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Jerry Falwell Jr.: Donald Trump Is America's King DavidIn an interview with Liberty Universitys student newspaper last week, the schools president Jerry Falwell, Jr.... who has compared Trump to Jesus Christ and Martin Luther King Jr., said ...
Christians who oppose (Trump) should remember that God called King David a man after Gods own heart even though he was an adulterer and a murderer, Falwell said. You have to choose the leader that would make the best king or president ...
(Falwell) was very impressed by the presidential candidates 757, gushing over how Trump served them Wendys cheeseburgers, and put a video of an Elton John concert on the television.
Hes got this big living room with this big screen TV. Hes got a master bedroom he showed us. Then he let my son and his wife actually sit in the cockpit.
(I think Falwell sold his soul for a cheeseburger)
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jerry-falwell-jr-donald-trump-americas-king-david
TexasProgresive
(12,159 posts)And there are other unworthy kings of Israel and Judea who are appropriate examples.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)exboyfil
(17,865 posts)was consistent in his hypocrisy. To compare David to Trump?
There has to be a Saturday Night Live skit in here somewhere.
Trump branded anointing oil.
Don't tell me about sling stones. I will have the best sling stones around.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)nt
Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)"God called King David a man after Gods own heart even though he was an adulterer and a murderer"
LMAO
That is so delicious.
Straw Man
(6,626 posts)Who knew?
no_hypocrisy
(46,234 posts)who became impregnated by him, so King David sent her husband, Uriah, to the front lines of the war to a certain death and allowing King David to marry his "widow".
I can kinda see the comparison.
Initech
(100,108 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)From the French word "merde," which means shit.
Interesting to see that Falwell Jr. can have his head turned by ostentatious displays of wealth. Apparently, he hasn't quite gotten up to the Gospel of Mark in his Bible reading. (Chapter 12 verses 41-44, in case you're wondering)
0rganism
(23,975 posts)i, for one, have never met a kosher cheeseburger...
Enrique
(27,461 posts)they have hypocrisy down to a science.
Here they're doing it for Gingrich, I have also heard Prager use it in defense of Herman Cain.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2011/dec/13/god-newt-gingrich-republican
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The ingenious solution his handlers have come up with is to compare him to King David. Radio host Steve Deace categorised Gingrich and King David as "two extraordinary men gifted by God, whose lives include very high highs and very low lows". On the Town Hall website, columnist Dennis Prager reminds his religious readers that God himself thought that King David deserved to remain king and even have the messiah descend from him despite a particularly ugly form of adultery (sending Bathsheba's husband into battle where he would assuredly be killed).