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President Donald Trump has recorded himself reading scripture from the Old Testament for a marathon Bible reading billed as a national reading of Gods law.
Fresh off a public tirade against the Pope and backlash over an AI-generated image portraying himself as Jesus Christ, the 79-year-old president prepared a two-and-a-half-minute reading calling for repentance from Gods people for an event at the Museum of the Bible.
The White House has called the reading an event to honor Holy Scripture, renew our faith, usher in a historic resurgence of religion on American shores, and rededicate the United States as one Nation under God.
Trumps passage comes from the Old Testament book of II Chronicles, which has become one of the Christian rights favorite passages.
If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land, Trumps passage reads.
Other MAGA personalities taking part in the America Reads the Bible event include Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, both of whom are Catholic. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, an evangelical Christian, is also taking part in the Bible-reading event, just days after being widely ridiculed for reading a prayer largely taken from the 1994 film Pulp Fiction at a Pentagon prayer service. The overwhelming majority of participants in the event are evangelical Christians, The New York Times reported.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-records-crackpot-voice-of-god-from-real-book-of-ezekiel/
Check out Trump's Bible bookmark in the photo at the link...
dalton99a
(94,842 posts)chicoescuela
(3,140 posts)haele
(15,497 posts)Not dissing those who find comfort in their religiosity, but -
- he's been exhibiting that he has recently developed feelings of normal mortality, and he's grabbing onto anything that might keep him in the "special" category of society.
He feels he doesn't have to be afraid of ending up common worm food like everyone else if he can live forever as one of the elect.
Spitballing here, but I'm speculating his recent habit of saying "Praise Allah" is not just sarcasm, but a way to prove if he can angle himself into the heaven with the 72 virgins.
chicoescuela
(3,140 posts)One day Ill fall asleep and that will be it. No 72 virgins I imagine
haele
(15,497 posts)I haven't yet set up a trust and my heirs will be stuck going through probate, and that my disabled spouse will end up homeless because I've basically been the primary bill payer and home caretaker. I'm looking at some programs the VA has for spouses.
Other than that, when it's my time, it's my time. If I am going to deal with any sort of judgement post demise, I know I've done the best I can being the best person I can.
chicoescuela
(3,140 posts)if there is any judgment.
Deuxcents
(27,390 posts)Murder, separating children from their families, denying food for the hungry? What say you, Donald?
2naSalit
(103,584 posts)He can't read and he sure as hell can't read the King James language. Besides. you'd never hear most of what's written in that book fall from his facial sphincter lips.
I'm guessing it's AI slop using his voice caricature.
flvegan
(66,404 posts)from 2 Chronicles of Narnia, 3:16 and that's the bottom line, because Stone Cold said so." - DJT, fucking idiot supreme, Pope of the Dopes, probably.
Because he's a moron and religion is just another big part of the grifting of his even dumber disciples.