Exposing the National Prayer Breakfast as a scam [View all]
BY JACK HOLMES
... the National Prayer Breakfast .. is really a power vehicle for a shadowy fundamentalist Christian organization called "The Family" with significant authoritarian tendencies. What a great microcosm of the role of religion in American politics. It's not about Jesus, it's about power ...
... Trump's .. qualities .. have also proven useful in exposing the empty scams at the heart of many of our political rituals. He has exposed the National Prayer Breakfast by telling the truth: that he fucking hates Democrats and anyone else who will not bend to his will ... Maybe all these people should admit they came for a lobbying event ...
... Trump has exposed the Evangelical movement as a purely political vehicle for organizing White America. No group is more steadfast or enthusiastic in its support of this president than Evangelical Christians. And yet, we have to ask: what principles of Jesus Christ does Donald Trump embody? Or better: which of the Seven Deadly Sins—pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth—does he not? ...
.... Our Middle East strategy should not be dictated by doomsayers. The purpose of the First Amendment, according to one Thomas Jefferson, was to "[build] a wall of separation between Church & State." The values imbued by a particular religious faith are valuable in a secular democracy if they translate to universal human values that speak to everyone in society, not just members of that faith ...
The swift and seamless transition from boilerplate Prayer Breakfast Speak to what Trump really thinks is legitimately hilarious ...
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a16756311/religious-trump/
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