Donald Trump to Announce Religious Advisory Board

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!”

Aides Hurriedly Teaching Trump Bible Stories Via Flannelgraph Ahead Of Meeting With Evangelicals

[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…

…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. :^)

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!

[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.