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I think it is easier to believe that Trump is the Anti-Christ then that Biden, a regular church-goer, would hurt god. At the end of the day, by validating the racism, sexism and hate of his supporters, Trump can oppress them by giving voice to their sense of grievance and entitlement.
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It didn't matter that the president was essentially saying, I'm pandering to you because I think you're an easy mark, or that he clearly has no familiarity with even basic tenets of the Bible, or that he rarely, if ever, goes to church, or that he's cheated relentlessly on all three of his wives, paying hush money to multiple mistresses. It won't matter that he's demonstrated callous indifference to the deaths of 158,000 Americans, or that, as more than 1,000 of his constituents die each day and the current economic suffering is set to explode with the lapse in boosted unemployment benefits, he really packed his schedule Friday as he heads to one of his golf courses.
On Thursday, the last day that he and Congress saw fit to work this week, he gave a speech in Ohio in which he once again demonstrated that his strategy for courting Evangelical votes is just throwing things at the wall.
The idea that a presidential candidate could "hurt God," a Supreme Being who exists beyond space and time, is not really the kind of talk you'd expect from someone who believes in or understands the concept. But this is a fairly revelatory look at the state of the conservative movement. As Trump has proven, this sort of Godliness and religiosity is less tied to any principles to live by than they are one facetalong with gun ownership and, apparently, burning fossil fuelsof a conservative identity around which the movement's base is organized. He doesn't mention opposition to nonwhite immigration here, or the larger concept that this is a country built for and by white people and everyone else should just be happy to be here, but those are the really animating features that drew movement conservatives to his candidacy in the first place.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)God. Guns. Energy.
Huh? Huh?
If any actual believer heard that and doesn't say, "That's stupid," well, they're dumb.
In Trump's addled brain, oil, coal, God, guns, Big Macs-- all basically the same.
The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)Well worth the reading.
KG
(28,751 posts)second thought. or first thought for that matter.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)...who is so Anti-Christian?
Well, here is an entertaining break down of modern day evangelical mega churches by John Oliver:
And here is a more academic discussion with E.J. Dionne: