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kpete

(71,957 posts)
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 03:39 PM Jan 2016

This is going to stick. Evangelical Leader Calls TRUMP: "The Golden Calf Candidate"

Evangelical leader Russell Moore just unloaded on Jerry Falwell for hosting Trump
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/russell-moore-trump-217939

Evangelical leader unleashes righteous fury on Donald Trump — the ‘golden calf’ candidate

Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, posted a series of withering tweets as Trump spoke to what he described as a “record” crowd at a mandatory convocation at the Virginia university founded by Jerry Falwell.

He compared the real estate tycoon and reality TV star to the biblical “golden calf,” which Moses found his brother, Aaron, had made for the Israelites to worship while he was away receiving the Ten Commandments from God on Mount Sinai.

Russell Moore @drmoore
Evangelicals can love a golden calf, as long as Aaron promises to make Mexico pay for it.
8:51 AM - 18 Jan 2016
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https://twitter.com/drmoore/status/689128085359300609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw




MUCH MORE!
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/evangelical-leader-unleashes-righteous-fury-on-donald-trump-the-golden-calf-candidate/
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This is going to stick. Evangelical Leader Calls TRUMP: "The Golden Calf Candidate" (Original Post) kpete Jan 2016 OP
I doubt it yeoman6987 Jan 2016 #1
He will be the nominee leftynyc Jan 2016 #3
Ouch! nt Xipe Totec Jan 2016 #2
Sometimes I wonder if a golden calf is what these morons want more than anything world wide wally Jan 2016 #4
These Same Dirtbags SDJay Jan 2016 #5
Auric Bullfinger? N/T catnhatnh Jan 2016 #6
As long as they are fire bombing each other, I'm good. JoePhilly Jan 2016 #7
I was right, I was saying a few days ago that Cruz's fundie Dominionist buddies... Odin2005 Jan 2016 #8
 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
3. He will be the nominee
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 03:43 PM
Jan 2016

but if we can get a whole shit load of evangelicals to stay home in November - or even better - vote for a third party candidate, it's all good.

SDJay

(1,089 posts)
5. These Same Dirtbags
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 04:03 PM
Jan 2016

who have spent generations getting people to worship Republican Jesus - you know, the one who hates:

1. Brown people
2. Poor people
3. Foreign people (since Jesus was, obviously, a great American!)
4. Women
5. Gay folks
6. Etc.

have only themselves to blame when these same followers can't or won't distinguish between one made-up idol and another. Chickens meet roost. Reap meet sow.

Good. It's exactly what they deserve.

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)
8. I was right, I was saying a few days ago that Cruz's fundie Dominionist buddies...
Mon Jan 18, 2016, 06:50 PM
Jan 2016

...would come out full force and start declaring Trump to be the Antichrist.

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