Trump's top evangelical ally: God supports bombing North Korea

A short time after Trump spoke Tuesday afternoon, threatening that North Korean aggression would “be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,” one of his closest religious advisers made that link explicit. In a statement emailed to journalists Tuesday afternoon, Pastor Robert Jeffress praised Trump’s aggressive statement as a function of divine will.

“When it comes to how we should deal with evil doers, the Bible, in the book of Romans, is very clear: God has endowed rulers full power to use whatever means necessary — including war — to stop evil. In the case of North Korea, God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong-Un.”

Jeffress has long been one of Trump’s political allies, one central to Trump and his team’s increasingly unsettling conflation of Christianity, nationalism, and pro-Trump cult of personality. Jeffress spoke at Trump’s inauguration. In July, he led a “Freedom Rally,” during which he praised Trump as “God’s choice for America.”

At: https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/8/9/16118628/robert-jeffress-trump-god-supports-bombing-north-korea

Pastor Robert Jeffress and the current occupant of the White House.