Trump supporters really believe Jesus is on their side

[Stargleamer]

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a xenophobic, racist, Supply-Side, Laffer-Curve supporting Jesus: https://twitter.com/steph93065 Many of the Christians I've met in my life, on the other hand, viewed xenophobia and racism and sexism as anti-Christian.

[doc03]

1. I heard Pat Robertson is going that route too, Jesus sent him

to save Merika.

[shenmue]

2. Oh noes

[hrmjustin]

3. Completely different from the Jesus I was taught in church.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. This Jeebus hates women, gays, blacks, Latinos, Muslims, etc.

Surely you have heard of this Jeebus?

If not, let me assure you he exists in the minds of millions of assholes.

Silly liberals, thinking doing the right thing is important.

[3catwoman3]

7. They probably think Jesus was a Christian, and...

...would be horrified to know that he was Jewish.

[Phoenix61]

10. And not as Caucasian looking as they would like

[3catwoman3]

11. Most assuredly...

...not. He would be deported based on skin color.

[Mariana]

9. It's convenient there are so many different churches

that teach so many different Jesuses. If people are willing to spend some time shopping around, they can often find a church with a Jesus that agrees with them about everything.

[hrmjustin]

12. It would be nice if they all just taught the love part.

[Mariana]

13. It would be nice

but even Jesus himself didn't just teach the love part. He also taught division and strife.

[SwissTony]

24. They can't even agree on the Bible.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/2008/august/why-are-protestant-and-catholic-bibles-different.html

"In addition to these 39 books, the Catholic Old Testament includes Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (Sirach), Baruch (includes the Letters of Jeremiah), I and II Maccabees, and additions to Daniel and Esther. These books were included in the Septuagint, a Greek translation of a different Hebrew canon. Early church fathers, who relied on the Septuagint (they could read Greek, but not Hebrew), sometimes quoted these books as Scripture. The status of the books continued to be debated throughout the Middle Ages."

I was brought up as a Catholic and it was a source of pride that our bible had more books in it than the "Proddies" as we called them (Glasgow, 1950s).

They also differ on other issues

http://christianityinview.com/comparison.html

[redstateblues]

4. When some athletes say that God being on their side is why they won

does that mean he was against the other team? Some bad religion going on there. I doubt that God is ever pulling for Belichick!

[Tikki]

6. Remember...jesus picked g w bush to run the Country, also....

into the ground, apparently.


Tikki

[3catwoman3]

8. A friend of ours was married to a Methodist minister.

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He was a pretty reasonable guy overall. Not so some of his congregants.

Our friend told us that one of the congregation members objected to foreign languages being tought in American schools. His rationale - "If English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me."

I find sugh ignorance astounding and disturbing.

[Doreen]

29. I can not quit laughing.

[arlecchino]

14. Hmm, makes sense...

"Jesus said…Thou shalt love the dollar with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt deflect unto thy neighbor as thou deemest necessary."

Jesus fed the 5000 with 2 fish; Trump's miracles will allow his disciples to finally have a talking fish on every wall in their homes.

[Act_of_Reparation]

17. Also among the things Jesus said:

But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, 'Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.' I tell you, on that day, it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town.

- Luke 10:10-12

You know, right before he said the entire town of Capernaum would be cast down into hell.

Looks like there's a Jesus for everyone.

[czarjak]

15. Of course...

The guy who can't think of anything he needs forgiveness for is your brother in Christ. Trust me, believe me too.

[trotsky]

16. Because that's religion.

Their Jesus is just as valid as yours.

[Stargleamer]

18. Well as an atheist I don't really have a Jesus

and am not even sure he actually existed. However, I think it's rather a huge stretch to view that the Jesus presented in the New Testament could ever condone xenophobia, racism, resentment of the poor, etc. in light of Matthew 25:35-45. To see him as condoning such things takes a deliberate effort to see things based on conservative fears and resentments rather than what was more or less clearly presented in red verses such as these.

[Act_of_Reparation]

19. The Jesus presented in the New Testament curses those who reject him with eternity in a furnace.

Does that sort of thinking engender love for one's non-Christian neighbors? Or does it reinforce fear or hatred of the other?

[Stargleamer]

20. Being an atheist, I am unfamiliar with that passage

maybe you can refer me to the it. If he does curses nonChristians, then, yes, I can better see how many of those adopting Christianity could be fine with castigating the outsider.

[Act_of_Reparation]

22. There are many.

Matthew 3:10, 12
Matthew 7:13-14
Matthew 7:19
Matthew 8:12
Matthew 10:5-6
Matthew 10:14-15
Matthew 10:21
Matthew 10:33
Matthew 12:30
Matthew 12:31-32
Matthew 13:41-42, 50
Matthew 15:13
Matthew 21:44
Matthew 23:31
Matthew 25:30
Matthew 25:41
Matthew 27:25

Mark 6:11
Mark 6:16

Luke 3: 9
Luke 3:17
Luke 10:10-15
Luke 10:16
Luke 11:23
Luke 12:10
Luke 13:23-30
Luke 19:12-27

John 3:18, 36
John 3:36
John 5:16
John 7:1
John 7:13
John 8:24
John 8:44
John 12:48
John 14:6
John 14:21
John 15:6
John 15:22
John 17: 9

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Jesus christ, what a bunch of downers...LOL

I forgot just how silly it all is.

Can you imagine if there was no religion and someone like fuckface, conman, could not use it to manipulate uneducated and immature people?

[Act_of_Reparation]

32. No, I can't imagine such a thing.

But I should add, I wouldn't limit believers to being uneducated and immature. I would add fearful to the list as well.

[Lordquinton]

23. Interesting that you quote bible verses

and have a general knowledge of Jesus, but don't know of the many times he condemned people, including one about two verses before the one you quoted. You also failed to respond when you were shown to be incorrect.

[Stargleamer]

33. I didn't think I had to reply

As it was self-evident that Act of Reparation's superior familiarity with the Bible spoke for itself

[trotsky]

21. You have a mental construct of one, though.

As does every believer. And yeah, there's a lot he said that should be concerning for any truly moral person.

http://dwindlinginunbelief.blogspot.com/2010/11/reasons-to-be-ashamed-and-not-fan-of.html

[Goblinmonger]

25. The best way to know you have created god.

He has exactly all the same beliefs you do.

[Lotusflower70]

27. People said that about President Obama

That Jesus was on his side. He was thought of as a messiah to some. Of course it just goes to show that different people have different ideas of what Jesus or a savior truly is.

[LOL Lib]

28. Not exactly on topic but still about Trump Humpers

I visited my college politics message board this AM. It is filled with racist Trump supporters. It is disgusting to see them spin Trumps words. They absolutely believe that Obama wire tapped Trump. They believe every word that Trump says and they have old Breitbart/Infowars articles as their "proof." I cannot post there anymore because they are intolerable and refuse to believe that Trump is a con man. I wish someone from here could talk sense to them. I don't have the skills to argue with crazy people.

[Doreen]

30. The old testament teaches to not tolerate

non Christians. It talks about genocide of entire races of non believers. I take it they read this and take it to a very literal level.

[atreides1]

31. Everyone thinks God is on their side!!!

German soldiers had Gott mit uns inscribed on their helmets in the First World War. To the Germans it was a rallying cry, "a Protestant as well as an Imperial motto, the expression of German religious, political and ethnic single-mindedness, or the numerous unity of altar, throne and Volk".

During the Second World War Wehrmacht soldiers wore this slogan on their belt buckles,[9] as opposed to members of the Waffen SS, who wore the motto Meine Ehre heißt Treue ('My honour is loyalty'). After the war the motto was also used by the Bundeswehr and German police, it was replaced with "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" ("Unity and Justice and Freedom&quot in 1962 (police within the 1970s), the first line of the third stanza of the Lied der Deutschen.


"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
Abraham Lincoln