Yesterday he promised his "faith council" would be "directly in the Oval Office."
    • seth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      22 days ago

      They didn’t read that far. Most of them who even start don’t even get to the “begat” sections, Genesis 5 if you start in the Old Testament and Matthew 1 if you start in the New Testament. So, the very first books of each testament.

    • cultsuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      22 days ago

      Nah, they’ve already accepted Jesus Christ as their savior. That’s basically their get out of jail free card. It’s why a lot of them are horrible vile hateful people.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        Some of them are Catholics and Catholics don’t subscribe to sola fide, well, it’s against their stated religion, I’ve met plenty who do

  • QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    28·
    22 days ago

    Don’t they remember what is said in the Ten Commandments? “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me."

    Of course if they are the megachurch type of Christians, their only real god is money.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 days ago

      Oh that’s an easy dodge. A lot of these people think Trump is either a prophet of the Lord, a devout agent (think David or Solomon), or Jesus Christ Himself.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      22 days ago

      It’s right there in the ten commandments, which I’d like to remind you has other legit bangers that still work in these modern times like “thou shalt not kill” :

      Exodus 20:3-5 King James Version

      3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

      4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

      5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

      • shylosx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        21 days ago

        What’s funny is the decalogue is likely borrowed from what is commonly called the “ritual commandments” of Exodus 34, which are explicitly stated to be the 10 commandments in the Hebrew Bible (despite tradition calling the decalogue the 10 commandments) and includes such bangers as “sacrifice your firstborn son” and “in fact make lots of sacrifices to me”

    • EpheraEnglish
      4·
      22 days ago

      The guy is famous for raping a pornstar while married. It would certainly be easy to not do such a thing and then tell people you’re pious. But the guy is practically screaming at his followers that he’s satan himself and they still want to believe the lie…

  • tacosanonymous@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    22 days ago

    It doesn’t matter how awful he is. They only see that he’s a great tool for creating a white evangelical theocracy. They’d act this way for Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Dahmer, or (insert awful person here).

  • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    22 days ago

    “We are the last bit of a republic, of the free world,”

    Worlds a big place, lady.

  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    62·
    22 days ago

    So weird. Christian nationalism isn’t the thing I fear most in American politics, but as a Christian myself I definitely hate it more than anything else in the American political landscape.

    • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      22 days ago

      Someone once posted that rather than calling it Christian Nationalism, we should call it Nationalist Christianity, because it has a convenient and easy to remember abbreviation: Nat.C.

      • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        21·
        21 days ago

        Nahhhh, cuz Christian Nationalism isn’t Christianity. It seeks to worship the state by turning it into something they deem worthy of worship, rather than worshipping God.