[Dr. Sivana]

How many Evangelicals were coming out of NYC 69 years ago, when Trump was born?

[EEGator]

I would guess far less.

[Hostage]

Many many. NYC is a huge metropolis with many enclaves that are solidly evangelical. The Presbyterian Pastor Norman Vincent Peale was highly charismatic and evangelical. He was there in NYC at the time of Donald’s birth. My relatives in Queens knew of him and of many many others.

NYC has a long history of evangelical Christianity by heroic Christians that spent their entire lives rescuing teens and helping the poor, getting the word out from the Gospels. And many of them put their lives on the line doing it.

Anyone who thinks NYC does not have a large evangelical community has, in NY street parlance, has their head up their ass.

The Black evangelical community in NYC has numbers that are larger than most mid-sized towns in America.

[wideawake]

His father attended the Marble Collegiate Church when it was the place to see and be seen in New York City - that is, when celebrity preacher Norman Vincent Peale (the Joel Osteen of the 1950s) held court there with the Rockefellers, the Paleys, Lucille Ball, Steve Allen, and other celebrities and movers and shakers.

Back then it was considered "mainline" and it was decidedly anti-fundamentalist.

You know, a pre-golfing ritual.