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yortsed snacilbuper

(7,939 posts)
Wed May 30, 2018, 08:55 AM May 2018

An evangelical university is helping make a film that implies God chose Trump

Liberty University students and faculty are making The Trump Prophecy.

Students at Jerry Falwell’s evangelical Liberty University are helping produce a film that argues Trump’s presidency was divinely foretold.

According to the Christian Post, dozens of students and a number of staff members at Liberty University will be collaborating on a movie: The Trump Prophecy. The film tells the story of Florida firefighter Mark Taylor, who says that God told him that Donald Trump would become president. He adapted his testimony into a book with a small Christian publishing house.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/an-evangelical-university-is-helping-make-a-film-that-implies-god-chose-trump/ar-AAy0TGr?ocid=spartanntp&ffid=gz

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An evangelical university is helping make a film that implies God chose Trump (Original Post) yortsed snacilbuper May 2018 OP
Better make it fast. Corgigal May 2018 #1
Perhaps God wants to expose those Evangelical Pastors as the frauds and charlatans they appear to be TheBlackAdder May 2018 #22
This is the most believable theory. badhair77 May 2018 #28
from Revelations , trump is the anti-christ beachbum bob May 2018 #2
Heh heh. Are we going to cast Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick in the show about the making of. Girard442 May 2018 #3
😄😅😆 LOL! Zing Zing Zingbah May 2018 #4
I knew it was Liberty before clicking on it! Initech May 2018 #5
Me too! Va Lefty May 2018 #8
Scary to think it's a school of higher learning.. CatMor May 2018 #6
Honestly, who HIRES these people. smirkymonkey May 2018 #20
Same here. CatMor May 2018 #26
They Actually Have A Law School ProfessorGAC May 2018 #23
I'm not sure a attorney from that university would be unbiased CatMor May 2018 #27
Have they been studying Revelations? Are they going to title it "American Apocalypse"? Arkansas Granny May 2018 #7
Fools. Full "Golden Calf" episode. salin May 2018 #9
the evangelical movement has a strong media presence dembotoz May 2018 #10
Is Mel Gibson attached to the project, yet? Mc Mike May 2018 #11
When I heard Jimmy Carter was giving the commencement address AJT May 2018 #12
I have to agree it was very strange. ooky May 2018 #13
Didn't Bernie make a speech there a while back? Zambero May 2018 #15
Of course content is important ooky May 2018 #16
In the Old Testament God chose fire and brimstone Zambero May 2018 #14
Trump decending from the stairs of trumpTower will transform into a cloud. riversedge May 2018 #17
I've never seen that footage SonofDonald May 2018 #19
Another cult classic like "Reefer Madness" SonofDonald May 2018 #18
And, yo, the orangeness of the boor came upon them, and the gory one did Solly Mack May 2018 #21
Diving into 'Golden calf' type idolatry - and filming it for posterity. salin May 2018 #24
I feel as God said about the anti-Christ! bluestarone May 2018 #25
Mark Taylor is a complete kook. Archae May 2018 #29
And the Prophet said "I love the poorly educated." GreatCaesarsGhost May 2018 #30
Popular "quotes" MyOwnPeace May 2018 #31
If this is remotely true, then . . . . no_hypocrisy May 2018 #32
Old god likes scumbags! yortsed snacilbuper May 2018 #33
That would make "God" an ugly heartless SOB. Cha May 2018 #34

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
1. Better make it fast.
Wed May 30, 2018, 08:58 AM
May 2018

Or better yet, raise the money and just park it , so the filmmakers can steal it later. Which being a religious institution, wording used loosely, are what they will probably do.

TheBlackAdder

(28,167 posts)
22. Perhaps God wants to expose those Evangelical Pastors as the frauds and charlatans they appear to be
Wed May 30, 2018, 11:08 AM
May 2018

badhair77

(4,208 posts)
28. This is the most believable theory.
Wed May 30, 2018, 11:58 AM
May 2018

ETA: one of the biggest charlatans is Trumpet Jim Bakker. After his first run as a tv pastor he went to jail. But yet they bring him back with his own show. Just crazy, these so-called believers.

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
6. Scary to think it's a school of higher learning..
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:23 AM
May 2018

what kind of degrees do they come out of there with. On the other hand they are probably producing a comedy.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
20. Honestly, who HIRES these people.
Wed May 30, 2018, 11:04 AM
May 2018

If I was an employer and someone came to me for an interview and I saw Liberty University on their resume, I would laugh them out of my office.

ProfessorGAC

(64,861 posts)
23. They Actually Have A Law School
Wed May 30, 2018, 11:39 AM
May 2018

If i needed a lawyer for something and i saw a Liberty diploma on the wall, i'd bail.

salin

(48,955 posts)
9. Fools. Full "Golden Calf" episode.
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:34 AM
May 2018

And they are taping their idolatry.

Didn't work out so great the first time.

dembotoz

(16,785 posts)
10. the evangelical movement has a strong media presence
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:48 AM
May 2018

they have their own tv networks and show
lots of bigger churchs record service etc.
the people who do these things have to come from somewhere.

they have a strong tendency to hire their own....Local lutheran school proudly claims their teachers only come from APPROVED lutheran colleges.....

Would imagine the job prospects for folks coming out of the liberty u film dept would be pretty good. Would imagine working on this movie will really pad an evangelicals resume. We may think the movie is a joke, but those who hire these folks won't.

they take care of their own

Mc Mike

(9,111 posts)
11. Is Mel Gibson attached to the project, yet?
Wed May 30, 2018, 09:54 AM
May 2018

Liberty U, whatta larf. Just a safety school for people who couldn't get into Regents. or BJU.

Yea, verily, forsooth, so it is written that a bloated bald orange hemorrhoid will rise from the county of Queens...

ooky

(8,908 posts)
13. I have to agree it was very strange.
Wed May 30, 2018, 10:10 AM
May 2018

I've always been a Jimmy Carter fan, but that was a head scratcher for me. I haven't heard his speech though.

Zambero

(8,962 posts)
15. Didn't Bernie make a speech there a while back?
Wed May 30, 2018, 10:18 AM
May 2018

I'd venture to say that the content of an address would matter more than mere presence at a given location.

ooky

(8,908 posts)
16. Of course content is important
Wed May 30, 2018, 10:40 AM
May 2018

which is why I qualified my comment by mentioning that I had not heard the Carter speech. But with the commitment to Christianity Jimmy Carter has always displayed it was strange to read that he had made an appearance at this den of hypocrisy.

I still believe in the authenticity of Jimmy Carter.

SonofDonald

(2,050 posts)
18. Another cult classic like "Reefer Madness"
Wed May 30, 2018, 11:02 AM
May 2018

We'll be able to watch it and laugh our brains out.

A collectors item.

Solly Mack

(90,758 posts)
21. And, yo, the orangeness of the boor came upon them, and the gory one did
Wed May 30, 2018, 11:05 AM
May 2018

cast stones round about them: and they called for more and did obey.

And the orange one said unto them, Fear not - for, believe me, I bring you the best tidings of bigly joy, which shall be to all my people. For unto you is born this day in Trump Tower a Savior, which is Me, the Donald. And I shall be a sign unto you; Make America about me again. Ye shall find me wrapped in Ivanka Trump clothing, lying.

bluestarone

(16,868 posts)
25. I feel as God said about the anti-Christ!
Wed May 30, 2018, 11:51 AM
May 2018

SATAN will fool a lot of people!!!!!!!!!!!! Boy do i see that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MyOwnPeace

(16,919 posts)
31. Popular "quotes"
Wed May 30, 2018, 12:44 PM
May 2018

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"
......Ben Franklin

"Donald Trump is proof that God is pissed at us and wants us to be miserable."
........65.8 million Americans

Cha

(296,865 posts)
34. That would make "God" an ugly heartless SOB.
Thu May 31, 2018, 01:56 AM
May 2018

Don't believe your eyes.. believe scammers who would blasphemy.



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