Backlash against Trumpist fake christians

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The backlash against rightwing evangelicals is reshaping American politics and faith

Some sociologists believe that the rising number of non-religious Americans is a reaction against rightwing evangelicals. But that’s just part of the story.

...rising numbers of people who are religiously unaffiliated (“nones”) or identify as “spiritual but not religious”; a spike in positive attention to the “religious left”; the depoliticization of liberal religion; and the purification and radicalization of the religious right? As a sociologist who has studied American religion and politics for many years, I have often struggled to make sense of these dramatic but seemingly disconnected changes. I now believe they all can all be explained, at least in part, as products of a backlash to the religious right.


https://www.theguardian.com/comment...cals-is-reshaping-american-politics-and-faith
 
Seeing all the self-appointed moralist rightwing christians on this board drop to their knees and worship the sleazebag Donald Trump is part of that backlash
 
“I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times, and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president” - Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Otoh,
“When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies” - John 8:44.


He could be part of God’s plan AND a damned liar. Nah, he’s not smart enough for the Antichrist.
 
Tranquillus in Exile said:
“I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times, and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president” - Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Otoh,
“When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies” - John 8:44.


He could be part of God’s plan AND a damned liar. Nah, he’s not smart enough for the Antichrist.
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Holy smoke, Conservatives really do think Trump is their Messiah
 
Cypress said:
Seeing all the self-appointed moralist rightwing christians on this board drop to their knees and worship the sleazebag Donald Trump is part of that backlash
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We do not worship Trump, but you do worship Government! Also you worship at the altar of dead babies in the womb, and covetousness so!

Then there is this, so get right with God Cypress!
The Great Apostasy

2 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of [a]Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
 
Cypress said:
The backlash against rightwing evangelicals is reshaping American politics and faith

Some sociologists believe that the rising number of non-religious Americans is a reaction against rightwing evangelicals. But that’s just part of the story.

...rising numbers of people who are religiously unaffiliated (“nones”) or identify as “spiritual but not religious”; a spike in positive attention to the “religious left”; the depoliticization of liberal religion; and the purification and radicalization of the religious right? As a sociologist who has studied American religion and politics for many years, I have often struggled to make sense of these dramatic but seemingly disconnected changes. I now believe they all can all be explained, at least in part, as products of a backlash to the religious right.


https://www.theguardian.com/comment...cals-is-reshaping-american-politics-and-faith
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Americans in general favor that high and broad separation between church and state. The only ones who want to knock it down are the ones who want to install Xtianity as the State Religion. I'm not at all surprised to see this backlash. I applaud it!
 
Wolverine said:
We do not worship Trump, but you do worship Government! Also you worship at the altar of dead babies in the womb, and covetousness so!

Then there is this, so get right with God Cypress!
The Great Apostasy

2 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of [a]Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
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When He looks into your heart, Jesus weeps.

You are one of THE worst examples of Christianity on this forum, along with PiMP and Sister Stench. You are an anti-prophet, making ppl run from your god instead of coming to Him.
 
Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters

Former aides say that in private, the president has spoken with cynicism and contempt about believers.

One day in 2015, Donald Trump beckoned Michael Cohen, his longtime confidant and personal attorney, into his office. Trump was brandishing a printout of an article about an Atlanta-based megachurch pastor trying to raise $60 million from his flock to buy a private jet. Trump knew the preacher personally—Creflo Dollar had been among a group of evangelical figures who visited him in 2011 while he was first exploring a presidential bid. During the meeting, Trump had reverently bowed his head in prayer while the pastors laid hands on him. Now he was gleefully reciting the impious details of Dollar’s quest for a Gulfstream G650.

Trump seemed delighted by the “scam,” Cohen recalled to me, and eager to highlight that the pastor was “full of shit.”

The president’s alliance with religious conservatives has long been premised on the contention that he takes them seriously, while Democrats hold them in disdain. In speeches and interviews, Trump routinely lavishes praise on conservative Christians, casting himself as their champion. “My administration will never stop fighting for Americans of faith,” he declared at a rally for evangelicals earlier this year. It’s a message his campaign will seek to amplify in the coming weeks as Republicans work to confirm Amy Coney Barrett—a devout, conservative Catholic—to the Supreme Court.

But in private, many of Trump’s comments about religion are marked by cynicism and contempt, according to people who have worked for him. Former aides told me they’ve heard Trump ridicule conservative religious leaders, dismiss various faith groups with cartoonish stereotypes, and deride certain rites and doctrines held sacred by many of the Americans who constitute his base.

“They’re all hustlers,” Trump said.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politic...cretly-mocks-his-christian-supporters/616522/
 
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ThatOwlWoman said:
Americans in general favor that high and broad separation between church and state. The only ones who want to knock it down are the ones who want to install Xtianity as the State Religion. I'm not at all surprised to see this backlash. I applaud it!
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My cousin told me how rightwing religious dogma killed the Catholic church in Quebec, and there seems to be a possibility the Trump-worshipping white evangelicals are doing the same to rightwing Protestantism.
 
Cypress said:
My cousin told me how rightwing religious dogma killed the Catholic church in Quebec, and there seems to be a possibility the Trump-worshipping white evangelicals are doing the same to rightwing Protestantism.
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That's their hope and their plan. They see mainstream Christians as wishy-washy and most likely liberals.
 
It helped that Trump seemed to feel a kinship with prosperity preachers—often evincing a game-recognizes-game appreciation for their hustle. The former campaign adviser recalled showing his boss a YouTube video of the Israeli televangelist Benny Hinn performing “faith healings,” while Trump laughed at the spectacle and muttered, “Man, that’s some racket.” On another occasion, the adviser told me, Trump expressed awe at Joel Osteen’s media empire—particularly the viewership of his televised sermons.

In Cohen’s recent memoir, Disloyal, he recounts Trump returning from his 2011 meeting with the pastors who laid hands on him and sneering, “Can you believe that bullshit?” But if Trump found their rituals ridiculous, he followed their moneymaking ventures closely.
 
Cypress said:
The backlash against rightwing evangelicals is reshaping American politics and faith

Some sociologists believe that the rising number of non-religious Americans is a reaction against rightwing evangelicals. But that’s just part of the story.

...rising numbers of people who are religiously unaffiliated (“nones”) or identify as “spiritual but not religious”; a spike in positive attention to the “religious left”; the depoliticization of liberal religion; and the purification and radicalization of the religious right? As a sociologist who has studied American religion and politics for many years, I have often struggled to make sense of these dramatic but seemingly disconnected changes. I now believe they all can all be explained, at least in part, as products of a backlash to the religious right.


https://www.theguardian.com/comment...cals-is-reshaping-american-politics-and-faith
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With the alt right, there has been an odd trend. They claim to be Christian, but only when it comes to religious violence. They are not Christian as far as being a member in a church, or doing any good for the community. They are very socially isolated.
 
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