For My Christian Friends Supporting Trump (1 Viewer)

[Sinn Fein]

Michele Bachman says she has "never seen a more godly, biblical president than Trump."

Biblical how?  As in the coming apocalypse?  Plague of locusts?

Sodom and Gomorrah? 

 

[ren hoek]

https://twitter.com/Breznican/status/1203762299653128192

This is the Nativity display outside the Claremont United Methodist Church in California. It's making some people very upset.

And it should.

 

[tri-man 47]

https://twitter.com/Breznican/status/1203762299653128192

This is the Nativity display outside the Claremont United Methodist Church in California. It's making some people very upset.

And it should.

Yes, it should.  

That's incredibly edgy ...and powerful in its message.  

 

[Kal El]

Yes, it should.  

That's incredibly edgy ...and powerful in its message.  

Jesus' parents took Him to Egypt for some time while He was young, since Herod wanted to kill Him. The Savior was a refugee for the first part of His life.

 

[Sheriff Bart]

Jesus' parents took Him to Egypt for some time while He was young, since Herod wanted to kill Him. The Savior was a refugee for the first part of His life.

“Kids, let me tell you about another so called ‘wicked’ guy. He had long hair and some wild ideas, and he didn’t always do what other people thought was right, and that man’s name was . . . I forget. But the point is . . . I forget that, too. Marge, you know who I’m talking about, he used to drive that blue car.” – Homer Simpson

 

[Joe Bryant]

It's always sensitive to use a sacred image to make a point. So I can understand some of the reaction. 

I usually share this image at Christmas and I think it's powerful. http://globaltheology.org/jose-y-maria-still-no-room/

 

[SoBeDad]

Christians in the Catalonia region of Spain have a 200 year tradition: Catalonian Nativity Scenes Feature a Man Pooping in the Manger Scene’s

The person defecating, the Caganer, is fertilizing the earth and bringing good luck: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer

The Catalans get upset when people mess with their 200 year tradition.

 

[roadkill1292]

538 has an interesting piece today updating millennials' trending views on organized religion and how they may contribute to the widening political divide in the US.

Why does it matter if millennials’ rupture with religion turns out to be permanent? For one thing, religious involvement is associated with a wide variety of positive social outcomes like increased interpersonal trust and civic engagement that are hard to reproduce in other ways. And this trend has obvious political implications. As we wrote a few months ago, whether people are religious is increasingly tied to — and even driven by — their political identities. For years, the Christian conservative movement has warned about a tide of rising secularism, but research has suggested that the strong association between religion and the Republican Party may actually be fueling this divide. And if even more Democrats lose their faith, that will only exacerbate the acrimonious rift between secular liberals and religious conservatives.

“At that critical moment when people are getting married and having kids and their religious identity is becoming more stable, Republicans mostly do still return to religion — it’s Democrats that aren’t coming back,” said Michele Margolis, author of “From the Politics to the Pews: How Partisanship and the Political Environment Shape Religious Identity.” in an interview for our September story.