Sam Powell

Sam Powell

@sampowell.bsky.social

Ex pastor looking for those things that are beautiful. "Christian nationalism" isn't. It's just another word for Nazi.

112 Followers 59 Following 156 Posts Joined Nov 2024
2 days ago

Everything he owns needs to be confiscated, given to his victims and the businesses he’s defrauded
That’s jus a start

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2 days ago

A fitting end would be if he spent the afterlife with his father calling him a loser on repeat.
The stone of Sisyphus, but with a mocker

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5 days ago
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9 things about relationships An antidote to the "war on men"

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6 days ago

Its hard for those who didn’t grow up with it to fully grasp the insanity

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6 days ago

Great point...

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6 days ago
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Three years ago... The good, the bad, the ugly

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2 weeks ago

At its best, it’s just campaigning
With trump, it’s the ramblings of a drunken senile grandpa who was a horrible person before he got dementia

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2 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago

RIP Rev. Jackson. You fought battles we white men can’t fathom. I truly wish we had honored you as you deserved. I wish we had listened.

And I wish the day will come when the battle for honor and dignity for all God’s offspring won’t have to be fought again.

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3 weeks ago
One of the petty but real things that bothers me.  I always thought that when the  St. John’s beast made an appearance he would be far more appealing…like maybe Al Pacino in Devil’s Advocate. 

It so disappointing that the most vicious deceptive and destructive people in my lifetime is a pants-crapping, stupid, almost illiterate con man carnival barker with the charisma of canned vegan hotdogs and the appeal of a 1970s Lima and spam casserole.

It’s like the world is ending, not with a shout or a whisper, but with a wet fart that hangs like an oily miasma tainting everything.
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3 weeks ago

I had a massive heart attack last fall and spent months in recovery and then I remembered the Dow Jones and was immediately healed. It was a miracle!

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3 weeks ago
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The loss of the soul How the GOP destroys life

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3 weeks ago

100%

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1 month ago
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The religious right has a lot of practice covering for pedophiles There is an interesting thing that happens when you start listening to people's stories, truly hearing them and believing them.

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1 month ago
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This is everything. Gandalf quotes Shakespeare on cruelty to immigrants. Powerful.

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1 month ago

So over on Threads, some kook is saying that we all ought to tone down our rhetoric about the president, unless he actually does something that is directly contrary to the bible.

I'm curious about what bible he reads...My bible has some words about rape, murder, bribery, greed, lies...

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1 month ago

The prescreening of Melania, Amazon's documentary about the stripper turned gold digger and unwilling first lady, sold two tickets in London.

And ICE agents are complaining that the long hours and public anger are taking a toll on morale...

Sometimes we have to find joy in the little things.

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1 month ago

Amen!

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1 month ago
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Comply or die. How conservative theology and culture leads to ICE

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1 month ago
Comply or Die I moved to Minnesota a few years ago now. I joined a wonderful congregation of believers at First English Lutheran. It is called “First English” because it was the first English speaking Lutheran church in Faribault. If my memory serves, we have recently celebrated our 168th year as a congregation. I wasn’t a member the whole time, but it is still a milestone. Everyone is so kind and generous and loving. Most are Norwegian. They will engage in gentle humor towards the “Swedish” Lutherans from time to time. But I’ve found my people.

Comply or Die

I moved to Minnesota a few years ago now. I joined a wonderful congregation of believers at First English Lutheran. It is called “First English” because it was the first English speaking Lutheran church in Faribault. If my memory serves, we have recently celebrated our 168th year as…

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1 month ago
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The dying gasp of the confederacy It doesn't win in the end.

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1 month ago
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The goats in the left… Then he shall say to the goats on his left hand, “when I was a boy at target, you threw me on the ground, beat me, cuffed me and dragged me away.

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1 month ago
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The goats in the left… Then he shall say to the goats on his left hand, “when I was a boy at target, you threw me on the ground, beat me, cuffed me and dragged me away.

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1 month ago
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The goats in the left… Then he shall say to the goats on his left hand, “when I was a boy at target, you threw me on the ground, beat me, cuffed me and dragged me away.

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2 months ago

Just go back to him and submit more
Just get better in the bedroom
Just don't make him angry
Just respect authority

Just get in the boxcar. Don't make a fuss. It's for your own good.

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2 months ago

Just get out of the car
Just follow instructions
Just get dinner ready on time
Just dress modestly
Just stay home
Just cut off your friends
Just cut off your family
Just don't look a man in the eye
Just leave the finances to him
Just submit

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2 months ago

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

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2 months ago

Absolutely evil in every way

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2 months ago
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Blood cries out from the ground. The blood of the innocent cries out from the earth.

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2 months ago
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You do or you don’t

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