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Trump launches new National Faith Advisory Board with Paula White at helm

  
Via:  XXJefferson51  •  4 years ago  •  66 comments

By:   Leonardo Blair Christian Post Reporter

Trump launches new National Faith Advisory Board with Paula White at helm
Amanda Robbins Vargo, who worked at the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House, sent an email to faith groups accusing the Biden administration of pursuing an “anti-faith agenda” the Jewish Daily Forward reported. “We accomplished so much together at the White House during the Trump administration. We are seeing all our hard work being unraveled by the new administration and their anti-faith agenda,” the email said. “We will protect our religious freedoms here and abroad, in order...

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The Christian Post Reporters news article is very good news! The Biden regime is an assault upon our religious liberty and free exercise there of rights. President Trump is a great ally of both. We really miss him.
This new commission will shine a public spotlight on areas where the current regime is trampling upon religious liberty and free exercise in the USA and promote these crucial human rights. Thank God for President Trump!




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Trump launches new National Faith Advisory Board with Paula White at helm



By Leonardo Blair , Christian Post Reporter



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Lamenting the current state of faith and religion in America as “not good,” former President Donald Trump launched a new National Faith Advisory Board last Thursday, with his spiritual advisor and televangelist Paula White at the helm.

“A lot of things have happened and a lot of things have happened with respect to faith and religion and they’re not good things. They are not good, they’re not good at all,” Trump said on a call with faith leaders during which he complained about how the 2020 election was stolen from him, according to a clip published online . “It’s really a very sad event what took place on November 3rd, and what they did.”

“Everyone on this call made a critical contribution to our movement over the past five years. And we’ve had tremendous success and then we had a horrendous result to an election that was won. We won that election and now numbers are coming out that are shocking to people and it’s a shame,” Trump insisted.

Before the call last Thursday, the faith group co-founded by Jenny Korn and Amanda Robbins Vargo, who worked at the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House, sent an email to faith groups accusing the Biden administration of pursuing an “anti-faith agenda” the Jewish Daily Forward reported .


“We accomplished so much together at the White House during the Trump administration. We are seeing all our hard work being unraveled by the new administration and their anti-faith agenda,” the email said. “We will protect our religious freedoms here and abroad, in order to worship and live according to our faith.”

According to the Forward, the new advisory board is expected to “organize regular conference calls and events with prominent leaders in the coming months.” 

Religion News Service reported that White, who called on angels from Africa to help deliver victory to Trump in his reelection bid last November after overseeing the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, noted that the new National Faith Advisory Board would include “70 executives.” She also highlighted the “unprecedented victories, influence and access” to faith groups that resulted from Trump’s faith advisory board during his term.


Trump added that fighting for religious liberty was one of his “greatest honors.”

“One of my greatest honors was fighting for religious liberty and for defending the Judeo-Christian values and principles of our nation’s founding,” he said Thursday.

Still, the former president expressed surprise about his showing with Catholic and Jewish voters, arguing that both groups got much support from his administration.

“I’m a little bit surprised that we didn’t do better with the Catholic vote,” Trump said. “I think now they would give us a vote. I think we got about 50 percent of the vote. And yet, we did a lot for the Catholic vote. So we’ll have to talk to them. We’re going to have to meet with the Catholics.”

Pointing to his poor showing among Jewish voters, the former president argued that the faith community needs to be more united.


“Look what I did with the embassy in Jerusalem and what I did with so many other things … Israel has never had a better friend, and yet I got 25% of the vote,” Trump said. “I think they have to get together. There has to be a little bit more unity with the religious groups all represented on this call.”

When asked about his own faith in God, the former president noted: “It’s all based around God — it’s so important. God is so important to the success of what we’re doing. Because without God, we have nothing.”



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XXJefferson51
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1  seeder  XXJefferson51    4 years ago
Named the National Faith Advisory Board, the coalition is a replica of the White House’s Faith and Opportunity Initiative — created by former President Donald Trump in 2018 and revoked by President Joe Biden when he took office — headed by Paula White, a Florida televangelist who was brought into the Trump administration to help shore up support among evangelicals.

“We accomplished so much together at the White House during the Trump administration. We are seeing all our hard work being unraveled by the new administration and their anti-faith agenda,” read an email sent on Monday to faith groups, including Jewish community leaders, who were on the list of the Trump White House outreach team. “We will protect our religious freedoms here and abroad, in order to worship and live according to our faith.” The group will organize regular conference calls and events with prominent leaders in the coming months.

Trump will join the official launch in a conference call on Thursday afternoon, according to an email invitation.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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1.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  XXJefferson51 @1    4 years ago
WASHINGTON (RNS) — In another sign Donald Trump is eyeing a run to regain the White House, the former president and his religious advisers announced the launch of a national faith advisory board on Thursday (Sept. 2), apparently aimed at reinvigorating his conservative Christian base.

The new initiative, first reported by the Jewish news outlet The Forward , was formally unveiled on a conference call organized by Intercessors for America and led by longtime Trump adviser Paula White . The Pentecostal megachurch pastor said the new effort, which includes participation from “70 executives,” is intended to continue the “great work that we have done,” referring to efforts she oversaw as head of the Trump White House’s faith-based office.

White drew parallels to the creation of a previous “faith advisory board,” a likely reference to a group of largely evangelical Christian leaders who advised the 2016 Trump presidential campaign and operated as an informal council on religion matters throughout his presidency.

“It grew to the most robust coalition in modern-day history,” White said of the board’s work. “Our unity brought unprecedented victories, influence and access.”

White was joined by Jennifer Korn, who previously served as a special assistant to then-President Trump through his White House Office of Public Liaison. Korn told listeners the new national faith advisory board would be “continuing the work of the White House Office of Public Liaison on the outside to make sure that we are one strong voice.”

Trump took up most of the rest of the call with lengthy remarks in which he oscillated between critiquing President Joe Biden’s record on faith-based issues — “a lot of things have happened with respect to faith and religion, and they’re not good things” — and praising his own tenure, saying, “One of my greatest honors was fighting for religious liberty and for defending the Judeo-Christian values and principles of our nation’s founding.”


RELATED: All the president’s clergymen: A close look at Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ ties with evangelicals


He listed various Trump administration accomplishments popular with conservative Christians, such as designating Jerusalem the capital of Israel , founding a new White House faith office , declaring churches “essential” during the coronavirus pandemic and appointing conservative judges to the federal bench and the Supreme Court.

Trump alluded to last week’s decision by the Supreme Court not to block a controversial Texas abortion ban , saying, “Even last night, you’re getting some very powerful decisions, more powerful than anybody would have thought.”

He also reiterated the claim he “totally obliterated” the Johnson Amendment , a section of the U.S. tax code that bars religious groups and other nonprofits from endorsing candidates. (Trump’s 2017 executive order sought to hinder its enforcement  but did not eliminate the statute.)

Trump then fielded questions from leaders of various faith organizations — most of which are focused on politics — including Jason Yates, CEO of My Faith Votes; Brian Burch, head of CatholicVote.org; Dave Kubal, head of Intercessors for America; Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values; and Dave Donaldson, co-founder of CityServe.

In answering their questions, Trump criticized Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, calling it “a mad rush” and bemoaning the Taliban’s seizure of U.S. military equipment.

Trump referenced hypothetical future scenarios “if we’re able to get back in,” while repeating the widely discredited claim the 2020 election was “stolen” from him. In discussing the Catholic vote, he acknowledged he had lost ground with the bloc in his four years in office...

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JohnRussell
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2  JohnRussell    4 years ago

Paula White is a con woman so they should work together well. 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  JohnRussell @2    4 years ago

It is great to see this commission brought back together to advance religious liberty.  This will advance freedom and good policy just as his keeping the 1776 commission intact as a private entity will do.  Keeping the focus on bad policy by the current evil regime and promoting good alternative ideas is a great way to shine a light toward freedom in America again.  

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2.1.1  JohnRussell  replied to  XXJefferson51 @2.1    4 years ago

Doesnt it embarrass you that a con woman is leading your "faith" initiative? 

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2.1.2  JohnRussell  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1.1    4 years ago
  • Trump Hires a Con Artist to Provide Outreach to White ...

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    Trump’s   “spiritual advisor”   Paula White   being a grifter and   con   artist is the whole reason she was hired. She exemplifies the crooks and snake oil salesmen …

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CB
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2.1.3  CB  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1.1    4 years ago

They are not allowed to talk about God, faith, or common truth. You will not get a decent, proper, reply. It will be 'filler,' if anything at all.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.1.4  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  CB @2.1.3    4 years ago

It is true that we on the Christian right are not allowed to talk about God, faith, or common truth here.  

 
 
 
CB
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2.1.6  CB  replied to  XXJefferson51 @2.1.4    4 years ago

Caught telling an untruth. Shameless 'filler.' (Warned you, JR.)

 
 
 
epistte
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2.1.9  epistte  replied to  XXJefferson51 @2.1    4 years ago

The government is to remain absolutely secular and neutral on the issue of religion, just as the founders intended. Keep your faith on private property or in chuich.

Quote,

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves & your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.

Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.

 James Madison said this,

As a state legislator in 1776, Madison proposed a small but profound change in the wording of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which had said that everyone should have “fullest Toleration” of their religion. That wording implied that one religion was approved while the government would merely put up with others. Madison successfully argued that the wording should be changed to “free exercise of religion,” which truly protected the right to follow one’s conscience. In 1785, as the legislature debated whether to continue to fund churches with tax money, Madison wrote an influential petition called “Memorial and Remonstrance,” which clearly laid out 15 arguments against government support of churches. Madison emphasized that religion was a matter of individual conscience and could not be directed by the government in any way.

As a country, the United States is always evolving in the way that we think about social, political, economic, and theological underpinnings of our society. And while public opinion might wax and wane, the Constitution rarely changes in its protection of our specific rights.
Upon the passage of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786, James Madison wrote to its author, Thomas Jefferson: "I flatter myself we have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind."
 The fact that Donald Trump is the least religious person to ever hold office seems to elude you. He is a hypocrite who treats the Seven Deadly Sins as a To-Do list and still you support him.  We have words for people like you. Pharisee.
 Do I need to remind you of  Matthew 6:6-7?

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.1.11  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Tessylo @2.1.8    4 years ago

Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.  It takes a lot of truth to expose the secular progressive left and their ways to the general public.  

 
 
 
epistte
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2.1.13  epistte  replied to  XXJefferson51 @2.1.11    4 years ago

What do you claim that we are hiding as part of our supposed secular agenda?  I don't know anything abiout the LGBT agenda and now you claim that there is a secular progressive left agenda. My George Soros Marxist decoder ring must be broken because it's not telling me about any of these secrets. I go to all of the meetings at Hillary's pizza shop and still I don't know about any of the crap that you are claiming.

 Do you ever feel ashamed about the mindless idiocy that you post? I've read your nonsense for a decade and I swear that you would need to find 15 IQ points just to be an imbecile.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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3  JohnRussell    4 years ago

Trump checks out his spiritual advisers ass at a White House meeting

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XXJefferson51
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3.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  JohnRussell @3    4 years ago

Actually he’s being a complete gentleman here holding a chair for another as they are seated.  

 
 
 
devangelical
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3.1.1  devangelical  replied to  XXJefferson51 @3.1    4 years ago

he's thinking about a mushroom stuffed muffin after the meeting...

 
 
 
JBB
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4  JBB    4 years ago

Trump's business is in the shitter. That explains this.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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4.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  JBB @4    4 years ago

Between this commission and the 1776 one on education we will have a direct contrast between the Biden regime actions vs common sense that Trump advocates for.  

 
 
 
JBB
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4.1.1  JBB  replied to  XXJefferson51 @4.1    4 years ago

What does that word salad have to do with it?

Trump has gone broke so he grifts Christians!

 
 
 
Sister Mary Agnes Ample Bottom
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4.1.2  Sister Mary Agnes Ample Bottom  replied to  JBB @4.1.1    4 years ago
Trump has gone broke so he grifts Christians!

Boom Shakalaka.

 
 
 
JBB
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5  JBB    4 years ago

original

 
 
 
Gsquared
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6  Gsquared    4 years ago
We really miss him

... about as much as we miss hemorrhoids.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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6.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Gsquared @6    4 years ago
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yes, we do!  
 
 
 
JBB
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6.1.1  JBB  replied to  XXJefferson51 @6.1    4 years ago

original

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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6.1.2  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  JBB @6.1.1    4 years ago

Jan. 20, 2025.

 
 
 
CB
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6.1.3  CB  replied to  XXJefferson51 @6.1.2    4 years ago

It's a flexible date though, right?

 
 
 
Gsquared
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6.1.4  Gsquared  replied to  XXJefferson51 @6.1    4 years ago

original

 
 
 
Hallux
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6.1.5  Hallux  replied to  XXJefferson51 @6.1    4 years ago

Does Jesus or God know you are advertising for Amazon? Jeff Bezos thanks you

 
 
 
pat wilson
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7  pat wilson    4 years ago

 
 
 
pat wilson
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7.1  pat wilson  replied to  pat wilson @7    4 years ago

Oh my.

 
 
 
CB
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7.2  CB  replied to  pat wilson @7    4 years ago

To "speak in tongues" is biblically described as the act of getting "caught up in the spirit" and feelings and thoughts being ineffable to translate. Paul, instructed the church not to make a public display of "speaking in tongues" because it will subject the speaker to ridicule as they will sound more like a drunk or an unprincipled person.

—Enter Paula White.

Knowing this caution about speaking so in public: There she is putting "unprincipled" behavior on full display.

It should go without saying, that anything done for God is not done for sordid gain or 'foolish' accolades from humans. Here Paula White is "wowing" those ignorant of the proper way.

 
 
 
pat wilson
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7.2.1  pat wilson  replied to  CB @7.2    4 years ago

She's babbling like a fool.

 
 
 
CB
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7.2.2  CB  replied to  pat wilson @7.2.1    4 years ago

Yes. I am compelled to agree. Since she is in ministry, it is safe to speculate that she has been taught better than to do this (for long spells) in public. Indicative of deliberate and indifference to abuse of a private process. A correlation is Jesus' rebuke to spiritual leaders who stand on street corners making "long prayers" (for show).

Frankly, what she is 'caught' doing there should have subjected her to a reprimand from other ministry officials across the board. (It probably did, but without a way of knowing for sure, I will just point that out.)

 
 
 
CB
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7.2.3  CB  replied to  pat wilson @7.2.1    4 years ago

At best, it's "performance art."  Any one who knows their 'bible' knows she is out-of-line in that service. Also, Paul points out in the Bible, that this type of display, and this is going to sound strange I know, is one reason why he did not allow women to speak in the service or hold "priestly" office. Over-effluence of emotions.

I Corinthians 14:

34 Women f should remain silent in the churches . They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says. 35 If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church. g

36 Or did the word of God originate with you? Or are you the only people it has reached? 37 If anyone thinks they are a prophet or otherwise gifted by the Spirit, let them acknowledge that what I am writing to you is the Lord’s command. 38 But if anyone ignores this, they will themselves be ignored. h

39 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues . 40 But everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way .

 
 
 
pat wilson
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7.2.4  pat wilson  replied to  CB @7.2.3    4 years ago

What a crock of crap.

 
 
 
CB
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7.2.5  CB  replied to  pat wilson @7.2.4    4 years ago

Well, I said it was "old-fashion" and implied it is "out-of-step" with these times we live: But, then, Here's PAULA! Making Paul's point present day.

She should know better than to play into stereotypes and displays of 'chaos' in the service. More to the point: conservative evangelical Christian leaders know the verse about speaking in tongues in public (better than me) and yet they do not upbraid this woman for subjecting the faith to (forced) ridicule.

 
 
 
sandy-2021492
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7.3  sandy-2021492  replied to  pat wilson @7    4 years ago

Dammit, Pat, you beat me to it.

 
 
 
pat wilson
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7.3.1  pat wilson  replied to  sandy-2021492 @7.3    4 years ago

Ha ha

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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8  seeder  XXJefferson51    4 years ago

Trump is right!  He’s doing the right thing in creating this commission to shine a light upon religious liberty and free exercise there of issues and to contrast his enlightened position on the issues with the darkness of the Biden regime position.  

 
 
 
pat wilson
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8.1  pat wilson  replied to  XXJefferson51 @8    4 years ago
Biden regime position

What is the "Biden regime position" regarding religious liberty ?

 
 
 
Ender
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8.1.1  Ender  replied to  pat wilson @8.1    4 years ago

I was thinking, when was the last time donald entered a church...

That people would think he is religious is comical.

I call it pandering.

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
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8.1.2  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  pat wilson @8.1    4 years ago
What is the "Biden regime position" regarding religious liberty ?

Their position is that we all should have it, atheists, Muslims, Hindu's, Satanists, Christians etc. 

Trump and his brown nosing religious conservative base don't want religious liberty for all, they want their bigoted white Christian patriarchy that used to rule our nation to be reinstated so they can legally discriminate against anyone that doesn't look like them or worship like they do.

 
 
 
CB
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8.1.3  CB  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @8.1.2    4 years ago

It is the saddest thing too. To realize that some of our people,who to the eye, look just like us, until they 'open' their mouths and minds to reveal they value some of their fellow citizens only in part and not in hold. Just last night, I was thinking about a couple, just a 'few' folks that are gone for now from this 'meeting place' because they could not have their way with. . . us. They spoke up; humiliated themselves, and abandoned us all for a jaded set of attitudes.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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9  seeder  XXJefferson51    4 years ago
Trump, a former Presbyterian who converted to nondenominational Christianity near the end of his time in office, was also asked directly about his belief in God.

“It’s all based around God — it’s so important,” he replied. “God is so important to the success of what we’re doing. Because without God, we have nothing.”

 
 
 
CB
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9.1  CB  replied to  XXJefferson51 @9    4 years ago

Yeah, pandering.  Biden is a life-long practicing Catholic and you care nothing about his approach to faith, decency, or grace-filled treatment of issues.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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9.1.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  CB @9.1    4 years ago

Biden has on several issues gone directly against the doctrines of his church.  

 
 
 
JBB
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9.1.2  JBB  replied to  XXJefferson51 @9.1.1    4 years ago

Trump's church approves of divorce, cheating people and grabbing women's private parts?

 
 
 
CB
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9.1.3  CB  replied to  XXJefferson51 @9.1.1    4 years ago

Well that is nuanced discussion. It is without a doubt that he is a practicing life-long Catholic.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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10  seeder  XXJefferson51    4 years ago

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CB
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10.1  CB  replied to  XXJefferson51 @10    4 years ago

Shameless. The good news is I'm pretty sure Jesus did not look like that in life and most definitely wouldn't look so in the spiritual realm!

 
 
 
pat wilson
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10.2  pat wilson  replied to  XXJefferson51 @10    4 years ago

Creepy.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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10.2.1  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  pat wilson @10.2    4 years ago

Creepy would describe Joe perfectly.  . 

 
 
 
JBB
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10.2.2  JBB  replied to  XXJefferson51 @10.2.1    4 years ago

Joe Biden is about as creepy as a grandfather.

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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10.2.5  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Tessylo @10.2.4    4 years ago

He didn’t do either of those things.  

 
 
 
Gsquared
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10.2.6  Gsquared  replied to  XXJefferson51 @10.2.5    4 years ago

You have absolutely no knowledge of whether he did or he didn't do either of those things.  Given his amoral/immoral character and his generally disgusting behavior, it's more likely that he did.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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11  JohnRussell    4 years ago

I'm still waiting for Jefferson to tell us why a con woman should be leading a national faith initiative. 

 
 
 
Gsquared
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12  Gsquared    4 years ago

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