I posted that to show that Trump is a racist from a racist family from way back. And also that the Donald was in a position back then to affect minorities’ lives in a way that your average racist did not and does not have. Trump didn’t speak up against the discriminatory practices that he and his father were performing, and he had a high position in his father’s company. He has never apologized for those practices since, not even with political motives to do so.
Even if you discount the housing discrimination completely as all on Fred Trump’s responsibility, his son has, over and over, proved that he indeed holds racist views. He saw Charlottesville from both sides, so to speak.
Except that much of his prior life was also absolutely horrid (stiffing anyone he could sue, multiple bankruptcies, his confirmed non-consensual sexual acts, etc) and the toxic nature of his family, while perhaps somewhat sympathy generating, to only dial it all up to 11 as an adult, is not going to help.
NOTE - you could probably make something as unbiased as possible, but that’s a different sort of thing from neutral.
Their deeds may may not seem very Christ-like, but they do seem to be very Christian. Presumably, they believe Jesus was real and died for our sins. They act the way millions of other Christians act, and nor worse than milliions of Christians have acted throughout history. I believe them when they say they’re Christians.
They can claim to be porcupines for all I care, but in the absence of quills, orange teeth and sharp claws for climbing trees, I will not bother to humor them and call them porcupines.
But these people are acting the same way many many Christians have alway acted. And wouldn’t the definition of “Christian” just be that they believe Jesus is real and was sent to redeem us? If the definition of “Christian” meant acting like Christ, the number of “real”
Christians would be pretty small historically. These people are Christians, like it or not.
Many will come to me saying, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophosy about you and perform many powerful works in your name?’ And yet I will confess to them, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
Semi-seriously, I fully expect a MAGA approved, 'Murikan, readers digest version of the Bible with all the troublesome “woke” bits stripped out, selling Jesus and Jehovah in all their most smite-y moments to be openly published.
Bias? No, just ‘the good bits’ version as far as Christian Nationalists are concerned.
I clearly missed a post at first, because I really thought for awhile that you all were arguing if Trump and his family were Christians. And I learned that porcupines can climb trees!
As far as a video about Trump, I almost think you’d have to wait till he dies and his influence has faded, because you’re never going to get some people to talk freely while he can sue them or send threats their way.
Who decides what the “will of the Father” is? I’m pretty sure the “fake” Christians all believe they are doing the will of the Father. They may not be your particular flavor of Christian, but they believe in the Divinity of Christ and call themselves Christian…they’re Christians. Sure, they’re ugly and hateful, but there’s plenty of ugly stuff in their holy book.
