Faith without morality or theology, much less that "soyboy" Jesus? Sign Republicans up!

Faith without morality or theology, much less that “soyboy” Jesus? Sign MAGA Republicans up!

Earlier this week, Donald Trump unveiled his newest grift to squeeze money out of his cult followers: Trump-branded Bibles. Claiming the book contains the “King James version” and “also includes the Founding Father [sic] documents,” Trump promised “you have to have it for your heart, for your soul.” The screenshots of the video are funny by themselves, but I highly recommend watching the ad Trump cut for these Bibles. Trump radiates total contempt for Christianity.

This is Trump in his angry-bored mode, letting viewers know with his listless tone and posture that he thinks all this Bible stuff is dumb. The not-at-all subtle message of the video is that Trump doesn’t believe any of this faith-in-God crap, but he definitely believes in using Christian identity as a weapon to make money and dominate his foes.

Many Trump opponents on social media replied with video clips underscoring how Trump may be the single most ignorant person in the country about the contents of the Bible.

  • TheRealKuniEnglish
    1•9 months ago

    Yeah I can really geek out about this. The only author to come close in speaking to me religiously is Pratchett.

    I feel like I’m reading something I wrote right now. 😂

    Have you read the Lightbringer series by Brent Weeks? It’s not quite as good as the Cosmere works, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and it plays with some similar themes. It’s also a great hard magic system.

    • @captainlezbian
      2•9 months ago

      Yeah seriously, Pratchett speaks to the chaos magic in me; the idea that my religion is going towards indents in our collective souls. Also I’ve not found a better argument for what a religious figure should be than who Tiffany Aching learned to become. Somewhere between her and Sazed is the perfect priest imo.

      I’ve never heard of it before