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'Blessed are the shameless': Ex-Bush speechwriter rakes evangelicals over the coals for Trump supportBrad Reed 12 MAR 2018 AT 07:43 ET
Michael Gerson, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, has written a lengthy piece in The Atlantic raking evangelical Christians who back President Donald Trump over the coals.
In particular, Gerson notes that the values that Trump espouses on a regular basis are values that have in the past been antithetical to Christian morals.
Trumps unapologetic materialism his equation of financial and social success with human achievement and worth is a negation of Christian teaching, he writes. His tribalism and hatred for the other stand in direct opposition to Jesuss radical ethic of neighbor love. Trumps strength-worship and contempt for losers smack more of Nietzsche than of Christ. Blessed are the proud. Blessed are the ruthless. Blessed are the shameless. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after fame.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/blessed-shameless-ex-bush-speechwriter-rakes-evangelicals-coals-trump-support/
kentuck
(111,106 posts)Blessed are the uneducated.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)I guess his target readers are not these Trump supporting evangelicals.
matt819
(10,749 posts)Some questions.
How would you get this in front of trump voters?
And would it make any difference among those voters?
They will somehow change a Bush speechwriter into a raging leftie.
Notwithstanding a few (so far) flipped R-->D seats, these people do not do well with cognitive dissonance.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)women and wants the ones who have sex without permission to die in back alleys, and so do they.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)is going to cause a lot of their eyes to glaze over.
You'd probably need to summarize it in 30 to 60 second commercials and run them on Fox News and on shows that are popular with RWers like Duck Dynasty
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)Break the article into a bunch of tweets... no, wait, still too long. Make an executive summary and break that down into a bunch of tweets... hmm. Ok, have some Foxbarbie read the executive executive summary to them while Hannity and Jones foam and spit in the background.
world wide wally
(21,748 posts)I always thought the part about not lying was somewhat important but it is rarely mentioned when they are justiifying him.
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)Oh, I'm sorry, I meant IF he cheated, they'd be okay with that. Can't remember who put together a man-on-the-street video of his supporters saying this, but I think someone posted a link to it at DU.
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dalton99a
(81,531 posts)They all can go to hell where they belong
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)Their adoration of Trump is sorely misplaced.
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workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)It makes me sick.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)by pretending that they give a shit about Christian teachings, and then behaving like Dirty Donnies* deplorable dummies. They have fouled the brand for all eternity.
keithbvadu2
(36,835 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Evangelicals denied the teachings of Jesus Christ and got in bed with Satan for political power.
They are all exposed by their worship of Trump as liars and the biggest hypocrites on earth!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)The hypocrisy is astounding.
mgardener
(1,817 posts)For hypocrites.
keithbvadu2
(36,835 posts)Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.
They support Trump who says he is so perfect that he does not need Christ or his forgiveness.
Like today's evangelical/religious right supporters, Trump is a Political Christian, not a Christian of faith.
Evangelicals/religious right are easily able to spin their beliefs for political expediency.
The Donald who does not have to ask Jesus for forgiveness.
Trump: Drink my little wine, have my little cracker
http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/08/13/donald-trump-religion-serfaty-dnt-erin.cnn
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Imagine the wailing and lamentation from the religious right if Hillary or BHO or any democrat had said the exact same thing!!!
They would be burning down the white house if a dem president said that, but its the evangelicals god emperor so he gets a pass!
Even when he boldly denies Christ, he gets a pass!!! Trump is their 'god' now!
UpInArms
(51,284 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,835 posts)Would believe Trump over Jesus for credibility
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/11/21/trump_voter_if_jesus_christ_came_down_from_the_cross_and_told_me_trump_was_with_russia_i_wouldnt_believe_him.html
About 2:55 on the timeline.
"Let me tell you," he continued. "If Jesus Christ gets down off the cross and told me Trump is with Russia, I would tell him, hold on a second, I need to check with the president if it is true. That is how confident I feel in the president."
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bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Reporter, it gave any compassionate person a birds eye view of his true spirit. He was just a bully and a rich snot nosed jerk.
Evangelical Christianity is just a political movement disguised as a religion and there are plenty of bullies in that movement.
dalton99a
(81,531 posts)happy feet
(869 posts)Motley13
(3,867 posts)Moostache
(9,897 posts)Workers just smart enough to work the buttons on the cash register and just dumb enough to not care how badly they are being fucked by those in charge. (Thanks to the immortal George Carlin on the analogy...)
Christians, especially the wacky Young Earth Creationist flavor, fill that bill PERFECTLY. They have been getting fucked by their pastors and priests and "holymen" for eons...and yet they still come back for more. They are the original BOHICA gang. The fact that they continue to support Trump is no different than the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, the "Reformation" or the Catholic priest scandals...leadership of the religious cults is NEVER held accountable, EVER.
Trump is just the latest in a very long line of hypocrites to use and abuse the morons of the evangelical bent...
DownriverDem
(6,229 posts)Ending abortion
Upthevibe
(8,055 posts)A couple of weeks ago. What a p.o.s....
dalton99a
(81,531 posts)no matter what
These people are downright evil.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)Trump is demonstrating that it's OK to be selfish and hateful,which is a great relief to them.
It frees them to be who they really are and not feel guilty about it.
Trump is truly the new Christ for them.
DownriverDem
(6,229 posts)It's all about ending Roe v Wade for these repub evangelicals. I don't see much about it either.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Most of their leaders do not believe in what they preach.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Their massive bank accounts, mansions, luxury vehicles, fine clothes, private jets etc.
You will know what their true religion is then, it's so damn obvious.
JHB
(37,161 posts)Evangelicals may have given Trump his margin of victory, but who did these same people back in every election for nearly 40 years? Who did they provide the margin of victory for? Republicans. Conservative Republicans.
Conservatives courted and groomed evangelicals to single-issue vote for Republicans based on hot-button grandstanding issues. Once in office, they passed their tax cuts, deregulation, and other pet projects.
Gerson was fine with Newt Gingrich exhorting Republicans to speak about Democrats not as a loyal opposition, but as "the enemy of normal Americans." That was a quarter century ago. He was fine with the conservatives burning down every norm of behavior in their Quest for the Holy Grail of AnythingThatWillBringDownBillClinton. He was fine with Bush squeaking into office under questionable circumstances, in the closest election in American history and with a popular vote loss but pushing full-bore for a hard conservative agenda anyway. He was fine with drill-bit-grade spinning to sell a war. He was fine with the Republicans' Second Quest to BlockAndDelegitimizeObama24/7. And the reprise of the first Quest (fortified with 15 years of fermenting bile).
Scold your party, Mike, but don't leave out that they are your party. You Built That.
Conservatives took over the Party of Lincoln and turned it into the Party of Ahab.
If this development was at all shocking, maybe you need to stop writing columns, stop appearing on the TeeVee, and go fishing for 5-10 years, however long it takes you to decompress, unswell your head and extract it from your ass.
bottomofthehill
(8,336 posts)I posted this (Below in bold)in the why I am a Democrat post last week. Michael Gerson is an interesting person. Did not often agree with him i the Bush administration, still probably dont agree with him much today, but on thes he is right
I am a pro education, pro environment, pro science, pro choice, pro union, pro equality, pro diversity, pro progressive tax code, anti poverty, anti hunger, anti hate, anti war unreconstructed Liberal Democrat. I worked on the Ted Kennedy Presidential Campaign in 1980 before I was old enough to vote and cast my first vote for Fritz Mondale once I was old enough to vote. I am not a bible thumper, or pious faker, I think of myself as more spiritual than religious, but I believe that the greatest political speech ever given was by Jesus Christ, the Sermon on the Mount.
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn: for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek: for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful: for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
I always believe that we are ALWAYS BETTER with a Democratic Majority.
Permanut
(5,616 posts)last week out of WMUZ in Detroit, summed up perfectly the mental gymnastics required for thumpers, Trumpers and gun humpers to support Mango Mussolini; he said that "we Christians believe in second chances".
I have no idea how to even begin to describe how twisted these people are.