Speaking of diehard supporters....
Someone tell Ted, I can't vote for him.
When it's over, it's over.
Posted on 02/25/2016 10:19:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump has made a number of comments about the Bible in the past few days, from suggesting that Secretary of State John Kerry hasn't read it, to claiming that no one reads it more than himself.
Trump told CBN's Pat Robertson at Regent University on Wednesday that the United States has made a number of foreign policy mistakes during the past couple of decades, including the recent nuclear deal with Iran which lifted economic sanctions from the Islamic Republic in exchange for limiting its nuclear program.
"When you think of how Iran is doing lately, right? Between the Iran deal, we give them $150 billion — we got nothing for it," Trump said. "We should have gotten our prisoners back long before we started negotiating ... (Secretary John) Kerry — this is the worst negotiator I think I've ever seen."
The billionaire businessman then said:
"Obviously Kerry did not read The Art of the Deal. Probably didn't read the Bible, either."
Kerry is a devout Catholic. He spoke about his faith in a Dec., 2013, interview with ABC News, and described how reading the Bible helped him understand that suffering is part of God's plan.
"You read the letters of St. Paul and you read other parts of the scripture and it talks about suffering and it talks about adversity. And I sort of began to put that in a better place. Not see it so much as, you know, a determinative God who makes every decision for everything that happens. But rather creates a framework within which we're responsible for making things happen," Kerry said at the time.
The Hill pointed out that on Tuesday, Trump touted his engagement with the holy book:
"Nobody reads the Bible more than me," Trump declared ahead of his third consecutive win in the GOP primary in the Nevada caucuses.
Trump has insisted that he is a committed Christian despite making some gaffes related to the Bible.
He described "Second Corinthians" as "Two Corinthians" at Liberty University earlier this year after the verse was provided to him by Family Research Council's Tony Perkins. Perkins said that he can accept the blame for Trump's gaffe at the time, since he wrote some helpful notes which referenced "2 Corinthians 3:17," but said that Trump's mistake "shows that he's not familiar with Bible."
Trump called the Bible his favorite book back in August 2015, but then refused to name his favorite verse when asked repeatedly in an interview on Bloomberg's "With All Due Respect."
"I wouldn't want to get into it. Because to me, that's very personal," Trump explained at the time. "The Bible means a lot to me, but I don't want to get into specifics."
Then later he claimed his favorite verse is "never bend to envy," which is not in the Bible.
Trump says he is a Presbyterian and a member of Marble Collegiate Church, but Marble Collegiate is not a Presbyterian church and has no record of Trump being a member.
The GOP frontrunner has also insisted that he has a "great relationship" with God and with evangelical voters.
"I live a very different life than probably a lot of people would think," Trump has said.
"I'm talking about over the last number of years, I'm leading a very good life. I try to lead a good life and I have."
Before the Iowa Caucus, he attended a church service in Iowa as part of his outreach to Evangelicals. But the church he attended was a Mainline Protestant denomination that supports gay marriage. At another Iowa church service, he put money in the communion plate, mistaking it for the offering plate.
Some conservatives, such as TV personality and radio host Glenn Beck, have dismissed the entire notion that Trump even reads the Bible.
Beck, who is a Mormon, said at a Ted Cruz rally earlier in February that "too many people are looking at Trump and believing that man has ever opened a Bible … that's the biggest crock of [expletive] I've ever heard."
"I'm going to be very blunt with you tonight," Beck added. "Donald Trump is very dangerous in my opinion."
How do you know his mother gave it to him?
“Perhaps, but at least snake oil salesman ranks above lawyer and politician.’
But what about a snake oil salesman running for the highest political office in the world? That takes the cake for me.
#2 The Two Corinthians borrowed his.
Sure there’s a few ‘good Christians’ here willing to endenture someone’s grand/grand-children so ‘I get mine’ via-a-vie SS/MediXYZ (wish I was /s).
Those wanting could see one of his shoe-laces untied and make a week’s worth of threads about something-or-the-other vs. DT.
Haters gonna hate.
It's no about judging his faith. It's about seeing the ridiculousness of him claiming this now, when it's convenient. he never claimed to be religious at all, until it benefited him. He should just be honest about it.
Reagan never claimed to be that religious. And religious people voted for him, because they knew he respected them.
The Bible may say not to judge people, but it doesn't say Christians are obligated to be stupid. Trump's faith is his business. But him transparently using it to try to fool me is my business.
Where was Trump's Bible when he used his pageant to attack and humiliate a young Christian girl.
Ah, but did it make you a communist? :)
Funny thing, the pastor at the Baptist church where I go has met credentialed clergy who talk about “Two Corinthians” just like it is printed in the bibles.
This is a non issue.
Pat’s looking like Bilbo Baggins.
“The GOP frontrunner has also insisted that he has a “great relationship” with God and with evangelical voters.” “Nobody reads the bible more than me”
To have a great relationship with God, one should be capable of prayer and in prayer asking for God’s forgiveness, which Trump claims he has never had to do.......so I ask, if he is the greatest bible reader ever, has the two time cheater gotten to the parts regarding adultery? I assume if he goes to a Presbyterian church he at some point has recited the Lord’s Prayer and does he realize that when he does, he is asking for God’s forgiveness.....”forgive us our trespasses”.
Are people so stupid they can’t see he is counting on them being stupid? Who describes a great relationship with God in a sentence equal with a great relationship with VOTERS?
"Perhaps, but at least snake oil salesman ranks above lawyer and politician."
The salesman is the only one actually working in the free market all the "Conservatives" praise when it works to ship entire industries overseas.
#18 did you expect anything else?
He used his spouses
He used his associates spouses
He used those murdered on 9/11
He used Wounded Vets
Why would you think he wouldn’t use the Viable or God for his own self serving interests.
But Mr. Trump doesn't have to make it so easy for them to dislike him.
Confidence attracts people; foolish arrogance, not so much.
Speaking of diehard supporters....
Pat Robertson? Ick.
Pat Robertson, The Successful Con-Artist
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread127001/pg1
False Prophet Pat Robertson’s Latest Money Scam
http://www.skeptictank.org/robem4.htm
And my favorite, his fake 2000lb leg press to peddle protein powder:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-pat-robertson-leg-press-2000-lbs/
How many times are you desperate Cruz people going to post this same crap? Don’t you know that Cruz is a liar and all of you who support him are stoopid? If the orange obama, er, donald said so, it IS true no matter what! Sheesh! Besides, donny doesn’t just read the Bible, he CREATED it!
RE: But he’s gonna build a wall.
Yes, and it’s going to a “Beautiful”, “Amazing” wall.
Actually the bible doesn’t say “ask for God’s forgiveness.”
It does say “If we confess our sins” then “He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
People sometimes insert their own unbiblical presumptions because the alternative seems too good to be true.
The truth is that forgiveness is something that God is PUSHING at us, and the only problem is that we won’t RECEIVE and USE it for its intended purpose!
The Old Testament
The New Testament
The Trump Testament
And it will be yuuuge. The best testament you have ever read. Those other testaments are losers.
Any wall at all, I guar-an-tee yuh, will be a beautiful, amazing wall.
All of us are writing copies of the bible to better or worse fidelity with our lives.
I hope the Trump Testament indeed is YUUUGE.
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