“We thank you for the upcoming election, Lord — or caucus, as we call it in Iowa,” said Hundley, speaking from the sanctuary of his evangelical Christian church in his slight Texas drawl as his parishioners bowed their heads.

“It doesn’t matter what our opinion is,” he went on. “It’s really what’s your opinion that matters. But you’ve given us the privilege of being able to exercise a beautiful gift. The gift of vote. We thank you for that.”

While Hundley stops short of suggesting to his parishioners which candidate divine guidance should lead them to support, he is among more than 300 pastors and other faith leaders who’ve been described as supporters by former President Donald Trump’s campaign. It’s a message that some members of Hundley’s First Church of God have taken to heart, saying their faith informs their intention to caucus for Trump.

Ron Betts, a 72-year-old Republican who said he plans to caucus for “Trump all the way,” said he felt the former president “exemplified what Jesus would do.”

  • ZephyrXero
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    6611 months ago

    As a former Christian, I still can’t believe how many of these people never even read that book they’re so fond of. Not a god damn clue in their heads if they think Trump is anything “Christ like”. He does in many ways resemble an anti-christ though, so I could see the Armageddon accelerationists being supporters for their own twisted reasons

    • @cheese_greater
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      1311 months ago

      Dude, look up Trump + signs of antichrist, its unreal

      • Mossy Feathers (She/They)
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        1511 months ago

        Seriously. I know that every president has their own laundry list of “OMG signs of the anti-christ”! However, trump is so on point its actually unsettling. Not a whole lot of stretching required for trump to be the legit anti-christ.

        • @cheese_greater
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          511 months ago

          The first time I heard the article, I nearly fell off my dinosaur. Like fr

        • ZephyrXero
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          111 months ago

          Haha, maybe the photo-op with the upside down Bible wasn’t an accident