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Post by DrSchadenfreude on Jan 8, 2024 16:36:01 GMT -5
Interesting scriptural analyses.
I had once pointed out that Trump seems like an archetype of Nimrod, and also a worshipper of Mammon and the Golden Calf -- but this is far worse.
If true, it is, more or less, prophesying that Trump will be re-elected POTUS -- prior to ushering in the Apocalypse in the Middle East.
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Post by DrSchadenfreude on Jan 16, 2024 11:16:30 GMT -5
With Donald Trump's Iowa landslide, evangelicals reveal who they really areForget Jesus — modern evangelicals look at President Drink Bleach as their lord and savior
By AMANDA MARCOTTE JANUARY 16, 2024 6:00AM (EST) (Salon) Despite the best efforts of the mainstream media to portray the Republican Iowa caucus as a real competition between Donald Trump, former Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, and Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, the result was exactly what anyone reading the polls expected: A massive win for Trump. It usually takes at least an hour to call the Iowa caucus, but the state was called by the Associated Press in fewer than 40 minutes after the caucuses began. Despite all the hype about Haley's last-minute gains, or the possibility that the weather might tilt the outcome (Monday's was the coldest caucus ever), the result was what all statistical odds showed: Trump walked away with it. He more than doubled the support he got in the Hawkeye State in 2016's caucus. Over the past 8 years, we've all watched as evangelicals have grown ever more fanatical in their love of Trump, a thrice-married adulterer who bragged about committing sexual assault. Still, many pundits cling to this fantasy that American evangelicals are morally upright people who actually mean all that talk about chastity, charity, and Christian values. It was always a silly notion, of course, as the evangelical movement has long shown itself more interested in right-wing politics than in feeding the poor and healing the sick. But the romantic fantasy about an American heartland replete with simple but good people had powerful sway over the imaginations of the chattering class. Forget Jesus. The real lord of the evangelical movement has shown his grimacing orange face to the world, and it is a nasty one. There's a temptation among pundits, who want to retain their view of the humble Iowa evangelical, to write this alliance between Trump and the Christian right as purely transactional: He gets votes, they get their anti-choice/anti-gay policies so long as they just ignore the stuff they supposedly don't like about Trump. But this image of evangelicals as reluctant Trump supporters doesn't comport with reality. Trump often gets a rapturous reception with evangelical audiences and is frequently memorialized in fan art that depicts him in a near-messianic light. Trump shared such a video recently, called "God Made Trump," which portrays the allegedly butt-smelly former president as the Second Coming. A recent poll of Republican voters shows that 64% rate Trump as a "person of faith," putting him higher in their rankings than Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, former Vice President Mike Pence, or any of Trump's opponents in the GOP presidential primary. Only 13% of Republicans agreed President Joe Biden is a "person of faith," even though — unlike Trump — Biden regularly attends church, prays, and showcases a basic understanding of the tenets of Christianity that Trump has publicly rejected, such as the concept of Christian forgiveness. www.salon.com/2024/01/16/with-donald-iowa-landslide-evangelicals-reveal-they-really-are/
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Post by cbisbig on Jan 17, 2024 16:58:13 GMT -5
Life is too short to be obsessed with something you can't control
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Post by DrSchadenfreude on Jan 17, 2024 17:49:21 GMT -5
Life is too short to be obsessed with something you can't control True, but the pastor's analysis of the scriptures (in the video above) is interesting. Some of it had not occurred to me. Of course, it's only interesting to people who take the scriptures seriously. |
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Post by cbisbig on Jan 17, 2024 18:56:02 GMT -5
Life is too short to be obsessed with something you can't control True, but the pastor's analysis of the scriptures (in the video above) is interesting. Some of it had not occurred to me. Of course, it's only interesting to people who take the scriptures seriously. True |
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