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Trump has a better understanding of the Bible than Pope Leo, says conservative Christian pastor
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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All I want to know is when the church will start booting these guys to the curb and denouncing them.
He’s an evangelical, so the only requirement he has is saying ‘I’m a pastor.’ This particular one already has a litany of controversial quotes and, like many evangelicals, is staunchly anti-catholic, calling them a satanic Babylonian cult at one point.
Is this the same guy who just did a blessing of a golden statue of Trump, insisting it wasn’t a golden calf?
Different guy, same ilk.
I wonder if he would say the same about the actual golden calf that was on display at Mar a Lago a while ago.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mar-a-lago-goat-trump/
It may seem obvious but the guy is a pastor, not a catholic. The pope does not exist in his world.
Yeah I get that there are several sects of Christianity, just like any other religion. The Pope has no authority over non-Catholics. That said, you would think that even some Protestants would see this as an affront to the teachings of Jesus and cast out the bad ones in their midst.
You would think, because you are a logical and rational person. But they are not. Jesus exists in their world, purely as a bludgeon to push their own horrible beliefs.
Some Protestants would indeed, too bad there are sects of Protestants ranging from Diet Catholic to snake handling faith healers
Cast them out how? There is no central organization overseeing all Christian groups. You can literally start your own church tomorrow if you want and there's nothing anyone can do to stop you, or keep others from associating with you.
It's not so different from the fediverse. You can ban people, but you can't stop them from going somewhere else. And if they start their own instance, you can defederate from it but you can't actually shut them down or stop others from joining them.
There is no central authority to make this happen. Any dildo can (and will) open a new church in a strip mall and continue grifting rubes.
Kind of, or at least the pope shouldn't.. bit the followers tend to be authoritarian and so seem to also respond to authority figures.
I've definitely seen how Protestants respond to the pope shift dramatically in the past 40 years.
Well, everyone who calls him a Christian, is the issue. He is a sect leader.
Just as there are Americans who are not enamored with Trump who are not getting the media spotlight, there are Christians reacting negatively. But the media is focusing on the Maga Nationalist Christians. It's simply more profitable to focus on the extremists.
Here are some examples that the media has only touched on lightly.
Pastor Loran Livingston, Central Church, FEB 28, 2026
https://youtu.be/3ZeWDtREdW4?t=5078
https://churchleaders.com/news/2215893-heresy-paula-white-cain-trump-jesus-easter.html
John Piper Under Fire for Referring to Trump’s Re-Election as an ‘Evil’
NOV 7, 2024
https://churchleaders.com/news/500345-john-piper-under-fire-for-referring-to-trump-as-a-test-from-god.html
AUG 8, 2023
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/2053207948294574577
APR 27, 2026
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2026/04/27/james-talaricos-pastor-said-the-trump-administration-wants-to-revive-the-confederacy-n2675128
MAY 4, 2026
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/04/world/video/bishop-trump-critic-lamb-live-050404aseg1-cnni-religion-fast
MAY 07, 2026
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-criticized-bishop-palm-beach-hours-before-marco-rubio-pope-leo-meeting-11923091
MAY 03, 2026
https://www.alternet.org/megachurch-trump/
https://www.instagram.com/pastorbrandonaz
Edit: inserting dates so that you can see it's not all recent, but has been going on for years. Yes, I did focus on a lot of the recent ones. And this is not all, I simply got tired of typing. It's tiring reporting on what the media resists reporting.
Lol, I had to go back and check your name, because I thought yappymonotheist had made a comeback.
Your question gets to the crux of the issue, I believe big money will betray religion, but religion could get the jump on big money, it won't though because there's such an overlap. Big money wins. Unless we stop them.
I assumed you were saying you want to know when the church replaces crucifixes and Christ references with trump. Doesn't seem far off to me.
Never. That’s the whole point of church. Anyone with half a brain knows there is no god and the [insert religious text] is a book created by man.
This is two separate churches, it's like asking why france doesn't remove the king of England.
There were a few times in history that they tried to do so.
All churches are the same. They just have different bank accounts.
Not really, Evangelicals don't recognise the Pope as an authority. It's only Roman Catholics.
Church is church. Church is money. Money is god.
They're trying so hard to miss your point lol
Right? ;)
Power is god, wealth is merely one of the easiest ways to attain and retain power. But don’t discount the power of the cult of personality, “prophets”, “saviors”, and the allure of divinely appointed superiority of a “select” group of people. There’s dirt-poor motherfuckers who murder, steal, and rape without a second thought because they are of the belief their god approves and they have the power to victimize someone.