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Repent if You Want to Talk to Mastriano, or Even Live in Pennsylvania [1]

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Date: 2022-07-28

Don't come near me if you haven't accepted Jesus

Andrew Torba, CEO of Torba, open anti-Semite, and evidently spokesman for Doug Mastriano, the R candidate for PA governor, not only doesn’t want Jews in his movement, he doesn’t even want to talk to them, or for his candidate to talk to them.

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On Tuesday, the Jerusalem Post reported that Gab CEO Andrew Torba responded to the criticism during a live stream in which he said that neither he nor Mastriano do interviews with non-Christian media.

[A]fter Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt criticized Mastriano on MSNBC for using Gab, Media Matters reported that Torba posted a separate video on Tuesday attacking Jews. “This is a Christian nation. Christians outnumber you by a lot — a lot,” Torba said in the video posted on Gab. “We’re not going to listen to 2 percent. You represent 2 percent of the country, okay? We’re not bending the knee to the 2 percent anymore.”

(Implying that the other 98% of the country are not only Christian, but his kind of Christian.)

The Jerusalem Post reports that Torba said:

"My policy is not to conduct interviews with reporters who aren't Christian or with outlets who aren't Christian and Doug has a very similar media strategy where he does not do interviews with these people. He does not talk to these people. He does not give press access to these people," said the Gab founder. "These people are dishonest. They're liars. They're a den of vipers and they want to destroy you. My typical conversation with them when they email me is 'repent and accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior.' I take it as an opportunity to try and convert them."

(“Den of vipers” is a reference to Matt. 12:34, where Jesus calls the Pharisees a “brood of vipers.”)

And JPost adds:

"We want to disciple all nations. Not just America...We are going to take dominion of this entire planet. Our generation of Christians is not buying dispensational Zionist lies, we do not have a pessimistic eschatology," added Torba in the second video.

“Pessimistic eschatology” is a code description of premillennialism, the doctrine that things will get so bad that Jesus will come, flaming sword in hand, to clean everything up and start the millennium of the kingdom of God. As such, it relies on a supernatural event. Torba’s position is what’s called postmillennium, meaning that human beings will establish the kingdom of God on earth for a millennium using natural acts (such as stealing elections), and that Jesus will come back after a thousand years of Christian dominion.

In an interview with Torba, Mastriano stressed that he wants people to be able to "live life as [they] see fit, not as a governor or president sees fit." Torba added that "we have to make Pennsylvania the Florida of the north," with Mastriano responding that he's "going to make Ron DeSantis look like an amateur when [he's] in charge."

Another choice Torba quote:

"We don't want people who are atheists. We don't want people who are Jewish. We don't want people who are, you know, nonbelievers, agnostic, whatever. This is an explicitly Christian movement because this is an explicitly Christian country. We're not saying we're going to deport all these people or whatever. You're free to stay here. You're not going to be forced to convert or anything like this because that's not biblical whatsoever. But you're going to enjoy the fruits of living in a Christian society under Christian laws and under a Christian culture and you can thank us later."

While Torba insists that non-Christians, Jews in particular, will be “allowed” to live in Mastriano’s Christian theocracy (at least for now), it’s clear that his goal is to make Jews “repent” and “accept Jesus” — just as Christians have been trying for the past 2000 years. They simply can’t stand it that Jews are still around and prospering, much less governing them, as that contradicts the “triumph of Christianity.”

Responding to an article on his comments by MediaMatters, Torba stressed that Jewish conservatives are not welcome in the conservative movement unless "they repent and accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior."

This is out-and-out Christian Nationalism. And they are confident enough of taking over that they’re not bothering with dog whistles anymore. They are bellowing from the rooftops.

Are we listening?

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