...and you expected better from a bigoted racist mongrel?
Some evangelicals are marking this week as the Passion of Donald Trump
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...and you expected better from a bigoted racist mongrel?
Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
Trump's prosecution is not persecution. And his getting indicted doesn't constitute a sacrifice.
Holy Week has been hijacked by the spectacle of white evangelicals crying over their savior Donald Trump. The former president was charged by a Manhattan grand jury this week with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. While the indictments are related to hush money Trump allegedly paid to cover up affairs and improperly recorded as business expenses, some supporters see this as Trump’s passion play. That is, they see his prosecution as a persecution, as a punishment Democrats are inflicting on him because he was their chosen one, the messiah who gave them power.
Trump’s arrest may be a first in American history, but for evangelicals who support him, it is the fulfillment of their prophecy of persecution for Trump, for whom many of them have shoved aside Jesus to praise. But this new passion play, which is centered around alleged adultery and payoffs, isn’t anything like the story of Jesus. This week’s story revolves around alleged behavior antithetical to Christian belief, behavior that has historically been anathema to evangelicals: adulterous sex — with a porn star, no less — and lying. Yet, white evangelicals are still supporting Trump.
A group of Trump-aligned evangelical pastors came together on a call to pray for Trump’s victory after his arraignment, and James Dobson, the evangelical pastor who founded “Focus on the Family,” prayed that God would “restore him to influence and power.” But the support for Trump goes far past mere prayers for him.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-indictment-arrest-evangelical-supporters-rcna78194
These clowns consistently make allowances when some of them get publicly nailed for infidelity or statutory rape or tax evasions and such. So the Orange Oaf is a perfect rallying point for them.
Mind you, take away the tax exempt status they operate under and I guarantee the "evangelical" christian mega churches would shut down REAL quick.
Tranquillus in Exile
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Has it occurred to these people that Trump is a cynical opportunist who is using them, and Christ, for his own ends?
“I think to some degree, there is an understanding of ‘evangelical’ as referring to a personal relationship with Donald Trump rather than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ,” says Russell Moore, head of the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention.
https://www.economist.com/united-st...d-over-the-movements-support-for-donald-trump
“I think to some degree, there is an understanding of ‘evangelical’ as referring to a personal relationship with Donald Trump rather than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ,” says Russell Moore, head of the public-policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention.
https://www.economist.com/united-st...d-over-the-movements-support-for-donald-trump