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[–] Floon@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 day ago

The US evangelical movement is entirely unconnected with what any rational person would call grace or love. It is a movement about hate and racism.

[–] ZeroCool@piefed.ca 24 points 1 day ago

djtbible.jpg

The man doesn't even know how to hold a book correctly, and there's plenty of evidence to suggest he may actually be functionally illiterate. I highly doubt he's read a single verse of the bible.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago
[–] kinther@lemmy.world 109 points 1 day ago (16 children)

All I want to know is when the church will start booting these guys to the curb and denouncing them.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 102 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is this the same guy who just did a blessing of a golden statue of Trump, insisting it wasn’t a golden calf?

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 51 points 1 day ago

Different guy, same ilk.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 1 day ago

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/

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It may seem obvious but the guy is a pastor, not a catholic. The pope does not exist in his world.

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[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Well, everyone who calls him a Christian, is the issue. He is a sect leader.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 1 day ago

Hold up, I'm gonna check you're handbook.

For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.” -1 Peter 3:10-11

Oh hey check this one out too.

Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool— how much worse lying lips to a ruler! -Proverbs 17:7

Damn y'all are just so fucking bad at your one job.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago

Jesus: treat others with respect, love, peace.

Trump: make money by scamming people, blame others for your mistakes, start wars, prosecute minorities.

Yeah, Trump gets it.

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Then ask him to recite literally any bible verse.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago

"You shall not put the Trump, your God, to the test."

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

All religious people are liars.

But none so insidious and morally depraved as the American Christian.

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[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 58 points 1 day ago
[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Atleast my stock in Orville Redenbacher is doing well...

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry but the words of a pedophile carry little weight with me.

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You referring to the pastor or Trump?

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What’s Donald Trump’s favorite book or passages from the Bible? “All of them”. New or old Testament? “Both”. It’s deeply personal though, so he won’t say.

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

And the Pope would probably only reference a few specific passages, probably doesn't even know any others. If President Trump said he loves them all, then CLEARLY he's read them all!

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So these people are stupid, of course.

They are not THAT stupid

They know what they're saying

They know it's all bullshit

They are also a pastor

This means that this pastor is full of shit and he knows it

He knows he's evil yet continues preaching for trump

This guy literally is the guy that imaginary bible warns about

And all "Christians" are following him because of course

[–] cranakis@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago

Makes you wish it were real, just so he'd go to hell.

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Dude didn't even know there was a new and old testament.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Most Americans don't,, based on their religious rantings

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

"I am a reality denying whore!"

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Megachurches are a cancer on society.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These people are literally insane.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

They're salesmen.

What they're saying is only "crazy" if it fails to move units. And this guy seems to have been very successful at moving merch

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

All religion is mental illness. But nothing gives me the heebie-jeebies more than "christian pastor". UGH

[–] Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 7 points 1 day ago

You know Donny trump can't read for shit, He can't grasp even Bluey, that's why He summarizes and ad libs everything, He couldn't read an SNL scritp

[–] treehugger6@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And then people are surprised by decreasing church attendance. I'm glad I'm an atheist

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Is there anything more Protestant than worshipping a golden calf, then getting mad when someone suggests that might be heresy.

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago
[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 day ago

The Bible? No. My struggle? Yes.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

thats bullshit of course.

[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is the pastor able to read ancient Hebrew and ancient Greek and understand the original context? Otherwise he doesn't understand the bible either, and that would be assuming he had actually read it in full himself. Trump himslf doesn't have an understanding of even 'see Spot run!'.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago

It's not clear he even reads English. He might be as illiterate as Trump.

[–] Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Man, Donald Trump knows more about a religious text than a guy who has dedicated his entire life to it? Crazy.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Nice! Good laugh this morning. Where would we be without this clown?

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 4 points 1 day ago

I guarantee dumbass has read no more than 100 words of the bible, and not necessarily consecutive words.

[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Hahahaha wawahahaha

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