{"id":15755,"date":"2024-01-21T15:28:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T21:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=15755"},"modified":"2024-01-24T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T14:30:44","slug":"blasphemy-and-idolatry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wlbott.com\/?p=15755","title":{"rendered":"Blasphemy and Idolatry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the scariest aspects of TrumpWorld (and there are many) is that he is encouraging his followers to consider him the anointed one, the chosen one, the persecuted Christ.
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Trump shares bizarre biblical video saying God made him to be America\u2019s \u2018caretaker\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republican gives full vent to messiah complex on eve of Iowa caucuses<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three-minute clip, posted to Truth Social on Sunday evening, opens on grainy footage of an LP turning on a record player, broadcasting an apparently ancient sermon in which a preacher intones: \u201cAnd on 14 June 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said: \u2018I need a caretaker.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo God gave us Trump,\u201d the voiceover adds.<\/p>\nThe Independent<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Thanks to Jonathan Pearce<\/a> at OnlySky for providing the transcript<\/a> (as well as a very insightful commentary).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And on June 14th, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, \u201cI need a caretaker.\u201d So God gave us Trump. God said, \u201cI need somebody willing to get up before dawn, fix this country, work all day, fight the Marxists, eat supper, then go to the Oval Office and stay past midnight at a meeting of the heads of state. So God made Trump. \u201cI need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle the Deep State and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild, somebody to ruffle the feathers, tame cantankerous World Economic Forum, come home hungry, have to wait until the First Lady is done with lunch with friends, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon. And mean it. So God gave us Trump.<\/mark><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, in a span of some 30 minutes last Thursday morning, Trump made 31 posts about E. Jean Carroll on Truth Social\u2014a woman for whom a jury unanimously found Trump liable for sexual abuse and battery. That\u2019s not the action of a well-adjusted man, and looks like doubling down of the most morally dubious kind.<\/p>\nOnly Sky Media<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Trump’s Favorite Bible Verse<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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