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mwmisses4289

(3,221 posts)
1. Weren't you and your ilk touting him,
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 01:09 PM
Dec 15

claiming your god will work through flawed vessels (or some such nonsense) to bring about the rapture (which itself is a flawed belief that only came about in evangelical movement of the late 1800s)? So now you are surprised whe a demon acts like a demon?

Tanuki

(16,296 posts)
3. Russell Moore took a lot of flak from his "ilk" in 2016
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 01:17 PM
Dec 15

for his criticism of Trump and Trump supporters. He has been consistent on this for a long time
https://www.npr.org/2016/12/20/506248119/anti-trump-evangelical-faces-backlash

"A prominent evangelical leader who harshly criticized Donald Trump during the presidential campaign now faces a backlash from fellow evangelicals who backed Trump.

Russell Moore, who presides over the political arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, called Trump "an awful candidate" and criticized "the old-guard religious right political establishment" for supporting him, notwithstanding Trump's "serious moral problems" and a Southern Baptist tradition of opposing politicians whose personal behavior is considered un-Christian.

"The religious right," Moore argued in an October speech, "turns out to be the people the religious right warned us about." As president of the Southern Baptists' Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Moore is in charge of his organization's policymaking and lobbying apparatus.
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Among the conservative leaders now going after Moore is former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, himself a Southern Baptist pastor. "I am utterly stunned that Russell Moore is being paid by Southern Baptists to insult them," Huckabee says."
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mwmisses4289

(3,221 posts)
5. Ah, thank you for that info.
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 01:20 PM
Dec 15

Seems he's more Jimmy Carter than joel olsteen. Wish there were more christians like him.

Probatim

(3,221 posts)
11. You could have stopped at "empathetic words" - he doesn't know any and he's never felt any empathy.
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 02:58 PM
Dec 15

-misanthroptimist

(1,564 posts)
4. Trump is not well
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 01:20 PM
Dec 15

He has no business occupying the White House -and never did. It is only the weakness and immorality of Congressional Republicans that keeps him there.

Tanuki

(16,296 posts)
7. He's been a vocal critic of Trump and Trump supporters since 2015,
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 02:10 PM
Dec 15

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has repeatedly castigated him for his lack of morality and basic decency, and made it clear that he believes him to be a terrible choice to lead our nation. This tweet was his latest salvo against him.

twodogsbarking

(17,576 posts)
9. The message is the normalcy of it. Will it even be taught in schools and if it is will it be praised?
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 02:55 PM
Dec 15

Therein lies the horror of not just from one generation but handed down from many. Good post. Hope it makes everyone think more, think more.

popsdenver

(1,537 posts)
12. Our only students that study him in the future
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 03:03 PM
Dec 15

Will be the Med Students studying Psychiatry.....particularly the top Psychopath, Sadist, and Forensic Narcissist.....of all time....
as well as the phenomenon of "Brain Washing"..........

patphil

(8,723 posts)
13. This horrible post just underscores the fact that Trump is morally depraved, and spiritually bankrupt.
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 03:06 PM
Dec 15

Everything has to be about him. I marvel at how he can twist a tragedy into a" poor me" complaint that he uses to bolster his fragile, and flailing ego.
It's time for him to be removed under Amendment 25, but I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen.
He's still too useful to the power behind the throne types.

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