‘God gave us Trump’: Christian media evangelicals preach a messianic message
‘God gave us Trump’: Christian media evangelicals preach a messianic message
Last month Trump vowed to defend Christianity and urged Christians to vote for him
Last month Trump vowed to defend Christianity and urged Christians to vote for him
“This is really a battle between good and evil,” evangelical TV preacher Hank Kunneman says of the slew of criminal charges facing Donald Trump. “There’s something on President Trump that the enemy fears: It’s called the anointing.”
The Nebraska pastor, who was speaking on cable news show “FlashPoint” last summer, is among several voices in Christian media pressing a message of Biblical proportions: The 2024 presidential race is a fight for America’s soul, and a persecuted Trump has God’s protection.
“They’re just trying to bankrupt him. They’re trying to take everything he’s got. They’re trying to put him in prison,” author, media personality and self-proclaimed prophet Lance Wallnau said in October on “The Jim Bakker Show”, an hour-long daily broadcast that focuses on news and revelations about the end times that it says we are living in.
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How are some people so ignorant to all the terrible things he's done? No one ever fact checks on anything and it's seriously depressing
Remember this is not a failure of conclusions (Trump is sent by god), but a failure of proceedings (belief and faith is superior to facts and reality).
They lack the critical thinking skills to even begin to digest and elaborate an argument that relies of evidence and principled thinking. They don't evaluate reality on principles, they evaluate reality on emotion, identity and authority above all else. Therefore, fact checking is not even a possibility.
He was already known as a sleazy conman and the butt of jokes for decades before he won in 2016. How could they not know?
my guess is he's just so similar to the sleazy conmen in American mega churches
Ding ding ding
He was already known as a sleazy conman and the butt of jokes for decades before he won in 2016. How could they not know?
Maybe the joke went over their heads?
I've heard many say they don't like what he has done but somehow he is still the best thing ever in spite of that.
Maybe it ties into the Christian redemption thing.
From what I gather, many evangelicals who support Trump see him as a fighter against a corrupt worldly government and a champion of their causes.
Then there's the MAGA concept, which plays into their Great Replacement paranoia (the fear that the white Protestant American majority is being replaced by non-whites and non-believers).
The fact that he is about as far from Christ-like as it's possible to be doesn't seem to deter them all that much.
That’s a big part of it, same reason they let rapist pastors stay in positions of authority. The entire belief system is ripe for abusing
Hmm, its seems as if these Christian fellows are quite nieve and easy to fool into believing any old nonsense.