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Lori and I are on the advisory council, Bakker said. We dont talk about that a whole lot, but he has so many of us He has so many pastors and preachers on his advisory boards, his spiritual advisory boards, that they all cant come to meet at one time.
Strang said that he couldnt say for sure whether Trump is a Christian because that question is between him and God, its not for all of us to judge him, but did note that while there were things in Trumps life that we dont approve of, you dont hear those things in the last 10 years and his language has improved.
Strang also pointed to the firing of Scaramucci in the wake of a vulgar rant he unloaded on a New Yorker reporter as further evidence of Trumps deepening faith, asserting that Scaramuccis termination was a sign that Trump didnt want his key people talking like that in public.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/steve-strang-the-firing-of-anthony-scaramucci-is-a-sign-of-trumps-deepening-christian-faith/
Hey Steve - nobody talked like that under Obama. Nobody.
madaboutharry
(40,219 posts)customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)to fundie Christians who are also delusional.
Trump has been clever at playing the fundies, though. I imagine that a fair number of them didn't vote for him in 2016, and the "shepherds" of the flock will pound home that Trump has delivered for them, at least with Gorsuch.
We really need to get a candidate that unites our base in 2020, I strongly suspect that Trump will get more popular votes that year than he did in 2016.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)I watch youtube videos of Bakker's show periodically. It can be really creepy to see in what a totally different world they live. Everything they see as America's turn from God is what we would see as greater recognition of the value and rights of each individual.
Strang and a pastor Gallops(sp?) have been especially weird recently. Paraphrasing -- 'The 100yr war of the dark vs America got much worse under Obama (of course!) and was going to be brought close to an end by HRC. Only the intense prayers of 'the church' kept her from being elected. And gave us Trump, God's annointed.
In a recent video, Kenneth Copeland explained to David Barton why God allowed Obama to be reelected in 2012 -- God allowed the US to see the evils of progressive socialism so that the people would be motivated to stop the down-ward slide.
Interesting note: Copeland attended Oral Roberts University, Barton ;graduated from there , and Michelle Bachmann graduated from the now closed ORU law school.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)PdxSean
(574 posts)Trump didnt want his key people talking like that in public.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)That's the only true measure of just how christian he is.
appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)The only God any of those clowns worship is money. And they all have amassed a huge following of fools that provide them with it while feeling the power of their hypnotism. Hallelujah
RainCaster
(10,912 posts)Buffing the Banana
Holding Your Sausage Hostage
Jackin' the Beanstalk
Rounding up the Tadpoles
Slap Boxing the One-Eyed Champ
Spank the Frank
Applying the hand brake
Attacking the one-eyed purple-headed warrior
Auditioning the finger puppets
Beef-stroke-it-off
Boxing the bald champ
Charming the snake
Checking for testicular cancer
Choking Kojak
Squeezing the cream from the flesh Twinkie
Straddle your paddle
Taking matters into your own hands
Teasing the weasel
Thumping the pump
Tickling the pickle
Cuffing the carrot
Spanking the monkey
Choking the chicken
You get the idea, this is all you will get from conservative media.
struggle4progress
(118,332 posts)They make every supper seem like your last!"
kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)Id expect to be able to push that crazy weave of 6 hairs on his head aside and see 666 on his scalp, but the spawn of Satan couldnt possibly be so fucking stupid. With his sabotage of the ACA, I now firmly believe hes broken every commandment on a grand scale. Anyone who claims this asshole is now a servant of God is a fool... or a liar.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)republicans are ANTI ANTI everything that is honest, decent, fair and true, obviously. They are busy at work birthing a kristofascist, inc. control state with an "elite" of "true believers" - and then everybody else who fails to lick their boots: The State-determined, UnWashed in the Blood of the LambChop, Pointy-Headed, FreeThinking, Fact-based, Wrong-Color, Wrong-Gender SINNERS.
Fugly. Very fugly.