Trump and the "Religion Connection" [View all]

[Septua]

I'm sure some at DU already know this, but I hadn't remotely considered it...

I was thinking about why a sensible, sane, God-fearing individual could possibly support Donald Trump for another term when Trump is the antithesis of a sensible, sane, God-fearing personality. So, I Google searched 'bible scripture references for Donald Trump' (something like that) and came up with several.

In a nutshell, the religious radical right has decided God chose Trump to make America great again.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/3/5/16796892/trump-cyrus-christian-right-bible-cbn-evangelical-propaganda

Standing on a sunny street, reporter Chris Mitchell says, “Christians are divided about what to do on Donald Trump.”

Some want to abandon him, he says. Others want to stand with him. But others, he says, are wondering: Does Trump have a “biblical mandate” to become president?

For these leaders, the biblical account of Cyrus allows them to develop a “vessel theology” around Donald Trump, one that allows them to reconcile his personal history of womanizing and alleged sexual assault with what they see as his divinely ordained purpose to restore a Christian America.

I cannot comprehend how anyone could come up with that degree of asininity to excuse Trump or worse, dare to.

“I think in some ways this is a kind of baptism of Donald Trump,” says John Fea, a professor of evangelical history at Messiah College in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “It’s the theopolitical version of money laundering, taking Scripture to … clean [up] your candidate.”

I agree with Mr Fea...