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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(132,017 posts)
Fri Mar 22, 2024, 07:09 PM Mar 2024

'God gave us Trump': Christian media evangelicals preach a messianic message

NEW YORK (Reuters) - "This is really a battle between good and evil," evangelical TV preacher Hank Kunneman says of the slew of criminal charges facing Donald Trump. "There's something on President Trump that the enemy fears: It's called the anointing."

The Nebraska pastor, who was speaking on cable news show "FlashPoint" last summer, is among several voices in Christian media pressing a message of Biblical proportions: The 2024 presidential race is a fight for America's soul, and a persecuted Trump has God's protection.

"They're just trying to bankrupt him. They're trying to take everything he's got. They're trying to put him in prison," author, media personality and self-proclaimed prophet Lance Wallnau said in October on "The Jim Bakker Show", an hour-long daily broadcast that focuses on news and revelations about the end times that it says we are living in.

"The hand of God is on him and he cannot be stopped."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/god-gave-us-trump-christian-100346241.html

God gave you Trump as a test and you evangelical morons failed it.

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'God gave us Trump': Christian media evangelicals preach a messianic message (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2024 OP
Hey kids, wanna learn what sunk cost fallacy is? ck4829 Mar 2024 #1
god gave us trump? Conjuay Mar 2024 #2
the lord giveth...and taketh away nt msongs Mar 2024 #3
Not everything God gives is good, sometimes it's a punishment Shellback Squid Mar 2024 #4
Did he run out of locusts? Ocelot II Mar 2024 #5
GMTA from the first time some idiot came up with that "Gawd sent Trump" line... Hekate Mar 2024 #12
You're not alone on this. Eugene Mar 2024 #17
GMTA from the first time some idiot came up with that "Gawd sent Trump" line... Hekate Mar 2024 #13
Do anything you want with us - even send Donald Trump - but please, God, don't send a swarm of locusts Shermann Mar 2024 #27
Someone up there has a sick sense of humor. Emile Mar 2024 #6
God gave us Trump? keithbvadu2 Mar 2024 #7
God has a sick sense of humor. Yavin4 Mar 2024 #8
Indeed Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2024 #22
Using that logic, God also gave us Hitler, Pol pot, Idi Amin, Joseph Stalin, and countless others. patphil Mar 2024 #9
Like to see folk on the street Sunday mornings outside this (and other) church(es) with signs ... sanatanadharma Mar 2024 #10
TSF is he Anti Christ.. why would your god do that? Cha Mar 2024 #11
Wasn't one of the prophecies in Revelations that the AntiChrist would be no_hypocrisy Mar 2024 #26
Probably! Cha Mar 2024 #31
God gave us Donald Trump, house flies, and techno-pop. Ping Tung Mar 2024 #14
He also gave us Hitler, Pol Pot, Putin, cancer, etc., the list is long for a benevolent god. republianmushroom Mar 2024 #15
If god hildegaard28 Mar 2024 #16
God didn't even give Trump to Job. Xavier Breath Mar 2024 #18
God gave us bubonic plague, COVID and leprosy too RainCaster Mar 2024 #19
Civilization gave us laws. limbicnuminousity Mar 2024 #20
If my church told me who to vote for... Initech Mar 2024 #21
God gave them diarrhea, too DFW Mar 2024 #23
Nah, Someone Else Did WiVoter Mar 2024 #24
Yes, the human embodiment of the 7 deadly sins Cosmocat Mar 2024 #25
Then god is a fucking psychopath. niyad Mar 2024 #28
Their God also gave them the piles of dog poo samnsara Mar 2024 #29
LIke all drugs, religion is squeezed for the brain rewards until it doesn't pay off anymore. lindysalsagal Mar 2024 #30
My question. If God wants TFG, why wait? bluestarone Mar 2024 #32

ck4829

(37,322 posts)
1. Hey kids, wanna learn what sunk cost fallacy is?
Fri Mar 22, 2024, 07:13 PM
Mar 2024

Last edited Fri Mar 22, 2024, 08:40 PM - Edit history (1)

“Jim Bakker must be a holy prophet who is right about Trump, you wouldn’t have given your life savings to him if he wasn’t, right? Right?”

Shellback Squid

(9,843 posts)
4. Not everything God gives is good, sometimes it's a punishment
Fri Mar 22, 2024, 07:19 PM
Mar 2024

and the GOP party is realizing and feeling it

Hekate

(100,131 posts)
12. GMTA from the first time some idiot came up with that "Gawd sent Trump" line...
Fri Mar 22, 2024, 08:00 PM
Mar 2024

What, no locusts? We surely got a plague, though.

Morons. Dangerous, dangerous morons.

Eugene

(66,702 posts)
17. You're not alone on this.
Fri Mar 22, 2024, 09:10 PM
Mar 2024

Likely the first thought of many, many people who hear that line.

Hekate

(100,131 posts)
13. GMTA from the first time some idiot came up with that "Gawd sent Trump" line...
Fri Mar 22, 2024, 08:00 PM
Mar 2024

What, no locusts? We surely got a plague, though.

Morons. Dangerous, dangerous morons.

Shermann

(9,001 posts)
27. Do anything you want with us - even send Donald Trump - but please, God, don't send a swarm of locusts
Sat Mar 23, 2024, 07:51 AM
Mar 2024

Maybe we can pull a Br'er Rabbit reverse psychology on the Almighty and get off easy with the locusts.

patphil

(8,618 posts)
9. Using that logic, God also gave us Hitler, Pol pot, Idi Amin, Joseph Stalin, and countless others.
Fri Mar 22, 2024, 07:49 PM
Mar 2024

If you're going to believe that God installs leaders, I'd have to say he's done an absolutely horrible job over the millennia.
For every great leader, there has also been at least 2 or 3 terrible ones.
I don't think God plays that game. We were given free will to choose what kind of people we want to lead us.
It's part of the process of learning what is truly valuable in life, and what isn't.
Trump? Well, he's shown himself to be a self-centered, callous, loveless, greedy tyrant.
It's evident he has no love in his heart, except for the love of himself, and all the wealth and power he can draw to himself.
People who worship him don't know God.

sanatanadharma

(4,075 posts)
10. Like to see folk on the street Sunday mornings outside this (and other) church(es) with signs ...
Fri Mar 22, 2024, 07:55 PM
Mar 2024

Like to see folk on the street Sunday mornings outside this church(and others) with signs simply saying "This Church Teaches Blasphemy"

no_hypocrisy

(54,047 posts)
26. Wasn't one of the prophecies in Revelations that the AntiChrist would be
Sat Mar 23, 2024, 07:13 AM
Mar 2024

embraced as a Messiah?

hildegaard28

(792 posts)
16. If god
Fri Mar 22, 2024, 09:07 PM
Mar 2024

Chose Trump, why didn't Trump win the last presidential election? You would think that if their all-powerful god really favored their orange messiah he would have actually won. They are totally hearing the wrong message from their god.

limbicnuminousity

(1,414 posts)
20. Civilization gave us laws.
Fri Mar 22, 2024, 09:44 PM
Mar 2024

The natural order gives us bodily autonomy. Morality tells us the right thing to do. Ethics tells us the right way to do things. Yet Trump violates all of these higher order values. So it follows that their sky demagogue leans towards the uncivilized, unnatural, immoral and unethical.

Sounds like they worship Nurgle.

Cosmocat

(15,331 posts)
25. Yes, the human embodiment of the 7 deadly sins
Sat Mar 23, 2024, 06:43 AM
Mar 2024

Was anointed by God and POTUS who is a humble, decent, practicing Christian is the spawn of Satan.

America 2024.

samnsara

(18,706 posts)
29. Their God also gave them the piles of dog poo
Sat Mar 23, 2024, 08:30 AM
Mar 2024

..they step in, the stomach flu, COVID, and their bad teeth

Cant cherry pick!

lindysalsagal

(22,823 posts)
30. LIke all drugs, religion is squeezed for the brain rewards until it doesn't pay off anymore.
Sat Mar 23, 2024, 08:39 AM
Mar 2024

I believe the evangelicals added tfg for that very reason: Toe continue and improve the brain rewards their religion no longer delivers. But this, too will diminish, and then you see t hen using this extreme language. Its will also not pay off and as he's tarnished in the courts next month, and they empty his coffers, he'll mean even less. I also think it's the reason the GQP is melting before our eyes. It was never a serious attempt at governance: It was a drug.

When they're all sobering up, the anger will be intense. I think that explains the little success Nikki Haley had against him: The worm has turned.

bluestarone

(21,001 posts)
32. My question. If God wants TFG, why wait?
Sat Mar 23, 2024, 01:55 PM
Mar 2024

God can do anything right? Hell, just put tfg there NOW? Why wait? IDIOTS, all of them!!

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