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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump meets with wingnutty faith healer/grifter with worse hair than his
(Trinity Broadcasting's Jan Crouch - not a photoshop)
Despite his best efforts, Donald Trump did not receive the warmest of welcomes from the Religious Right activists at last week's Values Voter Summit, but he did find one segment of the movement that has seemingly embraced his message: Prosperity Gospel televangelists.
HBO's John Oliver recently did an entire segment on those who preach the Prosperity Gospel and grow insanely wealthy in the process, and two of its leading practitioners Kenneth Copeland and Jan Crouch were among a group of right-wing Christians who recently met with Trump at his office in New York City, where they laid hands on him and prayed for him.
As Russell Moore, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, explained to Politico, "the people that Trump has so far identified as his evangelical outreach are mostly prosperity gospel types, which are considered by mainstream evangelicals to be heretics," yet Trump had no qualms about courting them and allowing them to pray over him:
It is especially amazing that figures like Copeland and Crouch would be among the invited guests, as both lead highly controversial ministries that have faced serious questions about misuse of funds. On top of that, both Copeland and Crouch are the sorts of preachers who claim that they can, respectively, cure Ebola by speaking in tongues and bring a chicken back from the dead through prayer:
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/trump-meets-prosperity-gospel-preachers-who-can-cure-ebola-and-bring-chickens-back-dead#sthash.JlDcctjc.dpuf
And let's not forget the laying of hands on Donald came from Kenneth Copeland, the guy who tells the poor and terminally ill to send him their last dime as a "seed offering," so that he can maintain a fleet of private luxury jets and a house that looks like this:
Expect the starstruck Morning Joe-esque media to give Trump the Jeremiah Wright treatment and hold him accountable for his radical associates in the grifter industry a week from never.
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Trump meets with wingnutty faith healer/grifter with worse hair than his (Original Post)
Adenoid_Hynkel
Oct 2015
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hatrack
(59,578 posts)1. Wow, a Poison reunion tour!! Why didn't you TELL me?!!??!!
jmowreader
(50,529 posts)2. Oh come on...I want to lay hands on Donald Trump and pray for him too!
What? You mean they didn't choke the living shit out of him while screaming, "Oh Lord, what the fuck did we do to deserve THIS?"
catbyte
(34,337 posts)3. WOW. That's some hair.
On edit--she actually claims to have brought her pet chicken back from the dead & that Benny Hinn cured her glaucoma through the teevee.
Christ on a cracker. I almost feel sorry for the pathetic suckers who fall for this 24 karat gold plated bullshit.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)4. Jan Crouch? Really?
Those people are insane.
Gothmog
(144,929 posts)5. Trump's hair is a source of great amusement
AnnieBW
(10,413 posts)6. Tammy Faye Bakker Called
She wants her makeup back, bitch!