My mother is convinced he’s chosen by god even though he’s a terrible person. She’s just hand waving all of his obviously ‘sinful’ behavior as irrelevant to god doing god things. She keeps saying ‘he’s a man for such a time as this’ and it’s fucking wild how hard she’s gone in on this fascism since I broke contact with her and stopped fact checking her.
I feel your pain. My very religious mother just supports him because he’s anti-choice. Nothing else matters, not the bragging about SA, not his obvious worship of the almighty dollar, not Jan 6. As long as more babies get shat out unto the world, regardless of the environment they’ll live in, that’s all that matters.
I can’t disagree with you on that, despite how sad it makes me. She’s progressive in almost all other areas, but she’s a single issue voter so it doesn’t matter. She’ll vote for fascists because they pay lip-service to her beliefs.
She’s one of those Christian’s that has no idea what ideology they follow. They just listen to what they like and run with it. Absolutely zero thought put into it.
It says he’s a man of no principles who will take any audience or following he can get, as long as it gets his foot in the door. Even if the following is antithetical to the few things Trump keeps near and dear to the cancerous black mulch he has where the rest of us keep our hearts.
For evangelicals, it says they’re batshit crazy, but that’s not new information.
Actually one of his staff who was of the MANY arrested testified that behind closed doors after getting back from a rally… Trump commented on his religious followers by saying something to the effect of “Can you believe people really go for that kind of stuff”
In reference to the existence of God.
If he doesn’t believe in God he is by definition an atheist
He certainly claims to be, and i guarantee you he would never proclaim to be an outright atheist (unless of course it was socially or politically advantageous).
Trump is literally an atheist who has been caught mocking the faith of his own followers in private
He’s also an elitist east coaster that they used to hate.
I’m just glad that we can firmly document that Hank Hill would not vote for Trump. Dale Gribble probably would though
Dale gribbles probably third party. He’d believe the election was stolen, but by the aliens, and that Biden is secretly one of them.
To which Hank would go “Dale, you gibblet head.”
Thatherton, though…
Not sure if this says more about him, or the average practioner of these religions who keep voting for him.
My mother is convinced he’s chosen by god even though he’s a terrible person. She’s just hand waving all of his obviously ‘sinful’ behavior as irrelevant to god doing god things. She keeps saying ‘he’s a man for such a time as this’ and it’s fucking wild how hard she’s gone in on this fascism since I broke contact with her and stopped fact checking her.
I feel your pain. My very religious mother just supports him because he’s anti-choice. Nothing else matters, not the bragging about SA, not his obvious worship of the almighty dollar, not Jan 6. As long as more babies get shat out unto the world, regardless of the environment they’ll live in, that’s all that matters.
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I can’t disagree with you on that, despite how sad it makes me. She’s progressive in almost all other areas, but she’s a single issue voter so it doesn’t matter. She’ll vote for fascists because they pay lip-service to her beliefs.
But … He’s not even anti choice, he’s just in the same team as anti choice people.
Like most Republicans he’s in the camp of “privileges (in this case abortions) for me not for thee”. He’s definitely caused some abortions.
Calvinism is a hell of a drug.
And she’s not even Calvinist lol.
She’s one of those Christian’s that has no idea what ideology they follow. They just listen to what they like and run with it. Absolutely zero thought put into it.
Calvinist thinking seems to run throughout American fundamentalism. Or possibly just humans in general; tribalism didn’t start with Calvin.
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It says he’s a man of no principles who will take any audience or following he can get, as long as it gets his foot in the door. Even if the following is antithetical to the few things Trump keeps near and dear to the cancerous black mulch he has where the rest of us keep our hearts.
For evangelicals, it says they’re batshit crazy, but that’s not new information.
So I’d say it says more about him
Trump is not an atheist. He’s a pretender who will say whatever the fuck he thinks makes him look good
Actually one of his staff who was of the MANY arrested testified that behind closed doors after getting back from a rally… Trump commented on his religious followers by saying something to the effect of “Can you believe people really go for that kind of stuff”
In reference to the existence of God.
If he doesn’t believe in God he is by definition an atheist
By definition, yes, but i think the term “charlatan” is more apt.
I mean if he were a New Atheist then I’d agree.
But he seems to be just your average run of the mill, simply doesn’t believe in God types.
Why do you think Trump is spiritual/religious in ANY way?
He certainly claims to be, and i guarantee you he would never proclaim to be an outright atheist (unless of course it was socially or politically advantageous).
Trump is a fucking liar in all regards.
Does declaring yourself an atheist make yourself look good in American politics in your experience?