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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 06:53 PM Jan 2016

Donald Trump Promises ‘Christianity Will Have Power’ If He Becomes President

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/01/24/donald-trump-promises-christianity-will-have-power-if-he-becomes-president/

We all know how much conservatives love to whine about how persecuted they are for their mainstream beliefs, and continue promoting their completely skewed perception of what it’s really like to be discriminated against.

On Saturday during a speech in Iowa, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump revisited his previous comments where he’d proposed that all Muslims be banned from coming into the United States, offering up a completely out of touch alternative scenario. Trump actually had the audacity to say that he would have had “less difficulty” if he had suggested a ban on Christians from coming into America instead of Muslims! The business mogul said to his audience at Dordt College, a Christian school:...

Trump’s faith has been questioned before – especially since he’d recently said he doesn’t like asking God for forgiveness. Now doing damage control, he’s embracing the religious right full force. He said:...

The Donald also lamented that Christians weren’t using their full power and political influence in the United States – and that they should step it up. The nonsense he’s spewing is actually pretty terrifying:


Isn't that somewhere in Two Corinthians?
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gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. What does that mean, Mr. Trump?
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 06:59 PM
Jan 2016

Are you going to bring the United States more in line with Second Corinthians 8 : 15? Will our society adopt the model of the early followers of The Way detailed in Acts 4 : 32-37? If not, why not?

 

rug

(82,333 posts)
6. Matthew 26:53
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 07:04 PM
Jan 2016

"Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?"

Why would he need Donald trump?

uriel1972

(4,261 posts)
11. no no no apparently all those people who took the Founding Fathers at their word...
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 07:18 PM
Jan 2016

are mistaken.. The USA was founded as a Christian nation... no I am not deluded. My Mega-Omni Church Pastor tells me so! He wouldn't lie to meeeeeeee!

rurallib

(62,415 posts)
10. and now we have a bidding war to see
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 07:18 PM
Jan 2016

which crazy can promise more jesus in a land overflowing in jesus.

what we need is jobs, good pay, decent schools, healthcare, secure retirements etc...................

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
12. Well at least now we know what it took to get endorsements from Falwell and the like
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 07:43 PM
Jan 2016

For them to go with Trump over a unabashed dyed-in-the-wool dominionist like Cruz.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
14. He's just pandering to the loony christian right. He's about as christian as I am.
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 07:52 PM
Jan 2016

He's so full of crap!

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