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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 02:45 PM Mar 2016

Donald Drumpf Surrogate Says Bernie Sanders Needs to "Meet Jesus"

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/donald-trump-rally-pastor-bernie-sanders-needs-to-accept-jesus

A Donald Trump surrogate said during a campaign event Monday morning that Bernie Sanders needs to find Jesus. Sanders, of course, is Jewish. Many of his Polish relatives on his father's side were killed during the Holocaust.

The comment came at a rally in Hickory, North Carolina, on Monday morning, as Pastor Mark Burns warmed up the crowd for Trump—who was running late because of a plane delay. Burns, who has spoken at previous Trump events, told the audience that in order to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate, Sanders needs to accept Christianity.

"Bernie Sanders, who doesn't believe in God," Burns said. "How in the world are we going to let Bernie—I mean really? Listen, Bernie gotta get saved, he gotta meet Jesus. I don't know, he gotta have a coming to Jesus meeting."
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Watch Burns' comments in the video below, starting around the 5:26 mark.


Aaaaaand the Jew-baiting begins. Wonder what took 'em so long?
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Donald Drumpf Surrogate Says Bernie Sanders Needs to "Meet Jesus" (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2016 OP
They are going there. Holy shit Person 2713 Mar 2016 #1
Of course. Bernie's only been protected because Hortensis Mar 2016 #13
Jews don't believe in God? Lol Beartracks Mar 2016 #2
so the Father of Jesus greymattermom Mar 2016 #4
Yep. n/t Beartracks Mar 2016 #9
Remind that "man of God" ... left-of-center2012 Mar 2016 #17
Actually, many scholars sulphurdunn Mar 2016 #44
And prior to that it was Babylonian 'The Code of Hammurabi' greiner3 Mar 2016 #55
No, Conan was from Northern Europe. sulphurdunn Mar 2016 #56
Sanders doesn't believe in God. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2016 #50
I wonder if Bernie will dignify this with a response flamingdem Mar 2016 #3
Cruz already started it with "New York values" underpants Mar 2016 #5
He must be a veteran of the Antarctic penguin wars KamaAina Mar 2016 #7
LOL that's almost exact. Link to the FB post. underpants Mar 2016 #11
Don't forget the Shrimp on the Barbie battle in Australia sarge43 Mar 2016 #16
What's prehaps the most disconcerting is he's shed blood on North 'Murrica and South 'Murrica. When Erose999 Mar 2016 #22
Now we're starting to nit pick. sarge43 Mar 2016 #27
Well, if you count Grenada... Art_from_Ark Mar 2016 #52
No RecoveringJournalist Mar 2016 #43
Antarctica and Australia too? jmowreader Mar 2016 #33
Yes ..... Of course underpants Mar 2016 #34
Presenting Trumps ignorant supporters. Let us count the ways. livetohike Mar 2016 #6
dear Paster Mark olddots Mar 2016 #8
Disturbing as it is, I'm kind of surprised it didn't happen sooner. Svafa Mar 2016 #10
This has been under the surface for a while nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #12
Out in the Open noretreatnosurrender Mar 2016 #42
I love that gif in your wig line. nt awoke_in_2003 Mar 2016 #46
"King of the Jews" ring any bells for you, pastor?? Rhiannon12866 Mar 2016 #14
Not to mention, Jesus was a SOCIALIST! n/t TexasBushwhacker Mar 2016 #20
Exactly! And in the best possible way! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2016 #26
Good article, by a Christian, here TexasBushwhacker Mar 2016 #28
I love that! Very clever! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2016 #37
It's about walking the walk, not talking the talk n/t TexasBushwhacker Mar 2016 #38
Exactly! Rhiannon12866 Mar 2016 #39
Sorry pastor, but Yeweh Trumps the Jebus jpak Mar 2016 #15
... Initech Mar 2016 #18
650,000 points for best use of a Facepalm within context. KittyWampus Mar 2016 #53
re: "Wonder what took 'em so long?" I have to say I've been thinking same waiting for it. nt cyberpj Mar 2016 #19
I spoke with Jesus last night. And he's scared that he and his children are going to be deported Erose999 Mar 2016 #21
His children? KamaAina Mar 2016 #23
LOL! Coventina Mar 2016 #25
Typical fundie idiot liberalfromaustin21 Mar 2016 #24
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2016 #29
Yea, because when I think of kacekwl Mar 2016 #30
if Bernie doesn't believe in God he's not Jewish PatrynXX Mar 2016 #31
What? beam me up scottie Mar 2016 #32
Thank you. Behind the Aegis Mar 2016 #40
Technically elljay Mar 2016 #54
Religion.... SammyWinstonJack Mar 2016 #35
Didn't Trump say he does not need Jeus' forgiveness because keithbvadu2 Mar 2016 #36
It's fascist garbage like piece of S--t that creates more and more atheists every day . He is the geretogo Mar 2016 #41
So many of these so-called pastors do OldHippieChick Mar 2016 #45
I think that the bass turd who said this RoccoR5955 Mar 2016 #47
I somehow think Bernie has met the bloke. mwooldri Mar 2016 #48
Thousands upon thousands, actually KamaAina Mar 2016 #49
The last thing a real christian would do, ever, is vote for Donald Trump. Jackie Wilson Said Mar 2016 #51
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow Mar 2016 #57
Methinks Mark Burns needs a come-to-Jesus meeting. classof56 Mar 2016 #58

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
13. Of course. Bernie's only been protected because
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 03:22 PM
Mar 2016

they hope he'll take out Hillary for them. This is nothing.

Beartracks

(12,821 posts)
2. Jews don't believe in God? Lol
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 02:50 PM
Mar 2016

Pastor Burns, you may want to review the history of the Christian faith.

(Hint: Jesus was Jewish.)



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greiner3

(5,214 posts)
55. And prior to that it was Babylonian 'The Code of Hammurabi'
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 10:08 PM
Mar 2016

And before that Conan was involved somehow

 

sulphurdunn

(6,891 posts)
56. No, Conan was from Northern Europe.
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 10:30 AM
Mar 2016

The barbarians there would never have imposed anything as spiritually totalitarian as the first 4 of the Ten Commandments on themselves. That took conquest by 'more advanced' peoples.

Donald Ian Rankin

(13,598 posts)
50. Sanders doesn't believe in God.
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 07:12 PM
Mar 2016

Jew-baiting is a more fun accusation to make than atheist-baiting, but actually the Republicans' main problem with Sanders is not that he's Jewish, but that he's not Jewish enough.

underpants

(182,956 posts)
5. Cruz already started it with "New York values"
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 02:53 PM
Mar 2016

The Trump rally lead in speakers are apparently a hoot. Some young went to one expecting to jokingly join in the fun. It was a FB post that making the rounds.

One speaker called for getting rid of 911 and everyone just taking care of things themselves. Another was a Veteran who claimed to have "shed blood" on all 7 Continents in service to MURKA. Yes all 7.

Erose999

(5,624 posts)
22. What's prehaps the most disconcerting is he's shed blood on North 'Murrica and South 'Murrica. When
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 02:39 PM
Mar 2016

have we ever had hostilities on our own continent that required the regular US Army "shedding blood"? I am pretty sure that's forbidden by Posse Comiatus in the acception of declared war. Is he of the age that he fought in the Spanish American War, or the Mexican or Civil war?

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
52. Well, if you count Grenada...
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 08:46 PM
Mar 2016

You know, that Caribbean island we had to invade 3 days after the 1983 Beirut fiasco because some Commie wasn't going to let some American med students graduate, or something...

livetohike

(22,165 posts)
6. Presenting Trumps ignorant supporters. Let us count the ways.
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 02:55 PM
Mar 2016

How disgusting can this campaign get? It's only March.

Rhiannon12866

(206,332 posts)
14. "King of the Jews" ring any bells for you, pastor??
Mon Mar 14, 2016, 05:41 PM
Mar 2016

Something tells me that he got his degree from Trump University...

Rhiannon12866

(206,332 posts)
26. Exactly! And in the best possible way!
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 03:27 PM
Mar 2016

I learned about that right here on DU when someone posted that Eric Schwartz video which was dedicated to George W Bush*!

Rhiannon12866

(206,332 posts)
37. I love that! Very clever!
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 12:11 AM
Mar 2016

Thank you for passing that on! I gave a couple of Bernie shirts for recent birthdays and Christmas to those I knew would appreciate them, but got mine from Bernie's website.

And I totally agree that Bernie is a more authentic rxample of "Christian values" than anything currently being spewed by the right...

Rhiannon12866

(206,332 posts)
39. Exactly!
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 12:42 AM
Mar 2016

I supported Jimmy Carter for the very same reason. I'm currently listening to his autobiography, read by the author himself, and I had no idea of all he's experienced in his life. From what I've learned of Bernie Sanders, they're cut from the same cloth...

Erose999

(5,624 posts)
21. I spoke with Jesus last night. And he's scared that he and his children are going to be deported
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 02:26 PM
Mar 2016

should Drumpf and his pharisees come into power.

Response to KamaAina (Original post)

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
31. if Bernie doesn't believe in God he's not Jewish
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 08:06 PM
Mar 2016

do'h. at that rate they'll think Muslims are more Christian than Jews and I don't give a fuck. I'm not voting for a pastor.

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
32. What?
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 08:09 PM
Mar 2016

Being Jewish is cultural, not just religious.

Watch: Bernie Sanders’s incredibly moving answer on his Judaism

Bernie Sanders would be the first Jewish president in American history, but he doesn't talk about it much on the campaign trail.

On Sunday, Anderson Cooper asked him whether he was intentionally downplaying his heritage. Sanders gave a great response — one that this Jewish writer, in particular, found incredibly moving:

No, I'm very proud of being Jewish. And being Jewish is so much of what I am.

Look, my father's family was wiped out by Hitler in the Holocaust. I know about what crazy and radical and extremist politics mean. I learned that lesson as a tiny, tiny child when my mother would take me shopping, and we would see people working in stores who had numbers on their arms because they were in Hitler's concentration camps.

I'm very proud of being Jewish. And that's an essential part of who I am as a human being.


http://www.vox.com/2016/3/6/11171248/bernie-sanders-jewish-2016

Behind the Aegis

(54,027 posts)
40. Thank you.
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 12:43 AM
Mar 2016

I would say it is shocking how little people seem to know about Jews, but given the anti-Semitism I have seen and the excuses made for it, I am not really at all surprised. There is a reason history repeats itself; ignorance!

elljay

(1,178 posts)
54. Technically
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 04:46 AM
Mar 2016

Jews are not required to believe in God. This is one way we differ from Christianity, which is a faith-based religion. Judaism is a law-based religion. Jews are required to follow the commandments in the Torah, so if you don't worship another god and keep the rules, your lack of personal faith is not going to condemn you (which is not to say that being a public atheist is a good idea in an observant community). The big complaint you read about Bernie in religious Jewish publications is not that he doesn't believe in God, but that he doesn't follow the commandments.

geretogo

(1,281 posts)
41. It's fascist garbage like piece of S--t that creates more and more atheists every day . He is the
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 02:10 PM
Mar 2016

American version of the Taliban.

OldHippieChick

(2,434 posts)
45. So many of these so-called pastors do
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 12:05 PM
Mar 2016

not even have to get a divinity degree to preach at some of these fundie churches. It's no wonder they have no idea what they are talking about. Had a fundie call our Presbyterian minister an "apostate" which made us all chuckle.

 

RoccoR5955

(12,471 posts)
47. I think that the bass turd who said this
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 05:55 PM
Mar 2016

Needs a visit from the Secret Police. In the middle of the night, with a warrant for his arrest.

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
48. I somehow think Bernie has met the bloke.
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 06:15 PM
Mar 2016

I'm pretty certain that there is a chance he's shook hands with him.

How many people called Jesus are there in the USA ?

Jackie Wilson Said

(4,176 posts)
51. The last thing a real christian would do, ever, is vote for Donald Trump.
Thu Mar 17, 2016, 07:15 PM
Mar 2016

More proof that most of them are hypocrites and the religion has little meaning.

Response to KamaAina (Original post)

classof56

(5,376 posts)
58. Methinks Mark Burns needs a come-to-Jesus meeting.
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 01:49 PM
Mar 2016

Clearly, as I understand what that means, Burns has never had that experience. A red-letter version of the Gospels might be in order, as well. What an ugly excuse for a human being he is, much less a "pastor".

Shame on him! He makes me embarrassed to be a Christian, lapsed though I am.



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