{"id":101624,"date":"2017-11-28T14:14:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T21:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=101624"},"modified":"2017-11-28T14:14:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T21:14:38","slug":"trump-gave-donation-james-okeefe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/11\/trump-gave-donation-james-okeefe.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump gave a donation to James O&#8217;Keefe"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/trump-donated-project-veritas-organization-tried-trick-washington-post-723888\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">professional liar and fraud, before O\u2019Keefe sent (again) somebody to lie for him<\/a>.\u00a0 This time it was a woman who went to the WaPo to lie to them that Roy Moore had impregnated her as a teen.<\/p>\n<p>The most incredible part of the hubris of Liars for Jesus are the people who look straight at liars caught trying to plant false stories and busted by good journalism and say, \u201cWell, this wouldn\u2019t be necessary if journalists at WaPo did their jobs!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They *did* their job you stupid, proud, unteachable liars! It is *you*, not *they*, who live by lies. And you are so immersed in your pride that you will not see that it is you who are the problem, not the people you lie to, tem<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">pt, and stubbornly continue to accuse even when their actions have shown that they are honest and you are the liars.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>That these people do this in the name of Christ and in the attempt to help a child molester is Christianism in chemical purity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"_1dwg _1w_m _q7o\">\n<div id=\"js_6d\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _22jv _3576\" data-ft='{\"tn\":\"K\"}'>\n<p>The sole achievement of Liars for Jesus like James O\u2019Keefe has been to indelibly impress on the minds of all normal people that he and his fanboi are liars. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s all. They have achieved *nothing* but to destroy the trust of any normal person in a word they say. The *only* people who still think their \u201cwork\u201d is worth a tinker\u2019s damn are Christianists who have likewise replaced the truth of the gospel with Machiavellian lies on behalf of a sex predator and a child molester.<\/p>\n<p>And, indeed, this lie is being defended by more lies from Christianists. Here is an actual quote from a reader: \u201cInteresting to see the spin on this. \u201cProject Veritas fail\u201d. It\u2019s like saying a security firm \u2018fails\u2019 when they simulate a security intrusion and are caught. Silly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody appreciates the work of Satan in lying and tempting people. It\u2019s just \u201cquality control\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>If your cult needs to be guarded by lies, you are not a disciple of Jesus Christ, who is the Truth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026professional liar and fraud, before O\u2019Keefe sent (again) somebody to lie for him.\u00a0 This time it was a woman who went to the WaPo to lie to them that Roy Moore had impregnated her as a teen. 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