play some of his anti-Mexican lines

and deeds. Any damn fool can see tRump for what he is!

above was the worship of the golden calf (although in this case it's the fake golden impotent bull that should have been put out to pasture long ago).

Seen in one of the photos accompanying the article. Somebody else said it first, but it only takes a slight straightening of the elbow to change that posture to "Heil Trump!"

They might as well. You know they want to.

Most of us outside the community aren't surprised by this.

I would bet there is only about 6 degrees of separation between Mr Fea and those he now doesn't seem to recognize.

He's only concerned with appearances.

This is nothing new. Many, if not most were theocratic assholes looking for a fascist Messiah. Looks like they found one.

This is how they 'witness' for Christianity and Christ.

The Donald who ridicules Holy Communion.

The Donald who brags that he does not need Christ's forgiveness.

I just do not see evidence of it.

These are not religious people. They are political hate cults. Tax the hell out of them.

then it makes sense, why they do what they do, and why they ignore the tenants of Christianity.

Imagine: similar promotion before the rally, the same theatrics, the same ranting and raving, the same hysteria as the speech by rump. But words are very different. The words reflect what most any of the candidates support. But the purpose of the speech is to arouse the emotions, to get the audience to raise their hands and clap in support, to be moved by fear and by the good news. But the theatrics have to move the audience by fear.
We certainly discuss all the bad things that are happening. Why not put the fear in the audience with the same theatrics but from a very very different perspective.
Just imagine if one of the candidates gave a theatrical performance similar to what rump does.

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Most Dems don't need to be exhorted to feel impassioned about injustice, etc.... And we don't have a large fear complex to play to that isn't based on reality. We are already angry and have realistic expectations for change that we expect our leader to uphold/support. The DT supporters are infantilized, by a moron. They aren't asked to take responsibility for their life or feelings. They are told it's someone else's fault for how they feel. Then they are given scapegoats and permission to hate. A sense of false power and fake esteem. Rinse and repeat.

The loser wins the election.

The one who is most unlike Christ gets Christian votes.

All his insults to his opponents (Lyin' Ted, Crooked Hillary, Crazy Nancy) describe Trump perfectly.



We're not supposed to make sense of anything. The confusion he creates is pre-meditated. It's mind control of the masses.

They talk about socialism, gun rights, abortion, race, and changing laws to give them more power over others.
Helping the poor and sick, not so much.

How are these people going to explain themselves to God at Judgement? There lies the sadness.
They think, in their self righteousness, that they have a first class ticket through the pearly gates. They should try reading Matthew 25:31-46.

evangelicalism for its emotional appeal. It's a "feel good" type of religion. Nothing wrong with feeling good, but it becomes an emotional high for them. Someone like Trump sees a ready organization of people to use his emotional approach on. Feeling good to those people means being assurred of special status with God, This us a form if one-upmanship over others.

Give these people a snake oil salesman type like Trumo and that one-upmanship easily translates into smug, self-righteous hatred of 'the other.'

Their adoration of Trump and willingness to buy whatever he sells them is very disturbing. A few people up thread referenced to a Nazi salute and to Hitler himself. People shrink back from that comparison because they immediately think of the worst atrocities of the Nazis once they had complete control

But for those who have looked at the years leading up to Nazi control and how they gained enough of a following to hold power, the comparisons are not that far off. A long range Nazi goal, that they did not share with the public, was to replace existing religions with a quasi religious cult of their own. To that end, they targeted the largest Protestant groups (Reformed and Lutheran) for transforming to Nazi perspectives as 'true Xtianity.' They joined congregations, got onto governing boards like the church councils, and persuaded people that Naxis were fighting "decadent immorality" in society. They formed a nationalistic German Xtian Church.

How could people buy it? They were persuasive enough to recruit Old Order Mennonites into the party and the army. Some became SS officers. Those Mennonites were PACIFISTS and rejected politics and other "things of this world." But in post WW1 chaos, with new civil liberties that were "immoral," even Mennonites were persuaded to become politically active Nazi supporters.

Two clergymen opposed this movement in the churches, Karl Barth and Dietrich Boenhoffer. They founded the Confessing Church in opposition to the Nazi German Church. Barth escaped and survived the Nazis. Bienhoffer was executed in a death camp.

You've been born again. You subscribe to something for which there is no proof. You try to convert others into this bullshit. You're only fooling yourself if you think you're different.

Evangelicals don't worship Jesus. Evangelicals worship the Old Testament God, and that God is a raging, egomaniacal asshole, which is why Trump fits their narrative perfectly.

I guess it would be fitting if religion took out humanity though. :p