Christian leaders honor golden statue of Trump

[JohnH]

I think your accusations of partisanship would be more defensible if you examined your own biases. In what ways are you compromised?

At the moment, the partisan action I'd like to take the most would be ensuring Amy Acton wins.

Hope that helps.

[Bootstrap]

I would personally say what I said above about any leader that had evangelicals or other religious leaders dedicating a statue that is of that leader. But to my knowledge we have not had a statue of a living political figure put up and dedicated in this way, at least not in my lifetime.

Even dead American presidents don't have gold statues.

[JohnH]

I would personally say what I said above about any leader that had evangelicals or other religious leaders dedicating a statue that is of that leader. But to my knowledge we have not had a statue of a living political figure put up and dedicated in this way, at least not in my lifetime.

Even dead American presidents don't have gold statues.

Okay, so your objection is the particular metals used? Have you also lodged an objection with the gold-plated (well, gold-leafed - it's wood) statue of George Washington at the Idaho capitol building?

[Valerie]

I think it’s very noticeable that it wasn’t done against prior administrations. But also think Jude warns against reviling.
I mean I remember saying one reason I was hoping Trump wasn’t the nominee this time is we’d be subject to 4 more years of Trump bashing again. Sure enough-

It's not that clear to me. President Obama was critiqued quite a lot, as a communist, a fascist, a crypto Muslim who wanted to subvert the Constitution in favor of Sharia law, a foreigner, a black nationalist, a creator of death panels to kill old people, a weak leader for wearing brown suits, anti- American for not wearing a flag pin, anti- white for
exchanging a high five with his wife in the Whitehouse... This is only the things I remember off the top of my head, I'm certain there were plenty more.

We didn’t do that on this forum did we? I mean he did appoint members of Muslim brotherhood to his cabinet but I don’t recall day after day on “here” people attacking him.

[barnhart]

We didn’t do that on this forum did we? I mean he did appoint members of Muslim brotherhood to his cabinet but I don’t recall day after day on “here” people attacking him.

I remember grumbling to be sure.

Who was the cabinet member from the Muslim brotherhood?

[Szdfan]

We didn’t do that on this forum did we? I mean he did appoint members of Muslim brotherhood to his cabinet but I don’t recall day after day on “here” people attacking him.

I remember grumbling to be sure.

Who was the cabinet member from the Muslim brotherhood?

I remember a thread on MennoDiscuss right after Obama’s inauguration arguing that he was the antichrist.

I also remember lots of mentions of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and that we did go down the rabbit hole about Obama’s birth certificate.

[temporal1]

Carter was not in charge at the time; it was more than a dozen years after he was in office. If you want a comparable statue it would be this one from the campaign trail.

“Golfers see gold statue of Trump in Miami and reactions are priceless”
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/spo ... 837567007/

"It's his place he can do whatever he wants," Brian Harman said.

i think the peanut statue is a good comparison.
Trump has consistently used gold as his signature feature over his career, as Carter was known for peanuts.
Both had a sense of humor.

If there was a forum poll, i’d guess no member here would have chosen the statue, the gold leaf, or, the OP pastor’s response.
Or the grinning peanut.

"come se come sa"

[barnhart]

We didn’t do that on this forum did we? I mean he did appoint members of Muslim brotherhood to his cabinet but I don’t recall day after day on “here” people attacking him.

I remember grumbling to be sure.

Who was the cabinet member from the Muslim brotherhood?

I remember a thread on MennoDiscuss right after Obama’s inauguration arguing that he was the antichrist.

I also remember lots of mentions of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and that we did go down the rabbit hole about Obama’s birth certificate.

I guess we could go back to that halfway archive and see what sort of things were commonly said.

[temporal1]

I guess we could go back to that halfway archive and see what sort of things were commonly said.

i wasn’t on forum then, but, as today, “things discussed” doesn’t equate to “things promoted”.
“things reported in media” are apt to be the freakish, not the norm .. not unlike this topic’s OP. (i know no one like the pastor featured.)

being in Illinois, and reading from “around” i was well aware of obama-worship, “the second coming”, etc.
so much so, i recall obama made a public statement denying that was the case.

^^i don’t recall anyone on forum confusing that - but, i was late to those discussions. my impression is, he still has strong support on forum.

he struck me more as a Boy Pharaoh type. i don’t believe i put in words anywhere. i saw many with great hopes for him, i prayed for him and hoped he would be a great leader. in retrospect, i have no romance for him.

i’m really really glad his wife didn’t run for president. i believe she would have won. those years are gone (i guess). what she now presents in public makes me very grateful she did not run.

[JohnH]

I guess we could go back to that halfway archive and see what sort of things were commonly said.

I frequently admonished people to go easy on the conspiracy theories and to try to find things to believe in/think about other than that Obama was some kind of apocalyptic figure who was going to bring about an end to both America and to religious freedom worldwide.

Wild times.

The same advice applies today, just to different partisan alignments.