Based on her post, as related by you, she’s decided not a conservative.
I’m sorry, but I think he said he was a Christian. The lack of targeted thunderbolt afterwards only shores up my unbelief.
As somebody (cannot remember who) said in another thread, today’s so-called “Trump Christians” would regard the Sermon on the Mount as “too woke.”
I believe I (along with others) have poste that exact sentiment on the SDMB before.
Anything else doesn’t matter. The only thing the bigots care about is their bigotry being validated, in their eyes, by the melon felon.
In fact, it is Trump who is deranged. And hate is his one and only human emotion.
The country’s last time on which it was almost not on a constitutional rail is when Trump instigated an actual armed attack on Congress. In case you’ve forgotten, that’s one branch of our constitutional government.
Is there any evidence in his public statements, in his testimonies, in his life that he has ever meant anything at the moment other than what spews from his mouth?
And let’s talk about mail-in voting for a moment. What do you have against me exercising my right to vote? I live overseas and am an American citizen. Mail-in voting is my only option.
What do you have against our deployed military exercising their right to vote? Mail-in voting is their only option.
What do you have against Trump exercising his right to vote? Don’t you remember he used mail-in voting?
And the issue of requiring government-issued photo identification isn’t what you seem to think it is. It’s requiring it and at the same time making it more difficult for certain demographics (minorities) to actually get said government-issued photo identification. It’s also the issue of the poll workers having too much power to deny someone their right to cast a vote because those poll workers will be inundated with a plethora of government-issued photo identification.
What? According to the Pew Research Center,
The elections of 2018, 2020 and 2022 were three of the highest-turnout U.S. elections of their respective types in decades. About two-thirds (66%) of the voting-eligible population turned out for the 2020 presidential election – the highest rate for any national election since 1900.
How is that not great? Just like “fake” does not mean “facts Trump does not like”, “great” does not only mean “voted for Trump”.
And what evidence do you have Christians did not vote for Biden?
Just like he did when he lost the 2020 election, right?
In his entire life, he has told exactly zero jokes. The only time he ever says he told a joke is when he is finally faced with consequences for his comments and they’re so obviously bad for him that even he can see that.
Did this thread start out in The BBQ Pit? Oh, and it’s spelled y’all.
How is it false? He’s been using Hitler’s playbook and has been quoting Hitler. And wasn’t the guy who took a shot at Trump on the Republican side?
p.s. It’s you’re. And even scum like Hitler and Trump get their family names capitalized in such languages as English and Russian, just to name two.
From his own mouth, he told the country he will be a dictator. That is his goal. See my post just above about him and joking.
I’d venture to say the vast majority of the SDMB posters are fully aware of that. We have four years of evidence that Trump is not. That evidence slapped the country in the face, so to speak, on January 6, 2021.
He spent his term grifting, rewarding unqualified family members with top government jobs, golfing, spreading conspiracy nonsense, and thus causing, what was it, over a million Americans’ deaths.
My eyes are open. I’m amenable. What, exactly, did he accomplish?
What is your evidence that those of us here who identify as Christian are not, in fact, Christian.
What valid point did that poster raise?
No kidding! My worry is the next time around, the insurrection will not be localized to the federal Capitol building. It will be at state capitols.
Exactly right. He also relies on, as I’ve said years ago here, that he believes the presidet is just like the Pharaoh in The Ten Commandments (“So shall it be written; so shall it be done!”). He also relies on his followers believing everything he says. Sadly, he now has some of his followers, apparently, on the SCOSA.
And, IIRC, he just endorsed two different peopole for the same elected office.
Norman! Coordinate!
You just reminded me of this Pearls Before Swine strip. (The link goes to GoComics.)
Of course it will be better for the country if Trump loses. But I also fear his supporters will get triggered by his inane pronouncements and go for Insurrection Mark 2.
Jackson. The name’s Ronnie Jackson. At least it is according to Trump.
Dollars to donuts at least one of his hangers-on has already told him that amendment means “two times in a row”.
You’ve got to be taught, before it’s too late
Before you’re six or seven or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You’ve got to be carefully taught.
I saw a quote somewhere from someone a minister I think. I know this is very vague, but it was a few months ago. The minister did his sermon that day on the sermon on the mount. One of the flock caught the minister afterwards and commented that all that sermon on the mount stuff was, “weak.” Chistians indeed.
I’ve listened to it now a dozen times, including in slow motion. I’m pretty certain he’s trying to say “I’m a Christian”, but he slurs the “I’m a”, the way he’s been mangling lots of words lately. I didn’t think so at first, but if you play it at .75 speed you can hear it.
Have we ruled out the possibility that he said “I am a Jelly doughnut!”?
Moore told NPR in an interview released Tuesday that multiple pastors had told him they would quote the Sermon on the Mount, specifically the part that says to “turn the other cheek,” when preaching. Someone would come up after the service and ask, “Where did you get those liberal talking points?”
“What was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,’ the response would not be, ‘I apologize.’ The response would be, ‘Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak,’” Moore said. “When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”
I’d like to hear that poster’s (the one to whom you replied) definition of Christian.
Is it Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist, Fundamentalist, Anglican, Greek Orthodox, Dutch Reformed, Amish, Hutterite, Mennonite, Mormon, Copt, Evangelical, Lutheran, Pentacostalist, Ukranian Catholic, Russian Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox … ?
There are so many flavours of Christianity. I wonder which one that poster meant when he or she said Christian.
Thank you that is the very thing I was trying to remember.
Come on, you’ve got to give the man more credit than that:
(1) vainglory, or pride,
(2) greed, or covetousness,
(3) lust, or inordinate or illicit sexual desire,
(4) envy,
(5) gluttony, which is usually understood to include drunkenness,
(6) wrath, or anger, and
(7) sloth.
By my counting he gets a distinction against Tom Aquinas’s criteria.
Note that first word. 77% of black protestants supported Biden. If you add in Hispanics only about half of US Catholics support trump.
Right. about 70% of all Americans say they are Christian.
https://www.prri.org/research/2020-census-of-american-religion/
Only about 14% are white evangelical Christian.
America has a LOT of “nones” - over 20%, But only 45 claim to be atheists.
Yep. And that “love thy neighbor” stuff would be right out.
trump found out that a small majority of write in voters supported the Dems. Oddly when Governor, Reagan supported mail in voting.
I refuse to capitalize trumps name. I wont stoop to organe shit gibbon, but that is my way of saying he is not important.
No, it could have been- I ate a jelly donut.
Yep, the Evangelicals are no longer Christians.
Don’t listen to those liberal tricks! You go out there and vote for America!
Write it on your calendar to remind yourself.
It’s Friday, November 8. If you wait and vote in person you’re entitled to a three day weekend.
This isn’t to say that there aren’t plenty of Trump supporters who are non-religious but Trump has a very strong pull among the Evangelical Christian community, and particularly among “Christian Nationalists”, i.e. those people who believe that (their interpretation of) Christian mores and values should be codified in US law. There is a backlash among certain Evangelical groups who recognize (correctly) that Trump is neither an upholder of Christian values nor their interpretation of a prophet or Anti-Christ, but by and large Evangelical voters are strongly behind Trump, particularly since the Supreme Court justices that he nominated uniformly voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, which has been their primary political touchstone for five decades. “White Christianity”—as taken to be Fundamentalist or white Evangelical Christian movements—are strongly in the GOP and now Trump camp, and among these groups there is an impetus to get out the vote particularly for the 2024 election.
Stranger
Note quite, they made a bad headline. The actual facts are-
Religiously unaffiliated people now make up 28% of U.S. adults,…"Most Nones believe in God or another higher power, but very few attend any kind of religious service." Many Christians or deists dont like organized religion, but that is not the same as having no faith.
That is a poor way to take it- less than 60% of Non-evangelicals voted for trump. Lots of white christians voted for Biden- altho a few more voted for trump.
Very true.
A majority of Christians support Trump, even when you include all denominations and races. There are more than enough white Christian Trump voters that the small number of Black and Hispanic Christians is too small too matter.
Tonight I saw him referred to as prima donnie.
They are Trumpians. It’s a new religious off-shoot. I’m very serious