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[Iowa] Evangelicals on Trump: "God looked down on his planned paradise and said, 'I need a caretaker,' so God gave us Trump." (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The video is bombastic, even by Mr Trump's standards. Just consider the title: God Made Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I'm not a very religious person. But if Jesus (the human being) could see what his followers have become, he would be disgusted. I don't know how they can read the bible and say that Trump is the sort of person it heralded. There is a major cognitive dissonance in the miswired brains of these 'evangelicals'.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

how they can read the bible and say [...]

With a blindfold in the shape of their favorite preacher. You can make any book say anything, if you only read the parts that say what you want.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

That is the "beauty" of that book. It is self-contradictory. It can and has been used to justify anything. Almost everyone reads just the bits they like and ignore the rest. Taken as a whole it is on par for what you would expect from 2 millennia old shepherds. Not some divinely inspired work of absolute truth.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I don’t know how they can read the bible and say that Trump is the sort of person it heralded

That's the neat part: they have never opened that book.