True Believer? Why Donald Trump Is The Choice Of The Religious Right

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Enthusiastic supporters greet Donald Trump at a rally of more than 30,000 in Mobile, Ala., in August.(Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images)

September 13, 2015 6:03 AM ET
Jessica Taylor

When Donald Trump stepped to the podium in a football stadium in Mobile, Alabama, filled with 30,000 people there to hear him spread the gospel of Trump, he was overcome.

"Now I know how the great Billy Graham felt," Trump said last month.

Trump and Graham, the famed Baptist revival preacher and counselor to presidents, are not exactly cut from the same cloth. And yet, Trump is winning over Christian conservatives in the current Republican presidential primary.

That's right — the candidate currently leading among the most faith-filled voters is a twice-divorced casino mogul, who isn't an active member of any church, once supported abortion rights, has a history of crass language — and who says he's never asked God's forgiveness for any of it.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/13/439833719/true-believer-why-donald-trump-is-the-choice-of-the-religious-right

[PSPS]

1. Well, he is white just like God.

[The Blue Flower]

2. And he's also richer than God

The ultimate in Calvinism--nothing says God's favor like great wealth. I'm also of the opinion that the reason he's hot for his daughter is that she resembles him.

[MisterP]

3. not knowing anything about either Testament seems to be a plus for fundies, nu?