The notion that evangelical Christianity had anything to do with the teachings of Christ was dispelled to even the most casual observer a long, long time before Donald Trump floated the idea of running for President. Some people saw their hypocrisy before Donald Trump was even a publically known figure. Barry Goldwater was sounding the alarm about the fanatics what, 30 years ago? 40?
I think that many self described “evangelicals” would not know the teachings of Christ if he appeared and preached in front of them. They’d probably demand he be locked up.
Sorta similar to Trump saying the 2016 election was rigged and that was why he was going to lose. The fix was in by Crooked Hillary and the Democrat Party!
Isn’t the prevalent theory that his whole run was a publicity stunt to get a TV network of his own? And it backfired on him and screwed the rest of the country.
I have trouble wrapping my head around the idea that people are going to church next week, attending nativity plays and/or building creches while not caring what happens to the refugees at the border, or even approving of the caging children, separating families and so forth.
It might be amusing to do a nativity play in which Joseph and Mary are arrested by the border patrol and their child taken from them.
Gandhi is supposed to have said, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
This absolutely kills me. I sing in a choir at a very liberal Episcopal church. There is ONE Trumper in the choir, and every week he sings a psalm or some prayer. He sings about the poor, and God’s love, and helping the widow and orphan <or whatever> and his Facebook page is all about hate and keeping those people out – I cannot begin to understand that. :smack:
That’s a pure example of doublethink in the wild. Orwell didn’t invent the concept, he only gave it a name, and it’s a devastating phenomenon for every society.
In some kind of warped way, I dare to say that…I understand Trump.
Hear me out:
The Evangelical Christians (not all but many) sold their souls to the devil, eyes wide open. All the devil asks for is loyalty, and now the people who sold their souls are going back on their agreement.
I hope Trump continues to watch only Fox News so that if he testifies at some point, he’ll be so ill-prepared and blindsided that the subsequent trainwreck will be a Waterloo meltdown.