Why do so many evangelical Christians support former President Donald Trump despite his decades of documented ungodly behavior?
An in-depth report from The Economist shows that it has a simple explanation: They believe that God personally appointed him to rule the United States.
In fact, the report cites a survey conducted by Denison University political scientist Paul Djupe that around 30 percent of Americans believe Trump “was anointed by God to become president.”
30% of Americans or 30% of voters?
About 10 or 20 minutes after I posted the story, I found the actual study by Dennison University that is the basis of many of the claims.
Here is the /official/, paywalled, abstract only link on Cambridge’s journal or study publishing site:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/full-armor-of-god/2B21DC6F17E88C6DF7275F45A66DF104
And here are various links to the full study provided by scientists amd volunteers who believe information should be freely available:
https://annas-archive.org/md5/da76eb110551fd4028c9c0a8e185f0ce
I have not had enough time to read it but given that 40% + of American adults believe in the Biblical Creation narrative of the world and do not believe in evolution, I’m pretty confident the 30% figure refers to basically American Adults, ie potential voters, in this context.
30% of Americans that were willing to take the survey… So the most enthusiastic voters…
Statistically my opinion doesn’t even count because I’m not American.
But i get the 30% crowd on this. For that buffoon of a human being to become president. Maybe there was divine intervention. But whatever God exists, is fucking with us for entertainment.
At this point it seems clear to me that if there is a God, it is basically the insane God of Madness from the Elder Scrolls, Sheogorath.
Like the king is king because god wants… Wait why is this so similar to 1300DC?
Both the RawStory and The Economist articles are quite vague about what specific 2021 Pew poll they’re talking about. I’m very skeptical of this 30% number. The Economist article itself made no such claim.
My mom believes it and told me at her Bible studies they all talk about how God put Trump on Earth to protect America. So there’s that. It’s mostly old ass Christians, but unfortunately for us America is mostly old ass Christians because the Baby Boomer generation was FUCKING HUGE. Hats off to the leftist Christians who actually understand Jesus’ teachings
In fact, the report cites a survey conducted by Denison University political scientist Paul Djupe that around 30 percent of Americans believe Trump “was anointed by God to become president.”
Not a Pew Research Poll.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/full-armor-of-god/2B21DC6F17E88C6DF7275F45A66DF104
I’ll see if I can find it on open scholar or something similar.
EDIT: Here we go!
https://annas-archive.org/md5/da76eb110551fd4028c9c0a8e185f0ce
You can thank Cambridge for paywalling scientific knowledge for why the article is so hard to find.
I mean it took me about 10 minutes, but I guess most people do not know how to do research on the internet.
Thanks!
Divine right of presidents theory would also make all the Democrats appointed by God. But this shit is evangelical personal relationship with God nonsense, so I guess God told them personally that he appointed Trump to be president.
Probably still just nuts hearing voices.
Yes, but theres something like 50 million of them.
Have you seen a can or jar of nuts lately? They tend to come in large supply.
They also all have guns.
Gun Nuts, you might say.
Knowing how Evangelicals are, they’d claim that the dem presidents are Satan deceiving people or, like in the case of Obama, are potential Antichrists. They need Satan to be powerful enough to fear and they use anything they can to reinforce that.
So either their god is powerless to stop this single fallen angel, or they don’t love their creation enough to care.
No no you see, he’s ignoring us on purpose. God loves us so much he just ignores all of our pain and agony! It’s all our fault too, yes us personally, because of some stupid fuck that ate an apple thousands of years ago! It all makes perfect sense! ^/s
So he withdrew his support of trump in 2020? No they’ll say, that election was stolen. So democrats are more powerful than God? Sounds like you chumps are worshiping an inferior being. Get with it. Biden for God, 2024.
There’s no use using logic to argue someone out of a position they didn’t arrive at by logic in the first place.
They just hand wave anything away as “this is a test of faith in this life, but it is only the eternal afterlife that matters.” There’s literally no arguing with it.
If that were true the size of the crowd at his inauguration may have matched the myth told about it.
“With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.”
― Steven Weinberg
I’m guessing that goes in reverse too, no? Provided “fame” is a religion too, because rich people love seeing their names in the news and hence give a lot to charity.
Saw this unhinged video on the old site about a week ago. Woman being interviewed was going on about how much the shitbag cares about USA and how much he cares about us. These people cannot reason about anything logically. He gives no fucks for anyone but himself, yet this asshole was saying he gives a fuck about his supporters / USA citizens. I hate stupidity. I hate gullibility.
I had a sociology professor who stated that we hate most in others what we fear most in ourselves. Checks out.
despite his decades of documented ungodly behavior
Because they also have decades of documented “ungodly behavior” (dumb phrase given god is a complete asshole) and want someone in charge that will let them continue it. Why do people insist on equating “christian” with “good”? If you saw some dude with “Good Guy” tattooed on his forehead, would you trust them? That’s exactly what the cross has symbolized since it’s inception.
[they believe that] God will use Trump to crush opposition to Christian nationalism and restore Christians as the nation’s rightful political rulers.
i’ve said for years that all the so-called “hypocrisy” of the christian right supporting the decidedly unchristian donald trump vanishes when you account for one fact: he’ll let them hurt who they want to hurt.
This is truly adorable.
White Christian Conservatives are one of the most scary things out there. Those fuckers are twisted, hateful and dellutional.
And their votes somehow still count 😦
