09/03/2025

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Kyle Mantyla

When Republicans passed President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" earlier this year, it contained a provision adding new work requirement for those receiving Medicaid. 

Now, individuals between the ages of 19 and 64 must work for at least 80 hours a month in order to qualify for Medicaid, meaning, as CNBC explained, that by 2034 "about 4.8 million additional people would be uninsured based on work requirements in the House Republican budget bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan legislative scorekeeper."

It turns out that this provision was the result of the evangelism efforts carried out by right-wing pastor Ralph Drollinger, who leads Bible studies for members of Congress and the Trump administration via his Capitol Ministries organization.

The purpose of Capitol Ministries is to transform public officials in “disciples” who will turn founder Drollinger’s very conservative interpretation of scripture into public policy, such as his belief that the Bible mandates support for right-wing economic, social, environmental, immigration, and criminal justice policies. Drollinger teaches that the government’s primary job is to “quell evil” and punish sin and teaches that entitlement programs lack “any basis of biblical authority" and believes that elections are “first and foremost a spiritual battle.”

Casa Branca de Trump está aberta para ouvir algumas partes da Bíblia, mas nenhuma condenação bíblica do sexo de homens com homens

Julio Severo

Uma confusão resultante da desinformação dos meios de comunicação sobre uma opinião bíblica de um pastor evangélico sobre pecados homossexuais provocou uma condenação furiosa da Casa Branca contra sua alegada opinião evangélica contrária à homossexualidade.

Ralph Drollinger

Reportagens dos meios e comunicação disseram que o pastor evangélico, Ralph Drollinger, culpou a…

You remember good ol’ Ralph Drollinger, right?

“I do not believe America is experiencing the forsaking wrath of God, but yes, American [sic] is experiencing the consequential wrath of God.”

What’s the difference, you ask?

“If God is sovereign over the affairs of mankind today, which the Scriptures state He is, and a cataclysmic event occurs somewhere in, or over all the earth at any time in biblical history, one could and should attribute that cataclysmic event to the wrath of God in some form and to some degree. Accordingly, the coronavirus could be a form of God’s cataclysmic wrath. But having said that, I don’t think we should label the coronavirus as a form of God’s cataclysmic wrath, such as the form of wrath He manifests in the OT [Old Testament] with the Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the ‘unparting’ of the Red Sea, because that form of God’s wrath is void of a human curative—and I think we’ll soon see a human cure for the coronavirus.”

So why is America experiencing this lesser “wrath”? Drollinger blames five particular groups of people:

Those who dare to question Drollinger, the Bible, Trump, or anyone else whose beliefs Drollinger shares: “When a person or people suppress the truth which means their subsequent engagement ends in futile dialog and reasoning Such communications are moronic, or roughly equivalent to an intellectual level of a 7–12 year-old. A current illustration of this would be members who admit they have never viewed the videos that exposed the atrocities of Planned Parenthood, but then exclaim in another interview that all the videos were fabricated.”

The “religion of environmentalism.”

“A proclivity toward lesbianism and homosexuality.”

Atheists, agnostics, and others who do not share Drollinger’s Evangelical beliefs: “A depraved mind. ... Men and women inherently know what are the right and wrong things to do. A good understanding of ... what depravity means is summarized by this thought: the mind that finds God worthless becomes worthless itself. It is debauched, deceived, and deserving only of God’s wrath.”

Those who “give hearty approval to“ the aforementioned.

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Loony Pastor Preaching Dominionism To Trump’s Cabinet (VIDEO)

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Loony Pastor Preaching Dominionism To Trump’s Cabinet (VIDEO)

It’s no secret that the great majority of religious right figures who rallied to Donald Trump rank among some of the most extreme elements in that movement. For instance, his spiritual adviser, Paula White, offered a staggeringly blasphemous invocationin which she prayed for this country to be “a true hope for mankind.” Frank Amedia, a pastor in Ohio who helped organize an ad hoc team to cover…

There’s a man by the name of Ralph Drollinger who runs a Bible study group. He says it’s blasphemous to believe that humans are capable of affecting the environment. His supporters (students? the article is unclear) include the current head of the Environmental Protection Agency.