believe that people who are rich are God's chosen and poor people have sinned against God.

I thought it was bad in the 60's with all of the cults.

Prosperity Gospel seems to work much better for those preaching it and collecting than those donating to get there.

Because you are God's chosen ones, you can do anything you want. Raping, killing babies and then eating them on live TV - all good. But if you are poor and want an abortion because you are raped, you need to be punished.

Christian, or at least Jesus's, values, so that's why the comparison of how God has chosen depraved Trump to do His good works through. He's done it before.

In any case, Trump was dependent on their support from the beginning, and and now he is desperately so. So this has been going on all along.

Trump supposedly was never without some degree of belief in a god, even if mostly areligious, and he's given to delusions. So I wouldn't be surprised if this whackjob, under constant influence of religious extremists since he first needed them for his run, hasn't convinced himself into becoming a True Believer, at least to the extent of believing God's chosen HIM in HIS Greatness.

he expects the "two Corinthians" to be supporting him also!

https://www.npr.org/2016/01/18/463528847/citing-two-corinthians-trump-struggles-to-make-the-sale-to-evangelicals

who did much worse things than Trump has ever done. Sometimes, they did these terrible things on God's direct orders. In the stories, God blessed and favored those men, and put them into positions of power over others. It's not the least bit inconsistent for the Evangelicals to suppose that God made Trump president in order to achieve his ends.

1 Timothy 6:10 King James Version (KJV)

(which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows)

I'm an atheist, but this one surely rings true.

I don't think I have much to contribute, so I'm surprised that I just hit 2,000 DU posts!

Back in the '70s when I was enrolled in elected courses, I was following along on the Evangelical movement that was just beginning to take hold in America. I became very interested in eschatological studies, and really got immersed in them. Despite that many years later after becoming increasingly jaded by the commercialism pervading the modern evangelical movement, and disillusioned by the horrors I kept seeing around me, I became so estranged from *religion* that I gave it up. Frankly, I really stopped believing. I don't know if I really - if I were to be brutally honest - actually became an atheist, but I'd say it's a pretty close self-characterization. That said, I've not forgotten anything I studied about the End Times.

Looking around me now, watching the planet burn up, along with people and animals, watching floods, tornadic winds, earthquakes, and the skies growing sootier and more noxious by the hour, and watching in horror as no one in control of the levers of governments or agencies here and even abroad, seemed to be alarmed about it. It's almost as if they believe they alone somehow - those in control of everything - think they'll be somehow exempt from the results of their rape and ruination of the planet.

tRump may not be the Antichrist, but I can't say I haven't been recognizing the signs and trying (in vain) to damp them down in my mind and poo-poo them. I simply can't any longer. The thing that really caps it off to me is the fact that, the very people who should be warning the world of this menace, are the very so-called *religious leaders* of the Christian churches. They, and their *worshipers* are defined as the apostate church at End Times. That, to me, is the most significant thing about tRump and every word he lies and every evil deed he does, he is fulfilling the biblical prophecies found within the pages of the Old and New Testament books of the Bible. I don't know for a fact that he is, but I don't know that he isn't either.

He is obviously pure evil.

In the book of Mark, Jesus HIMSELF says flat out he'll return within the lifetimes of a few men who are at a gathering.

It's been 2000 years since they died, and guess what! No Jesus returning.

This entire "endtimes" fairy tale was concocted by doom and gloom preachers more than 150 years ago, and every year some preacher says "This is the date of the rapture!" and it never happens.

Our planet will continue to stay as it is, and so will we, with crime, philanthropy, war, peace, terrorism, good national initiatives, disasters natural and un-unnatural, births, deaths, etc, etc. until the Sun goes Red Giant phase, and if it doesn't swallow the Earth completely will cook it to a cinder.

Trump is a tax cheat, a marriage cheat, immensely greedy, you name it. Religious people who support him are phonies and they disgust me.