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| Trump’s Christian outreach: Now he’s working with an extremist faith healer who thinks he can control the oceans; Trump starts his evangelical push by engaging a minister with a background in fraud and graft | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 24 2016, 05:32 PM (713 Views) | |
| Dem4life | May 24 2016, 05:32 PM Post #1 |
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Last week, it was quietly revealed that Trump has hired a new “liaison for Christian policy,” a televangelist named Frank Amedia. Amedia is a relatively unknown character, so Miranda Blue at Right Wing Watch started digging. Unsurprisingly, Amedia turns out to be exactly the sort of hyper-sleazy master manipulator that the mind automatically conjures up when you think of the word “televangelist”. In on telling incident, Amedia, while on a show hosted by his fellow televangelist Guillermo Maldonado, bragged about how he supposedly can control tsunamis. He starts the story by recall in his wife waking him to alert him to the fact that his daughter was on a Hawaiian island that had a tsunami headed for it, then: I stood at the edge of my bed and I said, ‘In the name of Jesus, I declare that tsunami to stop now.’ And I specifically said, ‘I declare those waters to recede,’ and I said, ‘Father, that is my child, I am your child, I’m coming to you now and asking you to preserve her.’ Apostle, it was seen by 400 people on a cliff. It was on YouTube, it was actually on the news that that tsunami stopped 200 feet off of shore. Even after having sucked the waters in, it churned and it went on and did devastation in the next island. Stories of “miracles” where God spared the supposedly worthy but rained down destruction and death on others are a common trope in Christian right circles. (See this popular urban legend of angels who prevent a Christian woman from getting rape, setting the rapists to go rape some other unlucky woman.) It’s a trope that has an ugly, hateful edge to it, as much about conveying the idea that other people are worthy of death as it is to persuade the believers their faith will save them. But beyond that, think of the narcissism it takes to imagine one can control tsunamis. No wonder Trump loves this guy. Blue dug up a wonderland of crazy stories about Amedia, who practices “faith healing” over the phone on his call-in show and, in 2001 got immunity for prosecution for admitting in court that he had attempted to bribe a prosecutor in a fraud case. http://www.salon.com/2016/05/24/trumps_christian_outreach_now_hes_working_with_an_extremist_faith_healer_who_thinks_he_can_control_the_oceans/ |
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| Alt Right PEPE | May 24 2016, 09:43 PM Post #2 |
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Halleulah! Like a fish to water! ![]() ![]()
Edited by Alt Right PEPE, May 24 2016, 09:46 PM.
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"Be polite, be friendly. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet." Gen Mattis | |
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| Dem4life | May 25 2016, 10:06 AM Post #3 |
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I have no doubt his followers will applaud him for choosing someone who believes he can control tsunamis... |
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| Two a.m. | May 25 2016, 10:27 AM Post #4 |
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Perhaps Donald and he can debate passages in "Two Corinthians".
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| "The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them." - George Orwell, 1984 | |
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| clone | May 25 2016, 10:43 AM Post #5 |
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Only because your weather Messiah you voted for twice has dropped the ball.... I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth. ~Prophet Obama Can we get an AMEN..... Liberals have awfully selective memories.....
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Dem4life | May 25 2016, 10:45 AM Post #6 |
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Yabbut... |
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| clone | May 25 2016, 10:50 AM Post #7 |
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How quickly they forget....Praise Be to Our Lord & Savior....(no not Satan the other one) ![]()
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| clone | May 25 2016, 10:51 AM Post #8 |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Dem4life | May 25 2016, 10:53 AM Post #9 |
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Funny how you can't discuss your candidate w/o deflecting. Says everything we need to know about him as a nominee... |
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| clone | May 25 2016, 11:03 AM Post #10 |
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I can discuss Donaldus Maximus all day long....as I have here by pointing out you people's (yes you people's) blatant hypocrisy.....
Edited by clone, May 25 2016, 11:04 AM.
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Dem4life | May 25 2016, 11:04 AM Post #11 |
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More deflecting from the peanut gallery... |
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| clone | May 25 2016, 11:14 AM Post #12 |
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Only liberals can choose not to go down the road to widespread, systematic violence. | |
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| Dem4life | May 25 2016, 01:26 PM Post #13 |
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Trump 'Christian Policy' Adviser Is A 'Prophet' Who Stopped A Tsunami, Says AIDS Is Result Of 'Unnatural Sex' http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/trump-christian-policy-adviser-apostle-who-stopped-tsunami-says-aids-result-unnatural-sex#sthash.47p0nVbW.dpuf Mario Bramnick, an official with the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, told Time magazine last week that Donald Trump has taken on Frank Amedia of Touch Heaven Ministries in Ohio as his new “liaison for Christian policy” and that Amedia has been arranging meetings for the Republican presidential candidate with conservative religious leaders. Amedia, who was once implicated in a bribery scandal in which he attempted to help a car-dealer friend avoid prosecution, is now a self-proclaimed “apostle” who says that he once single-handedly stopped a tsunami from hitting an island in Hawaii. Amedia got his religious training from Miami pastor Guillermo Maldonado, who is associated with the controversial New Apostolic Reformation, a group of self-proclaimed modern-day apostles and prophets. In a 2012 appearance on Maldonado’s TBN program, Amedia referred to Maldonado as his “spiritual father.” Amedia, who says he is a former Jew, now identifies as an “apostle” himself. ... As part of Amedia’s ministry, he runs a North American affiliate of Isaac TV, a Christian evangelist network based in Pakistan. In an undated program broadcast on the station, which was posted on YouTube late last year, Amedia discussed with viewers how faith in Christ could save them from “generational curses,” “traditions and cultures that keep us away from God,” and “an evil lifestyle.” He went on to discuss how AIDS is the result of “unnatural sex” and can be avoided by practicing a "wholesome life”: We know that many of the diseases today are avoidable if only we practiced a wholesome life. AIDS is a disease that comes because of unnatural sex. We understand that many of the diseases that we receive is because of exposure that we have to things that we should not be exposed to, lifestyles that are unhealthy or things in our spirit that cause us to become bitter. This going to get ugly... |
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