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Mariana

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22. The Evangelicals who support Trump don't see it like that.

Reply to EarlG (Reply #14)

Mon Jun 29, 2020, 09:56 AM

Jun 2020

They don't think they made a deal with the devil at all. They think Trump is God's own hand-picked president, put in office by God to implement his will, and that opposition to Trump is the same as opposition to God. Thousands of churches have been preaching this gospel for years now, that support for Trump is essentially a tenet of their Christian faith. They'll likely conclude that the forces of Satan are working through the members of the Court to attack Trump, or that God is testing their faith, or some such nutty thing. What they won't do is turn on him over this, not in any significant numbers.

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