John Merrow warns readers not to commit the eighth deadly sin: the sin of indifference.
Merrow begins:
I imagine that almost everyone has at least a passing acquaintance with the Seven Deadly Sins, even if their names don’t roll easily off your tongue. For the record and to jog your memory, the Seven Deadly Sins are pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth.
If you’re like me, you have known most (maybe all) of them intimately, although hopefully only occasionally.
But my point is not to confess my own transgressions or to list how the current occupant of the White House seems to embody all Seven Sins.
Instead, I hope to convince you that, in this Elections Season, an 8th Deadly Sin is the greatest and most offensive of all. Let’s call this sin ‘Indifference,’ although it is often expressed in other terms, like ‘I’m So Tired of Politics,’ ‘Pandemic Fatigue,’ ‘I’m Sitting Out The Election,’ or even the absurd ‘Trump and Biden are Two Peas in a Pod so I say “A Plague on Both Their Houses.“‘
Indifference is a Cardinal Sin because this November the future of America is at stake.
In his post, he delineates the crucial differences between Biden and Trump.
They are not small. They define the future of our society.

I hadn’t thought about it, but, the seven deadly sins accurately describe Trump… the Seven Deadly Sins are pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. This is the best description yet. Can’t you envision Trump fulfilling each of those as goals?
I’ve already voted and took my mail-in ballot to the voting place and handed it to a lady behind the counter.
My State Senator and State Representative should by now recognize my name and groan…EKK, here comes another letter. Hope my State Representative gets re-elected. [Democrat] He wants more funding for public schools. I did complain LOTS to the man who is running against him when he held power.
I do hope my federal Senators also detest seeing anything written my me. Senators Todd Young and Mike Braun are ardent Trump supporters.
My Representative is retiring but he is a good man so I rarely complain to him. [A Democrat]
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The Eight Deadly Sins
Of all the deadly sins
“Sindifference” is the worst
Cuz that is what enshrines
The seventh to the first
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MLK called it “appalling silence”.
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This article comes from Canada’s media.
I got my bachelor’s degree from Washington State, which is 8 miles from the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho. Even back then, I knew that I did not want a degree from Idaho.
Trump and the pandemic is necessary for the functioning of God’s plan. GROSS!!
“…right wing media had lit up with headlines announcing Trump’s miraculous recovery.”
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American evangelicals still see Trump as their anointed one. Why?
By Adnan R. Khan
October 15, 2020
When you walk into the Sunday service at the Logos School in Moscow, Idaho, something feels off right from the beginning. It’s not so much the small army of children running and giggling in the K-12 school’s playground, but rather their mothers: they are conspicuously young, a few barely out of their teens, and some looking like they should still be students at the school. Their appearance and simple math suggest they could not have given birth to the three or four children each is corralling into the gymnasium as the services begin. Not unless they began at a shockingly young age…
Logos prides itself on being a “classical Christian” school that offers a “Christ-centred education.” It attracts many conservative evangelical families who live in and around Moscow, pop. 25,800, but is particularly popular among those who follow Christ Church, headed by Pastor Doug Wilson…
Wilson’s teaching, outlined in his book, Principles of War: A Handbook on Strategic Evangelism, was, as the title suggests, an attempt to re-establish a more “muscular Christianity”, according to Nick Gier, professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Idaho, who knew both James Wilson and his son Doug. In his critiques of the Christ Church movement, Gier describes an ideology obsessed with reclaiming manliness in Christian doctrine, where “only propertied males should vote,” because “misguided women might decide to cancel out their husband’s wise choices in church and political matters,” Gier wrote in 2010…
What’s consistent throughout is the belief that Donald Trump and the coronavirus pandemic are somehow necessary agents to the proper functioning of God’s plan. Anyone who gets in the way is the enemy, an agent of darkness.
So it is that Moscow’s mask mandate, which requires masks in any public space, indoor or outdoor, where proper social distancing cannot be maintained, is met with fury. Protesters of the order, all supporters of Wilson and Trump, have warned of dire consequences if they are forced to relinquish their God-given right to refuse to wear a mask…
In recent days, Trump has used his own positive coronavirus diagnosis to leverage that belief in Divine intervention in a naked attempt to ramp up his own sputtering campaign. In a video posted on his Twitter account on Oct. 7, shortly after his release from the Walter Reed Medical Center, Trump called his diagnosis a “blessing from God.” Only two days earlier, right wing media had lit up with headlines announcing Trump’s miraculous recovery. “Prayers For Trump From Christians & Others Lead To Miracle At Walter Reed,” one headline read…
https://www.macleans.ca/politics/washington/american-evangelicals-still-see-trump-as-their-anointed-one-why/
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Considering both sides of the political aisle are blatantly committing the other seven, why shouldn’t the people commit the alleged eighth? Why shouldn’t people be indifferent when neither party cares enough about the tens of millions of people unemployed to pass another damn stimulus when people have been trying to make $1200 stretch 8 months? Why shouldn’t the people be indifferent when neither party cares about the fact that 65,000+ people die per year from lack of health insurance and neither party has a plan to make sure that everyone is covered during a pandemic?
Why shouldn’t the people be indifferent when the world is literally on fire, the water supply is literally poisoned, scientists estimate the planet will be uninhabitable within our children’s lifetimes and one yet candidate doesn’t believe in climate change while the other proudly boasts that he won’t ban fracking and won’t end oil subsidies?
Why shouldn’t the people be indifferent when both parties care more about the white nationalists that are getting “attacked” by “antifa” than the hundreds of Black people who have been slaughtered by police and right-wing terrorist groups just this year, not to mention the thousands who have been murdered before? Why shouldn’t people be indifferent to both the guy who proudly wrote all the crime bills and the guy who thinks there are “good people on both sides”?
Time after time after time people have begged for anything to vote for, but both parties have spit in their faces, called them “children living in their mommies’ basements demanding free stuff” Yet you take our vote for granted and shame us when we refuse to play your game any more.
I’ll keep saying it: a plague on both your houses. My vote is the one tiny bit of leverage I have and damned if I’m going to give it up for nothing in return. I demand better and if that makes me a “purist” or a “Bernie Bro” or a “Russian asset” or whatever other insult you want to hurl at me, hurl away if that’s the best you’ve got. I’m sorry that the future of this planet and the people on it mean so little to you that you’ll settle for the “lesser” racist, warmongering corporate sexual predator.
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dienne77: “I’ll keep saying it: a plague on both your houses. My vote is the one tiny bit of leverage I have and damned if I’m going to give it up for nothing in return. I demand better…”
Exactly how are you going to demand better? How are you going to make your vote count when neither party is worth anything? Are you going to write in some name on your ballet and assume that means something? Or are you not going to vote to ‘prove’ your displeasure?
Both parties are NOT the same. You have the privilege of wasting your vote. A wasted vote is helping Trump, who is totally corrupt and is supporting the Republican party that Al Franken has said, “Have no shame.”.
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I think this election has galvanized the voting public. I commend people in Atlanta that waited four hours to vote early in Atlanta. I commend the residents in Harris county that broke the early voting record in Houston,Texas yesterday, despite attempts to suppress the vote. I even commend Bloomberg for using some of his money to try to flip Florida and paying off fines so that former inmates can vote. I commend anyone that is volunteering and taking an active role in this election. This is not a time for anyone to be complacent. This election is not a spectator sport. Only through voting can we make much needed change.
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At the end of Trump’s town hall, the NBC News YouTube channel showed 153,660 viewers were watching.
ABC News’s YouTube channel showed 507,445 viewers at the end of Biden’s town hall.
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I think Merrow left one out: “gRheed”: eagerness to profit from the firings and other policies of Michelle Rhee
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This video comes from ‘fake news’ WaPo. Even WaPo can’t fake the 35 times that Trump talks about how this virus was going away, “It’s dying out”. Being a pathological liar doesn’t work when there are videos available.
Bob Woodward posted online an audio of Trump acknowledging on Feb. 7, 2020 that Trump knew the virus was dangerous.
VIDEO: 34 times Trump said the coronavirus would go away
September 16, 2020 | 1:12 PM EDT
Since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, President Trump has repeatedly said that the virus will disappear.
https://wapo.st/3kpwrpb
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Guess you’ll have to Google or DuckDuckGo the video. Link didn’t copy.
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