2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRNC breaks precedent with explicitly partisan prayer
After telling attendees of the Republican National Convention that Our enemy is not other Republicans but is Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party, a South Carolina pastor offered the most explicitly partisan prayer heard at a major party convention in modern times.
Pastor Mark Burns, a prosperity preacher and televangelist from Easley, S.C., was invited by the Trump campaign to deliver the Monday benediction that concluded the contentious daytime proceedings on the first day of the RNC in Cleveland. We are electing a man in Donald Trump who believes in the name of Jesus Christ, Burns told delegates, before closing his eyes in prayer.
The benediction itself, which included Burns praise to God for giving [Trump] the words to unite this party, this country, that we together can defeat the liberal Democratic Party, was immediately denounced on Twitter by liberal and conservative Christians who called it blasphemous and idolatrous.
Shortly after Burns left the stage in Cleveland, the Interfaith Alliance issued a statement calling his benediction inappropriate and declaring that invoking religion to launch such attacks devalues faith.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pastor-mark-burns-rnc-trump-000000245.html
I really despise these assholes.

liberal N proud
(61,029 posts)chillfactor
(7,694 posts)may his GOD send his soul to hell!
meow2u3
(25,005 posts)It's also blasphemous. I know I shouldn't feel or think this way, but part of me hopes that blasphemous preacher rots in hell.
elleng
(137,986 posts)
stopbush
(24,641 posts)CanonRay
(15,041 posts)To defeat the Union too. We all know how that ended
msongs
(70,576 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Just goes to show ya, not all of us who don't give a flying philadelphia fuck about religion or jesus aren't as wonderful as I am.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Carson was not engaging in hyperbole last night. He, and the rest of them truly think we are Lucifer's minions here on earth.
I grew up in an evangelical environment. They truly believe that Lucifer is stalking the earth look for servants and that all liberal have heard his call and are agents of evil.
It is easy to laugh at them, but this is life or death to many of them. And they are too obtuse to see that they have nominated a total narcissist as their nominee. He spews hate for the correct groups so he is sent by jesus.
The good news is that they are going to lose in a landslide. The bad news is that some of them will look to bring on the end times.