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Which were started by then President Bush and his warmongers and were poorly executed.
Obama started more wars than Bush did.
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Which were started by then President Bush and his warmongers and were poorly executed.
Trumps values were transactional and they won him the presidency. They were never his values, they were the votes values and that's why he had such a hard time job representing them. As Christians we shouldn't be so quick to amen every Republican. The presidency can and will fall and America's value system can and will fall. our faith should be based on the infailable not the failable.When Trump was running for president, I watched him court the Religious Right by appearing on their shows in interviews. Trump would say things like, "I read the Bible more than anybody," but when asked what his favorite passage was, said, "the New Testament." I'm a teacher and looked up from my grading and thought "you didn't read the book, did you?" I mean, come on, if you have to quote a verse, John 3:16. When asked if he asked God for forgiveness said no, because he hasn't done anything wrong.
Clinton appeared on a radio show or podcast with two black men and one black woman. The woman asked "what is something that you always keep in your purse?" Hillary said, "hot sauce" and you can see the black girl fall out laughing at here, aware of how pandering she sounded. The African American community were already at odds with her quotes of the past about super predators and bring them to heel. The protests would have been a great time for discussion and healing, but Clinton chose to simply quiet the voice.
I assumed that the Religious Right were kind of making a deal with the devil if we vote for Trump, he will put conservative Supreme Court justices to help illegalize abortion, etc.
But a Canadian talk show host would go to rallies, ask people what they thought of ghe "Grab her by the" comment. One woman said, "Didn't happen," When told it was on tape - fake news
While I don't expect anyone to be perfect, he was notorious for his racist comments towards most communities of color, was an expert in creating fear of some other, being divisive, all the while QAnon was claiming he was going to destroy a secret cabal and free us all as well as arrest people in human traficking rings kind of like Indiana Jones and Short Round, to the point that anything questionable he said or did was ignored and it bordered on worship like a cult leader.
What was the draw, exactly? He seemed to be running for president for his own gain and ego, but because people followed him so blindly, I understood what happens when the anti-Christ appears. Despite a number of red flags, all that needs to be done is to create z common enemy, say what you want to hear, and dangle a carrot from a stick.
And because this is how so many opposing him saw him, using critical thinking, many of us were left confused about how he had so much power over others.
Where?Obama started more wars than Bush did.
As Christians we shouldn't be so quick to amen every Republican. The presidency can and will fall and America's value system can and will fall. our faith should be based on the infailable not the failable.
The media made in image of McCain that was far from reality. Originally the media called him "Songbird" for his extensive violation of the military code of conduct during the war (Snopes is wrong, it was the media, not a group of veterans, who came up with the name.) There's a book that mentions the charge of a POW/MIA spouse whose husband was missing who was groped by McCain, then McCain was a member of the Keating Five, he falsely went after a POW/MIA sister (recorded on CSPAN), during a Senate hearing and yes he did dump his wife and played around with a rich girl after she was in an accident. But they remade him out to be some kind of hero. As to Trump, the one thing I was surprised at was that he delivered. And he was mercilessly attacked by the press because he was an outsider, not a member of the corrupt Washington/media alliance. It is amazing that some people don't see the difference in how Trump and Biden are treated by the media. To those people, take a non-political issue such as mental health, the press went after Trump but gave Biden a pass when any objective observer can tell Biden is far more cognitively challenged than was Trump.People weren't falling over John McCain in 2008 like they were for Trump in 2016 and following years. Yes, there were people who mistakenly thought John McCain was a man of God just because he was a Republican. But there were not as many people fired up about McCain the same way they were fired up about Trump, nor was there such a stark contrast between the candidate's actions in the relatively recent past and Christianity as there was with Trump, which didn't seem to matter. Sure, McCain had an affair and "married" the mistress 28 years before his nomination, but at the time of the nomination he could believably pass as a Christian anyway with the other things he did and said. Trump's past with women was far worse, far more recent (including the non-consensual kissing he bragged about), and in that election year he publicly admitted that he failed to grasp any need to repent for anything. Many Christians did vote for him anyway, because Clinton was her own kind of horrible, but at least they did so with the understanding that he wasn't a Christian. But the really insane part is how some Christians became hostile to other Christians who admitted and criticized Trump's faults as a person. When this very measured column doing so was written (which attempted consistency between judging Mr. Trump and Mr. Clinton), that was my friend's break with Christianity Today as a news source. McCain never would have been that sort of a lightning rod.
This comes closest. He resonates with something. And my sister, who is one of the biggest Trump admirers I know, is just like him (without the money).https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/authoritarian-therapy/202009/what-is-the-appeal-trumpism
"Trump has established an emotional connection with 40% of the American people. In my opinion, it is a narcissistic identification with Trump that is at the heart of his appeal. That Trump can say he can shoot someone and retain appeal, or grab women by the genitals, suggests he has tapped into the unconscious desires and thoughts of millions of Americans. His vulgarity, indecency, and law-breaking leads his followers into a narcissistic identification – as if they are Trump."
No, I wasn't forgetting that, but what Obama gave us in reply was the longest recession in American history, called everywhere "The Great Recession." So that is what Trump inherited (and promptly solved).You are forgetting that the economy fell into the ditch with then President Bush.
I'm deciding how many "pinocchios" that one deserves.By the time Trump came to office, the economy was in full recovery.
What a garbage article, more name calling than anything else. So typical.This comes closest. He resonates with something. And my sister, who is one of the biggest Trump admirers I know, is just like him (without the money).
The "pinocchios belong to you.No, I wasn't forgetting that, but what Obama gave us in reply was the longest recession in American history, called everywhere "The Great Recession." So that is what Trump inherited (and promptly solved).
I'm deciding how many "pinocchios" that one deserves.
The "pinocchios belong to you.
If you are trying to exonerate Obama by use of that source material, you're reading something into my comments.
By "gave us" the Great Recession, I was saying that Obama had eight long years and he didn't get us out of that misfortune. He made it the GREAT Recession because of his failure in handling the downturn.
We all know that Obama didn't start the recession, but he failed bigtime to get us out of it. It took Trump to accomplish that.
You believe a lie.If we agree on that, Obama still remains the failure, over eight years, to get us out of it. But Trump did.
This. And the fact that many false prophets in and around those mega churches painted a picture of Trump which likened him to king Cyrus.I think the reason he was supported was that he represented the personification of 'dominionism' - a theology held by many modern mega churches.
They claim to have the authority to establish the 'Kingdom Now' and you can hear it in the way they pray... "I release this... "I command that...
An assumed authority that has departed from the sermon on the mount and the principle of less of us and more of Him.
That may well be for the wealthier people, but for poor people where I was, the recession didn't really hit until late 2009 when companies started cut backs. Some people resisted eating opossum until 2010 or even 2011.The "Great Recession" lasted from December 2007 too June 2009. The Federal government,, under President Obama, was credited with the subsequent recovery. Read the linked article.
And it clearly was not the case that the country recovered during the Obama years.That may well be for the wealthier people, but for poor people where I was, the recession didn't really hit until late 2009 when companies started cut backs. Some people resisted eating opossum until 2010 or even 2011.
Irrelevant when it comes to the OP topic.And it clearly was not the case that the country recovered during the Obama years.
You think it's "irrelevant" to the OP topic ("Why do so many Christians revere Trump?") when it Trump who brought back prosperity after eight years of the Great Recession under Obama?Irrelevant when it comes to the OP topic.
Trump "bringing back prosperity" is debatable.You think it's "irrelevant" to the OP topic ("Why do so many Christians revere Trump?") when it Trump who brought back prosperity after eight years of the Great Recession under Obama?
Many people actually prefer prosperity, Akita.
Not to most people who lived through that period in our history. Do you remember "Cash for Clunkers" that did nothing to help? Or the "Shovel-ready projects" that Obama himself had to admit did not exist. And that's just a sample.Trump "bringing back prosperity" is debatable.