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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/46627075

You would think a Pastor would have a serious problem with that. Only in Trumps America.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Trump, seen here jerking off an NBA star...

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 1 points 5 days ago

The ol’ giraffe-jerker himself.

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

That thing is not gonna last. It's gonna get vandalised within 24 hours.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

On top of all of the obvious stupidity with the statue, it is a terrible rendition. Not fat enough. No comb over. The face is not orange. The diaper is missing.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

hands too large.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 days ago

Any "pastor" willing to do this isn't a child of Christ.

They are a fraud. By the Bible's own words, Jesus will turn them away at the gates of heaven.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago

kripke from the boyz responded with the homelander golden statue post in response to this.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image...

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More like the mark of the Dumbasses.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Beasts aren't known for their smarts

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 17 points 1 week ago

A cynic might accuse these people of hypocrisy.

[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Something something golden calf....

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Golden porker.

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm not religious, but sometimes I wish Christianity was real because it would be so funny for these "Christians" to be judged by their god.

[–] Hermit_Lailoken@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Jesus would be flipping tables left and right. That is if ICE doesn't deport him, or kill him.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean, that's exactly what the Romans did to him.

ICEatzgruppen would 100% cap Jesus’s brown ass

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why would you think a pastor would give pause? If you can get someone to believe in a magic space daddy, the shift to a magic land-based daddy should be trivial.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If they followed the rules they wouldnt follow trump

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They would also stone you to death for wearing clothing of mixed fabric.

Religions always pick and choose which rules to apply and how to apply them.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

"You're only making it worse for yourself, you know."

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 16 points 1 week ago

Oh it gets better.

The statue — which rises 15 feet atop a 7-foot base — was commissioned and bankrolled by a collective of crypto investors seeking to boost visibility for their memecoin, $PATRIOT, according to The Daily Beast.

Sculptor Alan Cottrill told The Times in February that he agreed to create the bronze figure for $300,000 but complained that the investors were slow in paying. In November he proposed coating it in gold leaf.

His suggestion went down like an offering of water “to a person dying of thirst,” he said. “Immediately everybody jumped on board.”

[–] newton@feddit.online 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the pastor is on the Epstein files , I presume ?

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago

It's a fair assumption.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 9 points 1 week ago

It looks nothing like the sleepy, wrinkly, plastered and fat Donny of reality.

https://static.the-independent.com/2026/05/01/14/2273935873.jpg

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It's funny how federal courts are letting Texas enforce displays of the ten commandments in every school classroom while dear leader violates so many of them

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

I sure hope no one defiles that shitty statue. Or rip it down. That would be ~~hilarious~~, whoops, I mean terrible!