Evangelical leaders have soured on Trump: "Donald Trump can't save America!"

Originally published at: Evangelical leaders have soured on Trump: "Donald Trump can't save America!" | Boing Boing

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Man, if only your religion had an entire literature on the dangers of idolatry and false prophets…

I’d rather they be feeling dissatisfied, since the usual alternative is a circular firing squad and then doubling down; but this situation was so…sordidly transactional…from day one that it’s hard to feel much more than deep contempt for any alleged evangelical who was ever on board.

You lined up behind a guy who positively revels in behavior you are supposed to shun because he promised you that sweet, sweet, hit of worldly victory and access to state force. That would be full Mark 8:36 even if he’d followed through; as it is you’ve lost your soul and gained some shabby IOUs. Good work guys.

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Until more Republicans stop including this all-important caveat with their criticisms it’s hard to see how things have fundamentally changed. Plenty of people were talking and voting this way during the 2016 election. Going into the primaries he didn’t have anywhere near a majority of the party support. But he managed to survive that clown show and come out of the primaries with a plurality of the divided party, which is good enough to get the nomination.

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He used us to win the White House.

He sure did.

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Glad they’ve soured on Trump. Now when will they sour on Iron Age myths?

Thanks Carla !

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If they will still stand in the groups that fly Nazi and Confederate flags and still vote for Trump if he is the candidate, the only thing that has changed is their enthusiasm.

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Aww, honey. Don’t you realize it’s too late now? The contract has been signed.

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We had to close our mouths and eyes when he said things that horrified us. I cannot do that anymore."

Oh, the pain!

More evidence that Xtianists worship power above all else (with money in a close second place).

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“Donald Trump can’t save America. He can’t save himself. He used us to win the White House. We had to close our mouths and eyes when he said things that horrified us. I cannot do that anymore.”

It’s almost as if you aren’t supposed to put your faith in anyone except . . . hmmmm . . . who’s that guy again? You know, the one who got nailed to bisected pieces of wood? That guy, yeah.

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True… but… Evangelicals cannot save America either.

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“It’s time for us to get together and pray and stop trying to destroy each other,”
We was supposed to be destroying the libs! Not US! /s

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Oh ye of little faith!

This all reads as “well guys, I think we got what we came for from this guy, time to move on.” Trump of all people should know full well what it’s like to be sold a bill of goods from people with bullhorns who kiss your ass, suck you in to their grift, then dump you when they’ve gotten what they want. Especially the part where they come up with a grand speech about why they’re abandoning their contracts in a way that makes them look like a victim with principles. Trump and American Evangelicals are two sides of the same coin, a match made in hell.

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Indeed, it was a marriage of convenience. Now that it’s not convenient it’s being dissolved. They may try to portray themselves as having been duped and returning to their principles but they got exactly what they wanted from him and would still be happily on the Trump ship if they felt the political winds would blow him back into power.

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What was the final straw[s] that broke the hypo-christians back?

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Post-supreme-courtal depression?

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Keep saying this. Wake up and say it to yourself before you brush your teeth. Say it before you tuck in at night. Say it throughout the day.

Keep saying it.

Until you understand it.

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There was this great thread on the Twitters a couple weeks back about what a fellow styled as the Trust Theromcline in which companies don’t see the decline of trust because people put up with nonsense for a while… until they don’t.

Another way of making Hemingway’s point: “People go broke slowly two ways: first slowly, and then all at once.” There will remain die hards, of course, but the tide’s going out here and in a hurry.

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If use of the phrase “supernatural unity” doesn’t show the gullible folks attending the speech that their Sky Fairy is made up magical thinking, I don’t know what will.

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This is great, thanks for sharing.

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