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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 02:30 PM Aug 2016

Texas Theocrat Says Voting For Trump Is OK Because God Has ‘A Different Standard’

Americans United blog:

Texas Theocrat Says Voting For Trump Is OK Because God Has ‘A Different Standard’

David Barton, the Religious Right’s favorite phony historian, says if you don’t vote for Trump, God might hold you accountable.

Aug 15, 2016 by Simon Brown in Wall of Separation

David Barton, the Religious Right’s favorite phony historian, is trying to sell his base on voting for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. But where most of Barton’s allies have resorted to pumping up Trump by dumping on Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, Barton acknowledges Trump’s flaws – but says they don’t matter because Trump has been chosen by God to lead the United States.

Furthermore, Barton says, if you don’t vote for Trump, God might hold you accountable.

Barton in late June asserted that God had a hand in the GOP primaries because there were so many “God guys” in it. In a recent teleconference hosted by former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s My Faith Votes, Barton warned evangelical Christians not to stay home on Election Day just because they don’t like Trump or Clinton.

“We will stand before God one day and answer for everything we’ve said and thought and done,” Barton opined. “[God will say,] ‘I gave you your country, what did you do that with?’ ‘Well, I didn’t do anything because I didn’t like any of the candidates.’ Really? You think God is going to buy that...He’s going to say, ‘I gave you a vote. What did you do with that vote I gave you?’ ‘Well, I couldn’t use it for anybody.’"


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Seems to me that "different standard" is one reason for the First Amendment's Establishment Clause...

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Texas Theocrat Says Voting For Trump Is OK Because God Has ‘A Different Standard’ (Original Post) Panich52 Aug 2016 OP
I do not think god really cares who wins the election Angry Dragon Aug 2016 #1
Holy Bullshit, Batman sailfla Aug 2016 #2
Yep Andy823 Aug 2016 #3

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
1. I do not think god really cares who wins the election
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 02:56 PM
Aug 2016

I have been told that the rapture is just around the corner

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
3. Yep
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 04:11 PM
Aug 2016

Vote for the guy who committed adultery, lies constantly, is a racist, brags about all the women he has slept with, considers sleeping with all those women and getting VD compares to going to Vietnam, and untold other sins, because we all know that's the guy "GOD" wants us to vote for! How damned stupid can these idiots be?

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