Posted on 06/19/2015 6:03:00 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Many political experts will not take Donald Trump's quest for the Republican presidential nomination seriously, possibly for good reason. Trump, most notable for his vast real estate empire, wealth, bankruptcies, reality TV show, high profile divorces, and of late, his brash political statements, professes to be a Christian. As The Christian Post reported Tuesday, he even claims he would be "the greatest jobs president God ever created."
While Trump might not be popular with a large segment of the Republican Party, many voters no longer feel connected to Washington or what they see as a professional and entrenched political class. With his populist streak, Trump may appeal to these voters. Below are six facts about Donald Trump and his professed Christian faith.
1. Speaking to CBN News in May, Donald Trump declared: "I will be the greatest representative of the Christians they've had in a long time."
Specifically, Trump was talking about the Christians being slaughtered in the Middle East, especially in Syria, and according to him, Christians around the globe do not have anybody representing them. Trump also claimed it was easier for Muslims to come to the U.S. than persecuted Christians.
2. Trump says he's Presbyterian and previously attended services with the Reformed Church of America denomination.
Trump told Human Events and other news outlets that he is "a believer." In 2011, he told CBN he attended First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica Queens, which is part of the Presbyterian U.S.A. denomination. Some past articles and interviews have listed Trump as a member of the Reformed Church of America, but more recently he has said he is Presbyterian. He says he goes to church on Sunday when he can and always on Christmas, Easter, and on special occasions.
3. After previously making statements favorable toward the right to abortion, Trump now claims to be pro-life.
While Trump has a long track record of making statements and supporting candidates who were pro-abortion, he credits a friend's experience with not wanting a baby and then adoring that baby as a big reason for his shift on abortion. In January, Trump explained his position on abortion, where he allowed for limited exceptions to terminate a pregnancy and talked about his traditional views on same-sex marriage, which he said at the moment "is a state's rights' issue." In the past, Trump has said he "took a lot of heat" for being opposed to same-sex marriage.
4. When asked by Bill O'Reilly if there was a "Muslim problem in the world," Trump answered "yes."
In a 2011 interview, Trump added, "absolutely, absolutely, I don't notice Swedish people knocking down the World Trade Center." Trump backed up his statement later saying, "We have to speak the truth, this country is so politically correct, and it's falling apart."
5. Donald Trump has called the Bible "The Book, it is the thing."
In fact, he collects Bibles because he claims so many people send him Bibles. Trump says he saves and stores them because, "There's no way I would do anything negative to a Bible."
6. Trump has praised evangelical leaders Tony Perkins and Ralph Reed, saying "they have great reputations."
In 2011 Trump declared, "I recently spoke to Ralph Reed and Tony Perkins and I was really impressed, they have great reputations and I have been hearing about them for years." He added that they were "smart people."
“Trump is attracting the social liberals and anti-Christian posters here, so that says something about him.”
That’s a crock from someone we all know is an atheist.
LOL, you are one of them.
From Romney to Trump, way to go.
And that from a hardcore atheist, lol. At least Romney and Trump are Christian believers, unlike you.
Why would you tell such a direct lie?
And why would you tell such a lie, while falsely claiming that Mormon Bishop Romney, is a Christian, and defending the pro-abortion Trump?
Is that how you anti-Christians, anti-social conservatives roll?
Oh come on, everyone knows which way you swing.
Again, the Trump supporters show merely strange anger, and bizarre thoughts.
So the pro-abortion Trump considers Bill Clinton the best of the modern presidents, and you want to promote Mormonism as Christian.
How is that reasonable?
“How is that reasonable?”
As reasonable and rational as you being an Atheist.
That’s interesting, so your troll technique now is to attack Christians personally, as “atheists”?
And you want to do that while defending pro-abortion candidates and trying to promote the religion of Mormonism as “Christian”?
Otoh, some of the rich and the rich and famous just quietly do things that need to be done and purposefully avoid recognition for it.
Speaking of church parking lots and the rich and famous, have you heard the Dale Earnhardt "Church parking lot" story?
As the story goes (from professional wrestler Bill Goldberg), the elder Earnhardt was driving around one rainy Sunday -- presumably not during race season, of course -- and he passed a church. The kind of church where people still get dressed to the nines to show off their Sunday best.Trump's a lot of bluster, but if the stories of how Trump treats "the little people" around him are true, then I wouldn't be surprised if he has a few stories like Dale Earnhardt's."It was pouring down rain and there was no parking lot," said Goldberg. "He was watching these people walk from the church, through the mud, to get to their cars.
Nobody asked him to do anything. He never said anything to anybody, but lo and behold, one day a buddy was driving by that church and there was a brand new, paved parking lot. Nobody knew who did it.
You don't do it because you get the adulation for it; (not because) you get the pat on the back for it. You do it because it’s the right thing to do
Yet Trump has always been pro-abortion.
“That’s interesting, so your troll technique now is to attack Christians personally, as “atheists”?”
I’m not attacking a Christian; I’m attacking a well known atheist.
To: flaglady47
B/S. If you can’t handle a conservative forum, move on.
41 posted on 11/15/2013, 4:18:11 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
Nice try Athiest, lol.
There is more going on with you than just your liberal politics, you clearly are not all there mentally and emotionally.
Mormons, a cult with a jesus that is the brother of satan, are Christians.
And Christians on Free Republic are atheists.
Check.
Boy is that a case of the pot calling the kettle black, lol. But, my Atheist friend, I’m now over on another thread of an article endorsing Trump, so I bid you adieu. You have nothing of value to say anyhow. Get some religion is my advice. Bye.
No kidding, she is one sick puppy.
Those that seek after religion instead of Jesus usually are.
Evangelical protestants give away free bibles to people they don't know all the time, trying to save souls by convincing the person to read it, "accept Jesus", and become "born again". Trump is a well known celebrity and in the news a lot, so I wouldn't find it strange that ordinary Americans have sent him 20+ bibles in the mail over the past two decades. (the same is also probably true of people like Stephen Spielberg, Charlie Sheen, etc., etc. ...they probably get folks from the bible belt trying to "save" them by sending them stuff through the mail)
Trump, being the detached doofus he is, wouldn't bother giving away the bibles to someone who would actually use them, so he probably adds them to his vast collection and keeps them on display or in storage in some library he owns, where they collect dust. It reminds me of Clinton's visit with Pope John Paul II when the Pope was trying to discuss serious policy issues and Clinton was admiring all the Vatican artwork and trying to convince the Pope to sell him some for his private collection ("name your price").
The rest of Trump's allegedly "religious" tidbits sound pretty scripted to me, and put out there to appeal to GOP voters. I seriously doubt #1 (Trump will be a forceful advocate against Chrisitan persecution worldwide), #3 (Trump having a sincere change of heart on abortion), and #6 (Trump claims he admires Tony Perkins and Ralph Reed. Most likely he just wants their base of supporters to vote for him).
#2 may be true, but Trump is most likely a "Christmas and Easter" church goer, like a large chunk of the U.S. population. As another freeper noted, if Trump was actually a fervent church-goer, the congregation he attended would likely end up with nearly a billion dollars in offerings coming in annual, thanks to Trump's generous coffers.
I never heard that, LOL.
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