Well, he calls himself a Presbyterian, so who am I to argue…lol… Maybe they aren’t proper christians too. Who knows? Lets call it “not a true christain” fallacy then.
I am not talking about denominations mate, that has nothing to do with it. People attend church like they attend a rotary club or a Lyons club. To them it is a social event, it makes them feel better and they can give to charity and do good works. Doesn’t make them a Christian any more than attending a rotary club makes them one.
So you can keep bleating about fallacies all you like, it just proves you have zero idea what I am talking about. But I get that.
So you can read Trump’s mind, he isnt a true christain by your standards, that’s cool.
Why are you so hell bent on trying to prove Trump’s Christianity?
And that big wiki waffle doesn’t cut it either. Historic behaviours and waffle.
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Just curious, basically.
tbh, I found it more interesting why evangelists love him so much even to the extent of making a movie about him where they think he’s some messiah or some such. Obviously he meets their standards.
He was once asked to note his favour verse or part of the Bible, and had nooooo idea.
Not necessarily a bad thing, but don’t bigly yourself up other times on your religiousity.
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my answer to this question got pushed up the screen follow this rapid exchange.
its race…
Didn’t say he was. Although I’m sure he would mark Christian on a census.
I’m quite comfortable in Australia saying I’m an atheist. In America there’s a solid chance someone would take significant offence.
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This shows Trump’s base. It is pretty much only White Evangelicals.
They are collectively (individually some / many are good people) an appalling and hypocritical segment of society. Brainwashed on many levels.
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You’re (extremely) right. (haha) It did get overlooked, and thanks for your reply. The USofA religious right are a scary mob and so full of contradictions and hypocrisies it would be difficult to stomach for even a centrist believer to follow.
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Reckon he’d claim to be a Hindu if there was a vote in it.
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Maybe in his next life he will.
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No one does hypocrisy better than the Pentecostal.
Nope.
New York (CNN Business)
Time magazine has chosen “The Guardians,” a group of journalists who have been targeted for their work, as Person of the Year.
A series of four black-and-white covers highlights what the magazine calls “the War on Truth.”
The group includes Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post contributor who was killed at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in October. This is the first time that a Person of the Year is a deceased person.
Another cover features Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists who were arrested one year ago in Myanmar while they were working on stories about the killings of Rohingya Muslims, a minority population in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. The two men remain behind bars. Their wives were photographed for the cover.
“The Guardians” also includes the journalists at the Capital Gazette, the Annapolis, Maryland newspaper where five employees were murdered by a gunman last June.
And the fourth cover shows Maria Ressa, chief executive of the Philippine news website Rappler. She was indicted last month on tax evasion charges — a case that free speech and civil liberties advocates have warned is part of a wider crackdown on dissent by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration.
“For taking great risks in pursuit of greater truths, for the imperfect but essential quest for facts that are central to civil discourse, for speaking up and for speaking out, the Guardians” are the Person of the Year, Time editor Ed Felsenthal wrote.
Felsenthal unveiled the covers on the “Today” show on Tuesday.
“As we looked at the choices, it became clear that the manipulation and abuse of truth is really the common thread in so many of this year’s major stories.” he said.
President Trump, not coincidentally, was the runner-up for this year’s Person of the Year title. Special counsel Robert Mueller ranked No. 3.
Karl Vick, the author of the Time’s cover story about “The Guardians,” wrote that"this ought to be a time when democracy leaps forward, an informed citizenry being essential to self-government. Instead, it’s in retreat."
And “the story of this assault on truth is, somewhat paradoxically, one of the hardest to tell,” he added.
Ressa, for example, said she is not allowed to comment on the case against her. (Rappler has said it is politically motivated.)
Speaking with CNN’s Kristie Lu Stout about the recognition, Ressa said “it’s bittersweet and it’s daunting. Look at the challenges we are facing.”
She said it’s a “tough time to be a journalist, but what strengthens all of us is that there’s probably no better time to be a journalist, because this is when we live our values and we live our mission.”
Fellow journalists cheered the selection of Ressa and the other reporters who are on the four covers.
On “Today,” Felsenthal discussed the killing of Khashoggi and the reasons for his inclusion.
“This is the first time we’ve chosen someone no longer alive as Person of the Year, but it’s also very rare that a person’s influence grows so immensely in death,” Felsenthal said. “His murder has prompted a global reassessment of the Saudi crown prince and a really long overdue look at the devastating war in Yemen.”
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Is it possible to come up with a better word than Evangelist to describe particular Christians? Evangelism is spreading the gospel. That’s common to most, if not all, Christian sects.
Radical. Fundamentalist. Extreme. Deranged.
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Evangelical is the name they choose for themselves.
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RWENJs?
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