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The group of so-called Christian evangelists who support Trump are conmen pandering to a base that will blindly support them and line their pockets with money. One such Christian named David Lane is teaming up with Newt Gingrich to urge pastors in Lanes American Renewal Network to include Trumps name in prayer.
Lane also wants them to pray for a hefty tax cut this fall. He and Gingrich believe the tax cut is the key to keeping Republicans seats in 2018 and beyond.
Gingrich and Lane dont believe in the separation of church and state. Lane is known for linking Republican candidates up with conservative pastors to boost candidates popularity.
Gingrich believes Trump has already made a huge difference and is starting to turn America in the right direction. He then glorified Trump as a remarkably powerful but complex person. Gingrich also highlighted the appointment of Neil Gorsuch as a major Trump accomplishment.
At: http://realtimepolitics.com/2017/08/05/trumpvangelist-demands-trumph/
David Lane. Praise the Lawd and Pass the Loot.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,622 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,384 posts)But then again, I'm wrong more times than I'm right.
CurtEastPoint
(18,622 posts)Laf.La.Dem.
(2,940 posts)We can put our hand on your money
Docreed2003
(16,850 posts)But I've never met an evangelical that calls a church service "mass". I say that as someone who is the product of an evangelical Southern Baptist/Roman Catholic upbringing!! Yeah...I had a confusing childhood!
sandensea
(21,604 posts)Or Black Mass, in any case.
It's GD; I'll go ahead and edit it. Thanks!
Docreed2003
(16,850 posts)sandensea
(21,604 posts)It was very helpful. Thank you!
I hear you, though: people tend to be thin-skinned, and can sometimes read an offense where none was intended. So much in life is sheer misunderstanding.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,271 posts)sandensea
(21,604 posts)Amin, you might recall, decreed in 1975 that all citizens pledged allegiance to him personally - and foreigners in particular (the few that remained) kneel before him at least once to do so.
The pledge, the joke had it, should end with "deliver us from evil Amin."
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)sandensea
(21,604 posts)Great research, btw. Hadn't seen that photo since my African History class in college (I'm not Black; but I've always found Africa fascinating).
Don't get me started on Mobutu!
syringis
(5,101 posts)...in english. In french we say "marcher sur la tête" which literally means "walking on the head.
sandensea
(21,604 posts)Le coc escroc, peut être?
syringis
(5,101 posts)I took a quick look, but it seems not.
What I have learned is that you gave a great bunch of nicknames
I loved this one : Adolf Twitler
sandensea
(21,604 posts)My favorite? Cheeto!
"We're going to whine like we've never whined before - believe me!"
syringis
(5,101 posts)I posted a toon from a belgian caricaturist. At least, there is one time Trump did not lie
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029420378
sandensea
(21,604 posts)Quelle pagaille, n'est-ce pas?
I posted a translation (correct me if I'm wrong! It's been years since my college French 101).
syringis
(5,101 posts)... french is still good
sandensea
(21,604 posts)syringis
(5,101 posts)tout le plaisir est pour moi
calguy
(5,294 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)sandensea
(21,604 posts)Oh, well. They always have the Trump White House to use as a hideout.
Xolodno
(6,384 posts)...pay your damn taxes.
sandensea
(21,604 posts)I'd bet a lot of them have Cayman accounts as well.
lpbk2713
(42,740 posts)How about by his title, Bullshitter-in-Chief?
sandensea
(21,604 posts)If he is, I bet they call him just that behind his back.
SouthernIrish
(512 posts)My family has Masons in it going back 4 generations on both sides. I don't think they would even consider him.
sandensea
(21,604 posts)And if he ever was, he was probably expelled.
I was once invited to join by a Navy veteran with whom I discussed politics for a couple of years (he was a Republican turned independent, mostly in disgust over the Iraq War). Unfortunately I just couldn't decide - a habitual problem of mine, sorry to say.
It's amazing how few of our fellow Americans know that most of our founding fathers were in fact Freemasons - and that they were, of course, staunch believers in the separation of church and state.
Owl
(3,639 posts)sandensea
(21,604 posts)But in a way worse, because the rest of us pay their taxes for them.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Not good Christians, but Christians nevertheless.
sakabatou
(42,141 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That should cover the 1% tax cut. Bastards!
sandensea
(21,604 posts)Certainly not what the founding fathers had in mind.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Thank you! Very wise words.
sandensea
(21,604 posts)making these ideals the law of the land will always be an uphill struggle as long as 40%+ of our fellow Americans believe the founding fathers were Bible thumpers.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)delivered by Colin Firth:
The text: I'm a Catholic whore, currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black Jewish boyfriend who works at a military abortion clinic. So, hail Satan, and have a lovely afternoon, madam.
sandensea
(21,604 posts)Lane, and most of the rest of them.
spanone
(135,795 posts)RandySF
(58,511 posts)We were sitting in a mandatory church service reading from a state-spossred bible.
Initech
(100,041 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)sandensea
(21,604 posts)Robert Schuller, the Orange County drive-in televangelist.
dembotoz
(16,785 posts)sandensea
(21,604 posts)Solly Mack
(90,758 posts)They need help.
And a padded room.
VMA131Marine
(4,136 posts)Whoever he is during the prayers for the people. There is no scriptural basis to pray for a tax cut.
sandensea
(21,604 posts)Very un-Christlike of Gingrich (but then, what else is new).
grantcart
(53,061 posts)I'll get the nails, you get the cross and lets give it a chance. If he comes back on the third day then he is the real deal.
3catwoman3
(23,950 posts)...can take his name in vain on a regular basis.
sandensea
(21,604 posts)"My kingdom is not of this world." - Jesus Christ, as quoted in John 18:36
3catwoman3
(23,950 posts)...to Donnie 2 Scoops, not JC.
sandensea
(21,604 posts)Of course, to his robots they're practically one and the same.
3catwoman3
(23,950 posts)...being disrespectful. I think the teachings of Jesus are largely admirable. The way those teachings have been bastardized and co-opted by the freaky fundies, to justify attitudes and behaviors that Jesus would surely abhor, is where I have a big problem. I definitely do NOT respect that.
(Agnostic Unitarian Universalist here)
sandensea
(21,604 posts)I'd like to think there's something out there bigger than ourselves and this troubled world of ours. But I've also always found it very presumptuous of religious leaders to claim to know who or what it may be.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)sandensea
(21,604 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)All these evangelicals look evil to me. I think they must be possessed by demons. They need to take up snakes, lots and lots of snakes, in order to be saved.
haveahart
(905 posts)dchill
(38,447 posts)Satanist could hope to achieve.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)They hate educated people because that cut into their profits.