• kromem@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Our” religion.

    Dude doesn’t even know how to orient a Bible for a photo op, and couldn’t name his favorite part - or any part - of the Bible in an interview.

    The closest he gets to studying Christianity is sitting next to a book of Hitler’s speeches for inspiration via osmosis from a Catholic.

    That he can be so successful with the religious right says quite a lot about their critical reasoning abilities.

    I guess maybe raising children not to question anything and to commit themselves to obeying authority might not have been the best idea in retrospect…

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        1 year ago

        I mean, why would he? You have to feel as though you’ve done something wrong in order to ask for forgiveness. I genuinely don’t think Trump has ever done anything that he recognizes as wrong. I think you could get him to recognize that he’s done things that have hurt people, intellectually, but at best he’d say it was someone else’s fault and/or they deserved it.

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        1 year ago

        Well yeah, but he as often as possible gets his little wine and his little cracker…

        I get the feeling if you asked him what those represented and why, he’d flub the answer and have to redirect to talking about “The Power of Positive Thinking” again.

    • FaeDrifter@midwest.social
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      That he can be so successful with the religious right says quite a lot about their critical reasoning abilities.

      It’s a cult. They aren’t consistent with the values of Christianity, because it’s just an aesthetic. The cult itself is always first. In-group vs out-group. Ally vs enemy.

      Tankies are the same. Communism is just an aesthetic, the cult is always first.