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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat's with the God fixation all of a sudden?
First that weird attempt at prayer and now this.
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H2O Man
(79,258 posts)that God works for him.
Recommended.
spanone
(142,064 posts)K&R
Maru Kitteh
(32,015 posts)Everything exists for him, real and invented. Every resource, every belief, exists for him. Every grain of sand, the wheat and the chaff. All for him.
markodochartaigh
(5,545 posts)Has been a common bumper sticker for decades in Texas and the South.
Martin Eden
(15,886 posts)Most believers conceptualize God as a supreme being much greater than themselves to be worshipped, obeyed, and often feared.
The Felon is an entirely self centered malignant narcissist, putting himself before all others. He may view some players on the world stage as members of his elite status or examples to emulate, but subservience to a supernatural power that sits in judgment and punishes transgressors?
I think not. He worships only himself. I doubt his lizard brain conceptualizes "God" as anything but a means for pandering to and securing support from the useful idiots who fall for his con job.
To varying degrees, the same goes for "conservative" politicans and preachers who gain wealth and fame proselytizing a God who, if he exists, would punish them for their feckless greed and cruelty towards the most vulnerable of God's children.
H2O Man
(79,258 posts)Just my opinion, but I think christian nationalists create a god in their own image. Many other good people believe in a Santa God with a stained-glass Jesus. Surely a Thomas Merton is in a tiny minority.
The felon has no more understanding of "god" or "good" than an alligator or crocodile.
Martin Eden
(15,886 posts)The monotheistic God is created in man's image -- an evolutionary progression from primitive societies believing in elemental powers, to the pantheon of deities before the Abrahamic religions supplanted them.
Being agnostic myself, I have no certainty as to whether a form of supernatural consciousness communicated to humans during the past, by means understandable to them. However, I am certain institutional religions became the means by which men motivated by wealth and power manipulated the masses to do their bidding.
I find more value in the spiritualism of Native American concept of Manitou, in which all things have a life force. They lived WITH nature and respected it, rather than ravage it as a commodity for short term profit.
If there is a supernatural being in this universe, I think it would judge Native American spiritualism as far superior.
Tribetime
(7,145 posts)Solly Mack
(97,272 posts)CTyankee
(68,495 posts)thank you for considering my request.
Solly Mack
(97,272 posts)Anywhere.
CTyankee
(68,495 posts)Solly Mack
(97,272 posts)But it's still just wine.
irisblue
(37,934 posts)IMO
nolabear
(43,850 posts)My fear is hes dying to be part of some 21st Century Crusades. Big religious conflict.
Fortunately hes very, very bad at it.
markodochartaigh
(5,545 posts)but about 78 million people in the US are considered evangelicals. And they voted about 80% Trump. It's a lot. And of course they are gerrymandered so that their votes count more.
https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/who-are-evangelicals-pew-study/
irisblue
(37,934 posts)niyad
(134,050 posts)insanity, tim lehaye, was the founder of the bizarre Concerned Women for America, run by (ostensibly), his spokeswife beverly. She once said on national tv that, "if we don't teach teenagers about sex, they won't do it."
H2O Man
(79,258 posts)100% aimed at the superstitious.
Recommended.
ananda
(35,520 posts)he also really wanted to be pope.
nolabear
(43,850 posts)Hes going to be SO disappointed. Maybe a participation trophy.
Renew Deal
(85,369 posts)Even if he immediately deescalated. He's going to have to do a lot more to get there.
Retrograde
(11,450 posts)msongs
(74,206 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,267 posts)Scrivener7
(60,080 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,267 posts)I will say this, I have never believed the Dead Sea Scrolls were found accidentally, as the story goes.
The Blue Flower
(6,598 posts)And why does it matter?
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,267 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 24, 2025, 02:40 PM - Edit history (1)
But, he lies enough to be the man of the lie. The Essenes were probably dealing with someone, or a culture, involved with something deeply taboo. Trump, well, he just likes to lie.
rickyhall
(5,510 posts)Renew Deal
(85,369 posts)0rganism
(25,715 posts)Today's SCOTUS decision re. federal agents having summary exiling privileges is only the start of some very surprising high court decisions we'll be getting for the next couple months, as well as the impending chaos in the middle east. F47 is going to want those troops, deployed both here and abroad, fired up with the holy spirit's finest murder juice to "restore order" upon protesters foreign and domestic.
MIButterfly
(3,149 posts)Every day he makes less and less sense. Israel and Iran came to him? Who in Israel and Iran went to him? Are they in the room with us now? In what alternate universe did any of them go to him? Did they have tears in their eyes and say "Sir, Sir, please show us the way to peace?"
Lord have mercy, that man is completely nuts.
canetoad
(21,039 posts)He is like Jesus in the hope of snaring a Nobel.
PufPuf23
(9,952 posts)thought crime
(1,787 posts)2MuchNoise
(872 posts)SamKnause
(14,946 posts)RockRaven
(19,755 posts)tends towards religious, and he is attempting to manipulate them a la affinity fraud in a manner which is laughably transparent to everyone except said base.
orleans
(37,200 posts)i hope
regnaD kciN
(27,703 posts)that, while DJT has always been a non-believer, the trauma of being shot at, plus the subsequent narrative from Christian nationalists that he was saved by God, have actually convinced him that there is a God (who is just like him, of course), and who has indeed chosen him to carry out His will (which is, once again, the same agenda Trump was already carrying out). In other words, hes developed a whole new level of megalomania.
nolabear
(43,850 posts)But then hes a bad tv president.
what version of "The Apprentice" is in his delusional head???? I hope it's cancelled.
thought crime
(1,787 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 24, 2025, 02:01 PM - Edit history (1)
Trump thinks God works for him.
Figarosmom
(13,427 posts)Of course that's just wishful thinking. He's appealing to the Jesus crowd.
These people that Krystal is talking about
B.See
(8,874 posts)all part of the CON.
SheltieLover
(81,735 posts)Klarkashton
(5,422 posts)This is absurd.
Karasu
(2,081 posts)C Moon
(13,744 posts)I hope to GOD he's at the bottom of the list.
Irish_Dem
(82,386 posts)Scrivener7
(60,080 posts)You know, the time when then Prince of Peace shows up in Idaho and annihilates everyone on earth except 144,000 people who sufficiently despise everyone else.
Taco has always periodically played into that narrative.
And the assholes fall for it every time!
bdamomma
(69,629 posts)religion, he thinks he's God. The only thing he has reverence for is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and himself.
thought crime
(1,787 posts)Nietzsches Übermensch or superman is not constrained by society or religion. He has his own will and values. It was probably a mistake to give Trump full immunity.
hatrack
(65,153 posts)MoseShrute
(146 posts)Religiosity is the final bastion of a scoundrel. When all else fails, start tossing god into the mix.
orangecrush
(31,182 posts)Ping Tung
(4,370 posts)yardwork
(69,648 posts)Response to nolabear (Original post)
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malaise
(298,027 posts)That is all
Bayard
(30,295 posts)If there was, trump, the Anti-Christ, would have been smote a long time ago.
Emile
(43,288 posts)
stillcool
(34,407 posts)seems to work well with little effort.
republianmushroom
(22,735 posts)Jilly_in_VA
(14,624 posts)laying hands on him.
nolabear
(43,850 posts)Speaking in tongues. Bless their hearts.
LudwigPastorius
(15,011 posts)So, he figures he'd throw the old guy a bone by invoking his name in a tweet every once in awhile.
Vinca
(54,343 posts)carpetbagger
(5,516 posts)He wants to be worshipped and to speak for God. In the eyes of America's Christians, it's working.
Uncle Joe
(65,544 posts)despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary for most everyone else to see, they actually believed he cared about their needs, among them no more bullshit endless wars.
The un-provoked bombing of Iran was as a bucket of cold water on their delusion.
Keep and eye out to see whether his newfound morals or God is big enough to actually care about the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing going on in Gaza, not to mention how the Palestinians are treated in general.
Thanks for the thread nolabear
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