Garrison Keillor Is On A Quest To Leave The Religion He Never Found

[mountaineer]

Garrison Keillor Is On A Quest To Leave The Religion He Never Found
By Hans Fiene
January 20, 2017

“I’m looking for a new religion.” Thus saith Garrison Keillor, America’s most beloved Lutheran humorist, a rather odd title for a man who is neither Lutheran nor humorous. (If you disagree with the latter, watch
this clip and remember that season five of “The Simpsons” declaring you unfunny is the comedic equivalent of the pope saying you’re not Catholic.)

So what has set Keillor on his mission to find a new house of worship? Donald Trump, naturally. “Too many of my fellow Christians voted for selfishness and for degradation of the beautiful world God created,” Keillor writes. “I guess they figured that by the time the planet was a smoky wasteland, they’d be nice and comfy in heaven, so wotthehell. Anyhow, I’m looking around for other options.”

I find it strange that Keillor feels the need to move on. After all, liberal protestants like Keillor don’t really see the Trump-voting, booger-eating Bible thumpers as their spiritual kin. The only time they claim a common faith with them is five seconds before castigating their “fellow Christians” for the sin of violating one of the commandments enshrined in the Democratic Party platform.  ...

Perhaps Keillor feels empty because he never saw the true faith radiating beneath the idiosyncrasies and mundanities of Midwestern Christendom. Perhaps he wants to move on from the church of the apostles because, after spending decades recycling the same jokes, he convinced himself that those Minnesota Lutherans had nothing to offer the world but an unwavering devotion to Jell-O salad. ...

Hans Fiene is a Lutheran pastor in Illinois and the creator of Lutheran Satire, a series of comical videos intended to teach the Lutheran faith.

Entire piece at The Federalist

[geronl]

So this article is only posted because he criticized THE ONE.

lol.

The cult marches on. lock-step.

Heil Trump! Heil Trump!

[JustPassinThru]

So this article is only posted because he criticized THE ONE.

lol.

The cult marches on. lock-step.

Heil Trump! Heil Trump!

Ya know...this gets tiresome.  The Left is in some sort of virtue-signalling prolonged meltdown and attack of vapors...how DARE such a rock-ribbed conservative as DONALD TRUMP, who gave millions to Democrat pols, who voted for them, who stumped for them, who four years ago considered running for President...as a Dem...

...how DARE he have the audacity not to concede the election, ten minutes after the polls open.

Then the Shrub-RINO Mush-Moderates, who have the SAME hatred out there...who are racing Hollywood slebs to the Travel Agents of America, to get one-way tickets to Toronto.  This, even though he's reaching out to them...almost as with a tic. Reach out; bring more Inside-Outsiders, IN...

Balance that against the mindless Trump cheer girls...many of them male.  Doing their backflips and pyramids; shaking their gluteals; screaming ever louder.  Based on, what?  Uh, duh...NATIONALISM-POPULISM-AGRARIANISM-TARIFFISM-PROTECTIONISM!!  What's that MEAN?  Uh...YAY...TRUMP!!  YAY...TRUMP!!

Lost in any of this purported discussion, is any consideration of conservative, free-market ideals - or practical approaches to the problems of the hour.  I don't know where we go from here...discussing the gowns of the women at the Inaugural Ball doesn't really tell us much, or take us anywhere.

ALL sides seem to have taken a double-helping of stupid.  And "Garrison" ought to have his own brand of Breakfast Stupid.

[geronl]

Ya know...this gets tiresome.

Tell me about it. It is tiring to see article after article being posted that is nothing but Trump fluffing.

[INVAR]

Lost in any of this purported discussion, is any consideration of conservative, free-market ideals - or practical approaches to the problems of the hour.  I don't know where we go from here…

We go full bore into ISM.  Whichever one of these Collectivist/Monarchy memes get the most momentum among the emoting populace.

ALL sides seem to have taken a double-helping of stupid. 

Yup.  They have no need of the foundations that established liberty, and they are grown wholly ignorant of our history and heritage - or flat out don't care about it anymore except the now.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful. They feed on the sins of my people and relish their wickedness. - Hosea 4:6-8

[mountaineer]

So this article is only posted because he criticized THE ONE.

lol.

The cult marches on. lock-step.

Heil Trump! Heil Trump!

I'm the one who posted it, and that wasn't my reason for doing so. If you keep jumping to conclusions, you're bound to sprain something.

Sorry, geronl, but I've never "Trump fluffed," not at this forum, not anywhere. He was not my choice for Republican nominee, as I stated repeatedly.

Try reading the entire article sometime.

[goatprairie]

Garrulous Squealer is actually quite a nasty person. I remember reading an interview of him in a Twin Cities paper a few decades ago. The interviewer asked Keillor what he thought about the national elections rapidly approaching (1992?) Keillor then went into this long rant where he savaged all Republicans as being evil slime.
Up to that point I had never read anything about Keillor's politics and assumed he was probably just another naive, Minnesota liberal who told a few funny stories. Lake Woebegone and all that.
But the venom he spewed during the interview gave me an insight into a very twisted person who harbored nasty thoughts about the subjects of many of his books and monologues.
How could Keillor not know that many of the people who read his books and listened to his radio program were conservative Republicans who identified with a number of Keillor's small town, Lake Woebegone residents?  Nevertheless, that interview turned me off Keillor....and I was still a nominal Democrat at the time. But the bitter verbiage directed at people who probably grew up as Keillor's neighbors in Anoka, Minnesota made me see what a colossal fraud he was..

[Frank Cannon]

I didn't know this guy was still alive. How unfortunate.

[jmyrlefuller]

I didn't know this guy was still alive. How unfortunate.

Alive, but retired.

He handed the show over to some guy who basically gutted it and turned it into a coffee house hour.

[Wingnut]

Never really cared much for his show. Heard it on occasion cuz He seemed to be on  my local PBS station before or after "Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers show".

I didn't know this guy was still alive. How unfortunate.

[musiclady]

While I am deeply disappointed in my fellow Evangelicals who threw away their standards to worship Trump, the idea of leaving Christianity because of people is the weakest of excuses and totally illogical and lacking in a rational thought process.

Christianity is about Jesus Christ, and devotion to Him, and adherence to His laws (which, not incidentally do NOT include radical leftist environmentalism).   Christians will always disappoint, but Jesus Christ never does.

[Sanguine]

Never really cared much for his show. Heard it on occasion cuz He seemed to be on  my local PBS station before or after "Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers show".

He had some funny lines, but he always came off (to me, anyway) as condescending and "above it all".

[Wingnut]

He had some funny lines, but he always came off (to me, anyway) as condescending and "above it all".

If I was waiting for Car Talk to start and he did a Guy Noir segment... I confess.... I would listen.

[JustPassinThru]

He had some funny lines, but he always came off (to me, anyway) as condescending and "above it all".

Typical liberal.

They're liberal because they're SMARTER.  Why are they smarter?  Why, because they're LIBERAL.

It's that kind of superior, self-validating viewpoint, that has made liberalism grow so among the Low-Information and dubious-competency segments of society...educated fools and people richer than their brains would suggest.

[kevindavis007]

Who???

[mountaineer]

Who???

Look up "smug" in the dictionary; you'll find him.