False Idol: Why the Christian Right Worships Donald Trump

Originally posted by Surtur
I'm not saying there aren't a lot of evangelicals, I'm saying IMO it's not anywhere close to the majority of them who view Trump as "divine" or anything like that.

A distinction without a difference. Evangelicals see Trump as fulfilling God's will, preparing for the end times, etc. Whether they consider him "divine" or just admire him, it doesn't matter.

The point is: evangelicals love Trump because he was bought by the religious Right and so many prominent fundamentalist Christian goons have been so strongly endorsing him.

And I mean, none of this is surprising, per se. I assumed it long ago, but to read exactly how it went down is interesting.

Trump reminds me of Chancellor Sutler from V For Vendetta...

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The Christian right worships Donald Trump, because they are all trash. There, I saved everyone the read.

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
A distinction without a difference. Evangelicals see Trump as fulfilling God's will, preparing for the end times, etc. Whether they consider him "divine" or just admire him, it doesn't matter.

The point is: evangelicals love Trump because he was bought by the religious Right and so many prominent fundamentalist Christian goons have been so strongly endorsing him.

And I mean, none of this is surprising, per se. I assumed it long ago, but to read exactly how it went down is interesting.

Trump reminds me of Chancellor Sutler from V For Vendetta...

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I think most just think he can better fulfill their needs(or what they think they need) than others can.

So it's no different than the reasons crazies wearing pussy hates voted for Hillary, cuz they felt *she* could best meet their needs.

Not saying everything is 100% the same so for those who read this and get ready to scream about how it's different? Yeah...don't 👆

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The Christian right worships Donald Trump, because they are all trash. There, I saved everyone the read.

I have an alternative:

"Some of the Christian right supports Donald Trump because they are ignorant, trashy, or hate the Dems so much that they'd rather support Trump than have to deal with evil Democrats. There, I saved everyone the read."

I know plenty of Christian Right-wingers who detest Trump. Adultery doesn't sit well with many Christians. Sure, many are hypocrites and self-righteous but if there is one thing that Christians are great at it is being self-righteous, judgmental pricks.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The Christian right worships Donald Trump, because they are all trash. There, I saved everyone the read.

Hm, not a good post, sir. Which is unfortunate because you often have great posts.

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Hm, not a good post, sir. Which is unfortunate because you often have great posts.

Originally posted by Emperordmb
Since when? Most of his posts are him reading the worst possible intentions he can into the people he disagrees with and calling them *****. This isn't an unusual post from him. He's one of the least good faith actors I've run into in the GDF.

He just had a good post here, about 2/3rds of the way down... click

I just feel like at the end of the day, most of them aren't cultish. There is a loud minority that are. Some just do the typical "thank jesus" cuz they thank him for everything.

Your average Trumper

YouTube video
http://youtu.be/bTZPOtKlYF8

Basically: Trump is a "chosen one" of god; who god works through and if you go against the "chosen one" god will curse you and your children and their children etc., cos reasons.

If this isn't a mental illness, I don't know what else to call it. Edit: And cult-like behavior

Originally posted by Patient_Leech
Hm, not a good post, sir. Which is unfortunate because you often have great posts.

It is not a kind post, but it is an honest one.

The Christian Right purports to condemn gambling, but supports a casino magnate.

The Christian Right purports to condemn sexual immorality, but supports an adulterer and whoremonger.

I could go on and on.

For people whose identity is formed around these values to so quickly abandon them, and for what?

To leverage the power of government to fascistically impose their religious beliefs on the rest of a free society.

To hypocritically force others to live according to the values they abandoned in order to gain the power to force them to do so.

To create a kingdom on Earth in defiance of the bible in which they purport to believe?

No, these people are ****ing garbage.

It is not nice, but it is accurate. And they need the mirror held up to them if you ever want to ping their tiny little consciences. Because pretending that they are nice, misguided people who just need a little understanding gives them a free pass to continue their bullshit.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
It is not a kind post, but it is an honest one.

The Christian Right purports to condemn gambling, but supports a casino magnate.

The Christian Right purports to condemn sexual immorality, but supports an adulterer and whoremonger.

I could go on and on.

For people whose identity is formed around these values to so quickly abandon them, and for what?

To leverage the power of government to fascistically impose their religious beliefs on the rest of a free society.

To hypocritically force others to live according to the values they abandoned in order to gain the power to force them to do so.

To create a kingdom on Earth in defiance of the bible in which they purport to believe?

No, these people are ****ing garbage.

It is not nice, but it is accurate. And they need the mirror held up to them if you ever want to ping their tiny little consciences. Because pretending that they are nice, misguided people who just need a little understanding gives them a free pass to continue their bullshit.

Originally posted by Robtard
Your average Trumper

YouTube video
http://youtu.be/bTZPOtKlYF8

Basically: Trump is a "chosen one" of god; who god works through and if you go against the "chosen one" god will curse you and your children and their children etc., cos reasons.

If this isn't a mental illness, I don't know what else to call it. Edit: And cult-like behavior

That's mental illness.

When has God actually even chosen an adulterer, a philanderer, a thief, boor, vulgar, miscreant, all in one person, to be His chosen one?

The closest example I can think of is the calling of Isaiah because Isaiah, apparently, had a vulgar mouth. Before Isaiah could begin his prophetic dispensation, he had to touch a hot coal to his mouth to "cleanse" himself of his terrible mouth. Then, supposedly, he was good enough to document all those prophecies.

Any Christian want to help me understand how Trump could be God's chosen one a la Isaiah or Saul (Paul)?

See some sort of valid point might have been able to be made had he not tried to say that is an "average trumper". You'd have to also say the crazed pussy hat wearing russian conspiracy theory shouting person is the average democrat.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The Christian Right purports to condemn gambling, but supports a casino magnate.

I could not find a source for this. Do you have the specific example you have in mind that also shows that all the members of this Christian Right support this?

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
The Christian Right purports to condemn sexual immorality, but supports an adulterer and whoremonger[Trump].

Factually, almost none do. Many condemn Trump for his wicked ways. You are referring to some Christian Evangelicals, which is part of the Christian Right. So a fraction of a fraction is what you really mean. What you did is called a sweeping generalization. Usually, you try to justify your logical fallacy by claiming it was hyperbole. If you do, then okay. If you don't, you're just ignorant like a racist person which makes you trash.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
I could go on and on.

Please do.

Such as his murder of thousand of innocents in his foreign soil campaigns that he continues from Obama's reign. This one is important. But many Democrats don't point it out (they used to: loved pointing it out until they got countered with "Didja you forget about Obama?" because it's inconvenient to call attention to the mass murder of innocents on foreign soil because it is a bipartisan position.

haha, I love self-righteous grandstanding like this. This is is why libtards virtue signal so much: it's fun to say stuff that makes you "more righteous" than others.

Suck my platitudes!

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
No, these people are ****ing garbage.

I agree. I am just not ignorant enough to make a sweeping generalization like you are. That's what racists do. estahuh

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
It is not nice, but it is accurate.

It's inaccurate. If this was Politifact Check, they'd rate your statement as "mostly false." estahuh

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
And they need the mirror held up to them if you ever want to ping their tiny little consciences. Because pretending that they are nice, misguided people who just need a little understanding gives them a free pass to continue their bullshit.

Agreed.

Perhaps if Trump was a democrat and a strong supporter of mass infantacide -- instead of being all the other things you mentioned about him -- like literally every democrat nominee is then I suppose you'd have no problem believing he was chosen by God or whatever lol. As if God would actually be ok with that lol.

For the record, I don't think Trump is anything close to being a saint or Christ-like but I do thank God nearly every day that he is president and that b*tch Hillary ain't. I do not worship him regardless of what idiots like Adam may think but I do think he postponed the fall of America for several years by becoming president.

Our economny was in the shitter under Obama despite what you may think (although I agree that the warmonger Bush had a lot to do with that) and we were on the road to economic collapse. Trump averted that for at least a short period, imo, and I still believe and no one will convince me otherwise that if Hillary had been electe4d that we woiuld've gotten into a nuclear war by now.

I read: "Perhaps if Trump was a democrat and a strong supporter of mass infantacide", then stopped.

Another unhinged star/fly diatribe it seems.

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
It is not a kind post, but it is an honest one.

The Christian Right purports to condemn gambling, but supports a casino magnate.

The Christian Right purports to condemn sexual immorality, but supports an adulterer and whoremonger.

I could go on and on.

For people whose identity is formed around these values to so quickly abandon them, and for what?

To leverage the power of government to fascistically impose their religious beliefs on the rest of a free society.

To hypocritically force others to live according to the values they abandoned in order to gain the power to force them to do so.

To create a kingdom on Earth in defiance of the bible in which they purport to believe?

No, these people are ****ing garbage.

It is not nice, but it is accurate. And they need the mirror held up to them if you ever want to ping their tiny little consciences. Because pretending that they are nice, misguided people who just need a little understanding gives them a free pass to continue their bullshit.

That's more like it. 👆 👌

But I would say that though there ARE many hypocritical leaders of the Christian Right who blatantly go against what they're supposed to stand for (homosexuality, child pornography, molestation, etc) a lot of the *supporters* of the Christian Right are genuinely nice and misguided. I say this because much of my family is just misguided. But yes, the cult leaders are much more insidious and diabolical. Cancerous trash.

Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
Perhaps if Trump was a democrat and a strong supporter of mass infantacide -- instead of being all the other things you mentioned about him -- like literally every democrat nominee is then I suppose you'd have no problem believing he was chosen by God or whatever lol. As if God would actually be ok with that lol.

For the record, I don't think Trump is anything close to being a saint or Christ-like but I do thank God nearly every day that he is president and that b*tch Hillary ain't. I do not worship him regardless of what idiots like Adam may think but I do think he postponed the fall of America for several years by becoming president.

Our economny was in the shitter under Obama despite what you may think (although I agree that the warmonger Bush had a lot to do with that) and we were on the road to economic collapse. Trump averted that for at least a short period, imo, and I still believe and no one will convince me otherwise that if Hillary had been electe4d that we woiuld've gotten into a nuclear war by now.

Abstinence makes the church grow fondlers