Summary
Evangelical Christians have fallen prey to the temptations offered by Donald Trump, similar to those faced by Jesus in the desert. Trump has offered evangelicals wealth, protection, and power, leading them away from the teachings of Jesus and closer to the path set forth by the devil. The evangelical church has submitted to Trump, moving further from the values of serving the poor, healing the sick, and loving neighbors.
Trump is a truly vile person. The recent Epstein tapes detail how he’d arrange extra-marital affairs for his “friends” so he could tell their wives about it and get them to cheat with him in revenge. Apparently one of his kinks was banging his “friend’s” wives.
Even Epstein the pedo thinks Trump is a notably horrible person.
That’s who Evangelical Christians are supporting, who they claim was saved by God to lead America. It boggles the mind.
It boggles the mind.
It’s really simple. He institutionalizes hate, and they love him for it. That, and the racism.
Apparently one of his kinks was banging his “friend’s” wives.
Aha, I knew Hillary was just a bit too familiar with him during those debates. …
Looks like you’re catching a lot of strays for this but I’ll hit you with logic instead of a downvote.
Do you really think if Trump had ever banged HIllary he’d have been able to keep his mouth shut about it during the 2016 election?
They were never about being Christian. They stood against Martin Luther King when he was alive and were all for bombing Vietnam back to the stone age. Sixty years later they are still the same.
This is an important thing to note: when the civil war ended, when women’s suffrage was achieved, when equal rights were passed–it’s not like a magic wand was waved and the inherent hatred driving those policies is gone. There are tons of old racists/misogynists that are still salty over those things to this day 🫠 (not to mention generations of offspring that carried their bigotry into the present day)
https://daily.jstor.org/when-cities-closed-pools-to-avoid-integration/
Many cities closed public swimming pools rather than have them integrated.
Doesn’t their own book actually warn against someone like this? But I guess it’s not like they ever read the whole thing…
Ohh, Trump is the antichrist. End times confirmed?
Growing up Bible-literalist religious and reading Revelations, I always had trouble with the idea that so many people would follow the antichrist, but that part seems so much more believable now.
Well I dunno if he is an anti-christ. There never is a specification that there is a singular anti christ and they are often pluralized. There’s a pretty low bar to be an anti christ and they aren’t particularly a big deal. Basically according to script anybody who denies Jesus as being the son of God is an anti-christ and that’s pretty common. Any given day you’ll encounter a half dozen anti-christs. “The Antichrist” as in the one big one though isn’t super specified in character and there’s a bunch of options of not goodos who could fill the role
There is a separate nasty called the “the man of sin” and “son of perdition.” supposedly he will come at a time of a general apostasy, deceive people with signs and wonders, sit in the temple of God, and claim to be God himself. And a “Little Horn” (which I am not unconvinced just is a reference to a tiny dick) setting himself in the wing of a temple acting as though he is a divine authority and causing devistation of the Holy land… Which could fit?
Idk, I don’t see peace in the middle east happening any time soon.
Although I guess Trump glassing the whole region would technically be peace.
I was raised southern baptist. We went Sunday mornings, nights, and Wednesday nights. I walked out of that grift the night that the preacher was confronted, in front of the congregation, for having an affair with the lead deacon’s wife. It opened my eyes to all the hypocrisy, grift, and racism of organized religions. Especially the leaders of said religions! I’ve been saying that if these so-called “Christians” follow the orange shitbag douche so easily, then they’ll trip over their tongues to follow the antichrist.
This. It breaks my heart that my family pushed me so hard to follow the teachings of Christ, and somehow this living symbol of greed, gluttony, thievery, adulterous behavior, and any other imaginable sin, has became their leader.
Thou shall not do shit unless it’s Donald Trump doing said shit.
I was warned about the promises of the Antichrist when I was a kid, and I swear to god my whole family would stand in line for a week to get the mark of the beast on their forehead if Donald Trump said it was the mark of I love religion and Jesus ™ for only $599.99.
They’re constantly hounding me to take my kids to their church like I’d be the one to send them to hell if there was such a place. They used to preach about love. The same church goes on about “trannies” and “the gays” and how the world is going to hell now.
Now there’s a fake political ad going around where the audio is edited to have a heckler scream “Jesus is lord” and Harris says something like, “you guys are at the wrong rally”. What the heckler really said was, “you lie!”
Doesn’t matter, goddamnit. That shit should be illegal. How is it legal to edit audio for a political ad and lie outright?
I grew up in the Assemblies of God denomination. When I graduated from high school, I left home to go to college, expanded my horizons, and ultimately ended up deconstructing my religious beliefs. I have considered myself to be an atheist for more than 20 years, but I still have strong ethical beliefs that basically parallel the Christian teachings of empathy for the marginalized and the disadvantaged.
For the past 8 years, I’ve watched my “decent Christian” family slide further and further into Trumpism. They are unrecognizable as the people who taught me the value of Christlike behavior.
Most days, I feel like I’m a better Christian than they are. I’ve wondered for a long time how the same people who instilled those values in me have been led so far astray.
I recognize in hindsight that they were motivated by fear of God rather than love for their fellow humans. Fox News and Trump have preyed on that fear and gradually expanded it until it has turned to hatred of anyone who doesn’t look or vote like them.
Yea. I totally understand. I'm in the medical field and I was telling one of my patients, wouldn't it be great if we, the people, bypassed the house and senate to pass a law to make it illegal for lying by ANY politician. If a politician lied, they immediately forfeit their office. If they are running for office, they are dropped out of the race. If you aren't running but are speaking promoting a politician, then make it a very heavy fine based on income with a prison sentence for each individual lie. If it's a media person, the fine would be based off the person's income, then fine the company based off it's year profit, and then prison for that person and the executive producer.
And yes, I know, I know; free speech, how do you prove that a person knowing lies, yada, yada, yada. 1) We have free speech, but you can not yell fire in a crowded theater. That puts the public in danger. I would argue that politicians lying and disinformation puts the larger public in more danger. 2) This would stop obvious lies. No more fake figures being thrown out trying to make their lies sound like the truth. Politicians would have to have proof before they spout their shit.
No more editing of video or "spinning" by so-called "news" channels. No more deep fakes - disinformation by Americans or political groups. No more 'FEMA spent all the money on immigrants'. No more the economy is the worst in the world. (Rather you believe it or not, we currently have the best in the world.) No more illegals are voting, the election was stolen, ect. If they say shit, they would have to have proof or they get a boot in the ass to kick them out the door. This would go for any party, any office. Federal, state, and local. I truly believe that this would benefit every citizen of every party.
It sounds extreme, but it would definitely stop politicians and talking heads from spewing bullshit that harms our country.
All these things run on the idea that no other country exists, that you can effectively fine foreign nationals for lying, even those from hostile nations.
Deepfakes will never stop existing, it’s hopeful but a waste of effort IMO.
In the age of information, controlling any information would be useless, false, intentionally false or anything else.
