At the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump is likely to play on white evangelicals' fears

[trotsky]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2019/02/06/national-prayer-breakfast-trump-is-likely-play-white-evangelicals-fears/

Whenever he takes the stage in front of conservative Christians, Trump uses those opportunities to remind them of his promises, like appointing Supreme Court justices who could help overturn Roe v. Wade and making “Merry Christmas” a more common greeting during the holidays.

“We’re going to protect Christianity,” Trump said during a 2016 speech at Liberty University.

On Thursday morning, Trump will address the National Prayer Breakfast, where he will speak to leaders from all over the globe, including clergy, diplomats and lobbyists. The annual event at the Washington Hilton especially attracts conservative evangelicals jockeying to rub shoulders with Washington’s elite. Every president since Dwight D. Eisenhower has attended the event that draws several thousand people, and this year’s event will be co-chaired by Sen. James Lankford, (R-Okla.) and Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.).

For the past two years, Trump has used the speech to reiterate the promises he has made that speak to a core concern among many conservative Christians: that their influence is waning and that their livelihoods could even come under attack.

Hey look, it's Chris Coons building bridges again!

[MineralMan]

1. Yes, and Chris Coons will sit placidly by and let Trump

rail on to fire up his fundamentalist Christian base. There will be no bridges built that will stand up under any traffic at all.

Trump will incite the right-wing zeal of his so-called base, as he always does, and that base will respond positively to the incitement. Coons will sit in silence, as he typically does.

Here in the Religion Group on DU, we will hear about how nice it is that the politicians prayed together.

[trotsky]

2. Yeah, never mind the direct assault on the separation of church and state.

So much more important to capitulate to the demands of the religious insane right wing.

[MineralMan]

4. Well, Coons votes on the correct side, so I don't want to attack him

for attending the prayer breakfast. However, the idea that a common religion among politicians is meaningless when it comes to political positions. The idea that simply because both sides claim to be Christians there will be cooperation is plainly ridiculous.

A common religion, like Christianity, does not even result in agreement on religious beliefs. The continuous splintering into denominations and sects among Christians is all the evidence needed to demonstrate that.

Trump and Coons both claim to be Presbyterians, but a glance at the history of the Presbyterian Church shows that even that denomination cannot agree. It has split many, many times, over minor disagreements of doctrine and rules.

Christianity is the dominant major religion in the United States of America. That said, there is almost nothing one can say about Christianity that applies to the entire Christian community. The only real connection is one individual, who was supposed to have lived a a couple thousand years ago. Everything else is open to question among Christians

There is no comity among Christians regarding their own beliefs, so expecting there to be comity on political issues, due to a common religion, is simply foolishness.

[mr_lebowski]

6. Oh man it's really so, so much worse than just that ... NPB is literally the epicenter of evil ...

It's been put on since the 50's, basically by a World-Domination-focused Illuminati-type group known as The Family. It's their one public event that they do.

And I'm sure Trump's a member, as is Putin, as is MbS (you don't HAVE to be Christian, just a fascist), as is Le Pen, as is Bolsonaro, as are likely the leaders of Poland and Hungary ... and I bet all those people will send delegations to this event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family:_The_Secret_Fundamentalism_at_the_Heart_of_American_Power

I am pretty convinced that this group is far more powerful than anybody realizes, and are a serious threat to democracy around the world.

[RKP5637]

3. Not surprised by tRump, a guy that would sell out the US to Russia if he could make a buck! n/t

[muntrv]

5. Says the pussygrabber in chief.