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Sorry, Pope Francis: Christians Are Carrying Trump In South Carolina
thestar.com ^ | February 20

Posted on 02/20/2016 5:09:58 AM PST by Helicondelta

GREENVILLE, S.C.--Jim Moseley considers himself a "Christian soldier." On Thursday, he drove to the Cross Way religious bookstore in Greenville, S. C., the most devout region in one of America's most devout states, to buy his girlfriend an anniversary card inscribed with a Bible verse.

On Saturday, the 58-year-old salesman will vote in a critical Republican presidential primary. And he will vote for an insult-spewing casino developer from New York who has said he has never once asked God for forgiveness, curses without provocation, used to support abortion rights and speaks proudly of his own greed.

Easy decision.

Moseley explained himself with a metaphor adapted from Genesis. Nobody but Donald Trump, he said, can cut off the head of America's snake: bad decisions made on account of political correctness.

"It's about progress, not perfection. His good far outweighs his bad," Moseley said. "We all fall short. I'm a Christian, and I say a cuss word every now and then. I get angry. He just happens to say what we all want to say, what we all feel. And that's why we like him so much. Because he speaks our feelings."

Near Greenville up by the North Carolina border, ninth on one list of "Bible-minded cities," it's hard to drive five minutes without seeing a church. And you can't walk in without finding fans of a man one Baptist leader called "the embodiment of everything that evangelical Christians have been standing against in American culture." It's about feelings.

Pope Francis said Thursday Trump was "not Christian" for his desire to build "walls," like a barrier on the Mexican border, rather than build "bridges." But most of South Carolina's Christians are not in a bridge-building mood.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: christianvote; democrat; paidtrumptroll; popefrancis; sc2016; trump2016
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To: Helicondelta

Message to Pope: TEAR DOWN THAT WALL surrounding the Vatican.


41 posted on 02/20/2016 7:23:16 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Impy

You’re making that comment to a self-proclaimed Catholic.

This Pope has done a number of things to call himself to question, and thereby a religion that would stand by and allow their leader to behave in this manner.

Are you watching this guy?

Does this guy have no responsibility to speak out against folks like the leaders of Cuba, or is it just the evil U. S. That is deserving of his wrath?

How dare he trash us for wanting a wall similar to the vatican’s.

Get YOUR (liturgical) house in order and then get back to us.

We’re not damning a faith. We’re being specific, and truthful.


42 posted on 02/20/2016 7:25:00 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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To: xzins

>>The Jesuit’s as a group in south America,
>>were much in love with liberation theology.

And as a force in North America - they still are.


43 posted on 02/20/2016 7:26:34 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: Tax-chick

Anniversary- the date on which an event took place in a previous year:

“the 50th anniversary of the start of World War II”

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It’s just a marker. My beef is with the idiots in the media that breathlessly announce, “...celebrating the one month anniversary of such and such.” Those idiots...(self censored remark)


44 posted on 02/20/2016 7:27:00 AM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: MayflowerMadam

>>I don’t think the pope himself gives a rat’s ass about Trump.

He doesn’t. He only cares about the border between an advanced nation and a developing one. He sees that one side has prosperity and the other does not, so he thinks that the prosperity must be shared. But if it is not shared, it may be taken, because that is how liberation theology thinks.

It is the theology that thinks that Ananias and Sapphira were killed by God for not sharing; instead of the true reason, which was for lying.


45 posted on 02/20/2016 7:27:40 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Covenantor

When I worked for That Insurance Company, we talked about policies’ “monthlyversary” and “quarterversary.”


46 posted on 02/20/2016 7:28:32 AM PST by Tax-chick (What could go wrong? (Except death ...)
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To: xzins

There’s no “we” in Trump.

[The Untruth About Donald Trump]
Stefan Molyneux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8c2Cq-vpg


47 posted on 02/20/2016 7:29:16 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: xzins
>>He's gonna take care of us!

Yep - and

"The government's gonna pay for it" -- (D)onald Trump

[The Trump Tapes: Vol. 1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcUCLwWCihE

Trump Change?

48 posted on 02/20/2016 7:30:37 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: HLPhat

We will win again.

Tomorrow we will win in South Carolina and on Tuesday in Nevada.


49 posted on 02/20/2016 7:33:18 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

Populism.


50 posted on 02/20/2016 7:34:43 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: Helicondelta

Wow.. maybe the two Corinthians crowd.. but not the ones who have read both their Bible and the Founding Documents. The ones who dust off their collars to support every socialist fantasy. Plenty of those follow Obama also.


51 posted on 02/20/2016 7:36:13 AM PST by momincombatboots (Trump... The only Democrat who can win. Well played democrats. Mr single payer 2000!? Trump)
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To: momincombatboots
>>The ones who dust off their collars to support every socialist fantasy. 

"The government's gonna pay for it" -- (D)onald Trump

[The Trump Tapes: Vol. 1]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcUCLwWCihE

52 posted on 02/20/2016 7:39:19 AM PST by HLPhat (Preventing Global Cooling one tank full at a time!)
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To: Jane Long; SkyPilot
The law of unintended consequences. The Pope may have helped Trump over the top here.

This one is a disaster. I'm not Catholic, but appreciated the strengths of John Paul and Benedict. This one seems to be a sad sack misanthropic Marxist sell out.

I'm glad his visit has backfired so much.

53 posted on 02/20/2016 7:40:31 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: Helicondelta

Jesus obeyed the law.

Even when it condemned him to die for a crime he didn’t commit.


54 posted on 02/20/2016 7:47:43 AM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Lakeshark

Agree.

Whenever I see this Pope I see the “Miss me, yet?” image of JPII.


55 posted on 02/20/2016 7:50:27 AM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: Helicondelta

Where two or three Corinthians are gathered in Trump’s name in SC, at least two will claim that Christ is in the midst of them.


56 posted on 02/20/2016 8:27:43 AM PST by Theophilus (The GOPe are dealers. The Marxist Democrats are duelists.)
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To: Helicondelta

I’m pretty familiar with the Gospels. Did any of the disciples ever ask for forgiveness? I’m old and getting forgetful?


57 posted on 02/20/2016 9:09:02 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. - Sam Adams)
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To: DoughtyOne; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy

“You’re making that comment to a self-proclaimed Catholic.”

Yes, I know. I usually direct comments to my FRiends, what of it?

My position is this:

Screw the commie Pope, I’d love to force him to abdicate and send him North Korea. Screw anyone that supports him. My mom knows nuns that pray for his death.

And also screw bigoted swine who would use him as an excuse to trash a Church they have always hated for reasons having nothing to do with the current Pope. Is that your “we”? If not, I wasn’t talking about YOU. I have not read any post of yours on the subject.

Yesterday I saw some nut, I guess a LaRooshie, call the Catholic church the world’s largest money laundering operation after the British Crown, that’s the kind of jerk I’m talking about.


58 posted on 02/20/2016 9:19:34 AM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Helicondelta
"And that's why we like him so much. Because he speaks our feelings."

Feelings. Makes perfect sense . . . for a Democrat. But I choose to rely on reason and critical thought instead. And in doing so, I reach the conclusion that I cannot vote for someone to the left of Mitt Romney on every single issue.

59 posted on 02/20/2016 9:23:41 AM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: jmaroneps37

And no other candidate will expedite the return of those illegals either.


60 posted on 02/20/2016 9:27:36 AM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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