this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2023
220 points (85.0% liked)

United States | News & Politics

7318 readers
492 users here now

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
220
30 Percent of Americans Believe Trump Appointed President by God (www.rawstory.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
125 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Why do so many evangelical Christians support former President Donald Trump despite his decades of documented ungodly behavior?

An in-depth report from The Economist shows that it has a simple explanation: They believe that God personally appointed him to rule the United States.

In fact, the report cites a survey conducted by Denison University political scientist Paul Djupe that around 30 percent of Americans believe Trump "was anointed by God to become president."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Divine right of presidents theory would also make all the Democrats appointed by God. But this shit is evangelical personal relationship with God nonsense, so I guess God told them personally that he appointed Trump to be president.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Knowing how Evangelicals are, they'd claim that the dem presidents are Satan deceiving people or, like in the case of Obama, are potential Antichrists. They need Satan to be powerful enough to fear and they use anything they can to reinforce that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So either their god is powerless to stop this single fallen angel, or they don't love their creation enough to care.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Probably still just nuts hearing voices.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, but theres something like 50 million of them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Have you seen a can or jar of nuts lately? They tend to come in large supply.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

They also all have guns.

Gun Nuts, you might say.