Trump Thread

[Montmorency]

What I really don't get is how Trump can be the candidate of choice for christians. Not just in the US but also some here in Europe.
He's rich, arrogant, condescending, vain, proud of himself, bullies others and so on and that's not even considering the sex scandals they can explain away with fake news about them being democrat conspiracies with paid actors. Pretty much all of that is not how Jesus or the bible in general described a good christian. And yet, just because he mentions God once in a while, many christians think he is somehow the christian candidate. Then again I also don't get why christians need a gun to turn the other cheek, but...

Every candidate talks about their faith, including Clinton and Obama and Sanders. Here's what happens if you run an atheist candidate: you lose by 50 points. The candidate only did about as well as Clinton in the counties of the district, though generically there should be at least some shift.

The "Christian Right": emulate Jesus, act like Trump.
Face it, he is what they wish they were.

Interesting thing about the Christian Right in the past two generations is how they seem to have utterly shed any sense of shame.

[Montmorency]

Speaking of which...

@Seamus Fermanagh

Here's the father of my current governor speechifying in the 80s about "Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective".

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Speaking of which...

@Seamus Fermanagh

Here's the father of my current governor speechifying in the 80s about "Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective".

I thought JFK's discussion at the Greater Houston Ministerial was pithier, though in much the same vein.

I often disagreed with Mario Cuomo. I never considered him an enemy. Among Demos of that era, I think he'd have made a better President than Carter, Mondale, or Ted Kennedy.