I hate how the Bible is being used as a nationalist prop. Nationalism was a theme of the old testament and Jesus called his followers to move beyond national identity. But that’s how fascism works, it apropariates instead of actually creating something new.
Trump’s bible also includes the US Constitution for an added layer of irony.
That seems to be a desecration of the Bible. I wonder if “Christians” will even raise an eyebrow.
They wont
Usually, when various Christian denominations call some writings (which other denominations consider canonical) apocryphal, they at least recognise that those writings are roughly as old as the canonical writings and the subject matter concerns the same topics (i.e. accounts on lives of Biblical figures, and doctrinal material). Just that they don’t agree it’s valid teaching or doctrine. Apocryphal, as said.
I mean, American Evangelicals wouldn’t just randomly slap demonstrably modern material that is explicitly not religious doctrine, not even worded as such, in the book and call it Biblical canon, right? …right? …that’d be patently stupid, right? …nobody would do that? …people would have at least some problem with that?
(Me, I’m not American, and an ex-Christian. I actually liked the Deck of Cards better. These days, I just do the same thing with Tarot deck I guess. …confuse myself endlessly with esoteric imagery.)
It’s okay, he doesn’t seem to sell to actual Christians.
Irony, perhaps. Or, for anyone that’s actually read the book, foreshadowing might be a better word
Is that a fact‽
The Daily Show plays a clip from Trump’s own promotional video in which he explains what his Bible contains.
It includes … copies of historical documents including the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Pledge of Allegiance.
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1241186975/donald-trump-bible-god-bless-usa
Wow, and they won’t read either.
Well, they really seem to be in a hurry to bring on the events in Revelations. Sadly, since most of them have never read it, I think most would be surprised to find that this now puts them squarely on the side they think they are against!
Rome?
I was thinking anti-christ. But, i wouldn’t rule that one out either lol
Nationalism was a theme of the old testament and Jesus called his followers to move beyond national identity.
What?
Gotta love when Christians ignore half of their holy book when it’s inconvenient for them.
There’s a loophole grift for everyone!
A Super PAC for all your greenback “free speech”!
Limited Edition shoes for scalpers and people who like collecting shiny shit!
NFTs to offload your crypto wallets!
Truth Social to legally funnel Wall Street money through holding companies!
Bibles for churches to spend money while saying they are “updating their library”.
Come one come all, ye shady source of funding!
Hadn’t considered that angle.
Its def a way around church funding. But a legal one. So the use of laundering weakens the complaint.
The only potential legal question. Is are churches buying the bible or openly encouraging memembers to. And let’s be honest. That tax dodge is totally ignored by the IRS for so long. I can see it getting challenged as unequal application of law. Unless the IRS dose some major attack on most churches.
Edit; odd autocorrect. Nuking vs buying.
There’s 2 types of right wingers, dumb ones and disingenuous ones.
Scared, stupid and selfish. The 3S framework of conservatism. You don’t have to be all 3 to be conservative, but you’re at least one.
Nice, I’d say the first two of those terms apply mostly to the dumb ones.
The disingenuous ones take advantage of the stupidity of the others to induce fear to facilitate manipulation.
Money laundering via book ‘sales’ isnt something confined to republicans
All politicians have books…a single person is free to buy 10,000 copies, book seller gets a cut and politicians get the rest… 100% legal, clean profit. And the person that bought 10k copies gets access to said politicians
I would say we start the rumor that his Bible literally doesn’t match any others and contains Satanic verses, but that would probably increase sales. I wonder whose Bible he plagiarized.
I wish he would die of sepsis from an infected hemorrhoid already.
Just quote some “woke” passages and claim it’s not in the “real” bible and tell them that they should check themselves as that seems to make them believe basically anything.
I wonder whose Bible he plagiarized.
King James, who has been dead for almost 400 years. (Also, it’s public domain, so there’s that.)
It isn’t plagiarism unless he takes credit for it.
So you might be right.
This is the best book ever written. It’s tremendous. All the pastors tell me my writing style is the best. Number one seller of all time!
Is American democracy the shittiest version of democracy on earth?
Considering it’s one the oldest/longest lasting, that checks out
I really struggle to understand why Americans are proud that they have never updated their constitution in 200 years. It’s a bug, not a feature.
It really scares me how many upvoted this comment has.
It has been updated. That’s what “amendments” are…updates. Here’s a list.
This comment should win an award for its confident stupidity. Google “constitutional amendments”.
Idk if you’re painfully ignorant or just lying but it’s been amended 27 times.
Religion was probably invented by some starving person telling a story to get some food for free.
… ya know, this theory feels like it may actually hold water. In an ancient society, it seems very feasible that a starving vagrant would employ stories about an omnipotent being that rewards acts of kindness with eternal heavenly glory.
Is religion possibly the result of a diogenes persuading unemphatic peers into acting selflessly as a means of improving their quality of life?
