Donald Trump strikes a chord — with evangelicals

[Formerly Once-Ler]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/09/14/donald-trump-leading-among-evangelical-voters-despite-multiple-marriages-and-past-support-abortion-rights/yYaJO34EAm5QJtNCdZ84NL/story.html

WASHINGTON — Like most things about Donald Trump, his religion does not fit neatly into political tradition.

Trump says he can’t remember ever asking God for forgiveness for anything. If he has a favorite Bible verse, he refuses to name it. He has downplayed the importance of Holy Communion, flippantly saying, “I drink the little wine, which is about the only wine I drink, and I eat the little cracker.”

He does, at least sometimes, attend church; the Presbyterian church in Manhattan where Trump married his first wife is where he struck up a romance with the woman who would become his second wife.

And yet polls show the thrice-married longtime casino magnate who once posed on the cover of Playboy magazine with a lightly clothed woman is winning the backing of conservative evangelical voters in the GOP presidential primary.

more at link...including this gem “I will be the greatest representative of the Christians that they’ve had in a long time.”

Comfortably Smug ‏@ComfortablySmug 4h4 hours ago

President Trump would bring that level of efficiency to government!

Matt Viser @mviser
The church where Trump married his first wife is where he struck up a romance with the woman who’d become his second. http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2015/09/14/donald-trump-leading-among-evangelical-voters-despite-multiple-marriages-and-past-support-abortion-rights/yYaJO34EAm5QJtNCdZ84NL/story.html …

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Jon Ralston@RalstonReports

Maybe this whole Trump thing isn't so bad because we are all curled up and unconscious and hooked up to machines and acting as batteries.

[bkepley]

And I'm sure there are knuckle-headed evangelicals who will buy it.

[aligncare]

Hey, Trump is a living example of Romans 3:23, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

I'm certainly in no position to cast the first stone.