Former President Donald Trump’s latest venture selling Bibles has sparked the fury of Christians.
Trump, who became the presumptive Republican nominee earlier in March, posted a video on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday urging his supporters to buy the “God Bless the USA Bible,” inspired by country singer Lee Greenwood’s patriotic ballad.
“Happy Holy Week! Let’s Make America Pray Again. As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless the USA Bible,” Trump wrote in the post, alongside a link to a website selling the book for $59.99. It came a day after Trump seemingly compared his legal plight to Jesus Christ’s persecution.
And it comes as he faces mounting legal bills while fighting four criminal indictments and a series of civil charges while running to reclaim the White House. On Monday, a New York appeals court agreed to hold off on collecting the more than $454 million he owes following a civil fraud judgment if he puts up $175 million within 10 days.
But the move has sparked the ire of Christians.
Whatever, the death-cultists will still line up like “good christians” & vote for fascism.
America will never truly be free under the shadow of christofascist tyranny.
They’ll still vote for him.
But angry
I hope it really ruins their day
What he should start selling is little golden statues of himself. That’d be pretty biblical lol
There’s already a prototype, and not a whiff of irony.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/27/golden-trump-statue-mexico-cpac
But I’m still voting for him
/s, I wish
Their handlers (pastors, Fox News, OANN, etc) have made then genuinely terrified that everyone outside their echo-chamber are “baby-murdering, child-grooming, liberal perverts that want to force you to swear allegiance to the Beast of the End Times”. Any attempt to validate those claims is not just treason, but literal religious heresy. I’m sure you don’t need to be told, but I’ll say it anyway: I am not exaggerating.
Even quoting their own scripture at them (because it absolutely disagrees with almost everything they stand for) is immediately disregarded… because remember: not doing as your told is the work of Satan, and “even the devil can quote scripture.”
There is no redemption for people like that (see: Matthew 23:13).
christians have loved what trump has done. but selling bibles is their limit? pathetic.
Christians isn’t a monolithic entity, the way the headline pretends. There’s liberal Christians and conservative Christians. Hell, there’s an LGBTQ church down the street from here with a trans pastor and a church trauma support group.
i.e. Not all Christians love what Trump has done and not all Christians hate that he’s selling bibles.
So called “liberal Christians” just enable the fascist ones.
ACAB.
How?
Because if it was all bad it would just be abandoned. It is like smoking tobacco vs consuming botulism. Each time you smoke a tiny bit of damage is done and a lot is pleasure is delivered every time you consume botulism you get very ill and risk dying. That’s why people aren’t consuming 20 capsules of botulism a day.
The liberal Christianity tried to offer a different route. A Christianity that doesn’t depend on bigotry. A Christianity not supported by the texts or thoughts of the faith for the past 20 centuries because they are doing that they are offering cover for the the branches aligned with Christianity. They are holding out the possibility of reform. If they don’t exist people would see Christianity for what it is, and not what in theory it could be.
The problem with your analogy is either the people of the religion need to view it as botulism or the vast majority of society needs to view those people as botulism.
The people of the religion are at best going to see it as tobacco. I hate tobacco; smoking isn’t pleasurable, it just makes me feel sick. But there are people who love it. You and I may see their religion as devoid of anything good, but to them it’s good. They are often born into it and want their religion with the negatives you and I see. It has nothing to do with liberal Christians.
And it is not liberal Christians that make it so we don’t reach the threshold of the vast majority of society not tolerating the bad Christians. The bad Christians are a sizeable enough part of society on their own to guarantee that. And as a society, we’re fairly geographically sorted. So even if they were only 5% of the population, they’d still often be surrounded by like-minded individuals and be able to wield political power. Plus, they’re still people. Even the most evil people generally have some redeeming qualities.
People forcing them all into one box enable the fascist ones. Anytime someone says “that’s fascism and not Christianity” they’re met with screeches of “nO tRuE sCoTsMaN!”
I can back up my arguments with their holy texts as well as the Greek thought most of it was stolen from. At its core it is a fascist faith. Beginning with Plato’s blueprint for a spiritual dictatorship ruled by mystics who don’t have to explain themselves, to Jesus declaring that his path was the only way, to the City of God telling us that torture in this life was better than hell and thus justified.
None of that explains how Christians who say “Fascism is bad” are enabling fascists.
Do you know that an enabler doesn’t have to be intentionally doing it?
Do you know for someone to be an enabler there should be some evidence/argument for it other than “you’re speaking against the thing I’m accusing you of enabling”?
Limit? No, trigger.
Please pass the popcorn.
Some Christians, I’m sure. The Evangelicals that already loved him are currently trying to figure out how to shove a Trump Bible in their anus while describing it as “God’s plan”.
“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holey and acceptable to God, place his word into thy rectum, which is your spiritual worship.”
-Romans 12:1 maybe
Look, i can excuse the racism, having no clue what he’s doing as a president, the rape allegations, he’s super into minors, probably his own daughter, stealing and selling sensible documents, the nepotism, the lies, grifting his voters, swindling taxpayer money, not paying any fees ever, not paying for venues that he rents out, using his golf course to, again, steal taxpayer money, he might be a blatant russian asset, he’s also way too much into dictators, he didn’t furfill ANYof his campaign promises, selling beans from the oval office.
But selling an old ass novel about my imaginary sky daddy? You crossed the line there buckaroo.
I’m just relieved there is a limit
It’s not a limit. It’s manufactured outrage. If they supported him prior to now, 99% of them will support him until the end.
False prophet laundering false profits
I don’t believe it, other than a handful. If there’s a study I might be interested, some random people on social media… eh.
A sample size of a few dozen people complaining online while thousands quietly purchase said bibles. Absolutely not buying into “the fury of Christians” either.
Christians are furious that everyone on earth is not an exact clone of themselves.
The people in the article don’t even sound like they were trump supporters to begin with.
Anecdotally, I’ve seen a little more backlash to this than other issues. Until kow they’ve kinda bee willfully ignoring that he’s evil because he hasn’t been overt that he’s using people’s faith as a tool.
But directly trying to sell expensive Bibles to the faithful so they’ll pay for his rape penalty is pretty galling no matter how you look at it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Trump, who became the presumptive Republican nominee earlier in March, posted a video on his Truth Social platform on Tuesday urging his supporters to buy the “God Bless the USA Bible,” inspired by country singer Lee Greenwood’s patriotic ballad.
As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless the USA Bible," Trump wrote in the post, alongside a link to a website selling the book for $59.99.
Today, much like Jesus overturning the moneychangers’ tables, Christians are sick of seeing MAGA’s false prophets twist our loving faith for an agenda of hatred and selfishness.
He has completely trashed our political party & now he’s trying to ruin our faith community for his own ends," Heath Mayo, a conservative lawyer, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
As well as a King James Version translation, it includes copies of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance, as well as a handwritten chorus of “God Bless the USA” by Greenwood.
He has also sold digital trading cards that portrayed him in cartoon-like images as a number of characters, including as a superhero, astronaut and NASCAR driver.
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Good lemming!
……but will vote for him anyway.
Because what else can they do?
Will somebody please think of the children!!?
Conservatives are only able to think of the fetuses. The children are doing just fine back at the meat processing plant.
Stop being religious ideally
Combination of church and state
Asked for comment about the backlash, Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung told Newsweek: “These are Never Trump idiots suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
In case anyone thought even Christians are welcome to criticize the idol.
The website selling the Bible bills the book as “the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!”
lol
As well as a King James Version translation, it includes copies of the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance, as well as a handwritten chorus of “God Bless the USA” by Greenwood.
Totally normal.
All things they’ve never read, or will ever read, after they purchase them.
Weird, it skips right from the 13th amendment to the 15th in this version. And I can’t find the emoluments clause anywhere.
“The right to vote for Trump shall not be denied or abridged…”
Wait, is that right?
Yes, that’s right after “Thou shalt not judge thy neighbor for raw dogging porn stars behind your pregnant wife’s back”
Ah, yep, right above “Take back your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, we don’t have any room.”
The “King Trump Bible” it came to be known…
“the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!”
So has never endorsed the Bible until he was selling one?
This.
This is the fucking bridge that is too far? This is the straw that broke the camel’s back? This is the hill you’ll die on?
Fucking hell, I was raised Christians and I think that Jesus guy had some great ideas but I certainly don’t identify as one now because fuck… Christians give Christ a bad name.
I’m glad more people are seeing through the grifter, but holy shit are these people dumb.
If it’s true then people were playing team sports the whole time. Sure it’s great that people might change their vote but they’re idiots anyway.
Remember the part in the bible that describes what Jesus did, to the people who were trying to make money off God?
Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. "It is written,” he said to them, “ ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’but you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Right? It’s not, say, cheating on his pregnant wife with a prostitute? I would have thought THAT would be the thing that destroys his support among Christians, but nah, they don’t care.
But selling overpriced Bibles does upset them? Why? It’s probably the least insane thing he has done yet.
That’s probably not an excessive price for a Bible. They are not made like regular books.
The one in the pic above isn’t even the kind that lay open easily - soft and floppy with super thin pages and gilded edges, which is what I always appreciated about a really good bible.
A good bible burns slowly and hot.
You can get bibles ranging from free to hundreds of dollars for huge family ones. They’re very much made like every other book, they probably cost $3 to make.
Blasphemous Grift is my favorite band name since One Punch Manslaughter
I hear they’re opening the show for my favorite band, Covfefe!
Never heard of 'em.
Yeah sure. Maybe the Christians that didn’t already love him.
No, that’s not how this works. You carried the golden calf to term and gave birth to it. Own it you two faced hypocrites.
Christians are not a homogeneous blob of identity. As you may or may not have guessed, these are not the far-right Christians who believe Trump is the Second Coming of Christ. They are not responsible for what other people who identify as Christians have done or said, and they are entitled to change their minds about things they themselves have done or said.
They are fully entitled to speak out against the weaponisation of their religion and good luck to those who are courageous enough to do so.
No. I do not accept this any longer. There are not “good christians” and “bad christians”. There are christians and not christians. And christians are bad. Always have been. If you identify as a christian then these are your people.
I assume if you ever encounter someone claiming people who support Trump aren’t Christians you go on about “No True Scotsman” as well?
No. Why would I do that? I’m sure plenty of people supported Hitler’s genocides who weren’t Christians also.
This is fash logic. Not interested.
No it isn’t. The Christians are the fash, dumbass. They have killed and burned millions upon millions both with their religion, their dogma, and they’re absolute rejection of logic and reason. They are the fascist. They’re the ones that need to be eliminated, and that is a matter of self-defense.
Fascism is built on a structure that includes using religion and fear as the basis for its atrocities. I’m getting really sick of you people defending the fascists.
religion and fear as the basis for its atrocities.
And christians are bad. Always have been.
You are a hypocrite.
No, I’m right, and history proves it.
This comic was posted elsewhere, and not only is it historically accurate, but plenty of American evangelicals still believe this bullshit. I know people who lost business because they were left-handed.
And you call me the fascist. Fuck, you people never learn.
Yeah, seriously! These people! Is it even fair to call them that? I mean, if you think nuance is important and are slow to criticize a group of billions, you’re basically subhuman trash!
/s, in case anyone thinks I’m also
an idiota shitty, reactionary authoritarian.
It’s just tribalism. Anyone who doesn’t fit in gets grouped together (ie. a lot of these comments imply most religious people support Trump). Lemmy isn’t immune to it.
Then they’ll use it to bludgeon the rest of us.
Hey, Christians are the ones who got the Sunny D Orangutan into the oval office the first time. Anything that separates Mr. Cheeto Smegma from his base is a good thing in my book.
Cheeto smegma is something I don’t ever want to read again.
Then you’d better vote, mister!
