God Wanted Trump as President

[Pio1980]

Next person that says "God sent Donald Trump", ask them if locusts were out of season.

[Chicks]

'He treated the Bible with callousness': Billy Graham's granddaughter attacks Trump for church photo in remarkable break from family
'He believed that action would honour him and only him. However, the church, designed to honour God, said nothing'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-a9688511.html

[BigElCat]

I saw Trump wave the Bible after he shoved the demonstrators aside.

This is what came to mind;

Revelation 2

13I know where you live—where Satan sits enthroned, yet you still cling faithfully to the power of my name. You did not deny your faith in me even in the days of my faithful martyr Antipas, who was executed in your city, where Satan lives.

That city was Pergamum. Pergamum could be an allegory for about any city.

[nailer]

'The more things change, the more they stay the same.'

[BigElCat]

On Tuesday, I posted a link on AK to a song that reminded me of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah.

I describe it as sacrilegious / sarcastic (or sardonic ).

Now this, two days later. Strange timing, but a meaningless coincident.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...051847431.html

[donquixote99]

At least your take on the Cohen song is a more accurate appreciation that that of 90% of folks, according to the article....

[Chicks]

Michael Cohen says Trump once said after meeting evangelical Christians: 'Can you believe people believe that bulls---?'

Michael Cohen, the former fixer and lawyer to President Donald Trump, is releasing a memoir on Tuesday called "Disloyal."

In the book, Cohen details how Trump reacted after meeting with evangelical Christians before winning the 2016 election. An excerpt was published by The Washington Post.

According to the excerpt, Cohen says Trump remarked after the meeting: "Can you believe people believe that bulls---?"

Cohen also says it was a "cosmic joke" that Trump had managed to convince working-class people that he cared about them when "the truth was that he couldn't care less."

Evangelicals — who make up one in four Americans — were credited with helping Trump win the White House, with 80% voting for Trump in 2016.

https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...l-cohen-2020-9

The joke is very much on them. They're Donny's suckers.

Sad that Donny's former "fixer" is infinitely more credible than the current occupant of the Oval Office.

[Oerets]

I like to see if Trump could say the Lord's Prayer without help from a teleprompter!

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by Oerets

I like to see if Trump could say the Lord's Prayer othout help from a teleprompter!

Now you're just being mean, LOL It would probably be amusing to see him try to recite it with a teleprompter.

[donquixote99]

A response to the OP proposition, found on FB:
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Powerful words from Christian Pastor John Pavlovitz:

"Dear White Evangelicals,

I need to tell you something: People have had it with you. They’re done. They want nothing to do with you any longer, and here’s why: They see your hypocrisy, your inconsistency, your incredibly selective mercy, and your thinly veiled supremacy.

For eight years they watched you relentlessly demonize a black President; a man faithfully married for 26 years; a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity. They watched you deny his personal faith convictions, argue his birthplace, and assail his character—all without cause or evidence. They saw you brandish Scriptures to malign him and use the laziest of racial stereotypes in criticizing him.

And through it all, White Evangelicals—you never once suggested that God placed him where he was,you never publicly offered prayers for him and his family, you never welcomed him to your Christian Universities, you never gave him the benefit of the doubt in any instance, you never spoke of offering him forgiveness or mercy, your evangelists never publicly thanked God for his leadership, your pastors never took to the pulpit to offer solidarity with him, you never made any effort to affirm his humanity or show the love of Jesus to him in any quantifiable measure.

You violently opposed him at every single turn—without offering a single ounce of the grace you claim as the heart of your faith tradition. You jettisoned Jesus as you dispensed damnation on him.

And yet you give carte blanche to a white Republican man so riddled with depravity, so littered with extramarital affairs, so unapologetically vile, with such a vast resume of moral filth—that the mind boggles.

And the change in you is unmistakable. It has been an astonishing conversion to behold: a being born again.
With him, you suddenly find religion. With him, you’re now willing to offer full absolution. With him, all is forgiven without repentance or admission. With him you’re suddenly able to see some invisible, deeply buried heart. With him, sin has become unimportant, compassion no longer a requirement. With him, you see only Providence.

And White Evangelicals, all those people who have had it with you—they see it all clearly.

They recognize the toxic source of your inconsistency.
They see that pigmentation and party are your sole deities.
They see that you aren’t interested in perpetuating the love of God or emulating the heart of Jesus. They see that you aren’t burdened to love the least, or to be agents of compassion, or to care for your Muslim, gay, African, female, or poor neighbors as yourself.

They see that all you’re really interested in doing, is making a God in your own ivory image and demanding that the world bow down to it. They recognize this all about white, Republican Jesus—not dark-skinned Jesus of Nazareth.
And I know you don’t realize it, but you’re digging your own grave in these days; the grave of your very faith tradition.
Your willingness to align yourself with cruelty is a costly marriage.

Yes, you’ve gained a Supreme Court seat, a few months with the Presidency as a mouthpiece, and the cheap high of temporary power—but you’ve lost a whole lot more.
You’ve lost an audience with millions of wise, decent, good-hearted, faithful people with eyes to see this ugliness.

You’ve lost any moral high ground or spiritual authority with a generation. You’ve lost any semblance of Christlikeness. You’ve lost the plot. And most of all you’ve lost your soul.

I know it’s likely you’ll dismiss these words. The fact that you’ve even made your bed with such malevolence, shows how far gone you are and how insulated you are from the reality in front of you.

But I had to at least try to reach you. It’s what Jesus would do." ~ "John Pavlovitz