The world-renowned Bible scholar finally read the damn thing yesterday

[dalton99a]

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TLDR: "Be loyal to me"

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[House of Roberts]

1. Totally convenient

for a man who has no friends, hence, no one to lay down his life for, but also no one to lay down THEIR life for him.

[IzzaNuDay]

2. notice he read from the book titled with his middle name

way to cherry pick, orange man!

[sinkingfeeling]

3. So which 'friend' does he want to die for him?

[Irish_Dem]

10. He wants the entire country to die for him if asked.

[NanaCat]

11. And worse, to do it while thanking him for the privilege.

nt

[walkingman]

4. IF I never hear the name "Trump" again it would be fine with me.

What a fucking lunatic.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Not that he or his hordes have any intention of following the verse before:

"This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you".

Love all your fellow human beings? That's not the MAGA way. They need groups to act as scapegoats and people to be punished.

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[NanaCat]

12. Well, he doesn't say love your fellow human beings

He was addressing his disciples, and the more likely interpretation is that he meant for them to love one another. If he'd meant a broader group, he needed to state that in unambiguous terms.

He'd certainly made it clear in other parts of the book that he didn't care very much for all of humanity, only those of Israel who followed him. He was often quite explicit about that one. See Matthew 10 where he makes it clear he's bringing a sword to divide people from one another. Or Matthew 15 and his dismissive words that he deems only those of Israel as not dogs and thus only they are worthy of his help. Or how he repeatedly calls for torturing people who don't agree with him.

Me, I don't think it's love if someone wants to hurt anyone forever for what they think.

[PatSeg]

13. In his mind it probably reads:

"Love me as I have loved myself."

[surfered]

7. He did not know this as the only time he's ever been in church is to find a quiet place to contemplate how...

...he was going to con his next mark. Someone else came up with it to con the Evangelicals.

[NanaCat]

14. Why do people tell this lie about him never being in church?

His family were regular attendees at Norman Vincent Peale's church, and he continued to attend as an adult, although I doubt he was there every Sunday. His first and third weddings were in a church, and Peale officiated the first one. He attended services at St John's Episcopal on the day of his inauguration, and Easter services at the Episcopal church near merde-farto. In fact, before he polluted the White House he had an attendance record at church of sporadic Easter and Christmas services typical of average modern christians in the US.

It's not difficult to learn any of that, so why do people insist on lying that he never attends church?

Like it or not, he's a christian. Christians will just have to learn to deal with that if they don't like the association.

[surfered]

15. Because...

Pastor David Lewicki took to Twitter Tuesday to state that not only was he pastor of New York City’s Marble Collegiate Church for about five years where Trump was on the member rolls, he’d never seen Trump at the church. Not at Bible study, not a service. Never.

[GreenWave]

8. I sayeth unto ye, IQ 45 tied his ass to a tree and walked nine miles.

[dalton99a]

9. +1. Jesus spoke in his native King James dialect

[republianmushroom]

16. But trump you have no friends, only sheep.

[Abolishinist]

17. Not original to me, but

"Have you heard this one? Raquel Welch, a priest and 2 Corinthians walk into a bar…."

Seriously though, this is a call to arms. If you consider yourself to be a friend of the former you will gladly die for his cause.