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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:04:30 GMT
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:04:57 GMT
THIS IS A FREAK SHOW
Evangelical pastor shares image of prayer circle laying their hands on Donald Trump's in Oval Office
Donald Trump Meets with Religious Leaders, Including Robert Jeffress
President Trump Declares National Day of Prayer for Harvey Victims 9/1/17
Trump: 'In America we don't worship government, we worship God'
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:05:22 GMT
This video is so HONEST AND FUNNY I changed the name of this thread. It is a MUST WATCH!!
Seems like Evangelicals only find corrupt, egotistical, lying corporatist, saber rattling, white (pink and orange) RepubliConservative males worthy of their support.
The Divinity of Donald Trump: The Daily Show
Donald Trump to Thank for Increase in Latino Citizenship
Love the "Christian" values of these people.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:05:52 GMT
Does God Believe in Trump? White Evangelicals are Sticking with Their "Prince of Lies"BY NINA BURLEIGH ON 10/5/17 AT 8:00 AM
www.newsweek.com/2017/10/13/donald-trump-white-evangelicals-support-god-677587.html
excerpt:The Silver Tongued Tweeter
It’s now obvious that Trump got an extraordinary return on investment when he cozied up to evangelicals in 2011, but what did they see in him? His biography until quite late in life would seem to be antithetical to everything they believe. Jones, of the Public Religion Research Institute, thinks the answer lies in the 2015 Supreme Court ruling legalizing gay marriage.
“Local Democrats and progressives wildly underestimated the nuclear event that the same-sex marriage decision was for conservative white Christians,” he says. “It was so at the heart of their political engagement. They had pushed all their resources into the fight, and they lost decisively in courts and in public opinion.
”Among the many miracles Trump performed during his campaign was exploiting white conservative Christian fear. White Christians really are losing demographic ground, if not power. America won’t be theirs for much longer because they are a shrinking portion of the electorate. But, as Trump showed to astonishing effect, they still turn out to vote at higher rates than other, larger demographic groups. And that gives their views greater weight.
In 2008, white evangelicals were 21 percent of the population but made up 26 percent of the vote, Jones says. In 2016, white evangelicals had slipped to 17 percent of the total population, but they still constituted 26 percent of voters. Jones calls the 2016 election their “time machine,” Christian fundamentalists’ chance to resurrect the public opinion of 2008, when just 40 percent of Americans supported gay marriage, not the 60 percent who do now.America’s white Protestant fundamentalist Christians are dwindling like the dinosaurs God put on Earth alongside humans 6,000 years ago before he mysteriously decided to take them away. (And who cut them out of Genesis?) “Our best estimate is that 2024 will be the first election where we have an electorate that is less than majority white and Christian,” Jones says.
But that still leaves the question of how evangelicals were able to embrace Trump. In 2011, a poll asked respondents to agree or disagree with the statement that someone who commits an immoral act in private life could still perform well in a public position. Among white evangelicals, only three in 10 thought it was possible. In 2016, the pollsters asked the same question—and 71 percent of white evangelicals agreed.
“White evangelical Protestants went from being the group least likely to agree that this was possible to being the most likely to agree,” Jones says. “In one way of thinking, Trump turned evangelical ethics on its head, because they had been based on principles. They let the ends justify the means: We need a Republican president, and it doesn't matter how we get there.
”For many fundamentalists, Trump’s profligate dissembling and decades of dissipation are further proof that their Lord moves in mysterious ways. White evangelical supporters excuse Trump’s long history of immoral behavior by comparing him to various biblical heroes whose lives were less than exemplary but who nonetheless did God’s work. Lance Wallnau, author of a best-selling book about Trump called God’s Chaos Candidate, has claimed God spoke to him and said, “Donald Trump is a wrecking ball to the spirit of political correctness.
”Now comes the most presumptuous—perhaps even heretical—question a journalist could pose: What does God think of Trump, who, according to The Washington Post, has already told over 1,000 lies since he moved into the Oval Office and is on a trajectory to hit 2,000 by the end of the year?
The same digital voice analysis that measured Trump’s comfort level when talking about God and the allegedly godless New York Times shows that when the president tells an obvious lie (a statement PolitiFact has determined is false) he is more relaxed than he is at most other times during his speeches and interviews.
That would seem to be a vexing problem for the faithful, since the Bible repeatedly associates lying with the devil. To cite just one of many examples in Scripture, John 8:44 (NIV) refers to Satan thusly: “When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” Now recall that millions of white conservative fundamentalists who take the Bible literally are awaiting the fulfillment of its prophesy about the apocalypse—the end of days—which will feature the rise of an evil force that will briefly rule the world. He goes by many names, among them the Prince of Lies.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:06:20 GMT
The very sad thing about all of this is BERNIE SANDERS had much larger and dedicated crowds than Trump could ever dream about. These people are putting their faith in a man like he is a god.
Trump voters explain their unshakable faith
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:06:46 GMT
another reason to abolish religionRWW News: Mary Colbert Says That Trump's Use of 'Rough Language' Is Just Like Jesus Published on Nov 3, 2017
www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ma...
Right Wing Watch reports on the extreme rhetoric and activities of key right-wing figures and organizations by showing their views in their own words. In this clip, Mary Colbert says that Christians who have a problem with President Trump's "rough language" must also have a problem with Jesus.
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:07:33 GMT
Quote by ronstadtfanaz: Like the phrase "Goddamnit!", perhaps? Did Jesus ever utter that one?! (he asked rhetorically)
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:07:55 GMT
PRAISE THE LORD DONALD J tRUMP BOOM! TRUMP CHRISTMAS TRIBUTE - & A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! Happy Thanksgiving & Merry Christmas to President Elect Donald Trump & his NEW ADMINISTRATION. My daughter Rebekah & I sing with the London Symphony Christmas favorites in celebrating Donald Trump & Mike Pence's historic victory. We can all celebrate in public Christmas again thanks to the NEW FREEDOM LOVING, Constitutionalist, GOP government in Washington D.C. Hurray for all Catholic. evangelicals, Jews and all peace loving, TOLERANT people of faith and free thinkers everywhere!
And the greatest gift of all? A NEW SUPREME COURT that will uphold the wisdom of the founding fathers and our Bill of Rights & Constitution - who will defend the right to life of the unborn, limited government, encourage job growth through deregulation & unfair, unconstitutional trade policies - who will reestablish the rule of law "Lex Rex" (Law is King) and back our law enforcement. The Trump Presidency will be highlighted by peace through strength and LAW & ORDER. Donald Trump and his New Administration will usher and new era of peace and prosperity - home and abroad. Given time - even the fuddy-duddy old, crotchety, Marxist, Islamic sympathizing left-winger may one day soon, force a smile and say ... MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY HANUKKAH again!
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:08:23 GMT
Donald Trump's Christian Values
Juan Williams: Evangelicals sell their souls for Trump
Published on Feb 22, 2018 Juan Williams takes aim at evangelical Christians who support Trump in new op-ed; Pastor Robert Jeffress responds on 'The Story with Martha MacCallum.'
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:08:48 GMT
Evidently Pat Robertson says Donald J Trump is Jesus. Just more proof here how racist and hateful evangelicals have always been.Is the Trump presidency a religious cult? | Reza Aslan
Published on Apr 15, 2018
Are fundamentalist Christians a dangerous religious cult? Possibly. The controversial author and religious scholar Reza Aslan posits that President Donald Trump has much of his evangelical fan-base believing that he's somehow been anointed by God to become President. Nevermind the Russian election scandal, his affairs with porn stars and unwarranted sexual acts towards women, or his inability to remember even a single Bible verse when asked. Evangelical Christians are abandoning their core moral beliefs to follow, as Reza suggests, someone who exhibits every trademark of a cult leader.
companion thread ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/4786/cult-trump
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:09:13 GMT
Donald Trump – Endorsed by Jesus
TRUMP - THE DEPLORABLE JESUS
Published on Oct 29, 2016 Donald Trump put up a plaque calling his father "Christ" as a middle name. Does this make Donald himself a Jesus? Will he sit at the right hand of Pat Robertson's God?
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:09:48 GMT
Sarah Sanders Tells Christian TV Network That God 'Wanted Donald Trump To Become President'
Sarah Sanders: God wanted Trump to be president
Who Is Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Narrated by Catherine Cohen | NowThis
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:10:33 GMT
Christian author: Christians who oppose Trump are going straight to hellBy Sky Palma Posted on March 5, 2018
There’s a contingent of right-wing Christians who think Donald Trump is the harbinger of the Apocalypse. While many of may feel that way in a metaphorical sense, the author of the book “Trumpocalypse: The End-Times President, a Battle Against the Globalist Elite, and the Countdown to Armageddon” truly believes that Trump was chosen by God to usher in the final days.
Appearing on far-right conspiracy theorist Sheila Zilinsky’s podcast this Friday, Paul McGuire and co-author Troy Anderson warned any of their fellow Christians who don’t support Trump that they’re putting themselves in danger of hellfire.
“We strongly believe that God has a plan for America in the last days,” McGuire said, adding that Trump “miraculously” won the presidency. “He took on the invisible government that controls America and they didn’t expect it and he won. And ever since he won, and even before he won, he has been attacked 24/7 like no other president in American history. Basically he has been attacked like no other world leader in human history.”
McGuire explained that people at the “highest levels of witchcraft or Luciferianism and the deep state” along with the “occult globalist elite” are aware of the “threat to their plan for a global government and a global economy and a new world order,” which is why the media and progressives are targeting him.
He then turned his focus towards Christians who “can’t get it.”
“The book of Revelation lists all these sins that could potentially keep people out of heaven, but the number one sin in that list of sins in the book of Revelation is cowardice,” he declared.
“Now, what part of being a coward do God’s people not know? Cowardice, when there is wrong being done and the satanic forces of evil—let’s talk about human sex trafficking, okay? This is a global business that the elite are running, selling the bodies of little boys and little girls and then torturing them for pleasure … Do you think God is pleased with his people standing idly by and doing basically nothing about it?”
“Right now, God has given us a divine opportunity,” he continued. “The Lord is calling each believer in Jesus Christ, every man and woman who is born again, the Holy Spirit is calling those people now … to do what Christ demands that we do and not surrender our nation over to the forces of evil, but to occupy, in faith, the land that God has given us. And if we do this, this is why God gave us Trump—the guy should have never been elected, according to worldly standards, but he has become a champion for God’s people and God’s people need to get smarter.”
Listen to the interview below, via Right Wing Watch: w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/407716902&color=%23de1b4c&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:11:18 GMT
We now know why sanctimonious Evangelicals and other religionists dropped their ethics and moral compass to vote for Trump. He will repeal one of our separations between church and state. Republicans love it but it will probably have the opposite effect and destroy any positives any church and religion has left after prostituting themselves and selling their souls in 2016.
Trump just nominated an anti-Liberal Catholic (Jesuit taught) as his pick for the Supreme Court. How many Catholics do we have on the Supreme Court already?
I have no problem with God. God and the concept of God, the force, operating force of the Universe, etc. may be or possibly is a fact. And the belief in it is fine. My problem is with religions and the people who claim God as theirs and theirs alone. And that they speak for God to the exclusion of all else. Or that they claim their "holy books" which were all written by men are the word of God. Our founders knew from past experience where this road led. We don't have to look any further than the history of the Crusades.
Trump Vows to ‘Destroy’ Law Banning Political Activity by Churches
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Post by the Scribe on Mar 13, 2020 11:11:49 GMT
Betsy DeVos Wants to Use America's Schools to Build "God's Kingdom"
Trump's education secretary pick has spent a lifetime working to end public education as we know it. Kristina Rizga Jan. 17, 2017 6:00 AM
Sitting in his spacious downtown office suite, Arlyn Lanting is eager to talk about his longtime friend, who entered her Senate committee vote Tuesday on track to become the nation's top-ranking education official—despite a contentious hearing marked by her stiff, underwhelming responses to pointed questions from Senate Democrats. DeVos, who is married to Amway scion Dick DeVos (Forbes says his father, Richard, is worth more than $5 billion), was seen as a controversial choice because of the family's history of heavy spending on right-wing causes—at least $200 million since the 1970s to think tanks, media outlets, political committees, and advocacy groups. And then there's the DeVoses' long support of vouchers for private, religious schools; conservative Christian groups like the Foundation for Traditional Values, which has pushed to soften the separation of church and state; and organizations like Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which has championed the privatization of the education system.
But Lanting, a tall, 75-year-old businessman, investor, and local philanthropist, is quick to wave off the notion that DeVos has it in for traditional public schools. "Betsy is not against public schools," he says. "She does believe that teachers in charter and private schools are much more likely to lead the way toward better education—the kind that will actually prepare students for our current times and move us away from standardization and testing. But Dick and Betsy have given money to public schools, too."
Lanting is a warm and generous host who's eager to point out his favorite Bible verse, painted right there on his wall: "'I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the Truth' (3 John 4)." He and Betsy DeVos were both raised in the tradition of the Christian Reformed Church—a little-known, conservative Dutch Calvinist denomination whose roots reach back to the city's founders. They went to the same grade school in the city's private school system, the Holland Christian Schools, which was established by members of the church. Like many people I met in Holland, Lanting wasn't a Trump supporter initially—he voted for Ben Carson in the primaries—but he couldn't bring himself to cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton, whom he calls "a professional spin doctor." "Trump is much more likely," Lanting says, "to bring Christ into the world."
"Our desire is to confront the culture in ways that will continue to advance God's kingdom."
For deeply devout people like Lanting and DeVos, education plays a key role in that mission. Since her nomination, DeVos hasn't had much to say about her faith—or whether she plans to defend the separation of church and state in public schools. (DeVos declined Mother Jones' request for an interview, but a Trump transition team spokeswoman replied in an email, "Mrs. DeVos believes in the legal doctrine of the separation of church and state.") However, in a 2001 interview for The Gathering, a group focused on advancing Christian faith through philanthropy, she and her husband offered a rare public glimpse of their views. Asked whether Christian schools should continue to rely on giving—rather than pushing for taxpayer money through vouchers—Betsy DeVos replied, "There are not enough philanthropic dollars in America to fund what is currently the need in education...Our desire is to confront the culture in ways that will continue to advance God's kingdom."
more www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/betsy-devos-christian-schools-vouchers-charter-education-secretary
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