Donald Trump to Announce Religious Advisory Board
Donald Trump to Announce Religious Advisory Board
The new group of 20 to 30 people will be among hundreds of religious leaders gathering Tuesday in New York City to meet privately with Mr. Trump. Ben Carson, one of Mr. Trump’s former rivals for the GOP nomination, is helping to organize the meeting. ..
Among the people likely to be named to Mr. Trump’s religious advisory board: Jerry Falwell Jr., the son of the late televangelist and president of Liberty University; Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition; Paula White, senior pastor of New Destiny Christian Center in Apopka, Fla.; Ronnie Floyd, president of the Southern Baptist Convention; Robert Jeffress, host of a national radio and television ministry and the pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas; Jay Strack, president of Student Leadership University in Orlando, Fla.; and Jack Graham, pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas.
http://www.redstate.com/sweetie15/2016/06/20/trumps-next-con-religious-…
Prepare to kneel before Zod.
The thrice-divorced Donald Trump, while facing a lawsuit for scamming single parents and working class citizens with his fraudulent Trump University, feels now is the time to put together a religious advisory board.
Trump surrogate, Dr. Ben Carson, will be putting together the group of 20 to 30 faith leaders for a private meeting, designed to hash out ways to make divorce, misogyny, racism, and fraud more palatable to people of faith.
Personally, I’m wondering how many times Trump will drop the “F-bomb,” as he so often does during his rallies, with children present.
It would be extremely entertaining to be present for such a meeting of the Trump “Religious Advisory Board.” I eagerly await the promisingly entertaining report. Were they ever to be made public, it would make for good “Late Night TV.”
I think the spontaneous eye roll that headline caused might have pulled a muscle in there…
Advisory board — a group of people I make sit around me and try to impress me because they are at my mercy and they all know it… and then after I tell them how wrong they are for a while, I tell them one by one, “your fired!”
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
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Greg Long, Ed.D. (SBTS)
Pastor of Adult Ministries
Grace Church, Des Moines, IA
Adjunct Instructor
School of Divinity
Liberty University
[Aaron Blumer]Advisory board — a group of people I make sit around me and try to impress me because they are at my mercy and they all know it… and then after I tell them how wrong they are for a while, I tell them one by one, “your fired!”
Advisory board - a group of people I use to try to convince mindless voters that I actually care about their issues
[GregH]Advisory board - a group of people I use to try to convince mindless voters that I actually care about their issues
In that case, Clinton can use one of these as well…
Dave Barnhart
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/2016/06/21/donald-trump…
· Michele Bachmann – Former Congresswoman
· A.R. Bernard – Senior Pastor and CEO, Christian Cultural Center
· Mark Burns – Pastor, Harvest Praise and Worship Center
· Tim Clinton – President, American Association of Christian Counselors
· Kenneth and Gloria Copeland – Founders, Kenneth Copeland Ministries
· James Dobson – Author, Psychologist and Host, My Family Talk
· Jerry Falwell, Jr. – President, Liberty University
· Ronnie Floyd – Senior Pastor, Cross Church
· Jentezen Franklin – Senior Pastor, Free Chapel
· Jack Graham – Senior Pastor, Prestonwood Baptist Church
· Harry Jackson – Senior Pastor, Hope Christian Church
· Robert Jeffress – Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church of Dallas
· David Jeremiah – Senior Pastor, Shadow Mountain Community Church
· Richard Land – President, Southern Evangelical Seminary
· James MacDonald – Founder and Senior Pastor, Harvest Bible Chapel
· Johnnie Moore – Author, President of The KAIROS Company
· Robert Morris – Senior Pastor, Gateway Church
· Tom Mullins – Senior Pastor, Christ Fellowship
· Ralph Reed – Founder, Faith and Freedom Coalition
· James Robison – Founder, Life OUTREACH International
· Tony Suarez – Executive Vice President, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference
· Jay Strack – President, Student Leadership University
· Paula White – Senior Pastor, New Destiny Christian Center
· Tom Winters – Attorney, Winters and King, Inc.
· Sealy Yates – Attorney, Yates and Yates
Commentary: https://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/donald-trumps-relig…
What a collective of theological ineptitude and biblical ignorance. There’s not a single person among the members of the Trump cult that I would get theological guidance from or accept the biblical interpretation of.
So, in short, Trump’s religious advisory board is as ignorant theologically as he is. Birds of a feather, I suppose…
…but the real gut check is whether anyone on the board is going to call Drumpf on his lies and such. I am guessing that the group will be as reticent to “speak truth to power” as Billy Graham has been.
Polticians have often been scoundrels, to be sure, but never as obviously as this year, it seems. But at least the Bee (newspaper of record these days?) shows that Drumpf’s advisors are speaking to him at his level. :^)
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
Notice that what appears to be the same “Forum” cover behind the lady’s knee and above Drumpf’s head. One would have to wonder whether you’d see even more copies if you took a good look at that wall.
Keep working that flannelgraph, boys!
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
Honored for same hypocrites who accused Jesus of being a friend of publicans and sinners to be targeting me over a decades old mag cover! TY
https://twitter.com/JerryJrFalwell/status/745443179080495105
[Jim]What a collective of theological ineptitude and biblical ignorance. There’s not a single person among the members of the Trump cult that I would get theological guidance from or accept the biblical interpretation of.
So, in short, Trump’s religious advisory board is as ignorant theologically as he is. Birds of a feather, I suppose…
These are quite the overstatements. “Theological ineptitude and biblical ignorance”? “Not a single person…”? “…as ignorant theologically as he is.”
I actually know a few of these people. Some are way off the reservation without a doubt. But some are decent and Godly people who care about the Gospel and to paint them as some sort of heretic is irresponsible. I disagree with them most strongly on associating with Trump who I decidedly would not support from a vote to an endorsement and anywhere in between. However, while compromise is the death knell of good theology, it is also the lifeblood of good politics. I wouldn’t do what they have done…but I think the above rhetoric blitzed passed a reasonable line.
I tend to agree to a degree with DL—I don’t know all of these names, but I do suspect I’d find areas of theological agreement with many of them, especially the Southern Baptists in the lot. But that said, one thing I could figure out quickly is that they’re all about bigness for bigness’ sake, and I know from reading around that a few of ‘em don’t play well with the other children. And that is, in whatever degree it’s true, an error that is at its roots theological.
Crook or a combover this fall. Sigh.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
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