5 thoughts on “Christers find a way to love Him. (Don’t tell ’em, but it’s called “hypocrisy.”)”
Look, see how true compassion is best expressed with a checkbook?
For example, Mr. Trump took a car ride with Mike Pence along with Billy Graham’s son Franklin and Tony Perkins, a leading figure on the Christian right, during the Louisiana floods of 2016. Impressed by what Franklin Graham’s Christian ministry had done for flood victims, Mr. Trump told him that he was writing it a six-figure check, which Mr. Graham told him to send to Mr. Perkins’s church. Both men were moved by his impulsive kindness, and a bond was formed.
Did "Trump" ever write that check? Never mind about that! Here's more selfless Christian love, you know: agape!
Another story involves Mr. Trump and the televangelist James Robison praying together inside an S.U.V. on the airport tarmac in Panama City, Fla., during a campaign stop. When Mr. Trump exited the car, he gave Mr. Robison a hug, pulled him up against his chest firmly and said, “Man, I sure love you.” A small gesture, perhaps, but heartfelt, real and so unlike the caricature of the president most of us see. And practically every evangelical leader I interviewed has a similar story.
But evangelicals truly do believe that all people are flawed, and yet Christ offers them grace. Shouldn’t they do the same for the president?
And when they offer that same grace to the LGBT community, I'll be impressed.
The Bible is replete with examples of flawed individuals being used to accomplish God’s will. Evangelicals I interviewed said they believed that Mr. Trump was in the White House for a reason.
To wake people up to the hollowness of the fundie mentalist approach to religion, perhaps.
My reporting suggests Donald Trump is on a spiritual voyage that has accelerated in recent years
A quick look at his Twitter feed should disabuse you of that illusion FFS.
On that note, time for me to pray, yet again, that our nation survives the reign of Donald the Terrible!
And yet Sunday's dead-tree edition had a special section on disappearing lower Louisiana with gorgeous Landsat radar maps of the whole Mississippi Delta spread across two whole pages. WaPo is the only other paper I know of with the resources to do that kind of work.
Yep. But NYT also sent three reporters to spend months darkest Alabama to take down Roy Moore. Not cheap, and aren't we all glad we don't have Senator Roy waving his chrome pistol around in the Capitol?
Look, see how true compassion is best expressed with a checkbook?
Did "Trump" ever write that check? Never mind about that! Here's more selfless Christian love, you know: agape!
Utter horseshit.
And when they offer that same grace to the LGBT community, I'll be impressed.
To wake people up to the hollowness of the fundie mentalist approach to religion, perhaps.
A quick look at his Twitter feed should disabuse you of that illusion FFS.
On that note, time for me to pray, yet again, that our nation survives the reign of Donald the Terrible!
And yet Sunday's dead-tree edition had a special section on disappearing lower Louisiana with gorgeous Landsat radar maps of the whole Mississippi Delta spread across two whole pages. WaPo is the only other paper I know of with the resources to do that kind of work.
Yep. But NYT also sent three reporters to spend months darkest Alabama to take down Roy Moore. Not cheap, and aren't we all glad we don't have Senator Roy waving his chrome pistol around in the Capitol?