I Don't Think We Have Made Enough Fun Of This Image
There is a subset (I hope it's a subset) of Trump supporters who believe he is a religious figure or is inspired by God.
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The removed photo is a picture of trump hovering above clouds, with a strong burst of light highlighting him from behind. Picture Jesus or the Almighty on high.
This is religious or quasi religious imagery. Often we have seen the Almighty represented as being above the clouds with a burst of light behind His head. Jesus as well. This sort of imagery is also apropos of angels, the beings who intercede with the divinity on behalf of human beings. Can you imagine Donald Trump as an angel?
One of the ways evangelicals justify their support of Trump, which would seem to go against all their previously stated morals and principles, is to claim that Trump is a vessel that God is using to fulfill His plans for humanity. Thus Trump is not only a historical figure, he is THE historic figure of this age, perhaps second only to Jesus himself in importance. There was recently a feature length documentary that played in some theaters about this topic. I think it was called the Trump Prophecy, or some such nonsense.
The right will say that there were quasi religious images made of Obama with a halo or light around his head, and I think that is true. But to my knowledge, no religious sect had leaders claiming that Obama was a religious figure for the ages. Nor was there a documentary movie made about Obama's importance to Christianity.
This may seem trivial, but it points out the sort of disconnect from reality we see from some on the right and goes part of the way to explain why Trump continues to have anyone voting for him.
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Trump continues to have support from 80% of evangelicals, even though he is the most irreligious person imaginable.
What did you have up there that got deleted? A picture of the Naked Madonna!
she actually deleted the photo that the article is about. lol
i am asking people to talk about something they cant see
you never know what is or isnt allowed on Newstalkers
it is a total crap shoot
(the photo is up on another seed)
The photo you used was one of a member here, which would make it a personal attack on a member and against the CoC. That is why it was removed. If you want to post the article with the picture it belongs in "Heated Discussions"
the photo was of donald trump
when did he join?
Come on, you know it's another members avatar and that's a personal attack.
His avatar is Donald Trump ascending to heaven? I wasn't aware of that.
I saw the photo accompanying his article, that's all.
I know, it's hard to keep up with some people who keep changing their names and avatars, isn't it?
Once one believes in the original lie, it becomes a very slippery slope into insanity.
The topic of this seed is not the existence of God or the worth of scripture. Any comments about the existence of God or about the viability of scripture may be deleted.
I'm not sure of that's supposed to be Lucifer, the Dark Lord or Batman, the Dark Knight
Or Mothman.
I know it's a photoshop fake because Trump's hands aren't that big.
That must be one hell of a compression suit they squeezed Him into. The blubber must have been squished to the lower regions.
It’s hard to find a fat slob devil to photoshop. Turns out that devils are pretty fit. In that respect, and that respect only, Trump would make a terrible devil.
Better than Spanx, even.
His importance to Christianity is to bring about the End Times. I think evangelicals deep down think that he really is the Anti-Christ and will usher in the things required to bring about the Rapture and Christ's return.
But they will never admit that openly.
Others must think that our last, competent President America had, (Obama), fulfilled their ideal of the Anti-Christ so now the current buffoon fills their view of Christ returned, ( "the word became flesh" ), in their bat shit crazy world.
Weird that the party of "traditional Christian Conservative Family Values" embraces a POTUS that almost literally has no morals at all. It is for this reason that the far right helps make the case that churches should NOT be tax exempt and be listed as a political party.
Maybe since Obama didn't turn out to be the Anti-Christ they're secretly hoping that trmp is.
I know, right? So why am I going to allow a bunch of bible-thumping teabaggers to try and convince me that their Good Book is all truth and that there really is a God? They're not helping get asses in pews when they support the dumb motherfucker
These Trump with Jesus memes are as funny as Ben Carson's painting with his BFF Jesus. Maybe funnier, because Carson's pic seemed like it wasn't even a joke, and that's kinda pitiful. In a funny way.