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There is a story today about Trump signing bibles in a Baptist church. Is it heresy? I don't know, but it's definitely ironic.
Timewas
(2,196 posts)It fits...
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,909 posts)At best, it was in very poor taste. I was offended and I'm not even religious.
malaise
(269,225 posts)and I saw a letter addressing him as king.
It's frightening
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,320 posts)That's about as dumb as hugging the flag.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)I wonder if people get a coupon for a Chinese non-therapeutic massage with the Bible signing.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Made backwoods evangelicalism mainstream. Saw it in my family and community.
But at least the dude was a preacher who by all accounts actually believed what that book said. And lived his life that way walking the straight and narrow.
keithbvadu2
(36,968 posts)Not actually the Bible. Only the NT.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)Anyway, he signed actual Bibles, too.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/HISTORIC-BILLY-GRAHAM-SIGNED-BIBLE-OKLAHOMA-CITY-CRUSADE-1956-VINTAGE-SIGNATURE/143137854455?hash=item2153ae53f7:g:8zsAAOSwk~Vcauqj
https://www.ebay.com/itm/1917-Scofield-Reference-Bible-Signed-by-Billy-Graham-and-Others/264157820652?hash=item3d810876ec:g UYAAOSwpLdcR4jU
keithbvadu2
(36,968 posts)Trump signed some on the cover.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)How, exactly?
Marcuse
(7,531 posts)Hekate
(90,894 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,862 posts)That sums Trump up perfectly.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)the fucker literally can do no wrong GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
keithbvadu2
(36,968 posts)What other adulterer who ridiculed Holy Communion would republicans/evangelicals want to sign their Bible?
dalton99a
(81,648 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,968 posts)Blessing of the AR-15s here in America.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141998365
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DFW
(54,448 posts)Mariana
(14,861 posts)If they want to have his autograph on their Bibles, why should he refuse their request? These people are his base, after all.
Xolodno
(6,406 posts)...signed by the people who gave them to me, along with a note of course. Nothing wrong with that.
I also don't idolize religious texts, they are at the end of the day, just books. It's the message they convey in my opinion that is important.
But even today, the Catholic and Orthodox churches would be very "aggravated" and such a demonstration. Likewise, even Protestants and Evangelical Protestants wouldn't approve accept in the case, like mine. Ultimately, bad taste.
But have to wonder, with that many people asking for this....did somebody help orchestrate this?
Clash City Rocker
(3,402 posts)Ive been given bibles that were signed on the inside, but if anyone had ever signed the cover, that would have seemed, at the very least, a little weird to me.
murielm99
(30,778 posts)Initech
(100,108 posts)jmowreader
(50,567 posts)Especially the warnings about "false Christs."
ck4829
(35,094 posts)Vinca
(50,319 posts)EricMaundry
(1,619 posts)Runningdawg
(4,526 posts)When fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.