President Donald Trump concluded his Republican midterm convention on Thursday by leading the audience in a pledge … to himself.
Trump asked the crowd to raise their right hands and begin: “I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States.”
The crowd dutifully repeated the line, calling Trump “the greatest president in the history of the United States.”
Trump added: “that loves us so much he can’t even breathe.”
The crowd again repeated the line, but then it got a little harder to follow.
“That I will go out with my family, my friends, I’ll do it anyway, I don’t care if I’m registered or not. I’m going to try and cheat like hell like they do,” he said. “There’s never been bigger cheaters, they don’t care. I am going to go out and I am going to get my friends, my family, and we are going to vote on November 3rd or we are going to vote before that.”
Unable to repeat all of that, the crowd cheered.
Trump realized he lost them and reset.
“Are you ready?” he asked. “Here’s the way you ― “
But he wasn’t ready himself as he got sidetracked by people in the audience. He tried once more to finish, with the crowd repeating after him, but left them behind as he went off on another tangent.
“So help me God,” he concluded.
The crowd repeated that part heartily.
“You know what happens if you don’t vote?” Trump asked. “You go to hell!”
So much blasphemy that he’s telling his supporters they’re going to hell!
I’m grateful I accepted myself as a godless atheist long before this shit came up. If I was a Christian, a real Christian anyway, I’d be so fucking pissed off by this guy.
I mean, I’m pissed off by this guy anyway, but not in a divine way at least.
I’m in the same boat, sort of. I was a true believer, but the words-in-red kind, not like this lot. Got all the way out just in time, and I could not be more relieved. I literally do not know how I’d still be functioning if I were still a believing Christian and this was somehow my own twisted circus-mirror faith being reflected back to me.
Knowing it’s all a lie is a VAST relief.
I almost hope I’m wrong and there is a god so this guy does suffer eternal damnation
I actually kind of envy those people because at least they believe that he will receive eternal punishment.
Instead he’ll just rot in a fucking grave
I wish this myth would die. There are no real christians. There is no real christ. The concept of christ is, “an abusive god sacrificed himself to save us from the violence he’ll inflict on us if we don’t submit completely to his vague and contradictory commands, which include owning slaves and selling women to their rapists.”
Accountability is impossible when we tolerate magical thinking. Innocent people are dying for it.
A Christian is, by definition, someone who believes in the divinity of Jesus Christ. He doesn’t have to exist for real Christians to exist. All that’s required is the belief.
I suppose “true believer” might be a correct term? I simply meant someone who believes in something (even if it’s obviously not actually their book) rather than someone who is strictly using it to manipulate or fit in or what have you.
Yeah. I think I meant that I hate how many christians will apply the “no true scotsman” fallacy, pretending other interpretations are wrong and theirs is the right one when there is no right way to believe in something that doesn’t exist. Everyone has their own headcanon out of necessity because there is no way to verify the contradictory claims made about christ.