This is in part from an e-mail I received from a middle aged woman who NEVER talks about politics...

[a kennedy]

I was reading the Bible this morning and I found the perfect verse that
explains the success of Donald Trump…
"Even the youths
shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall
utterly fall, But those who wait on
the Lord Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like
eagles, They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint." (Isiah
40:30-31)

It’s almost like God created this verse
for Donald Trump and this moment in history.
Trump is our energy.
More energy than any candidate EVER. He took on the 16 best candidates in
GOP history...all younger than him...all with better political
credentials...and destroyed them with his energy. You mean that kind of
energy in a 70-year old isn't inspired by God?
Trump renews our
strength. Or does the all-time record turnout and all-time record votes for
a GOP presidential primary candidate not define “strength?"
With
Trump we mount up with wings like eagles. With Trump as our leader there is
nothing we can’t do. Any man that can build skyscrapers in Manhattan and
vanquish 16 presidential opponents, while spending almost nothing…can lead
us to the heights of eagles.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2413724

Guess who she's voting for???

[apcalc]

1. Toxic mix- religion and politics

[sarae]

2. Clearly

Trump has been sent by GOD.


Is stupidity at an all-time high lately? What's going on?

[PJMcK]

3. May I ask the nature of your relationship to this woman?

Has she always been a Bible quoter? Perhaps your acquaintance should read a bit more. Two suggestions come to mind: the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. Then she could reevaluate her admiration for Donald Trump.

Regardless, as a former Christian who had extensive study of the Bible, I can state unequivocally that The Donald has violated nearly every aspect of what Christianity represents. This is especially true regarding his complete lack of repentance without which one cannot be in communion with the Trinity. Accordingly, he is, at best, a lapsed Christian. It's not my point to understand what is in Mr. Trump's heart but his behavior is in complete conflict with the teachings of Jesus.

It eludes me how any true Christian can support Mr. Trump.

[a kennedy]

5. Monthly lunch group......and I NEVER knew she was a religious type.....

Religion and politics just don't come up in our discussions. Group of about 7 - 15 women at times who all worked on a college campus.

[PJMcK]

7. Sounds like a nice social group

It's funny how we sometimes have long-term acquaintances who reveal a part of themselves that is unexpected.

[Hortensis]

9. Just chatting with a neighbor this morning, who said

she'd felt faint in the heat due to blood pressure problems. I teased her that she and Hillary Clinton had that in common, if nothing else. She took it as the joke it was, saying that she didn't want anything in common at all with "that evil woman" and repeated the charge a couple times to work off the emotion aroused. I think this is the first time she's actually called her evil, though she's always been emphatically negative.

(Then she wanted to know what was wrong with her, was she drunk, or what, so I took the opening to briefly toss out allergies, cough, walking pneumonia, dehydration, trying to power through and failing. Keeping working no matter what is definitely something this farm woman understands.)

A kennedy, I just bet this surprised you! Religious people ignoring all reality in search of a mystic explanation always surprise me, and they're all over the place here. Lots of anxiety around these days, lots of comforting explanations sought.

[a kennedy]

10. I know.......I'm very nervous of the closet tRump supporters.....and whatever their

"religious" affiliation.....I just don't understand them.

[Hortensis]

13. My half sister is one of those disposed to immersion

in religion and to rejecting objective data for occult, usually but not necessarily biblical "explanations." She's a clinical psychologist, and competent at that, not a stupid woman, but our thoughts have always been on nonintersecting lines and she often surprises me with new examples.

Our neighbor is a lot more down to earth. I like her a lot, and respect her. Not for her political malleability, obviously, but for her many good points. For instance, I've never detected malice in her. She's a nice woman.

In her defense politically, being living her entire life in an intensely conservative and religious region, a rural area with limited education and no cosmopolitan influences, set her up as an easy mark for the true evil ones.

[grossproffit]

4. Thankfully, I know no Christians that are voting for Trump. They view him as a Nazi.

[Hortensis]

14. I've seen much of the same, among the people you

would expect it from. Some only imagine they are living their lives as God wishes, thinking wearing the label is the same as walking the walk, but others really do try to live to high standards, and they despise what Trump's selling.

[BSdetect]

6. Typical delusion from religious idiots

Who cares what drivel they dredge up from the bible?

Its all superstition and demonstrably stupid garbage.

[rurallib]

8. If I got that I would reply and thank her for the excellent satire

[KittyWampus]

11. She's 100% correct. It most certainly IS a certain kind of strength.

And it shouldn't be demonized or ignored.

It's the animal part of our brain that he's appealing to. The raw, self-preservation, tribal part. The reptile.

And the best way to approach that is examination, exposure, comedy and art.

Think of Oliver's bit about Trump's "tiny hands".

[nini]

12. Crap like this really explains how Hitler came to power

These people are all insane.

[shrike]

15. They were talking this way about Palin

Back in the day. That she was an "Esther" who would lead her people . . .

[JHB]

16. Reply: "My goodness! I had no idea...

...that you were completely off your rocker!"

[eShirl]

17. Wow.

[Generic Other]

18. Beware of false prophets

False messiahs who come in sheep's clothing. Matthew 7:15-23.