It didn’t take Donald Trump any time at all to make his point, stating that he believes in God and that he is a Christian. He knows that to become President of the United States this is absolutely necessary.
Interesting how this country has regressed as far as the intelligence of the masses is concerned. Religious fanaticism, and ignorance, is at an all-time high. Our first two presidents, George Washington and John Adams may have been deists, but neither one of them were practicing Christians, and Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses Grant had no religious affiliations whatsoever; neither did great statesmen such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine. Yet in this day and age, unless an individual claims to be a Christian, particularly a Protestant (John F. Kennedy was the only Catholic president) he or she has no chance of being elected or even nominated for the presidency. Our society is definitely going backwards instead of forward in this regard.
And yes, Mr. Trump, the Bible is definitely THE book. It is THE book of fairy tales (virgin births, resurrections, talking animals, people living hundreds of years, Noah’s Ark, the six-day creation, etc.) It is also THE book that endorses slavery and invented hell. What a “wonderful” book. Such hypocrisy! TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Politico
By: Maggie Haberman
April 11, 2011 03:26 PM EDT
Donald Trump highlighted his religion in an interview with the Christian Broadcast Network, declaring “I am Christian” and saying he stores away Bibles he gets sent from fans.
“I believe in God. I am Christian. I think The Bible is certainly, it is THE book,’ Trump told CBN’s David Brody.
“It is the thing. I was raised and I gave you a picture just now and perhaps you’ll use that picture I found it from a long time ago. First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica Queens is where I went to church,” he said. “I’m a protestant, I’m a Presbyterian. And you know I’ve had a good relationship with the church over the years. I think religion is a wonderful thing. I think my religion is a wonderful religion.”
When asked by Brody about whether he keeps a lot of Bibles, Trump said, “Well I get sent Bibles by a lot of people… we keep them at a certain place. A very nice place. But people send me Bibles. And you know it’s very interesting. I get so much mail and because I’m in this incredible location in Manhattan you can’t keep most of the mail you get.
“There’s no way I would ever throw anything, to do anything negative to a Bible, so what we do is we keep all of the Bibles,” he added. “I would have a fear of doing something other than very positive so actually I store them and keep them and sometimes give them away to other people but I do get sent a lot of Bibles and I like that. I think that’s great.”
Trump, who is starting to eye a connection to the evangelicals who make up a key swath of GOP primary voters, said he goes to church “as much as I can. Always on Christmas. Always on Easter. Always when there’s a major occasion. And during the Sundays. I’m a Sunday church person. I’ll go when I can.”
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I has always amazed me how people can lap up this kind of nonsense that the Trump’s and Palin’s of the political world spew out. They are so transparent. Their religious ideology is an inch deep, and is only there as a self serving purpose. Talk about hypocrisy!