Trump signing bibles. Heresy?

[Dirty Socialist]

There is a story today about Trump signing bibles in a Baptist church. Is it heresy? I don't know, but it's definitely ironic.

[Timewas]

1. Actually

It fits...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Blasphemy or desecration would probably be a more accurate word.

At best, it was in very poor taste. I was offended and I'm not even religious.

[malaise]

6. The Con thinks he is their god

and I saw a letter addressing him as king.
It's frightening

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Who signs Bibles?

That's about as dumb as hugging the flag.

[Dirty Socialist]

4. I wonder if

I wonder if people get a coupon for a Chinese non-therapeutic massage with the Bible signing.

[Mariana]

5. Billy Graham, when he was alive.

https://www.presspasscollectibles.com/historical/billy-graham-signed-new-testament-bible-w-vintage-1966-signature-jsa-z46268/

[GulfCoast66]

8. Not surprising. He did much harm here in the South.

Made backwoods evangelicalism mainstream. Saw it in my family and community.

But at least the dude was a preacher who by all accounts actually believed what that book said. And lived his life that way walking the straight and narrow.

[keithbvadu2]

12. Not actually the Bible. Only the NT.

Not actually the Bible. Only the NT.

[Mariana]

14. That's totally different, right?

Anyway, he signed actual Bibles, too.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HISTORIC-BILLY-GRAHAM-SIGNED-BIBLE-OKLAHOMA-CITY-CRUSADE-1956-VINTAGE-SIGNATURE/143137854455?hash=item2153ae53f7:g:8zsAAOSwk~Vcauqj

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1917-Scofield-Reference-Bible-Signed-by-Billy-Graham-and-Others/264157820652?hash=item3d810876ec:g UYAAOSwpLdcR4jU

[keithbvadu2]

16. But not on the cover?

Trump signed some on the cover.

[Mariana]

18. That's totally different, right?

How, exactly?

[Marcuse]

7. Mad Magazine

[Hekate]

9. No, just crass all around

[LuvNewcastle]

11. "Crass" is the perfect word.

That sums Trump up perfectly.

[demtenjeep]

10. there are magots (maga) defending this shit

the fucker literally can do no wrong GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[keithbvadu2]

13. What other adulterer who ridiculed Holy Communion would republicans/evangelicals want to sign their

What other adulterer who ridiculed Holy Communion would republicans/evangelicals want to sign their Bible?

[dalton99a]

15. Eh, politics and religion - a match made in heaven

[keithbvadu2]

17. Blessing of the AR-15s here in America.

Blessing of the AR-15s here in America.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141998365

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[DFW]

19. Not if he was truly deluded into thinking it was an author signing. n/t

[Mariana]

20. His Christian fans brought their Bibles to him and they [i]asked[/i] him to do this.

If they want to have his autograph on their Bibles, why should he refuse their request? These people are his base, after all.

[Xolodno]

21. I have religious texts....

...signed by the people who gave them to me, along with a note of course. Nothing wrong with that.

I also don't idolize religious texts, they are at the end of the day, just books. It's the message they convey in my opinion that is important.

But even today, the Catholic and Orthodox churches would be very "aggravated" and such a demonstration. Likewise, even Protestants and Evangelical Protestants wouldn't approve accept in the case, like mine. Ultimately, bad taste.

But have to wonder, with that many people asking for this....did somebody help orchestrate this?

[Clash City Rocker]

26. Probably not on the cover, though

I’ve been given bibles that were signed on the inside, but if anyone had ever signed the cover, that would have seemed, at the very least, a little weird to me.

[murielm99]

22. More like blasphemy.

[Initech]

23. How did they not burst into flames afterward?

[jmowreader]

24. I wonder if any of those folks have ever read those books

Especially the warnings about "false Christs."

[ck4829]

25. Yes.

[Vinca]

27. You, too, can have one. (They're not all Trumphumpers getting autographs.)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Donald-Trump-President-Autographed-Bible-RARE-In-Person-COA/401725859387?hash=item5d88ba263b:g:--sAAOSwhBpchGO8

[EricMaundry]

28. I head that some of the Bibles Trump signed later burst into flame

[Runningdawg]

29. I am reminded of this quote

When fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.