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I know this seems like clickbait, but Michelle Bachmann said it on a Christian radio show:

Michelle Bachmann wrote:[Trump] is highly biblical, and I would say to your listeners, we will in all likelihood never see a more godly, biblical president again in our lifetime. So we need to be not only praying for him, we need to support him, in my opinion, in every possible way that we can.

If smiting your enemies is biblical, Trump's actions can be seen as biblical, but that is not exactly the first word that springs to mind when describing our President. There seem to be 2 rails down the tracks to the Christian Crazy Town Station: The first thought begins with 'God has brought us an imperfect instrument, but one that is here to do God's will." I'm beginning to think of this as the Oskar Schindler theory of Donald Trump.

But the view of Trump as the imperfect instrument is beginning to morph into a portrayal of the President's faults as virtues. He is a man whose biblical sense of purpose gives him the moral authority to override the Constitution in the name of all that is just and holy. Don't think of it as a wall. Think of it as the Red Sea defending Moses from the Egyptians.

Trump and the Christian Right are not ideological soulmates, they are narrative soul mates.

I predict you will be seeing the somewhat contradictory strains of thought more frequently in the next 18 months:

I think of this as the reason Evangelicals are declining. When you substitute being right-wing lap dogs for actual religion, it loses much of its luster and starts to smell like the men's room at the Hilton - a mixture of Paco Raban cologne and urinal cakes.

moksha wrote:I think of this as the reason Evangelicals are declining. When you substitute being right-wing lap dogs for actual religion, it loses much of its luster and starts to smell like the men's room at the Hilton.

I'll see if I can find it, but I read a study a little while back making a solid case that young people's association of Christianity with religious right politics is indeed a significant contributor to the collapse in self-identified Christian belief among the young in the US.

"Religion" is a shorthand for "creating and explaining away BS." It gives intellectually deficient people cover for their intellectual deficiencies.

Bachmann:Trump...

I don't suppose there's someone on the right that's got a last name that starts with 'O'?

Doctor Steuss wrote:

Bachmann:Trump...

I don't suppose there's someone on the right that's got a last name that starts with 'O'?

My mind's in overdrive trying to think of someone.

I agree with Bachmann. Trump is the perfect example of a Christian in America today. He is the face of the Republican Party and also the face of Christianity.

DarkHelmet wrote:I agree with Bachmann. Trump is the perfect example of a Christian in America today. He is the face of the Republican Party and also the face of Christianity.

Ka-BOOM!

Aggressive, self aggrandizing, pussy grabbing, draft dodging, porn star paying, can't quote a Bible verse to save his life, serial adulterer, business cheat is the most godly president of our lives?

I must have entered a mirror-verse......

As I said in the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thread, Bachman makes even Palin seem smart by comparison.