Right Wing Watch has an in-depth breakdown of the Religious Reich which now has a great deal of control over uStates government. It’s in sections:
- Introduction
- Who Are These People?
- Trump and the Prophets: Made For The Era of Social Media?
- Overlapping Networks
- God’s Own Party?
- POTUS Trump and the Prophetic Order of the United States
I’m just going to have a few bits here…
Brody and Lamb’s book, “The Faith of Donald J. Trump: A Spiritual Biography” is scheduled for publication in January 2018, but it won’t be the first. It will face competition from “God and Trump” by Stephen Strang, who heads the Pentecostal media empire Charisma. During the campaign, Strang gave a media megaphone to Trump-boosting prophets like Wallnau. Strang’s book, which promises to explore “what is God doing, now not only in Donald Trump’s life, but also in the life of the nation,” is scheduled for release in November.
Meanwhile, POTUS Shield leaders continue to personally assure Trump that God Himself put Trump in power, something Amedia told attendees at the March POTUS Shield gathering that Trump understands:
I said to the man’s own face, ‘If you didn’t see God got you elected, with all the mistakes you made, and how you should have lost this election 50 times, then you will never see God.’ And he said, ‘I know it was God.’
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For many Religious Right leaders, support for Trump is transactional: Trump promised them the Supreme Court, attacks on legal abortion and Planned Parenthood, and legal changes to make conservative Christians more politically powerful. But POTUS Shield members believe that something even greater than the Supreme Court is at stake: the future of the church and the reign of God on earth. They give Trump assurance that he’s on a divine path, and they give their followers a sense of playing an important role on the world stage, warring with the devil to take political and culture power away from liberals and secularists and establish the kingdom of God in the United States and around the world.
If you’re inclined to laugh, or shrug, don’t. Instead, think. This is terror. This is terrorism. This is a regime of sweeping oppression waiting in the wings, trying to take the main stage. This has been at work for many a year now, and this is the one and only chance they have, and they know it. I see in my own referrers here, how many people search for things like “Trump tackles elite satanic pedophiles” and the “prophecies” of this, that, and the other self-styled prophets. The Religious Reich has the perfect puppet, and Donny does not dare dismiss them, or spurn their desires, they are about the only thing keeping his arse firmly in the white house.
If there should be a face to atheism, to humanism, to the benefits of a secular society, it should be centered here, in direct and open opposition to these people who, in their pettiness and need to subjugate others, are climbing to ultimate power.
You can read the whole thing at Right Wing Watch, recommended.
Charly says
I think the time already has come when America is trying to kick its own ass. And it did not even have to be all alone for that.
Caine says
Oh yes, it’s come alright.
Marcus Ranum says
Trump cheats when he plays golf (he “mulligans” a lot) There is no distance left for his fall, on the moral trajectory.
Caine says
Trump cheats on everything.
Caine says
And that said, the cheating doesn’t matter, at least not at this point. These people keep surrounding Trump, telling a malignant narcissist that he’s the chosen of a god. To think that he doesn’t buy that, well…
johnhodges says
The religious right should remember that the Roman empire grew and conquered while it was Pagan, and declined and fell after becoming Christian. Their dreams of a theocratic Empire, the Christian version of a Caliphate, should be reconsidered; given the history of “divinely anointed” kings, it really doesn’t seem like God’s Blessing helps anyone to govern wisely, much less to conquer the world.
Caine says
Yes, that’s true. That didn’t stop a great deal of terror, though -- the crusades, various other wars, the inquisition, witch trials, purges of heretics. These people still believe in witches, they lust for war.