Exposing the National Prayer Breakfast as a scam

[struggle4progress]

BY JACK HOLMES

... the National Prayer Breakfast .. is really a power vehicle for a shadowy fundamentalist Christian organization called "The Family" with significant authoritarian tendencies. What a great microcosm of the role of religion in American politics. It's not about Jesus, it's about power ...

... Trump's .. qualities .. have also proven useful in exposing the empty scams at the heart of many of our political rituals. He has exposed the National Prayer Breakfast by telling the truth: that he fucking hates Democrats and anyone else who will not bend to his will ... Maybe all these people should admit they came for a lobbying event ...

... Trump has exposed the Evangelical movement as a purely political vehicle for organizing White America. No group is more steadfast or enthusiastic in its support of this president than Evangelical Christians. And yet, we have to ask: what principles of Jesus Christ does Donald Trump embody? Or better: which of the Seven Deadly Sins—pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth—does he not? ...

.... Our Middle East strategy should not be dictated by doomsayers. The purpose of the First Amendment, according to one Thomas Jefferson, was to "[build] a wall of separation between Church & State." The values imbued by a particular religious faith are valuable in a secular democracy if they translate to universal human values that speak to everyone in society, not just members of that faith ...

The swift and seamless transition from boilerplate Prayer Breakfast Speak to what Trump really thinks is legitimately hilarious ...

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a16756311/religious-trump/

[katmondoo]

1. My God he is still talking, and I made lunch!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

2. I been saying

The prayer breakfast bullshit has to stop. Seperation of church and state.

[misanthrope]

3. I've always felt the same way

Even before I embraced my status as a godless heathen.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. it's a criminal gang cloaked in religious mask

[struggle4progress]

5. Uses prayer breakfast for political target practice

John Fea
Published 1:15 p.m. ET Feb. 6, 2020

... Trump squirmed in his seat as Brooks urged the audience to overcome anger, sarcasm and derision with love. The speech decried the darkness and depravity of social media. And I have no doubt that all eyes turned toward Trump when Brooks challenged the politicians in the room to “ask God to take political contempt from your heart,” and urged public leaders to make that commitment publicly ...

“Arthur, I don’t know if I agree with you,” Trump said as began his speech. “I don’t know if Arthur is going to like what I’m going to say” ...

Throughout his presidency, Trump has used Christianity as a political weapon. On Thursday morning he used the National Prayer Breakfast as his shooting range.

And his evangelical supporters cheered ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/02/06/trump-attacks-pelosi-and-romney-national-prayer-breakfast-column/4679150002/

[struggle4progress]

6. Uses Prayer Breakfast to gloat

By PETER WADE

... Trump .. took a .. swipe at .. Romney, who just the day before voted to convict the president while evoking his faith, saying, “I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong” ...

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-prayer-breakfast-948759/

[struggle4progress]

7. Vows at Prayer Breakfast to hunt down Jesus's real killers, the Democrats who impeached him

Stephen Robinson
February 06, 2020 12:25 PM

Donald Trump showed his ass this morning at the National Prayer Breakfast. This'll come as quite the shock to Susan Collins, who believed the president would find God, repent, and change into a better man. The Senate only acquitted Trump. It didn't curse him with a human soul ...

The keynote speaker was Arthur Brooks, who said "contempt is ripping our country apart" and advised everyone to "love your enemies." During his own remarks, Trump said he wasn't sure he agreed with Brooks about all that namby-pamby stuff. He doesn't love his enemies like some common Jesus. He hates them all and has a very lengthy enemies list that's grown three sizes during the course of his impeachment ...

... It was like that disappointing moment at a standup comedy show when you realize you're not getting any new material ...

https://www.wonkette.com/trump-vows-at-prayer-breakfast-to-hunt-down-jesuss-real-killers-the-democrats-who-impeached-him

[2naSalit]

8. +1

[Liberal In Texas]

9. I hope the next Dem president kills the thing.

Or at the very least refuse to attend.

[Coventina]

10. An UNCONSTITUTIONAL scam!