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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEvangelicals still support him
This has been one of the puzzles of the last elections. How can a group? cult? fans? - not sure - that supposedly put "family values" on its mast, can support someone who, in between three wives no doubt fornicated many times, who lied and cheated, groped?
One explanation was that they never accepted Hillary as an independent career women who did not choose to "fulfill her wifely obligation" of staying home by her man and her children.
Someone was on Joy this morning, someone who is finally disappointed with Whiny Donny but explained that they supported him for his "pro life" stand (conveniently adopted on June 2015) and his appointment of supreme court justices who would be "pro life."
He and Joy were going back and forth and I could not stand it anymore, went to CNN. There was Micheal Eric Dyson - what a pleasure to listen. And he said that they should just move these monuments to museums, remove them from the public square.
Back to the supreme court appointees. This, of course, has been the crux of elections since... 1988 (this is when I became active). And I have been preaching this during each and every cycle.
So for all the ones who stayed home because Hillary was not good enough for them, they did not just give us a boy who throw tantrums at the White House, they doomed our Supreme Court for generations.
Will we all learn in 2020?
If I am still on these pages, if these pages are still around - don't know what happened to the administrators - I, and I hope everyone, will drum this point again and again.
OK, end of rant
Crowman2009
(2,497 posts)...still support him.
spanone
(135,841 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,607 posts)people are usually the biggest hypocrites on the planet. They know they are amoral in many ways but if they "say" they are religious Christians then they can use that to wipe away any and all the horrible acts they have committed. It is like a get out of jail free card. They can rip off poor people but they are not guilty of anything bad since they go to church once a year so that wipes their slate clean.
The same is true of their hypocritical leaders.
uponit7771
(90,346 posts)... that's when Red Dons goose is cooked.
Doodley
(9,092 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)There's a bible verse to that effect. If Trump was elected it was Gods will and God has a purpose for Trump no matter who he is or what he does. It's God who chose him so no matter what anyone thinks or how it looks to them they must have immovable faith that there's a reason. No matter what happens.
What stupid thinking. What a dangerously ignorant way to live and waste the lives of all thinking beings.
3catwoman3
(24,005 posts)...to that "selected by God" belief when if came to President Obama. Did god take a break for 8 years?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)They may say Obama was an instrument to cause the people to realize they're need to fight for righteousness, or maybe he was a punishment that they would have to live under a black man because of their sin of not having faith, or that he was setting up the conditions in the hearts of true believers to be prepared for whatever the hell else. I dont know... you can use your imagination. Certainly that's all 'they' are doing but don't seem to know it.
The only important thing is they must accept, believe and not second guess Gods will.
I grew up with this BS. I'm just relating my experience.
PoorMonger
(844 posts)Still.
This was admitted by the guy still in Trump's religious council today when he spoke to Joy. He couldn't point to anything specific he liked about Trump's presidency but Gorsuch.
This is enough for these people because they have let those two things define how they see morality. Frankly it's fucked up, but there it is in simple terms.
JI7
(89,250 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)ck4829
(35,077 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)These people would not know the meaning of the word christian.
DFW
(54,399 posts)He'd probably ask, "what IS this place, anyway, and what do they do here?"
Although in all fairness, that's the same reaction I had--when I was about 4.
pwb
(11,275 posts)Because they have abandoned their Jesus, and just because they don't like leaving out Jesus in X-mas. It's o k to leave Jesus out of their thoughts and actions, but not Christmas.
question everything
(47,485 posts)claim that they do not seek a "moral leader" or a preacher. They want him to fix... whatever.