Want to hear about some good ol’ down home Christian values? Ken Paxton seems to have a direct line to God and he’s willing to tell us all about the Almighty’s great plan for humanity.
Paxton’s the Texas attorney general.
Never mind the inconvenient fact he was indicted seven years ago on FELONY SECURITY FRAUD CHARGES. He stands accused of failing to disclose he was being compensated for pushing investors to purchase stock in a technology firm.
Never mind the fact that the FBI in 2020 opened a SECOND CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION into claims that Paxton abused his office to benefit a wealthy campaign donor. It seems that one of his top deputies ratted him out when he helped the donor, a troubled real estate developer who hired a woman with whom the married – and coincidentally, evangelical conservative – Paxton had had an extramarital affair.
Wow! Those evangelicals sure know how to party down.
And never mind the fact that Paxton was cleared of bribery allegations by his OWN OFFICE (well, what other outcome would you expect?).
Never mind the fact that Paxton filed that QUIXOTIC LAWSUIT Quixotic lawsuit challenging the 2020 president election that was dead on arrival.
And never mind that just last month the Texas state bar filed a PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT LAWSUIT against Paxton for his attempt to overturn that election.
None of that matters because, you see, Paxton, that evangelical conservative, has that direct line to God and apparently God told him the slaughter of those 19 kids and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24 was just okay.
Now those aren’t my words, mind you. They’re Paxton’s – or maybe God’s as uttered through his messenger Ken Paxton.
Honest to Paxton, that’s the latest word out of Texas. The attorney general, who is up for reelection this year, says the butchery was part of God’s plan – just like in the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy in the Old Testament.
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And all this time we thought it was a deranged nut who just happened to have a brand-spanking new AR-15 in his hands when he went off the rails. All this time we were blaming the easy access to assault weapons, the encouragement of same by gun nuts in general, and the lack of action by our NRA-bought-and-paid-for elected officials.
But no, it’s all part of God’s plan, Paxton says now. At least that’s what he said the day following the mass executions when asked by North Texas Baptist minister Trey Graham what he (Paxton) would say to the victims’ families.
“I’d have to say, look, there’s always a plan. I believe God always has a plan,” he replied. “Life is short no matter what it is.”
That’s it? “Live is short”? Seriously?
Perhaps the attorney general thought he was commiserating with a sympathetic listener, given the recent revelations about Southern Baptists and issues of abuse within the church.
But I gotta say if it was truly part of God’s plan to murder 19 innocent children and two of their teachers (which would certainly be consistent with the events of the aforementioned books of the Holy Bible), then I can’t really see a damned thing I need to seek forgiveness for in my life, as imperfect, shameful and at times, disgusting, as it most assuredly has been. Rather, I might struggle mightily with finding forgiveness in my heart for God for being such a demented, twisted, sick jerk
Now, having said that, I am fully cognizant of the fact that Paxton is privy to no such communication from the Creator. He is, in fact, a mere mortal, subject to the same frailties as the most infirm of us, his pious, asinine observations notwithstanding.
But most of all, he has revealed himself to be not at all Christian – evangelical or otherwise – but instead, just another opportunistic Repugnantcan hypocrite who feels (so very incorrectly) that he has license to judge others and to assure us that he has peered into God’s heart and now tells us that Yahweh had programmed the carnage at Uvalde all along as part of some grand master plan for mankind.
Excuse me, I think I just stepped in a pile of fresh dog Paxton.
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If everything is part of God’s plan there is no reason for anybody to be accountable, or feel guilt for anything they might do. And, since free will is a myth, we should all do as Bobby McFerrin recommends – “Don’t worry, be happy” no matter what happens. Seriously, Texas has become sicker over time like Florida, Oklahoma and others. Is this God’s wrath?
A brother living in Texas espouses a similar mind set as Paxton and the other ranting lunatics living there. It must be something in the water!
I think Paxton should give further details about this “god’s plan!” What exactly does Paxton’s “god” have in mind for those innocent casualties of America’s gun wars? This reeks with blasphemy (a good old Old Testament thing) and very noxious to our God…carry on (as my Mama would say) “going straight to Hell in a little hand basket!”
What a goon. Meanwhile, he and his ilk are kicking and screaming and worse denying the legitimacy of Biden’s election and fighting a future in which whites are in the minority in this nation (which as a white person doesn’t trouble me in the least). But if that’s part of the divine plan, why are they so deranged and angry about even the possibility of that, especially after most of them are dead and gone? White supremacy clearly remains the base of this continuing pro-trump insanity.
He probably will be TX’s next governor, after Abbott’s second term. As AS posted above, it is not Paxton, but the voters. Paxton trounced everyone in the recent election, including Jeb Bush’s son who was also worshipping at Trump’s altar. As your analysis delineates, AG Landry does not have a monopoly on imbecility, (shudder to think that he will be our next governor)–it is as if they were in competition as to who could go lower.
life is not too short for Paxton, is it? He may be God’s prophet, one of the chosen few.
The remnant of the Republican party believes it is entitled to its self-righteous bullshit and that is the ONLY thing it believes. Its every word and deed is nothing more than the manifestation of that self-righteousness.