[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=zk][quote=outtamojo]Apparently China would prefer a trump reelection for the long term damage he does to America’s world standing. Absolutely amazing and sad that America could be dumb enough to elect him twice.[/quote]
I honestly don’t think it would be remotely possible without right-wing propaganda.[/quote]
China and all our competitors want Trump.
Objectively, Trump did a lot of damage to US power.
But Republicans believe that America is winning. If that’s what winning looks like then I’m sure our competitors are happy to let us win.[/quote]
aside from China wanting TRUMP, there is also Russia among others like Iran, etc., wanting TRUMP (basically to weaken the influence of the USA), and I’m 99.999% certain PsyOps of some kind in those countries are using religious beliefs in the USA to try and tip the scales of the nov election
[quote] Paula White, Trump’s Personal Pastor, Joins the White House
Paula White, a televangelist based in Florida and personal pastor to President Trump whom he has known since 2002, has joined the Trump administration in an official capacity, according to a White House official.
Ms. White will work in the Office of Public Liaison, the official said, which is the division of the White House overseeing outreach to groups and coalitions organizing key parts of the president’s base. Her role will be to advise the administration’s Faith and Opportunity Initiative, which Mr. Trump established last year by executive order and which aims to give religious groups more of a voice in government programs devoted to issues like defending religious liberty and fighting poverty.
As Mr. Trump campaigns for a second term, he cannot afford to lose support from the religious conservatives who voted for him in 2016 in significant numbers. Without their backing, his path to re-election would be significantly narrower.
[quote] The prosperity gospel, explained: Why Joel Osteen believes that prayer can make you rich
…As Laura Turner notes in an excellent piece for BuzzFeed, no theological tradition is as rife for accusations of hypocrisy as the “prosperity gospel,” a distinctively American theological tradition. While it’s popular among many evangelical Protestants, it’s been condemned by many others. But to many of its critics, especially since the election of Donald Trump, this tradition has come to represent the worst of the conflation of American-style capitalism, religion, and Republican party politics.
The prosperity gospel is an umbrella term for a group of ideas — popular among charismatic preachers in the evangelical tradition — that equate Christian faith with material, and particularly financial, success. It has a long history in American culture, with figures like Osteen and Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, glamorous, flashily-dressed televangelists whose Disneyland-meets-Bethlehem Christian theme park, Heritage USA, was once the third-most-visited site in America.
A 2006 Times poll found that 17 percent of American Christians identify explicitly with the movement, while 31 percent espouse the idea that “if you give your money to God God will bless you with more money.” A full 61 percent agree with the more general idea that “God wants people to be prosperous.”
