Posted on 07/15/2015 4:19:42 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Donald Trump isn’t afraid to say what needs to be said. Now the billionaire, television personality and presidential aspirant has a straightforward message for Christians.
“The Christians are being treated horribly because we have nobody to represent the Christians. Believe me, if I run and I win, I will be the greatest representative of the Christians they’ve had in a long time,” Trump said in a recent interview.
In the midst of persecution in the Middle East by Islamic extremists and persecution at home by liberals who would take away the freedoms of religion and expression, Christians need a champion. The other U.S. presidential wannabes have largely failed to address directly the state of Christianity in the world. Trump is filling that void.
In the same interview, Trump criticized the Obama administration for its anti-Christian immigration policies. He exposed Obama for allowing Muslims who live in Syria to come to the United States while blocking the Christians in Syria.
“I learned this weekend … that if you’re a Christian living in Syria you can’t come into this country. Yet, if you are a Muslim living in Syria, who are not under attack, they can come in. We have Christians being beheaded all over the world by ISIS. In Syria and in Iraq, in particular, those Christians can’t come into this country,” he said.
And with such comments, the Trump bandwagon continues to take on passengers. David Brody of CBN is encouraging evangelicals to support the business magnate.
“Trump’s ability to cut through the clutter and paint the world in ‘absolutes’ attracts quite a few evangelical voters. Remember, evangelicals hold true to their ‘biblical absolutes,’ so to see a person like Trump let it rip and tell it like it is becomes a somewhat endearing quality to some evangelicals. Trump takes hits for his boldness, and evangelicals take hits from society for their biblical boldness, too,” stated Brody (H/T Shoebat.com).
In other words, while other candidates hem and haw, afraid of saying something that might antagonize potential supporters or raise the ire of a biased media, Trump blasts ahead and lays it on the line.
He may not be the most eloquent speaker, but Trump is capturing the imagination of Americans. That has made him an early front-runner in the race to the White House.
If you are inspired by Donald Trump’s willingness to reach out to Christians, please share this article with others on Facebook and Twitter who believe Christianity has been disrespected and minimalized by Obama in particular and liberals in general.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
Christ trumps the Donald in every conceivable situation . . . though I know that there are many on this site that believe that Jesus is but a lesser being than the human Mary. Nevertheless . . .
Why Won’t Obama Help My Syrian Christian Family?
“Christians, like my family, have been desperately trying to smuggle themselves out of Syria as ISIS tells them to convert or die and the White House ignores their desperate plight....
I am not yet an American citizen, but I am very grateful to this country. This country let me know what liberty, freedom, and pursuit of happiness means. My 2-year-old daughter was born in the U.S.; this should allow me to voice my protest against the policies of this administration. The current administration seems to be kowtowing to the Islamic groups rather than helping the minorities in the Middle East, who have always proven to be great allies of the United States. The administration has supported Islamic rebels in Libya and Syria, some of whom have even turned against the U.S., similar to what happened in Benghazi, while the friends of the U.S.—the Kurds, the Christians, and the real secular Syrian groups—are left without any backing. The Christians of Syria are the survivors of 1,500 years of forced conversion to Islam. Now, ISIS is forcing them to either convert or die, but my people are not willing to abandon their ancient faith. Would the administration extend a hand and save them?”
MORE MUSLIM REFUGEES COMING TO US
The UN is working on sending Syrian refugees to the US, according to a new WND article. For the past couple of decades, the UN has sent between 200,000 to 250,000 Muslim refugees to the US. Most of these people have been from Iraq or Somalia, bringing with them the Middle Eastern and African cultural gems of female genital mutilation and other forms of misogyny like domestic abuse and even honor killings. They often settle in small towns which transform into Muslim enclaves and build mosques which become breeding grounds for homegrown terrorism for the next generation, or even this generation, as the Obama Administration has eased restrictions on asylum-seekers with terrorist ties entering this country.
Now to add to the Iraqi and Somali enclaves, will likely be Syrian parallel societies. Earlier this month the State Department hinted at the possibility of a new wave of Syrian refugees to add to the already large amount of Muslim immigrants who come to the US each year. There has been nothing reported on the genocide of Christians in the Middle East in terms of bringing over large groups of persecuted Christian refugees. Most Syrians are Muslim.
http://chersonandmolschky.com/2014/09/17/muslim-refugees-coming/
How’s Trump look shirtless? Clearly he wants to be the American Putin.
Apparently there’s a lot Donald haters here on FR. Too bad. He has done more to further the acceptance of conservative principles in the last few weeks than others have done in their entire life.
Praise the Lord...and pass me some more Trump!
Trump needs 3 or 4 hot buttons to push until the election. He found the first one, illegal alien criminality. Here’s his 2nd hot button, Christian persecution. For the third, I gather he would think trade agreements are another hot button, but I doubt it would get much traction. And fourth, he has a natural streak for pushing on another hot button: the lies & complicit agenda of the MSM. A fifth hot button might be flat tax or abolishing the IRS.
You mean about blocking Syrian refugees from coming to the US, while allowing Muslims in? Yes, I believe I read that in a Catholic journal, last year sometime.
“The Christians are being treated horribly because we have nobody to represent the Christians. Believe me, if I run and I win, I will be the greatest representative of the Christians they’ve had in a long time,” Trump said in a recent interview.
Donald, right....having you say you will “represent” Christians is about as meaningful as the Devil saying that.
Will already have plenty of Conservative Christians running for the nomination that WILL represent Christians....we don’t need you. IF you REALLY want to HELP Christians...then drop out of the race so a real one like Ted Cruz has a better chance.
“Yeah, I prefer Cruz but I am not sure he can win.”
Trump is a lot of noise and NO substance. The left will destroy him, and especially in debates. If Cruz can get the nomination, he would stand a MUCH greater chance of surviving a general election than Trump.
Cruz will solidify the religious conservatives, fiscal conservatives, etc. Plus, he will clean the floor with Hillary in any debate. Trump is not genuine, he is just a carnival hawker.
“what are you going to do with all those who marry between now and then? Tell them they aren’t married?”
Yes, most certainly so. If no amnesty is possible for the millions of illegals, then revoking some homosexual bogus marriages is nothing hard at all.
Poor Trump having to hang with those arch criminal poor scumbag Clintons!
Right now, I prefer Trump. Cruz has said a lot of conservative things.
But only Trump understands that our international trade policies are the primary cause of our economic issues and high unemployment.
Meanwhile Cruz supported giving Obama fast track authority to sign even more free trade agreements. Cruz can be a super conservative and the best lawyer in the world, but if he doesn’t understand the economy, he’s not going to be a whole lot of help.
Trump has enough charisma to win. He may not be a “super conservative” but he’s far more conservative than Romney was. I’m not even sure Cruz can win the nomination much less the President.
What Trump is saying is common-sense things that resonate with the people.
I never ever thought I would support Trump. That’s changed.
“Donald Trump, when the winds change you’ll be among the first to deprive Christians of their rights.”
Okay, now, you are wasting bandwidth on silliness. On what grounds do you say this? And give specifics. You can’t just spout off Boloney. You are not in the US Congress.
HOORAY Donald Trump!
A Jewish peer who fled occupied Austria as a child is funding the rescue of up to 2,000 Christians from Syria and Iraq as a way of showing his gratitude to the religion whose members saved him from the Nazis.Lord Weidenfeld says he has “a debt to repay” to Christians fleeing Isis, because the Quakers and the Plymouth Brethren fed and clothed him and helped him to reach Britain in 1938.
The publisher is spearheading Weidenfeld Safe Havens Fund, which last week supported the flight of 150 Syrian Christians to Poland on a privately chartered plane to allow them to seek refuge, making them the first beneficiaries of the resettlement project.
Having arrived in Britain on a train a year before the start of the Second World War with just a few shillings to his name, Lord Weidenfeld went on to establish the Weidenfeld and Nicolson publishing business a decade later. He was made a life peer in 1976.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/jewish-peer-who-fled-nazis-is-rescuing-christians-fleeing-isis-to-repay-debt-10388388.html
It’s up to Cruz to step up. I am waiting. If that doesn’t happen, I am waiting for Scott Walker to step up. If that doesn’t happen, I am voting for TRUMP.
You mean about blocking Syrian refugees from coming to the US, while allowing Muslims in? Yes, I believe I read that in a Catholic journal, last year sometime.
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Obama has made this world so much less safe. If things really get bad for us, I really hope they do for him too.
Maybe God is using this hedonistic gadfly to do this, to save this country and to save His people around the world. Our flawed Donald Trump genuinely loves this country, loves our culture and our traditions, is appalled by what has happened, sees the void, sees that there is no one who is saying what needs to be said, and can say it loudly enough to be heard in every corner of this land. It won’t be the first time that God has appointed an unlikely man to do his Holy work.
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