March 27, 2021: Reverend Rick Joyner Talks Up Civil War

 

3/27/21: Anytime you think you have family problems, remember the Joyner clan. Dad, Rev. Rick Joyner, is a fire-breathing evangelical preacher. He’s convinced that civil war is coming to this country. On one side are liberals – in league with Satan – intent, he says, on “criminalizing Christianity.” On the other side are the forces of God, led by Donald J. Trump. President Biden, by comparison, is in league with the devil and the 2020 election was stolen.

Let the shooting begin, just as Jesus would want?

 

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“I hope my kids don’t get involved in the violence, but it’s coming.” 

Rev. Rick Joyner

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Also: Climate change talk is part of a Communist plot; and journalists are “the worst terrorist threat” today. 

The problem for Rev. Joyner, however, is that all five of his children are Democrats and even various shades of…liberals! He can only tell a reporter, “I hope my kids don’t get involved in the violence, but it’s coming.” 

(The blogger wonders: Should I rush out and purchase guns and ammo?)

 

Listing the children by age, the oldest and most outspoken is Anna Joyner, 36, a climate change activist. “He talks about Democrats being evil, forgetting that all five of his kids vote Democratic,” she told The New York Times. “Who is he asking his followers to take up arms against? Liberal activists? That’s me.” 

Anna worries that her father’s “far-right rhetoric may get people killed. So she feels a responsibility to challenge him. ‘I think it’s completely possible that some of my dad’s followers could pick up guns and cause violence because they think they’re defending the country’ she said.” 

(Maybe Anna should buy a bazooka.)

 

Aaryn Joyner, 34, says she’s disappointed by what her father says, but adds, “I’m not willing to sacrifice my relationship with him to call him out.” 

(Still, it might be wise to start packing some heat.)

 

“There is a responsibility to hold those you love accountable,” say Amber Grace Joyner, 30, a musician. 

(Also: to stock up on ammo?)

 

“I think what he does is morally wrong, but I love him,” says Ben Joyner, 28. “I don’t want to hurt him, but when he’s spreading dangerous ideas, it gets complicated.” 

“At what point can I no longer go home for Thanksgiving and watch football with my dad?” he wonders. “By doing so, am I condoning his behavior? It can be hard to draw that line in the sand, especially when you love this person.” 

(Don’t go over to watch the game unless you go heavily-armed?)

 

Sam Joyner, 26, a ceramic artist, doesn’t mince words. “He’s causing harm in my view,” he says of his father, “and he’s being incredibly irresponsible.” 

(Ask mom for an AR-15 at Christmas, just in case?)

 

Anna asks the question she and all of her siblings have had to ask in one variation or another. “Is it OK to just talk about movies and dogs with someone who’s trying to incite civil war? I don’t know.”