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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:29 PM Aug 2020

'Christianity Will Have Power'

Donald Trump made a promise to white evangelical Christians, whose support can seem mystifying to the outside observer.

They walked to the sanctuary in the frozen silence before dawn, footsteps crunching over the snow. Soon, hundreds joined in line. It was January 2016, and the unlikely Republican front-runner, Donald J. Trump, had come to town.

He was the boastful, thrice-married, foul-mouthed star of “The Apprentice.” They were one of the most conservative Christian communities in the nation, with 19 churches in a town of about 7,500 people.

Many were skeptical, and came to witness the spectacle for themselves. A handful stood in silent protest. But when the doors opened and the pews filled, Mr. Trump’s fans welcomed him by chanting his name. A man waved a “Silent Majority Stands With Trump” sign. A woman pointed a lone pink fingernail up to the sky.

In his dark suit and red tie, Mr. Trump stood in front of a three-story-tall pipe organ and waved his arms in time with their shouts: Trump, Trump, Trump.

The 67-minute speech Mr. Trump gave that day at Dordt University, a Christian college in Sioux Center, would become infamous, instantly covered on cable news and to this day still invoked by his critics. But the line that gained notoriety — the promise that he “could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and “wouldn’t lose any voters” — overshadowed another message that morning.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/us/evangelicals-trump-christianity.html

Evangelicals have been warning us heathens for decades about the impending coming of the Antichrist, and when he shows up...they vote for him...
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'Christianity Will Have Power' (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2020 OP
sounds like idolatry to me. Thomas Hurt Aug 2020 #1
They already Nikki28 Aug 2020 #2
Evangelicals in the 1930's were enamored of Hitler. Girard442 Aug 2020 #3
Blah, blah, blah. Nitram Aug 2020 #4

Nikki28

(557 posts)
2. They already
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:41 PM
Aug 2020

have seems to me. Look at Paula White? Money talks in Trump country.At least we have our years of peace with Obama before the Antichrist.

Girard442

(6,059 posts)
3. Evangelicals in the 1930's were enamored of Hitler.
Sun Aug 9, 2020, 01:57 PM
Aug 2020

They weren’t disturbed by his racism, antisemitism, and authoritarianism because they were into that shit back then, just like now.

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