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Report confirms what we suspected last year. Eric Trump funneled money for kids with cancer into his business.
http://abc7chicago.com/news/eric-trump-funneled-cancer-charity-money-to-his-business-report/2069561/

 

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https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/11/21/trump_voter_if_jesus_christ_came_down_from_the_cross_and_told_me_trump_was_with_russia_i_wouldnt_believe_him.html

"Let me tell you," he continued. "If Jesus Christ gets down off the cross and told me Trump is with Russia, I would tell him, hold on a second, I need to check with the president if it is true. That is how confident I feel in the president."​

 

As someone who knows a lot of evangelical Christians, I said a couple of times back during the campaign and right after the election that I was disappointed that so many of them had "sold their souls" in order to vote for Trump. I didn't know how right I was.

 

Cult leader.

 

Complete and utter cult of a leader. Filthy, too.

 

Trump came out in favor of Moore. He persisted in saying the word denial a bit too much. "He totally denies it."

 

He’s had plenty of opportunities to rehearse that line, given his decades of sexually mistreating women in general.

 

Orwell warned us about how the English language would be distorted in this manner. We've seen it before, albeit not this dumbed down.

 

Yeah, true. Orwell would be disgusted to see just how much stupider everyone is in our version of 1984.

 

I want to just say thanks to everyone for welcoming me into this thread.

Regarding Jesus well, I don't understand how Catholics can support Trump. I grow up believing it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
So I'm a little confused how Trump ever got this far. To be honest I was truly thankful and believed Trump was finished after the access Hollywood tape. Wouldn't that be exhibit A in one of Trump's sexual harassment cases?

 

And how his legacy has been abused and misrepresented to further the cause of stupidity.

Maybe a lot lower down the alphabet, if prosecution was working chronologically. He's established his character over many different forms of media over the decades.

When it comes to Catholics supporting Trump, I recall an audience of Catholic business leaders, monks and priests booing him at a Catholic charity fund-raiser, but I'm also tempted to wheel out that old quote about what it takes for good people to do bad things... I'm disappointed that the religious right support him and his alt-right southern strategy, but really, what was the alternative? A baby killing, rape enabling, criminal of the Benghazi genocide, subpizzariarean paedophile ring using, illegal emailing, gun takin' awayin' WOMAN?

 

We're glad that you're here. believed he was finished after that tape surfaced, as well, JJB. However, a few days prior to the election, I feared that he would win.

The Justice Department is investigating Harvard for affirmative action policies. However, I'm still vexed with Harvard over how they mistreated Chelsea Manning.

 

The CIA and whoever else pressured them just hate dissent.

 

My mother used to quote that verse so much...a lot of her liberal beliefs came from the Bible. She never went to church at all, though. If she were still with us...whew, she would be so pissed.

 

There are two kinds of people when it comes to politics. Those who look to 1984 as a warning and those who look at 1984 as an instruction manual.

 

That is just ****ing hilarious.

Sounds just like J-Rod.

 

True that.

 

i don't know, i feel like our president was mostly elected by those who have never read a book.

 

That's not true. His base have read The Bible - numerous times.

 

Don't be too harsh.

There are plenty good people who have never read a book.

 

You'd be surprised how little a lot of supposed Christians know about the Bible. Not that I believe any of that jazz.

 

Anakinfan is right. Southern Baptist preachers are not required to go to seminary. I think sociology of religion was a better degree for my bachelor's. I learned more about the cultures of the Abrahamic religions and Dharmic religions than the contents of their books.

If people were to actually read the Bible, they would be shocked to find what Lot's daughters did after they inebriated him, all of which is an origin myth for two of Israel's enemies. I bet that most Christians don't know what pre-exilic, exilic, and post-exilic documents are. There's an argument to be made that Zoroasterianism influenced Judaism to evolve from a henotheistic belief system to a monotheistic one, but these topics are not applicable to this thread. Anyhow, there are a great many secular things in these ancient documents.