Last month Trump vowed to defend Christianity and urged Christians to vote for him

Last month Trump vowed to defend Christianity and urged Christians to vote for him

“This is really a battle between good and evil,” evangelical TV preacher Hank Kunneman says of the slew of criminal charges facing Donald Trump. “There’s something on President Trump that the enemy fears: It’s called the anointing.”

The Nebraska pastor, who was speaking on cable news show “FlashPoint” last summer, is among several voices in Christian media pressing a message of Biblical proportions: The 2024 presidential race is a fight for America’s soul, and a persecuted Trump has God’s protection.

“They’re just trying to bankrupt him. They’re trying to take everything he’s got. They’re trying to put him in prison,” author, media personality and self-proclaimed prophet Lance Wallnau said in October on “The Jim Bakker Show”, an hour-long daily broadcast that focuses on news and revelations about the end times that it says we are living in.

  • Zron@lemmy.world
    48·
    9 months ago

    Hilarious to me that trump checks nearly every box for the literal antichrist, and the Christian’s love him.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      37·
      9 months ago

      Dude if Jesus appeared tomorrow the Republicans would line up to burn him. They don’t have real beliefs, just symbols.

      • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
        23·
        9 months ago

        While I think they would nail him to a cross, without noticing the irony, rather than burn him, you’re not wrong. Jesus is too woke for them.

        Moore told NPR in an interview released Tuesday that multiple pastors had told him they would quote the Sermon on the Mount, specifically the part that says to “turn the other cheek,” when preaching. Someone would come up after the service and ask, “Where did you get those liberal talking points?”

        “What was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, ‘I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,’ the response would not be, ‘I apologize.’ The response would be, ‘Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak,’” Moore said. “When we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”

        • stoly@lemmy.world
          8·
          9 months ago

          I was thinking of this exact thing when commenting! And now we learn that Trump was put here by God for reasons.

    • Glytch@lemmy.world
      17·
      9 months ago

      That’s makes sense actually, anitchrist means the End Times^TM are here. Christians see that as a good thing

      • Zron@lemmy.world
        15·
        9 months ago

        But isn’t getting deceived by him supposed to get you an express ticket to hell?

        You’d think they’d be a little more cautious

        • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
          91·
          9 months ago

          Given the figure that most closely matches the projected boogeyman in something like 2 Thess 2 was Paul himself, they’ve been deceived for nearly two millennia now.

          At this point, gravitating to a narcissist grifter is just par for the course.

    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
      21·
      9 months ago

      His name is 669 when put into Aramaic and that old Middle East way of counting is applied to the letters?

      Teasing. I take your meaning.