You all remember the Covid Relief bill back last spring, right? And how they’re in talks for another one because they’ve been doing such a great job for six months?

You know how I wrote about Pat Robertson and his prayers to overturn the election results. And how Mr. Robertson is basically a heretic. I’m not kidding about that and I realize that the charge is serious. But this article is gonna rock your world and everything you thought or suspected you knew will literally be turned upside down.

If you’ve finished the article, you’re ahead of me, because I had to take a break. You see the picture of Joel Osteen and his wife on a private jet? That’s hardly a new thing. Just about all televangelists and megachurch pastors have them.

Here’s a bizarre interview with the richest mega pastor of them all courtesy of Inside Edition one year ago.

Yes, the man is lecherous, temperamental and bug-house bozo. But his halting, evasive comments give away something: he does a lot of lying about demons. Now those things are real, but shouting about them like he does is pure theater. He’s a fraud and a con man.

Watch this video. Pay particular attention to the maniacal way he continues to laugh after saying that Joe Biden is president. That man is clearly disturbed.

He sort of went off on covid and Satan, didn’t he? Look, back to the subject, what we have is a serious violation of the Constitutional separation of state and church. Republicans love to say that this country was founded by Christians. Nope.

They love to call the United States a Christian nation. Wrong again.

And the founders knew all too well the danger of religion and government holding hands. The revolution happened because of taxation without representation and sought independence from the crown. The reason was that in addition to other factors religious groups, mainly the Protestant churches, were historically part of England’s rule, especially after Henry VIII.

Politics and religion don’t mix well. Never did. Never will. Thus the constitutional provision keeping the two apart.

With the relief checks, that was egregiously violated. Tax money went straight to churches, which are without oversight, accountability and operate without paying a dime in taxes.

As the article says, churches are a black hole for cash. Now so long as they stay out of politics, I don’t much care, except for the people who get sucked into the scams of Christian money cults. Those are believers in lies. They’re victims.

And now the suffering American people are victims. Several times over, because Trump stymied every effort by experts to help slow the spread of covid; he called it a hoax then proceeded to do the stupidest things I’ve ever seen a president do. Put ultraviolet light inside a human body? Sounds good. How about huffing lysol or drinking a shot of Clorox, that does a real number on the lungs, right?

Then, months later when 3,000 people have died in just one day, we learn that small businesses and private citizens were gyped of money because corporations got it, but churches too. And it hit me like a punch in the gut.

The breakdown of total amounts to each church is disgusting. Why did the government illegally pay them?

Election year. Now you know why Pat Robertson made a show of asking Jesus to overturn the election results. Republicans made sure that they bought Christian votes. That’s as crooked as you can get, and for churches to take that money is positively slimy. Hypocrites, liars, thieves!

And it’s nothing new. Just exposed.

I’m a sinner. I admit it. But they won’t. Millions of dollars, and nobody with a shred of decency, an ounce of courage and no honor among the lot of them, not even the Catholic church. Once Pope Francis gets wind of this, because I’m sure he didn’t know, there’ll be a reckoning. Other churches have no such leader above the men and women who took those millions.

They should be made to pay back every cent. No accounting for disbursements is necessary because the separation of church and state exempts churches from it; just make them give back the money. Because people went out of business and starved while pastors flew around in jets.