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.
I think the point that everyone is missing here is that MAGAts aren’t Christians and never have been. Christianity is one of many identity sticks they whip out to beat others with: see, you’re not Christian like us, therefore you’re bad; same with race, class, perceived social status, gender, etc. Their arguments aren’t logical or consistent because they don’t need to be, they use whatever convenient weapon is at hand to justify whatever violence they want to inflict at the moment because the infliction of violence is the point. They don’t give two shits about Christianity and will only hang on to it as long as it’s a useful weapon. Hence the trump bibles, now that Christianity isn’t as useful as mango Mussolini’s cult of personality get ready for the Bible thumping to fall by the wayside - the Trump Bible is just a transitional weapon along the way.
I get what you’re saying, but Christianity has been used for literal millenia to justify atrocities.
This is Christian behavior. They follow a “different Jesus” than humanist Christians, but as someone who grew up in an Evangelical church, they 100% believe that they are the true heirs of Jesus’ message.
And this is why Abrahamic religions must be either heavily regulated or abolished outright. No, I dont GAF about your First Amendment from 250 fucking years ago
It’s easier to criticize policies because they should follow facts and logic.
So they claim it’s because of their religion, and “faith” becomes more important than either.
They’re more of the “old school” Christian who couldn’t read the Bible, or speak the language mass was given in. But wouldn’t pause to start a Holy War because they were told someone disagreed with the words they literally couldn’t understand themselves.
This doesn’t make sense to me. Christianity has been a theme of these people long before Trump came around. The evangelical vote had been courted since at least the 80s. It’s not some new phenomenon and they’ve latched onto trump, they aren’t a creation of him, and they’ll be around voting along with their religious beliefs long after he is gone.