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people who use their religion to make wrong decisions and people who say they will pray for you.
He just said this at the National Prayer Breakfast. This fucker and his evangelical goons are so fucking sick that it's frightening.
panader0
(25,816 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)(which I detest by the way).
Please note that wrong decision now means any decision that goes against the Con
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Remember Matthew 6:6, dammit...
Bettie
(16,110 posts)EVERYTHING is a campaign stop.
He probably screams about them while he's taking a dump and makes some poor sucker cheer for him from the other side of the door.
Ohiogal
(32,006 posts)Makes me want to do the same. I can't think of a more loathsome, appalling, creature.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)and it is full of rabies
Coventina
(27,121 posts)(not directed at you, Malaise!)
I hate the very idea of a prayer breakfast - they copied that shit where I am as well
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)and last year it became a real shit show because the asshat they invited was a homophobic piece of shit
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)No shit.
cilla4progress
(24,736 posts)I think he will try to imprison them.
Remember, recently: March 2018 Xi made himself prez for life. Putin's entire govt quit so he can remain leader past 2024. These are the ones drumpf often cites as his role models
With his tweet after the acquittal yesterday about staying through 2028...
Is he joking?
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)and pass his spawn off as heirs to the throne.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)and I don't think God is sleeping..
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)He'll need a different haircut.
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)He claims Jr. is next on the GOP list for a candidate in 2024.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)bdamomma
(63,875 posts)he doesn't give a shit about religion.
all he preaches is hate and division.
old article here from 2016
https://www.deseret.com/2016/8/9/20593632/trump-is-conning-believers-about-his-faith-author-says
snip of article.
Q: Why do many conservative Christians support him? What do they see in him?
A: Donald Trump has tapped into the economic terror and I do mean terror that the bottom half of all Americans are living in and the fear the bottom 90 percent are living in. These people are looking for an explanation: Why am I working harder and making less?
Donald Trump, like all demagogues, provides an easy-to-understand rationale its the Muslims, its the other. His answer is also more tax cuts for the rich many of his proposals are heavily oriented to the rich. Our television media has created a culture in which we judge people on the presumed content of their wallets. But having money does not make us a better person. But we worship wealth. It is antithetical to Christianity, but it is becoming part of the dominant culture.
So people are not listening to what Donald Trump is actually proposing. Once again, just as Donald Trump has beguiled some pastors with flattery, he has deceived many of his supporters with a false message.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I fear that the analysis is terribly accurate.
-Laelth
nature-lover
(1,469 posts)patricia92243
(12,597 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)malaise
(269,054 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)barbtries
(28,799 posts)i've gone from dread to terror over the past 3 years.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)the Lords Prayer.....
"and forgive our trespasses as we forgive..."
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Texin
(2,596 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,714 posts)Is Romney and Pelosi still renting space in his head?
malaise
(269,054 posts)and he knows it.
gademocrat7
(10,659 posts)kentuck
(111,103 posts)Not.
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)Dodged a psychological bullet there!
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)their political alliance with Donald Trump, but the people who dined with Donnie this morning lacked the decency or the humility to see how their actions looked to the rest of us.
If they had those qualities, theyd not only Don sack-cloth and ashes, but beg for forgiveness.
CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)he did a piece on the dominionists and he was clearly scared of what he was reporting. He ended with something along the lines of "These people should be investigated." But of course CNN never did.
Chris Hedges book, "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" was some scary fucking reading.
malaise
(269,054 posts)All of them were ReTHUGs
mjvpi
(1,388 posts)Scary stuff when you think God and it comes out Trump.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)He is a despot. A petty tyrant with a lot of power.
Its truly frightening.
wnylib
(21,487 posts)and, if necessary due to election intervention, then in the streets.
hangaleft
(649 posts)As long as they have their 65 flat screen TVs, late model cars and high balance 401(k)s.
wnylib
(21,487 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)They are creating a dream world to exist inside.
hatrack
(59,587 posts)The 30 Year's War was the biggest demographic catastrophe in Europe between the Black Death in 1347 and World War I.
Historians and demographers estimate that about 20% of the population of Germany died, and death rates reached 50% in a "corridor" reaching from Pomerania in the northeast to the Black Forest in the southwest. Approximately 50% of the adult male German population died. In total eight million people died - of starvation, disease and wholesale slaughter by roving armies, both national and mercenary- in Germany, Bohemia, Italy and the Netherlands. After the butchery and flames died down, disease (plague and typhus) was next. Witch-hunting peaked about 15 years from the start of the war, as those who remained looked for someone to blame - and not surprisingly came up with the wrong answers.
Why was the death toll so high? Because this was an explicitly religious conflict, largely between the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor and the Protestant states of the north. And after all, if God is on your side, what does that say about the other side? So have at them - they're damned anyway. Kill the men, rape the women, slaughter the cattle, steal the wine, take whatever you want and then move on - easy enough in a land awash in roving armies of mercenaries hardly distinguishable from gangs.
The conflict was closer in time to Jefferson, Washington et. al. than the Civil War is to us today, and they were well aware of European history. They knew what cross-pollinating religion with political power could do, and sought to draw hard, bright lines between the two realms. Which, when you get right down to it, is why my stomach rolls over every time the "National Prayer Breakfast" rolls around, or political hacks call for prayer in schools, or "In God We Trust" on public buildings, or vaccination exemptions or any of myriad variations of this kind of horseshit.
There's a reason we separate church and state in America - a damned good reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War
2naSalit
(86,647 posts)DBoon
(22,369 posts)wnylib
(21,487 posts)to explain our founders' decision to separate church and state.
At the time the US was established CT law still made Puritan Congregationalism the state church and required ALL residents to pay for its support, regardless of their own religion. In colonial MA, it was illegal for anyone other than Puritan Congregationalists to enter the colony. Punishment included fines and deportation, imprisonment, and for repeat offenders, branding and removal of body parts and/or execution by hanging (used mostly for Quakers).
Our founders and their immediate ancestors saw and lived the dangers of state religion. Since the time of Henry VIII (1500's) there were alternating religions on the throne and executions and imprisonment for the religion out of power, until the rule of William and Mary in the 1700's. Even then, there was a stste religion (and still is) that favored its members.
Our founders wanted to avoid all that needless fighting and suppression of civil rights.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I hate him so much! I hate all of these traitors and fake hypocritical christians. They are disgraceful!
Bluepinky
(2,275 posts)Hes planning revenge on those who impeached him for nothing. Hes already attacking sanctuary cities and blue states, cant wait to see what hes planning next.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)He's already putting sanctions on CA because of their auto emissions stance.
How in the hell did he interpret that Oath of Office? Was it the "people are saying" voices in his head that took over?
He really is a waste of a sperm and an egg.
kimbutgar
(21,163 posts)And I bet some I at the breakfast had a sick feeling in their stomachs with the hypocrisy.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Because Mitt put God before him.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Trump is the least godly person I can think of. He probably is mad that someone put God ahead of him.
IronLionZion
(45,454 posts)and is highlighting the hypocrisy of the evangelical goons since Romney and Pelosi may actually have faith based values while the evangelicals are full of shit
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Never mind I'm sorry I asked. Forgot who I was talking about...
Skittles
(153,169 posts)unbelievable cowards
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Like those that went along with Hitler in the 1930s these people may or may not know that what Trump says and does is despicable, but they go along because they don't want to make waves among their perceived peers, and because they fear retribution.
It happened then, and it's happening now.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)does anyone deny that Trump would have his critics locked up, tortured, MURDERED if he could???