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still_one

(92,187 posts)
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 09:51 AM Dec 2018

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madaboutharry

(40,209 posts)
1. Trump tried to sell himself as a practicing Christian.
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 09:55 AM
Dec 2018

Remember during the campaign when he held up his bible and claimed he read it? It’s not about him not reciting it, it’s about the hypocrisy.

 

ehrnst

(32,640 posts)
2. It has to do with all the evangelical xtians saying that he's their guy.
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 09:56 AM
Dec 2018

If Obama had done the same, they would point to it as "proof" that he was not only not xtian, but Muslim.

Girard442

(6,070 posts)
3. It's kind of an absurd discussion.
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 09:58 AM
Dec 2018

It assumes:

1. Trump knew what the Apostle's Creed is.

2. Knew how reciting it would somewise conflict with his principles.

3. Has principles.

4. Gives a crap.

I think we're 0 for 4 here.

 

Demit

(11,238 posts)
4. If he were Jewish, I doubt there'd be any criticism hurled at him.
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 10:00 AM
Dec 2018

But he is not.

dem4decades

(11,288 posts)
5. The criticism is about hypocrisy not religion.
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 10:03 AM
Dec 2018

still_one

(92,187 posts)
6. I am going to delete this OP. This is the Jewish Group, and the OP was posted because it recalled
Thu Dec 6, 2018, 10:06 AM
Dec 2018

to me the nonesense that was hurled during the fifties and sixties against Jews or anyone for that matter who didn't abide by what was considered what "Christians were suppossed to do"


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