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cyclonefence

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12. You are absolutely right about this

Reply to RealGuyinChicago (Original post)

Sat Jun 25, 2022, 02:32 PM

Jun 2022

and it's hard for people who did not grow up observing evangelicals to understand or believe. The deeper the sin, the more glorious the salvation once the sinner comes to Jesus and is born again.

As a child in WV I was transfixed by televangelists welcoming the worst sinners they could dig up--and telling of their own disreputable pasts with all the drinking and girl-chasing, although I grew up in an atheistic household. You really have to study these guys on TV if you don't have perssonal experience with them.

You're right; they love Trump more because of how horrible his past sins have been. I think an evangelical could get born again on his deathbed, sinning right up to the moment before he died, and be sure he was going to heaven.

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People keep asking why evangelicals love a toad like Trump. [View all] RealGuyinChicago Jun 2022 OP

they like him cause he delivered them overturning roe AlexSFCA Jun 2022 #1

Yea JanLip Jun 2022 #10

Very well explained. Thanks! nt Jade Fox Jun 2022 #2

Trump isn't born again, the christofascist know damn good and well he isn't. Thomas Hurt Jun 2022 #3

It's a grift of course (nt) RealGuyinChicago Jun 2022 #9

To the Pig yes, the christofascists have been working on a christian theocracy here since Reagan. Thomas Hurt Jun 2022 #11

Correct Cosmocat Jun 2022 #21

You get a lot of that in 12 step programs... Wounded Bear Jun 2022 #4

Nope. They do not actually believe he's reformed. harumph Jun 2022 #5

It's amazing how some people will bend over backwards Mariana Jun 2022 #16

I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt RealGuyinChicago Jun 2022 #17

This stupid fucking decision from THIS SC. will be the biggest fireworks display for the bluestarone Jun 2022 #6

Excuse me, you misspelled the word "turd." raccoon Jun 2022 #7

If pure "evil" provides their needs, that "evil" is God. Baked Potato Jun 2022 #8

You are absolutely right about this cyclonefence Jun 2022 #12

Because he's THEIR toad misanthrope Jun 2022 #13

Trump has never become "born again" lees1975 Jun 2022 #14

Yep Cosmocat Jun 2022 #22

They don't have to make excuses for him being an awful person. Mariana Jun 2022 #15

They are willing to whore themselves out to spread their theocratic fascism. roamer65 Jun 2022 #18

They knew he'd help get them what they wanted: Courts packed wtih theocrats. GoCubsGo Jun 2022 #19

"Cheap grace" is at the heart of it. And what Ted Kennedy called "Neanderthal justices". keep_left Jun 2022 #20

Because of Racism. White evangelicals are just white Supremacists JI7 Jun 2022 #23

Just another Trump sham, all part of the grift RANDYWILDMAN Jun 2022 #24

Exactly (nt) RealGuyinChicago Jun 2022 #27

I have to disagree... brooklynite Jun 2022 #25

True. But here's the thing with Trump RealGuyinChicago Jun 2022 #26

They don't share common theology, but they share a common ideology lees1975 Jun 2022 #28

I like the ones who think Trump is a Good Ol Boy who drinks beer and drives a pickup cherish44 Jun 2022 #29