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Very interesting article about why some fundies can support Individual #1. The link is to a New York Times piece, it has a paywall so put your browser in private mode and read away.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/31/opinion/trump-evangelicals-cyrus-king.html
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The month before the 2018 midterms, a thousand theaters screened The Trump Prophecy, a film that tells the story of Mark Taylor, a former firefighter who claims that God told him in 2011 that Donald Trump would be elected president.
At a critical moment in the film, just after the actor representing Mr. Taylor collapses in the flashing light of an epiphany, he picks up a Bible and turns to the 45th chapter of the book of Isaiah, which describes the anointment of King Cyrus by God. In the next scene, we hear Mr. Trump being interviewed on The 700 Club, a popular Christian television show.
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Todays Christian nationalists talk a good game about respecting the Constitution and Americas founders, but at bottom they sound as if they prefer autocrats to democrats. In fact, what they really want is a king. It is God that raises up a king, according to Paula White, a prosperity gospel preacher who has advised Mr. Trump.
Ralph Drollinger, who has led weekly Bible study groups in the White House attended by Vice President Mike Pence and many other cabinet members, likes the word king so much that he frequently turns it into a verb. Get ready to king in our future lives, he tells his followers. Christian believers will soon, I hope become the consummate, perfect governing authorities!
The great thing about kings like Cyrus, as far as todays Christian nationalists are concerned, is that they dont have to follow rules. They are the law. This makes them ideal leaders in paranoid times.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Because everything Trump touches, turns to SHIT.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)N_E_1 for Tennis
(9,772 posts)Not outed yet.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)I think at least some evangelicals were leery heading into the election and held their noses to vote for Trump, but I think that has solidified since because of the RW judges and SCOTUS appointments.