MAGA ‘Christians’ crow over Pope Francis’s death and suggest he’s in hell

Turns out far-right ‘Christian nationalists’ aren’t keen on Pope who expressed Christian values of peace, equality and love for the oppressed

US far-right so-called ‘Christians’ have been crowing over the death of the late Pope Francis, who died on Monday morning.

Extremist Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has attacked the Black Lives Matter movement as ‘Marxist’, called for left-wing Chinese people to be deported from the US, tried to have federal control of guns and explosives abolished and claimed Catholic bishops were ‘destroying’ America by advocating for refugees, posted on X to rejoice at the ‘major shifts in global leadership’ and the defeat of ‘evil’ ‘by the hand of God’:

Taylor Greene, whose husband has just had to pay out $75,000 for a three-minute racist rant at a group of young Muslim women, did not mention Francis by name, but respondents to her post appeared in little doubt as to its target:

Taylor Greene was not alone, though. Far-right ‘Christian’ TV panellist Gina Loudon expressed her belief that Francis may be in hell, while her co-panellist thought he is probably in heaven but was disturbed by his left-wing politics:

Loudon described herself as a ‘Calvinist’ – a doctrinal position that holds that most people are created only to go to hell while the ‘elect’ get to heaven regardless of their evil actions. It doesn’t seem too hard why people who are happy to get rich in this life while hundreds of millions suffer and starve might want to believe that, but Jesus – that left-wing agitator who wanted everyone to love and be loved and warned how hard it is for the rich to enter heaven – told a parable that seems to hold some relevance to that attitude of ‘get rich and to (literal) hell with everyone else’:

19 “There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. 20 At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores 21 and longing to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
22 “The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. 24 So he called to him, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.’
25 “But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. 26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’

Gospel of Luke, Chapter 16 (NIV).

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