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lees1975

(5,948 posts)
Fri Aug 30, 2024, 12:45 PM Aug 30

There is a real "False Prophets Hall of Fame" and Donald Trump has been inducted into it, twice.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-false-prophets-hall-of-fame.html

"All of us--especially those of us who seek to follow Jesus--face a critical decision this year: Will we choose kindness, joy and justice for all? Or will we choose the Religious Right's path of violence toward dismantling democracy? It is imperative that Christians across the country proclaim that these pro-Trump false prophets named to our hall of fame do not speak for Jesus and ask our friends and family to do the same." Nathan Empsall, Executive Director of Faithful America

The connection between the Trump Republican party, Project 2025 and Christian nationalism is well established, in spite of his denial of knowledge of anything having to do with it. That's just an attempt to keep from losing votes and keeping some of his ignorant followers from seeing this for what it is and knowing that this is a danger to the United States. Virtually all of the far right Evangelical groups that have let Trumpism intrude into their churches are conservative in their theology in exactly the manner in which I have described here.

It's a very powerful delusion, when one thinks they belong to a group of people that are "chosen" by God, privileged over all of the other people, and that he has called them to the very special task of running the rest of the world. What that means is that the core values and principles of the Christian gospel can be set aside by this privileged group in order to brutally eliminate opposition of those who were not chosen.

So the False Prophets Hall of Fame is just calling out those who are developing this mindset and spreading it around in the church. It is calling attention to those pseudo-Christians who have observed that they get more for themselves out of the worldly power they support than they get when they practice the values and virtues of Christianity, like turning the other cheek or loving their enemies, and they seem to be more satisfied by what they call "worldly power" than they are with some kind of abstract dependence on a God they can't see and seemed to have missed connecting with.
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