# Michael Flynn's Shining City on the Hill - For Christians Only **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 15, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397 "2021-11-15T16:09:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 25
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/481 "2022-02-20T17:37:18Z")
Okay, I admit I snickered. I do love this place sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/482 "2022-03-12T08:18:37Z")
And, in a move surprising no one, and predicted by at least 90% of the posters in this thread… > **[Flynn appears before Jan. 6 select committee but pleads the Fifth](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/10/flynn-jan-6-select-committee-pleads-the-fifth-00016401)** > > The former Trump national security adviser became an advocate for some of the most draconian and extreme options concerning the 2020 election. (if the title didn’t load, “Flynn appears before the Jan. 6 select committee but pleads the Fifth”) And we all know what Flynn’s messiah, Trump has to say about that, don’t we… ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2022, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/483 "2022-03-12T08:20:00Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > And we all know what Flynn’s messiah, Trump has to say about that, don’t we… A non sequitur rant against windmills? ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/484 "2022-03-14T00:00:24Z")
As for Trump being a Messiah, I saw a sovreign citizen video on YouTube in which the sovidiot was sitting in his car as the officers prepared to break hi window, and he actually prayed to Trump to save him. I have to go see if I can find that again. Turns out it’s a lot of places. This one it starts about 3:09 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7PLDBY4jlcE/hqdefault.jpg "Sovereign Citizen Cops bust man's window as he prays to Trump save him") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PLDBY4jlcE) ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/485 "2022-03-14T03:02:21Z")
There are far to many people who see the CFSG as ordained by God, a Messiah, or other semi-divine entity. Which is only -slightly- worse than thinking being elected president means that he should be obeyed as an ultimate authority and everyone should have to follow his orders by force if needed (which somehow they seem to feel doesn’t apply if said president was from another party). When the irony gets too much to bear, I reach into my Warhammer 40k past and watch the following video - [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RBpijRDDOxQ/hqdefault.jpg "The God Emperor Purges the Alt-Right [WH40k]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBpijRDDOxQ) ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/486 "2022-03-14T03:08:01Z")
Funny, especially when you remember that plenty of rightists were condemning Obama as the left’s messiah (when, of course, none of the left asserted he was). ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/487 "2022-03-14T11:38:16Z")
The Republican party is nothing but projection, corruption, and hypocrisy. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/488 "2022-03-14T13:22:39Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > As for Trump being a Messiah, I saw a sovreign citizen video on YouTube in which the sovidiot was sitting in his car as the officers prepared to break hi window, and he actually prayed to Trump to save him. I have to go see if I can find that again. There should be a channel for this. I could watch these assholes get arrested all day long. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/489 "2022-03-14T16:34:42Z")
I especially like it when they scream after getting tazed, after acting so insufferable. I guess that makes me a bad person? 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2022, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/490 "2022-03-14T16:45:16Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I especially like it when they scream after getting tazed, after acting so insufferable. I guess that makes me a bad person? -🤨 So bad you’re good. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/491 "2022-05-12T20:41:57Z")
And back with the latest installment of Michael “Why do you hate me so?” Flynn’s default pit thread - > **[Michael Flynn Complains as DoD Seeks $38k He Received From Russia](https://www.newsweek.com/michael-flynn-38k-payment-russia-army-putin-1705561)** > > The retired lieutenant general was paid by the state-controlled Russia Today to attend a gala alongside Vladimir Putin in 2015. Now, note, the actual event is in no-way news. We long ago brought up that once Flynn went political, he was widely willing to lend his name to anyone for the cash… but I certainly sniggered a bit when I saw that the DoD is going after the money he collected due to Flynn’s violations of the emoluments clause that his own patron managed to dodge. And of course, in Flynn’s mind, it’s all persecution for his being outspoken. No denial of the event, just that he’s the victim here. I might manage a single crocodile tear if anytime during the last two months of Russia’s ongoing war against the Ukraine, if Flynn would have donated those funds to relief aid . . . but Flynn’s long since given up anything but the grift. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/492 "2022-05-12T20:43:38Z")
Where is webwarrior to cry for his hero? ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/493 "2022-05-12T20:44:19Z")
Now now, let sleeping trolls lie. I mean, that’s what they do best after all. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/494 "2022-05-12T20:45:11Z")
I’ll post this in his honor. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lwlogyj7nFE/maxresdefault.jpg "Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge [Video]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwlogyj7nFE) ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/495 "2022-08-30T00:39:00Z")
I’m bumping my thread to include a link to an article brought to my attention by @Temporary_Name in the [“Christians are coming thread”](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-christians-are-coming-the-christians-are-coming/946304/257) > **[Underreported and Massive Theocratic Movement Joins Forces with Michael Flynn...](https://buckscountybeacon.com/2022/08/underreported-and-massive-theocratic-movement-joins-forces-with-michael-flynn-and-roger-stone/)** > > A tour featuring “Seven Mountains” Christian dominionists, Flynn, and Stone is coming to Pennsylvania. Quoting a part of the same section Temporary\_Name did - > The NAR also opposes freedom of religion, teaching instead that Christians [must exert dominion](https://www.npr.org/2011/10/03/140946482/apostolic-leader-weighs-religions-role-in-politics) over all aspects of our society. The NAR isn’t the only movement that espouses dominionism, but it may be the most influential. As [explained by Wagner,](https://youtu.be/p2woK8-y0_w)who fathered the NAR: > > “Dominion has to do with control. Dominion has to do with rulership. Dominion has to do with authority and subduing. And it relates to society. In other words, what the values are in Heaven need to be made manifest on earth. Dominion means being the head and not the tail. Dominion means ruling as kings.” Reading the whole article is terrifying, but the short version as it applies to _this_ thread is that the NAR is who Flynn is speaking to and for in the quote that spawned the thread. The article also includes numerous other calls to spiritual war and the like, which will surprise no one in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/496 "2022-08-30T14:43:27Z")
I watched a recent Vice video about q-anon and that scary ReAwaken American Tour Flynn is peddling. Fucking scary nutjobs! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_-y-BIAtS0) ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2022, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/497 "2022-08-31T02:12:36Z")
Jesus weeps. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2023, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/498 "2023-07-06T23:48:48Z")
BUMP [https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/opinions/trump-flynn-presidential-nomination-christian-nationalism-bergen-german/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/06/opinions/trump-flynn-presidential-nomination-christian-nationalism-bergen-german/index.html) Here we are, 7/6/2023, with Trump running full steam for another term, and we’re all hoping he trips and falls under his many criminal indictments. But at least right now, he’s calling for this thread’s least (?) favorite person, an avowed Christian Nationalist, to be ready to come back to the Once-and-Future Trump White House. > At a meeting kicking off the Miami conference, Flynn spelled out that plan. “Local action has a national impact. You get involved in your school board, your county commissioners, or elections…and you get in there, and you mix it up, and you fight.” > > Flynn describes this struggle as a war. At the same Miami event, he said, “I have fought these bastards around the world, OK? And, the worst battles I have – sadly, sadly – the worst battles, the worst war that I am involved in is in my own country.” > > Flynn says he’s at war in his own country. And it looks like he’s trying to muster an army. Buckle in folks. ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/499 "2023-07-07T00:34:06Z")
Looks to me like that traitorous piece of shit Flynn had a few typos in his speech. He keeps saying war _in_ his own country when he means war _on_ his own country. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2023, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397/500 "2023-07-07T01:31:13Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I would post the _Doonesbury_ strip with Mike & Mark meeting the mayor but I can’t seem to find it online. That was one of the greatest Doonesburys of all time. Enhanced by the fact that I was living in the Philadelphia area. Found it! - [Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 07, 1972 - GoComics](https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1972/08/07) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/michael-flynns-shining-city-on-the-hill-for-christians-only/954397.md?page=26)