enter them into heaven. Or it is believed that it is sympathetic to scream at a woman who falls into a miscarriage clinic, which is re -visualized as “advising” to women to stop sin.

These are the guides of people who want to hate while they deny that they hate. Ernst’s behavior also shows how it can be used to justify opposition to Republican hostility to Jesus’ call to care for the poor and the disabled, especially if this means a slightly higher tax rate for the wealthy. Holly Berkeley Fletcher, the next book author.Missionary children: Detecting white evangelical mythsMake up This is in the newsletter on Monday. They wrote themselves, “They give priority to saving souls forever to help bodies here and now.” In fact, of course, it is a way to “avoid responsibility, reform and serve their own interests.”

Ernst’s involvement is that people must welcome the suffering and death has a long and loud history. Fleischer notes that the slaves used this message to bullied slaughtered in the nineteenth century. In recent years, the idea has been revived by the Kovid-19 pandemic as a means of justifying the republican opposition to life-saving measures such as social distance, masks, and ultimately, vaccination. By October 2020, Fox News was highlighting this messageAdvertising, “at some point, we will all die. Death is the reality of central life,” which indicates that this was a sufficient reason for all public health measures to decline.

It was a message that obtained a large batch of evangelists, especially the priests in Megachurches who did not want to put church services online, and to deprive them of slaughtering the lovers. Reverend Tony Speg from Louisiana trained newspapers in early 2020 With a declaration, “true Christians do not mind death.” Calib Matisse, Reverend in the huge church of OlyhiHe wrote at that time, “I hope it will be the end of the world,” because he believes the sky “looks very great.” Even after the vaccine, Joy Pullman wrote from the federal an article entitled“For Christians, he dies from Covid (or anything else) is a good thing.” She said in it, “There is nothing we can do to make our days on the ground for one or shorter second,” and also “death is good.”

None of these people live with their pro -death rules, of course. They see a doctor or take other measures to protect their health. Only when they are asked to help others, whether by vaccination or paying a little more in taxes, they find this duty in others to welcome death with a smile. But this is worse than the usual Republican hypocrisy. It also reflects the growing Christian nationality of the Republican Party. They are explicitly arguing that everyone else must live through their fundamentalist religious belief that death is good. It may be an atheist, non -Christian or more liberal Christian who believes in healing than patients. Very bad for you. In the Maga view, we are all members of the intolerance of fanatic death, whether we liked it or not.

The good news is that Ernst’s esteemed ideology is not common, even with many people who consider themselves conservative Christians. on monday, Democratic Representative JD Scholten Thas announcedHe challenges Ernest in the 2026 elections. Tell Shulatin, de Mine’s record“When I multiplied on Saturday with her, I felt, with very unauthorized comments, you were like,” well, the game “. He also has a long history of calling for comprehensive health care, as it attracts a contradiction with Ernst’s nihilistic views. Iowa is conservative, but the voting residents have a much higher percentage of elderly individuals compared to the rest of the country. It may be particularly hostile to the Ernt’s message. Suck-IT-UP-DIE.