Last month Trump vowed to defend Christianity and urged Christians to vote for him
“This is really a battle between good and evil,” evangelical TV preacher Hank Kunneman says of the slew of criminal charges facing Donald Trump. “There’s something on President Trump that the enemy fears: It’s called the anointing.”
The Nebraska pastor, who was speaking on cable news show “FlashPoint” last summer, is among several voices in Christian media pressing a message of Biblical proportions: The 2024 presidential race is a fight for America’s soul, and a persecuted Trump has God’s protection.
“They’re just trying to bankrupt him. They’re trying to take everything he’s got. They’re trying to put him in prison,” author, media personality and self-proclaimed prophet Lance Wallnau said in October on “The Jim Bakker Show”, an hour-long daily broadcast that focuses on news and revelations about the end times that it says we are living in.
Ehhh, the issue is that’s not really well-enforced, and the churches know that. They know that as long as they aren’t OUTRIGHT telling people “go down to the polls and vote for Trump”, but instead couching it in semi-religious language, they’re pretty safe from anyone poking at them for this - the IRS is extremely gun-shy about trying to nab anyone on this anymore.
The man is the living embodiment of the seven deadly sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. And this is the guy God sent? Maybe there is a reason for that.
What happened to Romans 13:1
Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
They sure seemed eager to use that when Trump got into power.
The more reasonable christians out there who still believe that aren’t dramatic enough for the headlines.
Same thing that happened to Mark 12:17
Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.” And they were amazed at him.
And yet they do anything they can to avoid paying taxes.
And let’s not forget Mark 10:25
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God.”
Yet they glorify a man who brags about how rich he is.
How is it that I, an atheist Jew, know Jesus better than they do?
Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.” And they were amazed at him.
That’s because it was a sidestep answer. In that religion, all things belong to God. Caesar minted the money using their own gold. So, all roman money belonged to caesar and you had to pay your taxes using roman money. The question is then “what exactly is Caesar’s and whats gods?” The rabbis couldn’t follow up with that question without getting crucified themselves.
That “interpretation” of that story came about after king Charles wanted to raise taxes to raise an army to put down an Irish rebellion. Rightly, parliament didn’t trust him to do that and not use the army on them straight after. So, they refused and said the king has no right to force them to do so.
Then, all of a sudden, as if by magic, king Charles was like “you’ll never guess what I just found in the bible. Yup, it says so right here. God says you all have to give me money. I know, I know, I couldn’t believe my luck when I found it too. Good job I’m a king and wouldn’t lie about such things.”
Because you aren’t following “the Spirit” (aka listen to your religious leaders dogmatically and tell yourself you are correct because you misinterpret your confirmation bias as spiritual guidance).
Yeps remember when Jeff Sessions said that to justify kids in cages. The night he said that was my last connection to organized religion.
… so the evangelicals love trump because he represents everything they are?
Something something, this sounds like the prophecy of the coming antichrist
whose pussy would jesus grab?
Ooo do me next Jesus kun uwu
WPWJG …preach
Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV, Cross, Bible.
Sounds like these preachers want their tax-exempt status revoked.
They’re trying to jail him!
… That’s because he’s a criminal, love.
If I believed that an antichrist could exist, I would be convinced it was Donald Trump. He is the opposite of what Christianity teaches yet somehow he’s become their Messiah.
In that warped eschatology subculture, a common belief is that the antichrist will be raised in the church and come to power by deceiving the church into thinking he’s a prophet or messianic figure. Basically any authoritarian they choose to follow is the perfect figure to fit their beliefs. With Trump, for instance, they can point to “Christian” actions like blind support for Israel as the representatives of the original “chosen people” or his role in anti-choice enforcement or any us-vs-them conflict action that makes them feel like they are the current chosen people. Then if he turns out to be just another bad person who deceived them, they’ll mark it off as a fluke, immediately forget all the evil they helped him do, and look for the next antichrist candidate.
Evangelicalism is a very sinister belief system. They literally want the rapture/tribulation to come about as soon as possible, preferably in their lifetime. They don’t actually care about any of the people they think are non-chosen. I would say the Calvinists/Reformed Protestants are even worse, because they believe the verses about some people being ordained before birth to be “elected” by God to be saved without any say of their own, and the vast majority of people are also predestined for eternal destruction (https://www.learnreligions.com/five-point-calvinism-700356).
And they all vote.
At his next rally, I imagine he’ll waddle onstage to Jesus, He Knows Me.
How is this not endorsing political candidates which means their tax exemption should be revoked?
Technically the antichrist is sent by God also
You know when religious apologist say “Why would so many believe it back in the day if it was fake???”
Tell them it’s 2023, we have the internet, video, photos and morons still believe the shit Trump says…
Per their beliefs…kind of, right?
God also gave them Biden
Speaker Mike Johnson said God appointed Biden as president
