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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCriticizing Trump is "blasphemy!"
Well, Jim Bakker says so...
Jim Bakker: People Blaspheming Trump Are Bringing About The End Times
Last week, televangelist Jim Bakker listed several signs of the Last Days, which he said includes not only people blaspheming God but also those who are blaspheming a president who wants to do good.
Bakker said that many people want have blasphemed Donald Trump, who Bakker described as a righteous man who wants to help us not bring drugs into our country, stop murderers and rapists and literally to bring America back to a place where your kids can still walk the streets around your house at night.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jim-bakker-people-blaspheming-trump-are-bringing-about-the-end-times/
Warpy
(111,267 posts)We know you and Dump are in the same business, cheating poor folks out of money so you can get rich quick.
Why anybody cares about what comes out of your gob is a mystery to me.
malaise
(269,022 posts)+1,000
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)who went to prison for fleecing his parishoners by running a scam disguised as a ministry.
longship
(40,416 posts)Fuck them both in the ass with a stolen dick!!
How's that for some blaspheming?
(Homage to George Carlin.)
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Both are disgusting, filthy, opportunistic, exploitative pigs who definitely won't fit "through the eye of a needle."
shraby
(21,946 posts)From Miriam's dictionary:
A: the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God
B: the act of claiming the attributes of a deity
C: irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable
Since when did the donald become God?????
delisen
(6,044 posts)not Jim Whatshisname's.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)"Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, to religious or holy persons or sacred things, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy
By arguing that insulting Trump is blasphemy, convicted felon Jim Bakker implicitly equates Trump with God or some other holy person. Christians believe in one God, consisting of the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit - Which one is Trump? If I'm committing blasphemy by insulting Trump, can I argue that Bakker is committing heresy?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)has got Bakker by the nuts.
These kind of people are more dangerous than Trump.
These are the kind of people who commit mass suicide a la Jonestown or blow themselves up for God.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Unless Bakker is somehow claiming divine status for Trump, blasphemy does not apply.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 5, 2017, 01:10 AM - Edit history (1)
if he says Trump is divine such that you can't talk smack about him. Heresy is the formal denial or doubt of a core doctrine of the Christian faith, which, if I recall correctly, does not include the worship of an elected leader of a secular government.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)is Bakker the antichrist?
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,719 posts)TlalocW
(15,383 posts)It's the return of Jesus in their mythoogy. Everything is going to be 100,000,000,000 times better! Who cares about kids walking around at night on Earth when you've got hot and cold running manna in your gold mansion in the clouds?
Also, doesn't Bakker sell survivalist kits?
TlalocW
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)this shows he knows jack about politics.
Loser.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,205 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)That time-tested concept that criminals do not compromise the activities of other criminals.
Fuck 'em both.
JHB
(37,160 posts)...and the people who give him money are pre-selected as suckers for con men.