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ANGELO YOUNG at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/09/trumps-spiritual-adviser-says-god-supports-conflict-with-north-korea/
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As rhetoric heats up between the U.S. and North Korea, President Donald Trumps spiritual adviser says Gods got the presidents back should Trump decide to take out dictator Kim Jong-un.
When it comes to how we should deal with evildoers, the Bible, in the book of Romans, is very clear: God has endowed rulers full power to use whatever means necessary including war to stop evil, Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress said in a public statement Tuesday. In the case of North Korea, God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong-un.
Jeffress has been invited to the White House multiple times and led a group of right-wing evangelical allies of Trump to issue a series of statements defending Trumps son-in-law Jared Kushner against allegations of collusion with Russian officials during last years election.
Jeffress, who heads the 13,000-member First Baptist Church in Dallas, specifically cited Romans 13 as Trumps spiritual permission slip to go to war with North Korea. Romans 13 orders Christians to be subject to governing authorities and also to pay their taxes.
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Girard442
(6,090 posts)"To crush your enemies, drive them before you, and to hear the weeping of their women and children."
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)From another elitist, spoiled, self-entitled jackass. Only back then the country in question was Iraq. Same shit, different day, slightly different players, but still the same old self-righteous fascism masquerading as religion.
elleng
(131,528 posts)still the same old self-righteous fascism masquerading as religion.
chaplain_M
(48 posts)elleng
(131,528 posts)leftstreet
(36,119 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,852 posts)Fuck him with a rusty trident.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)people have done to others over eons. A loving god, yeah, right, bullshit!