Whenever hatred abounds, you can be sure that Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians (the polar opposite of real authentic Christians) will jump on the hate train. And with Rump Dump Trump as the personification of today’s Republican party, you can be sure that the supply of hatred will be endless. The following author listed reasons they are backing Trump.
…Here are just some of the religious arguments made on Trump’s behalf:
1. God is using Trump to pave the way for the Second Coming
Frank Amedia, a pastor who has been serving as Trump’s “Christian policy” liaison, said that God told him personally last year that Trump would win the GOP nomination and help pave the way for the Second Coming. Amedia also suggested that only God could explain how Trump has survived all his blunders:
And the Lord spoke very clearly to me, and he said to me, ‘This man is going to win the nomination and I want you to be ready to serve my cause when I call you.’…In this instance, it’s not because Donald Trump has heralded his faith or the name of God, but the Lord has put His favor upon him, and how amazing it is that the favor of God can overcome so many mistakes, so many bumbles, so many things that otherwise we would think would destroy somebody in business, destroy them in politics, destroy them in relationships. But yet it’s very evident it was the will of the Lord to do this and here we sit now.
2. God is using Trump to get pastors to fight for religious freedom
Pastor Michael Anthony, president of Godfactor and founder of the National Week of Repentance, attended Trump’s June meeting with evangelicals and said he is convinced God is using Trump [pseudo-Christians delinked] to move Christians to act to defend their religious freedom. “I think God was speaking through him at that moment, to the church, to tell us why are you being silent about the most important thing about your lives?”
3. Trump could make America worthy of God’s blessing
The Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins was a big Ted Cruz backer and has publicly been a somewhat reluctant supporter of Donald Trump. He told radio host Sandy Rios that Trump has made plenty of mistakes, but that if he “walks in that grace that is available” and surrounds himself with good people, he could “cast a vision that moves America back to the country that honors God again and therefore would be a recipient of His blessing.”
4. Trump would make America friendlier to Israel
Many conservative evangelicals have embraced a theological approach to Middle East policy, interpreting Bible verses [pseudo-Christians delinked] to suggest that in order to enjoy God’s blessing, America must unconditionally support the Israeli government. Says [pseudo-Christians delinked] Pastor John Hagee, head of Christians United For Israel, “we have a mandate from the Bible and that mandate is to be supportive of Israel and the Jewish people.” Even though Trump said earlier this year that he would be “neutral” regarding the Israel-Palestine dispute (a position he later backed away from), right-wing leaders have long denounced Obama as an enemy of Israel. The Times of Israel notes [pseudo-Christians delinked] that Hagee, “has all but endorsed Trump by name.” Indeed, Hagee told his viewing audience that God would hold them accountable for their vote, saying, “I’m not going to vote for the party that has betrayed Israel for the past seven years.” Hagee has complained [pseudo-Christians delinked] that “three million evangelicals did not vote in the past election,” saying “God forbid that happen again. We are going to storm the voting booths of America this time around.”…
From <Right Wing Watch>
I’ve shared the first four of twenty-five listed reasons that Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians are on the Trump hate train. Click through for the other twenty-one.
They want Trump in the White House. How do you plan to prevent it?
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Boy, oh boy. Each one gets 'better' than the previous one(s).
DT has a mantle, all right, one of hate, and lies.
Thanks, Tom for this.
Well, you know, everyone serves God, intentionally or not, willingly or not. Or, if you prefer, God can use everyone, Christian or not. It makes no difference to God whether you serve him like Judas or like John. But it does make a difference to you. Attila the Hun was called "The Scourge of God." Does Trump want to serve like him? Point one says "God is using Trump to pave the way for the Second Coming." What that means is God is using Trump to pave the way for the end of the world. I would not be surprised if someone is indeed doing that – but not God. No thank you. I would rather serve like Dr. Barber.
The Snake-Oil Salesman of olden days is here, alive and well! I couldn't click thru because I can't stand the rhetoric that is in ALL of the bile that is Drumpf!
We gotta ALL come out to VOTE and VOTE BLUE!!! If there are so many of the Teavangelicals, then we gotta get all of the family together and hope and pray that we can DEFEAT DRUMPF!!!
I read the 25+ Religious Right Justifications For Supporting Donald Trump.
It made me want to retch and throw-up. How can those religious right-wing,
aka Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, believe in their own frenzy
and crap. Unbelievable!
Vote BLUE all the way! Just because Hillary is ahead in the polls does not mean you do not need to vote. For the first time in years, the third party candidates are drawing more and more people to their political platform than ever before. The Demos (BLUES) need every vote to defeat Drumpf!
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You know I can actually understand Frank Amedia's reasoning. It's truly miraculous that Drumpf has survived all these mistakes and bumbles that would have distroyed anyone else in business, politics or relationships, so it could be seen as God's favor if you're Amedia. Or the devil's favor, if you're an atheist like me 😈
But this is where it stops, I can'hardly manage to read them all, let alone try to understand the reasoning behind those 25 justifications. The very fact that Talibangelists need 25+ justifications to "storm the voting booths" speaks for itself, I'd say.
I like David Lane's comment though: "I’m going to choose to believe that Donald Trump can be one of the top four presidents in American history.” How terribly convenient that you get to pick and choose when you're a pseudo-Christian. But doesn't it also mean that they can pick Hillary if the choose to do so? 😛
I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or throw up. If these people truly believe what they are saying, they are not what my Mother taught me Christians are supposed to be. If Frank Amedia has a direct line to God, I would like to ask him to do a few things for me, too.
I really hate it when someone puts the screw to me and then invokes the name of God. Something very disturbing about that in my mind. I still have enough Catholicism rattling around in my head that makes me quite certain that Sister mary Adelma would not approve of those fellas! Just not the way I have ever thought Christianity was supposed to work.
There must be a really BIG box, I mean really, really BIG, of Cracker Jacks with all those prizes in one place . . . behind Drumpf.
God's grace cannot be bought contrary to what these idiots are saying. They want to buy it with their currency of lies and deceptions.
Reading all 25 just about did me in. My stomach is roiling with all their BS. This is not true or authentic Christianity but pseudo Christianity, pure BS.
"Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God."
So true Arielle, and well said.
"Amen" to that!?
Thanks all! Hugs!! I underswtand Perkins (FOTF), who has been calling on God for disaster to befall LGBT folks, had to escale from his flooded LA home in a canoe. Prayers and condolences for all the families who lost members and their homes in that flood… with one exception.
Actually, there are a number of crazy Perkinses on the pseudo-Christian right – but none of them is with FOTF. Tony, the flooded on, in Louisiana, has the "Family Research Council." The Colorado Springs family, headed by Will, probably has acquaintances at FOTF, but their (at least Will's) organization is "Colorado for Family Values." (Per Wikipedia, it was originally "Colorado Coalition for Family Values," but some radio fruitcake said that "Coalition" sounded "Marxist." Go figure.
Bunch of deluded bozos! Seven Mountain idiocy: same mindless group as Cruz' father, wherein he is a pastor, no less.
People "know" what their deity wants, yeah like Pat Robertson knows something, except how to drain money from the fools!
Jerry Falweel's Liberty U., where they teach, in THEIR law school that the founding fathers did not favor the separation of church and state, may have been the Anti-Christ. In their logic (LOL) that would explain why his Main Man took him to the big University on the sky so ealy…before he could wreck more havoc with democracy.
hi Tom and thanks for this article. I actually read the WHOLE THING. I can't say that I'm any wiser for it au contraire, I feel that I have lost more than time in that reading. Perhaps, I've lost a bit of the common sense my mom taught me. You know, a little bit of the ability to reason/think things through? There's a lot missing here in these concepts like any real cognitive thought. These pseudo-Christians aren't Christians (false or other) at all because Jesus didn't teach the garbage they are promoting and i believe there is a scripture in Matthew chapter 5 verses 3 – 48 where Jesus teachs/talks about the "Be Attitutes". Peace.