Comments on: Is It a Children’s Book or a Book for Adults? Eric Metaxas Can’t Seem to Decide about Donald Builds the Wall https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/11/30/is-it-a-childrens-book-or-a-book-for-adults-eric-metaxas-cant-seem-to-decide-about-donald-builds-the-wall/ A [retired] college psychology professor's observations about public policy, mental health, sexual identity, and religious issues Mon, 02 Dec 2019 21:24:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 By: otrotierra https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/11/30/is-it-a-childrens-book-or-a-book-for-adults-eric-metaxas-cant-seem-to-decide-about-donald-builds-the-wall/#comment-105290 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 21:24:00 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=35343#comment-105290 In reply to ken.

It’s another example of (Unearned) White-Nationalist Evangelical Privilege.

]]> By: ken https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/11/30/is-it-a-childrens-book-or-a-book-for-adults-eric-metaxas-cant-seem-to-decide-about-donald-builds-the-wall/#comment-105289 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 16:18:58 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=35343#comment-105289 In reply to OrthoAnabaptist.

I’d say it is more an extreme case of cognitive dissonance. People don’t want to admit they made a monumentally bad choice in supporting Trump, so they refuse to see the harm he has done and instead focus on the good things (real or imagined) they like about him.

]]> By: OrthoAnabaptist https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/11/30/is-it-a-childrens-book-or-a-book-for-adults-eric-metaxas-cant-seem-to-decide-about-donald-builds-the-wall/#comment-105287 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:53:20 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=35343#comment-105287 In reply to ian.

Yep, I’m leaning towards some kind of “possession” as well… not because I want to; I have close family under this spell… very sad, but just mind-blowing and it just gets worse; the hole they’ve dug themselves into…

]]> By: MyPetSlug https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/11/30/is-it-a-childrens-book-or-a-book-for-adults-eric-metaxas-cant-seem-to-decide-about-donald-builds-the-wall/#comment-105285 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 10:04:29 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=35343#comment-105285 Metaxas’s excuse is suspiciously like the age old dodge “It was a joke!” and then a quick turn around to victim blaming, “Why are you so sensitive? You don’t have any sense of humor.” Usually said after some crude and indefensible comment. Yes, totally a joke, unless you agree with him.

]]> By: Zoe_Brain https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/11/30/is-it-a-childrens-book-or-a-book-for-adults-eric-metaxas-cant-seem-to-decide-about-donald-builds-the-wall/#comment-105283 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 04:38:55 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=35343#comment-105283 In reply to richard.

“These monsters are POLITICIANS” not Immigrants”, remember?

The caravan of troublemaking politicians has nothing to do with the caravan of immigrants.

And I am Marie of Rumania.

]]> By: Reflex https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/11/30/is-it-a-childrens-book-or-a-book-for-adults-eric-metaxas-cant-seem-to-decide-about-donald-builds-the-wall/#comment-105284 Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:40:33 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=35343#comment-105284 In reply to richard.

Both can be true, they are not mutually exclusive. Due to the impact of climate change creating what is now a severe 7 year drought, the area has declined into near anarchy around the northern triangle which has been the primary source of much of these refugee caravans. If the choice is joining a criminal gang, starving to death, being murdered…or coming to America and hoping for a better chance, well yeah you take your family.

Few people make a trip like this for only a single factor.

]]> By: Carol A Ranney https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/11/30/is-it-a-childrens-book-or-a-book-for-adults-eric-metaxas-cant-seem-to-decide-about-donald-builds-the-wall/#comment-105281 Sun, 01 Dec 2019 18:53:11 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=35343#comment-105281 Donald Calls People Names (and doesn’t worry about hurting feelings)
Donald the Best at Everything
Donald’s Golden Hair
Donald the Orange President
The Mystery of Donald’s School Grades
The Mystery of Donald’s Taxes

]]> By: ken https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/11/30/is-it-a-childrens-book-or-a-book-for-adults-eric-metaxas-cant-seem-to-decide-about-donald-builds-the-wall/#comment-105273 Sun, 01 Dec 2019 17:36:26 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=35343#comment-105273 “In previous media interviews, Metaxas calls these books “children’s books””

Warren,

Are you suggesting that an evangelical conservative would attempt to re-write history to serve his own personal/political ends? I’m shocked.

]]> By: AHH https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/11/30/is-it-a-childrens-book-or-a-book-for-adults-eric-metaxas-cant-seem-to-decide-about-donald-builds-the-wall/#comment-105280 Sun, 01 Dec 2019 17:14:07 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=35343#comment-105280 In reply to ken.

Maybe, but Lex can still hope for a victory from the Electoral College!

Another title: Donald Takes Advantage of an Archaic System

]]> By: Eeyore https://wthrockmorton.com/2019/11/30/is-it-a-childrens-book-or-a-book-for-adults-eric-metaxas-cant-seem-to-decide-about-donald-builds-the-wall/#comment-105279 Sun, 01 Dec 2019 17:07:08 +0000 https://www.wthrockmorton.com/?p=35343#comment-105279 Teaching children to despise other children who are refugees? I suggest Mr. Metaxas have his neck size sent to a millstone crafter, and charter a boat to the Marianas trench…

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