I don’t know that I expect any differently from Trump, he’s stupid enough to not know that you don’t sign bibles.
But his supporters are what I pit in this instance, they are the ones handing him bibles to sign, those are their bibles, and they should know better, it’s their religion that they claim to take very seriously whenever they want to impose it on others.
Has anyone signed bibles before? I can’t find any references to the pope doing so, nor even televangelists.
If Jesus comes back, they will not be able to get him back on the cross fast enough. At least Barrabas gets another stay of execution out of the deal.
Yes, but where are we going to find 239 duck feathers?
I was raised fundamental Baptist and signing Bibles was a popular thing. All us kids would go around whenever there was a missions conference or any kind of special service with a visiting missionary or evangelist and get them to sign our Bibles. It was the closest to celebrity worship we were allowed.
It has been my experience that the more fervent the fundamentalist, the more ignorant they are about what they are a fundamentalist about.
Are you asking me, or asking if they know the answer? They are being forgiven for “original sin”, we are all born as sinners and are not capable of self-salvation. Whether or not they know that is why they are supposed to be going to church is a different matter.
(not something that I believe, but I was raised religious, so I am aware of that.)
Certainly not an obtuse one
“Salvation comes through faith, not from works.”
(once again, not something that I believe, but something that they would believe if they knew that they were supposed to.)
Another tenet of Fundie-ism is “There is no redemption, no forgiveness, without repentance!”
According to everything I grew up with, the opposite of a Christian would be someone who says “I don’t think I need forgiveness, I’ve never done anything wrong.” (Hmmm, who was it again who said something like that during his campaign?)
This is what makes the Evangelicals’ acceptance of Trump even more repellant. They’re willing to jettison their morals and ethics and embrace someone who is the very antithesis of their faith, just so they can get… what? a chance at more power, more money, more revenge on minorities and them Ell-gee-bee-tee-Qs?
Church of Christ here. (Not the UCC, who are cool; the fundies.) I had a Bible that had signatures from family members, maybe my preacher, but they were on the inside and accompanied by favorite verses. It was hard to autograph on the front, though, because it looked like this. I can’t imagine a member of the brotherhood (sic) signing a Bible’s cover.
Oh yeah, they always signed the inside of the Bible, on the title page, or on the blank page at front or in back, wherever there was room, and they’d usually add their favorite Bible verse in. You’d have to have a paperback Bible to be able to sign the outside of it.
I’ve seen Bibles which had a dedication and signature, but they were a present from someone’s Godparent to them, generally on the occasion of one of the “rite of passage” sacraments (Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation); that is, a present for things that Trump probably doesn’t even know what they are. Signing it as an author signs his book, hell to the no.
On the contrary: Putin confirmed that there was no collusion, no pee tapes, and that Russia has the best whores with the best pee, which does not run down their leg, ever.
PS: I’m right now in France and it cracks me up that the transcription of the Russian dude’s name to French is Poutine. Seems like that particular variation of the recipe would give you the runs bigtime, I’m afraid.
While I’m sure that Vlad Poutine would be a dish with which to reckoned, is there actually a variation on the recipe that doesn’t give you the runs?
P.S. Autocorrect really wants to turn Poutine back into Putin.
You know that thing now where parents (inexplicably) are throwing slices of American cheese at their babies’ faces and posting pictures? I would like to see people throw slices of cheese at thump’s head at the next rally. Or maybe a wheel of Parmesan?
