Trump's Golden Idol at CPAC

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Just checking here -

When Barack was referred to as a messiah, was anyone on the left, or atheist bringing up objections?

Common Core Lesson Teaches Children Obama Is A Messiah
During the Soul Train Awards in 2012, comedian and actor Jamie Foxx exhorted a wildly cheering crowd to "first of all (give) honor to god, and our lord and savior Barack Obama," exhibiting the all-too-widespread hero worship that casts rational thought aside and labels even legitimate criticism as virtual blasphemy.
Anyone complain? Beuler? Beuler?

Messianic rhetoric infuses Obama rallies

In a giant Sunday afternoon rally suffused with Christian – and at times messianic – rhetoric, Barack Obama made his largest-scale pitch to black and white Democrats of South Carolina, the third and most devout presidential primary state.
Beuler? Beuler?

How about children singing praises to the messiah Obama

If you didn't raise the same issues then, why are you raising them now?
 
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I am not sure if I can, but I'll try.

You are anticipating what it might be like to be a Christian rather than experiencing it first-hand.
You are operating from theory rather than experience. The latter cannot be accurately estimated by outsiders.
Ah, I see. Okay, I’ll phrase it as a question. Would a Christian (specifically excluding people who profess to be Christian but do not follow God’s rules of behaviour) act in such a way as to appear as if they were engaging in idolatry?
 
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...act in such a way as to appear as if they were engaging in idolatry?
That goes back to
"Are selfies the same as idolatry, or are they just silliness...?"
I see Trump as having been an exceptional POTUS, but he is still going to Hell if he doesn't get saved (just like everybody else).
 
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You know, deity the Christians revere. Purported not to like the worship of idols. You would have thought people who profess to be Christians would try to obey his commands.

Well, the Good News is that Christians have a personal relationship with someone who has promised to forgive them every time they choose not to obey the deity's commands.

Anyone can play golf like Arnold Palmer... with an infinite supply of Mulligans.
 
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Bethcha I do. And the vast majority of 75,000,000 others who have the capacity to tell the differencer between taking a selfie at a convention and worshiping an idol. And it doesn't take 30 pieces of silver to learn that either.

The statue tides them over until the real Idol arrives.

But let's see if this statue isn't just a symptom of the bigger problem -- CPAC is supposed to be a symposium of American Conservative ideas...

So.... what are their ideas this year?


One day I pray you come into a relationship with it's author.

The only such relationships I've seen have been too toxic for my liking.
 
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That goes back to
"Are selfies the same as idolatry, or are they just silliness...?"
I see Trump as having been an exceptional POTUS, but he is still going to Hell if he doesn't get saved (just like everybody else).
That does not answer my question to you. It’s okay if you don’t want to answer.
 
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The statue tides them over until the real Idol arrives.

But let's see if this statue isn't just a symptom of the bigger problem -- CPAC is supposed to be a symposium of American Conservative ideas...

If CNN is every hiring, you could make a great Jim Acosta, you never leave your accusations once stated and completely ignore a reply

I hear they pay very well.

case in point


When Barack was referred to as a messiah, was anyone on the left, or atheist bringing up objections?

Common Core Lesson Teaches Children Obama Is A Messiah
During the Soul Train Awards in 2012, comedian and actor Jamie Foxx exhorted a wildly cheering crowd to "first of all (give) honor to god, and our lord and savior Barack Obama," exhibiting the all-too-widespread hero worship that casts rational thought aside and labels even legitimate criticism as virtual blasphemy.
Anyone complain? Beuler? Beuler?

Messianic rhetoric infuses Obama rallies

In a giant Sunday afternoon rally suffused with Christian – and at times messianic – rhetoric, Barack Obama made his largest-scale pitch to black and white Democrats of South Carolina, the third and most devout presidential primary state.
Beuler? Beuler?

How about children singing praises to the messiah Obama

If you didn't raise the same issues then, why are you raising them now?
 
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That does not answer my question to you. It’s okay if you don’t want to answer.
You'd first have to come up with an actual idol or real idolatry if you want an assessment of it.

If that's not forthcoming, the only possible answer has to be categorical: "Idolatry is wrong."

But this has been said already. :)
 
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That goes back to
"Are selfies the same as idolatry, or are they just silliness...?"
I see Trump as having been an exceptional POTUS, but he is still going to Hell if he doesn't get saved (just like everybody else).

Well, we know what happens when the blind lead the blind... what happens when the damned lead the self-proclaimed "saved"?
 
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Like the Statue of Liberty, the Martin Luther King monument, and the Lincoln Memorial?

:mmh:

I don't even have a problem with Buddha statues.

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...In fact, I can't think of a single idol I don't like.
 
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If CNN is every hiring, you could make a great Jim Acosta, you never leave your accusations once stated and completely ignore a reply

I hear they pay very well.

I'm sorry; did you mean to quote someone else?
 
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Well, we know what happens when the blind lead the blind... what happens when the damned lead the self-proclaimed "saved"?

Matthew 23:15 -
15“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
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Like the Statue of Liberty, the Martin Luther King monument, and the Lincoln Memorial?

:mmh:

The Statue of Liberty is different because it represents an idea, not a person. One could, I suppose, say the same for the Donald statue, which would explain why it's made of fake gold... which would certainly explain its popularity at CPAC.

The MLK and Lincoln statues are to memorize people after they are dead. While Donald will indeed one day go the way of all flesh, he does not yet qualify.
 
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No one is worshipping him, they are taking selfie’s at a Republican event with a mock up of the former President in a Stars and Stripes bathing suit.

good grief. Have we brought distain of an individual to such a level that we can’t even have a humorous moment?

Good thing they didn’t put it in a Speedo, who knows what the accusations would be?!
Your arguments are so coloured by bias and patently absurd.
If Biden wheeled out a golden idol of himself you'd be all over it.
And left leaning christians would be ALLLLLL over it.

The depths to which Trump stoops to show you his lack of faith and desire to be worshipped is a never ending. That right leaning christians continue to make excuses for this, while their brothers and sister implore them to open their eyes to what is in front of them, it's just shocking.
 
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No one is worshipping him, they are taking selfie’s at a Republican event with a mock up of the former President in a Stars and Stripes bathing suit.

good grief. Have we brought distain of an individual to such a level that we can’t even have a humorous moment?

Good thing they didn’t put it in a Speedo, who knows what the accusations would be?!
That's the modern version of worship.

What happens when people meet their favourite super star....they don't bow down and worship. They take selfies.
 
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