Televangelist demands all Christian leaders include Trump's name in prayer

[sandensea]

The group of so-called Christian evangelists who support Trump are conmen pandering to a base that will blindly support them and line their pockets with money. One such ‘Christian’ named David Lane is teaming up with Newt Gingrich to urge pastors in Lane’s American Renewal Network to include Trump’s name in prayer.

Lane also wants them to pray for a hefty tax cut this fall. He and Gingrich believe the tax cut is the key to keeping Republicans’ seats in 2018 and beyond.

Gingrich and Lane don’t believe in the separation of church and state. Lane is known for linking Republican candidates up with conservative pastors to boost candidates’ popularity.

Gingrich believes Trump has already made a “huge difference” and is “starting to turn America in the right direction.” He then glorified Trump as a “remarkably powerful but complex person.” Gingrich also highlighted the appointment of Neil Gorsuch as a major Trump accomplishment.

At: http://realtimepolitics.com/2017/08/05/trumpvangelist-demands-trumph/

David Lane. Praise the Lawd and Pass the Loot.

[LongTomH]

1. Gag!!!!

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Mass? Never gonna happen.

[Brother Buzz]

6. I'm reading it as 'In mass', as in altogether, not 'in Mass'

But then again, I'm wrong more times than I'm right.

[CurtEastPoint]

12. I thought that, too but it's 'en masse.'

[Laf.La.Dem.]

3. Trump can put his hand on your pussy

We can put our hand on your money

[Docreed2003]

4. Not to pick a nit....

But I've never met an evangelical that calls a church service "mass". I say that as someone who is the product of an evangelical Southern Baptist/Roman Catholic upbringing!! Yeah...I had a confusing childhood!

[sandensea]

7. The headline should have indeed referred to it as 'prayer'

Or Black Mass, in any case.

It's GD; I'll go ahead and edit it. Thanks!

[Docreed2003]

38. Hey no worries....sorry if my post seemed like it was an attack!

[sandensea]

41. No - not at all!

It was very helpful. Thank you!

I hear you, though: people tend to be thin-skinned, and can sometimes read an offense where none was intended. So much in life is sheer misunderstanding.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. "... and deliver us from Trump." Done (nt)

[sandensea]

8. There was a popular joke in the '70s about Idi Amin.

Amin, you might recall, decreed in 1975 that all citizens pledged allegiance to him personally - and foreigners in particular (the few that remained) kneel before him at least once to do so.

The pledge, the joke had it, should end with "deliver us from evil Amin."

[dalton99a]

31. They had to do it, or he'd eat them

[sandensea]

35. You're not kidding!

Great research, btw. Hadn't seen that photo since my African History class in college (I'm not Black; but I've always found Africa fascinating).

Don't get me started on Mobutu!

[syringis]

9. I don't know how...

...in english. In french we say "marcher sur la tête" which literally means "walking on the head.

[sandensea]

18. Do they have nicknames for Trump in France yet?

Le coc escroc, peut être?

[syringis]

20. Hello sandansea

I took a quick look, but it seems not.

What I have learned is that you gave a great bunch of nicknames

I loved this one : Adolf Twitler

[sandensea]

21. Mais, merci!

My favorite? Cheeto!



"We're going to whine like we've never whined before - believe me!"

[syringis]

24. Lol sadly true

I posted a toon from a belgian caricaturist. At least, there is one time Trump did not lie

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029420378

[sandensea]

25. Tres bien!

Quelle pagaille, n'est-ce pas?

I posted a translation (correct me if I'm wrong! It's been years since my college French 101).

[syringis]

26. Your...

... french is still good

[sandensea]

28. Merci encore!

[syringis]

34. Mais de rien,

tout le plaisir est pour moi

[calguy]

10. Beware of False Prophets

[Grassy Knoll]

11. Lol.....

[sandensea]

16. And He expelled the money changers (i.e. bankers) from the temple!

Oh, well. They always have the Trump White House to use as a hideout.

[Xolodno]

23. and said give unto Ceasar's what is Ceasar's...in other words..

...pay your damn taxes.

[sandensea]

37. Ah, taxes. The reason most holy rollers are in bidness in the first place.

I'd bet a lot of them have Cayman accounts as well.

[lpbk2713]

13. OK if I call him Brother Shithead?

How about by his title, Bullshitter-in-Chief?

[sandensea]

15. Is Trump a Freemason?

If he is, I bet they call him just that behind his back.

[SouthernIrish]

55. I seriously doubt it.

My family has Masons in it going back 4 generations on both sides. I don't think they would even consider him.

[sandensea]

57. I agree. If he applied, they probably rejected him.

And if he ever was, he was probably expelled.

I was once invited to join by a Navy veteran with whom I discussed politics for a couple of years (he was a Republican turned independent, mostly in disgust over the Iraq War). Unfortunately I just couldn't decide - a habitual problem of mine, sorry to say.

It's amazing how few of our fellow Americans know that most of our founding fathers were in fact Freemasons - and that they were, of course, staunch believers in the separation of church and state.

[Owl]

14. They aren't Christians. They're Shitheads.

[sandensea]

17. The American Taliban.

But in a way worse, because the rest of us pay their taxes for them.

[NastyRiffraff]

45. Oh, they're Christians all right

Not good Christians, but Christians nevertheless.

[sakabatou]

19. "Let us indoctrinate the sheep into the cult of personality."

[smirkymonkey]

22. Tax the shit out of them!

That should cover the 1% tax cut. Bastards!

[sandensea]

27. Amazing isn't it.

Certainly not what the founding fathers had in mind.

[smirkymonkey]

49. Love this!

Thank you! Very wise words.

[sandensea]

50. You bet.

making these ideals the law of the land will always be an uphill struggle as long as 40%+ of our fellow Americans believe the founding fathers were Bible thumpers.

[Ilsa]

29. I have a message for David Lane,

delivered by Colin Firth:

The text: I'm a Catholic whore, currently enjoying congress out of wedlock with my black Jewish boyfriend who works at a military abortion clinic. So, hail Satan, and have a lovely afternoon, madam.

[sandensea]

33. Probably describes Lane to a tee.

Lane, and most of the rest of them.

[spanone]

30. and god demands lane shut the fuck up.

[RandySF]

32. OMG I just had a dream

We were sitting in a mandatory church service reading from a state-spossred bible.

[Initech]

36. And Jesus wept, I believe is the next verse.

[COLGATE4]

39. Would you buy a used car from this man?

[sandensea]

42. And God knows, so many do.

Robert Schuller, the Orange County drive-in televangelist.

[dembotoz]

40. How 30s Germany of him

[sandensea]

43. When fascism comes to America...

[Solly Mack]

44. These people are simply sick in the head.

They need help.

And a padded room.

[VMA131Marine]

46. I'm Episcopalian, we pray for the President

Whoever he is during the prayers for the people. There is no scriptural basis to pray for a tax cut.

[sandensea]

47. Least of all a tax cut for the top 2%.

Very un-Christlike of Gingrich (but then, what else is new).

[grantcart]

48. I don't know, I am kind of conflicted on this but my feeling is that we should give it a test

I'll get the nails, you get the cross and lets give it a chance. If he comes back on the third day then he is the real deal.

[3catwoman3]

51. The rest of us...

...can take his name in vain on a regular basis.

[sandensea]

52. And I doub't He'd mind.

"My kingdom is not of this world." - Jesus Christ, as quoted in John 18:36

[3catwoman3]

53. Just to be clear, I was referring...

...to Donnie 2 Scoops, not JC.

[sandensea]

54. I beg your pardon.

Of course, to his robots they're practically one and the same.

[3catwoman3]

56. No problem. I didn't want you to think I was...

...being disrespectful. I think the teachings of Jesus are largely admirable. The way those teachings have been bastardized and co-opted by the freaky fundies, to justify attitudes and behaviors that Jesus would surely abhor, is where I have a big problem. I definitely do NOT respect that.

(Agnostic Unitarian Universalist here)

[sandensea]

59. Agnostic as I am, I try to respect Christ as a role model (though I often fail to live up to it!)

I'd like to think there's something out there bigger than ourselves and this troubled world of ours. But I've also always found it very presumptuous of religious leaders to claim to know who or what it may be.

[milestogo]

58. I believe that is known as idolatry.

[sandensea]

61. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

?6

[ProudLib72]

60. Grope for God?

All these evangelicals look evil to me. I think they must be possessed by demons. They need to take up snakes, lots and lots of snakes, in order to be saved.

[haveahart]

62. Oh, for the days when the FCC would not allow this.

[dchill]

63. Doing more damage than any atheist, Muslim or ...

Satanist could hope to achieve.

[Blue_true]

64. Clown like him will be available as long as the demand lasts.

They hate educated people because that cut into their profits.