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“We thank you for the upcoming election, Lord — or caucus, as we call it in Iowa,” said Hundley, speaking from the sanctuary of his evangelical Christian church in his slight Texas drawl as his parishioners bowed their heads.

“It doesn’t matter what our opinion is,” he went on. “It’s really what’s your opinion that matters. But you’ve given us the privilege of being able to exercise a beautiful gift. The gift of vote. We thank you for that.”

While Hundley stops short of suggesting to his parishioners which candidate divine guidance should lead them to support, he is among more than 300 pastors and other faith leaders who’ve been described as supporters by former President Donald Trump’s campaign. It’s a message that some members of Hundley’s First Church of God have taken to heart, saying their faith informs their intention to caucus for Trump.

Ron Betts, a 72-year-old Republican who said he plans to caucus for “Trump all the way,” said he felt the former president “exemplified what Jesus would do.”

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

While it’s cathartic to ridicule fundamentalist Christian’s knowledge of their own faith as the only possible source of such dissonance, I imagine their view of the Great Cheetoh is also very far from reality. It’s not just the Bible they quote as something they don’t know, but the last 8 years of history? Any actual news in that time? Trumps background as a reality show host, but before that decades of questionable real estate fraud?

So how is it possible that they either don’t know or don’t care who Trump has proven himself to be, over and over? How could they have missed so much reality, or willfully ignored the last bright years?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Peer pressure and intentionally not thinking critically. The entire religion self identifies as sheep following a shepherd.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yet sheep aren’t lemmings. They don’t blindly follow the crowd off a cliff to their doom (urban legend is false though). The shepherd is supposed to guide and protect while still allowing them the freedom to be themselves within the herd

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

The shepherd is supposed to guide and protect while still allowing them the freedom to be themselves within the herd

Within the bounds of the shepherd's rules. They can't go past the guidelines he sets, and they don't try to. And wouldn't you know it, those guidelines benefit the shepherd more than the sheep.

[–] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

There are republican operators out there whose sole objective intent based on how they spend their time (I have between 2 and a half and 5% confidence interval) is to transfer blame from political leadership to the electorate. This is how they work.

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The bigger problems seem to develop when they substitute a human being for God as the sheppard.

If they just stuck with what Jesus says in the 4 gospels things might not be so bad.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

How could they have missed so much reality, or willfully ignored the last bright years?

...fundamentalist Christian...