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And that’s basically it!
Yeah American evangelicals don't think any Catholics understand the Bible.
And who cares what this nobody says?
Should this be an item in even a garbage UK outlet, or worse Lemmy?
He must not be familiar with the seminary school curriculum.
"My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” --Isaac Asimov
The trump bible is like all the folders full of “plans” he presented to the press. Official looking covers with nothing but empty pages between them.
A Christian pastor who shills and grifts? I don't think that's ever been done before. /s
All pastors are like this just most don't know it yet.
Jeffress, a Dallas-area megachurch pastor
Nothing farther from faith than such people
As I suspected, conservative Christians in the US are not real Christians, but rather “money for faith” type people. Their supreme authority is money. Nothing to do with christianity or Jesus or faith.
Trust me, a lot of these conservative Christians absolutely do believe in Jesus and absolutely do believe in God. And to be honest, I wish that people wouldn't try to call them something other than Christians. Because they are Christians. We don't need to preserve the sanctity of that term for only good moral upstanding people. It's just not fair or reasonable to say that only these really excellent people are real Christians and everyone else isn't really a Christian. All that does is reinforce the term as something that conveys goodness and morality. If 95% of the people out there who are calling themselves Christians and who go to Christian churches and who read Christian Bibles act in a certain way, then sorry, that's what Christians are, that's what Christianity is.
I've been saying for a while that they really ought to be called something other than Christians. Maybe "crooks" is a bit too much on the nose, but some new name is definitely required.
Camels.
For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to gain entrance into heaven...
They worship wealth, they claim to follow these teachings and to know them well, and they expect to enter heaven? Then they are camels, lining up for the eyes of needles and expecting easy passage.
EDIT: Wait, wait.
Scamels.
Dallas-area megachurch pastor
Well there's your problem. These guys know as much about the Bible as Trump.
Once you put “mega” in there, is there such a thing as a legitimate “pastor/priest”?
They also know as much about grifting.
"Bible" is such a weird way to spell Epstein files.
Well. If you attempt to read it upside down it just invokes Satan and the Antichrist... /s.
I doubt Trump has ever read more than a few passages.
That bible experts cannot agree on what the bible means, and which of its doctrine is important, makes for a strong argument that it is a historical document, neither inspired, nor univocal, nor inerrant.
If it were divine, then its meaning would be clear beyond debate.
In other words, it's just a bunch of mythology invented by dudes in the bronze age, and nothing more.
Hey now let's be fair here, most of it is iron age. Up until the Assyrians it's probably describing mythology and legend that takes place from roughly the stone age, chalcolithic, and bronze age.
it’s just a bunch of mythology invented by dudes in the bronze age, and nothing more
Also known as "The Sheepherder's Guide to the Galaxy".
it's just a bunch of mythology invented by dudes in the bronze age
Yeah, this is why in a way Catholicism and Orthodox makes more sense where you have an ultimate authority chosen by god to update Christianity. Has its own issues though like the time when the pope issued purgatory skip papers for money to fund pet projects.
That fat child raping cunt doesn't understand not to shit itself on camera at the Whitehouse.
Fuck off, Pastor Shitface. Fuck off and die.
In the words of Mr. Hat: "you can go to hell! You can go to hell and you can die!"
Every Bible passage is his favorite. Like the story of Lot and his daughters.
It would be a first time experience for him where he's not the rapist.
Sure. Leo thinks it's a guide for morals and good living. Trump understands it's a grift to let old warmongering men stay in charge.
When the fuck did the leader of the largest pedophile sheltering organization become the good guy?
Institutional evil vs. personal evil. Neither one is a good guy, but at least we can avoid Catholics.
Are you sure? Sometimes I think Trump goes in and out of lucidity these days.his word salads have been getting worse.
If there's one thing that man will go to his grave knowing, it's how to work a scam. He may not be able to execute it, but he'll recognize it long after he stops being able to recognize animals or draw a clock..
Perhaps Trump has a better understanding of American Christians than the Pope does.
"christians"
Most of the Christians I’ve met are that type of Christian, so I don’t buy the “no true Christian” thing. They own this. Christian = MAGA, at least in this country.
LOL
I’m not surprised to see a conservative Baptist minister not missing a chance to take a swipe at Catholicism
All those fucking fundies.
They became the very thing they hate.
He means the guy that said two corinthians?
This pastor clearly doesn't believe in heaven and hell, or he would lie in support of the literal anti-christ.
Well, he could be right. Not something people who believe in religion want to hear however religion's purpose is to control the masses and Trump and his ilk are all about controlling the masses. God is just the manipulating tool.
Of course he knows more about the Bible - how many has this Leo guy even eaten? Can’t be half as many as Trump.
Wasn’t he selling Trump Bibles for a while? I don’t see any Pope Bibles for sale.
EXACTLY! The Bible the pope uses probably doesn’t even have the Constitution in it! What a poser.