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All I want to know is when the church will start booting these guys to the curb and denouncing them.
He’s an evangelical, so the only requirement he has is saying ‘I’m a pastor.’ This particular one already has a litany of controversial quotes and, like many evangelicals, is staunchly anti-catholic, calling them a satanic Babylonian cult at one point.
Is this the same guy who just did a blessing of a golden statue of Trump, insisting it wasn’t a golden calf?
Different guy, same ilk.
It may seem obvious but the guy is a pastor, not a catholic. The pope does not exist in his world.
Just as there are Americans who are not enamored with Trump who are not getting the media spotlight, there are Christians reacting negatively. But the media is focusing on the Maga Nationalist Christians. It's simply more profitable to focus on the extremists.
Here are some examples that the media has only touched on lightly.
"While I'm at it, I'm going to say what I feel right here. I wish the president of the United States would clean up his language. I wish he would stop insulting people. A leader should not give himself to insulting people all the time, and using foul language. And while I'm at it, I'm going to finish: everybody in the White House cusses except two women that say they are born again. But they're all foul mouthed. Let me tell you what the Bible says: "From the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks." Listen, don't you dare get being conservative mixed up with being a Christian. Conservative does not mean Christian. You can be pro-life, you can be pro-Biblical family, you can be pro-Israel and die and go to Hell. You can be all of that stuff and that does not make you a Christian. Folks, I am a Christian. I am not a white Christian. You're not a black Christian. I'm not in a white evangelical movement. There's no such thing as a black church. We are one in Christ. There is neither male nor female. There is neither black, or white, or slave, or poor. We are all one in Jesus Christ. No! Go ahead and praise the Lord! Don't talk about the people that represent you. They don't represent me."
Pastor Loran Livingston, Central Church, FEB 28, 2026
https://youtu.be/3ZeWDtREdW4?t=5078
https://churchleaders.com/news/2215893-heresy-paula-white-cain-trump-jesus-easter.html
John Piper Under Fire for Referring to Trump’s Re-Election as an ‘Evil’
NOV 7, 2024
He criticized Donald Trump and the Southern Baptist Convention's response to a sexual abuse crisis. Then he found himself on the outside.
Who is he? Russell Moore was one of the top officials in the Southern Baptist Convention.
AUG 8, 2023
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/2053207948294574577
During his Sunday sermon, Pastor James Rigby who leads St. Andrew’s Presbyterian in Austin, he noted that people have “mixed feelings” about the shooting but affirmed, “It’s really really important if we are going to be the healing agents of the world to realize that violence is not going to get rid of the problem that we have.”
“I said last week, if violence could have gotten rid of racism, the Civil War would have worked,” he continued. “But if you look at the Bible Belt and the heart of the MAGA movement, it is the Confederacy. The America they want to get back to is the Confederate States of America, not the United States of America.”
The pastor further stressed that “It’s very important that even as we fight for justice, even as we protect each other from this fascistic movement, that we not do to them what they're doing to the rest of us.
APR 27, 2026
MAY 4, 2026
The Bishop of Palm Beach Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez wrote on X on Thursday: "The renewed attacks directed by President Trump against our Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, are entirely inconsistent with the Pope’s longstanding witness to justice, peace, and the dignity of every human person."
Rodríguez has previously criticized Trump's immigration rhetoric and policies
MAY 07, 2026
“I think a lot of moderates, a lot of centrist Republicans and Democrats, are saying, ‘This is not right,'” Hamilton told Religion News Service. “Whether it’s how we treat immigrants and making people afraid in our own borders, or the rhetoric that comes out of Washington, or cutting programs like SNAP and other programs that affect low-income children and families in America, I think there’s a lot of pastors and a lot of Christians who have just said, ‘This is not us.'”
MAY 03, 2026
https://www.alternet.org/megachurch-trump/
https://www.instagram.com/pastorbrandonaz
Edit: inserting dates so that you can see it's not all recent, but has been going on for years. Yes, I did focus on a lot of the recent ones. And this is not all, I simply got tired of typing. It's tiring reporting on what the media resists reporting.
Well, everyone who calls him a Christian, is the issue. He is a sect leader.
What’s Donald Trump’s favorite book or passages from the Bible? “All of them”. New or old Testament? “Both”. It’s deeply personal though, so he won’t say.
And the Pope would probably only reference a few specific passages, probably doesn't even know any others. If President Trump said he loves them all, then CLEARLY he's read them all!
All religious people are liars.
But none so insidious and morally depraved as the American Christian.
Atleast my stock in Orville Redenbacher is doing well...
The man doesn't even know how to hold a book correctly, and there's plenty of evidence to suggest he may actually be functionally illiterate. I highly doubt he's read a single verse of the bible.
These people are literally insane.
They're salesmen.
What they're saying is only "crazy" if it fails to move units. And this guy seems to have been very successful at moving merch
The US evangelical movement is entirely unconnected with what any rational person would call grace or love. It is a movement about hate and racism.
Jesus: treat others with respect, love, peace.
Trump: make money by scamming people, blame others for your mistakes, start wars, prosecute minorities.
Yeah, Trump gets it.
So these people are stupid, of course.
They are not THAT stupid
They know what they're saying
They know it's all bullshit
They are also a pastor
This means that this pastor is full of shit and he knows it
He knows he's evil yet continues preaching for trump
This guy literally is the guy that imaginary bible warns about
And all "Christians" are following him because of course
Makes you wish it were real, just so he'd go to hell.
Sorry but the words of a pedophile carry little weight with me.
You referring to the pastor or Trump?
Yes.
Then ask him to recite literally any bible verse.
"You shall not put the Trump, your God, to the test."
And then people are surprised by decreasing church attendance. I'm glad I'm an atheist
I have no idea about those numbers, but I seem to be seeing religion pushed more and more in daily life. More religious vendors at the local farm shops, more young people (in our sphere) talking about it or involving themselves with it. My cynical self feels like it is subversively (isn’t it always?) being pushed.
Edit: Forgot to mention the billboards and bumper stickers I see too.
Is there anything more Protestant than worshipping a golden calf, then getting mad when someone suggests that might be heresy.
Is the pastor able to read ancient Hebrew and ancient Greek and understand the original context? Otherwise he doesn't understand the bible either, and that would be assuming he had actually read it in full himself. Trump himslf doesn't have an understanding of even 'see Spot run!'.
It's not clear he even reads English. He might be as illiterate as Trump.
Dude didn't even know there was a new and old testament.
Most Americans don't,, based on their religious rantings
Yup, it's all old testy now.
Megachurches are a cancer on society.
You know Donny trump can't read for shit, He can't grasp even Bluey, that's why He summarizes and ad libs everything, He couldn't read an SNL scritp
It simplifies life that any statement beginning with "Trump has a better understanding..." is false. That can be relied on at the same level of certainty as the laws of Thermodynamics.
Man, Donald Trump knows more about a religious text than a guy who has dedicated his entire life to it? Crazy.
The Bible? No. My struggle? Yes.
Hold up, I'm gonna check you're handbook.
For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep their tongue from evil and their lips from deceitful speech. They must turn from evil and do good; they must seek peace and pursue it.” -1 Peter 3:10-11
Oh hey check this one out too.
Eloquent lips are unsuited to a godless fool— how much worse lying lips to a ruler! -Proverbs 17:7
Damn y'all are just so fucking bad at your one job.
I guarantee dumbass has read no more than 100 words of the bible, and not necessarily consecutive words.
thats bullshit of course.
The Bible is a weird maniacal rambling mess, so that tracks?