Ending many of his rallies with a churchlike ritual and casting his prosecutions as persecution, the former president is demanding — and receiving — new levels of devotion from Republicans.
You deny that there have ever been Christian church leaders who use religion to get people on their side, or who don’t believe in anything besides power and money? You’ve never heard of medieval indulgences, the ungodly riches of the Catholic Church in general, megachurch pastors with private jets, etc.? You don’t actually believe those greedy fucks were actually in it for the piety, do you??
Frankly, Trump is acting 100% completely in accordance with a long tradition of Christian leaders, from televangelists to Popes.
I’ll let you in on a little secret:
(those people aren’t really christians either)
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That’s a No True
ScotsmanChristian fallacy.Christian: Someone who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.
Jesus directly called out the same behaviors in the Jewish church that people call the modern church out for.
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Ir absolutely is. Christianity has always been about control.
You deny that there have ever been Christian church leaders who use religion to get people on their side, or who don’t believe in anything besides power and money? You’ve never heard of medieval indulgences, the ungodly riches of the Catholic Church in general, megachurch pastors with private jets, etc.? You don’t actually believe those greedy fucks were actually in it for the piety, do you??