My mother is convinced he’s chosen by god even though he’s a terrible person. She’s just hand waving all of his obviously ‘sinful’ behavior as irrelevant to god doing god things. She keeps saying ‘he’s a man for such a time as this’ and it’s fucking wild how hard she’s gone in on this fascism since I broke contact with her and stopped fact checking her.
I feel your pain. My very religious mother just supports him because he's anti-choice. Nothing else matters, not the bragging about SA, not his obvious worship of the almighty dollar, not Jan 6. As long as more babies get shat out unto the world, regardless of the environment they'll live in, that's all that matters.
She’s one of those Christian’s that has no idea what ideology they follow. They just listen to what they like and run with it. Absolutely zero thought put into it.
It says he's a man of no principles who will take any audience or following he can get, as long as it gets his foot in the door. Even if the following is antithetical to the few things Trump keeps near and dear to the cancerous black mulch he has where the rest of us keep our hearts.
For evangelicals, it says they're batshit crazy, but that's not new information.
Actually one of his staff who was of the MANY arrested testified that behind closed doors after getting back from a rally... Trump commented on his religious followers by saying something to the effect of "Can you believe people really go for that kind of stuff"
In reference to the existence of God.
If he doesn't believe in God he is by definition an atheist
He certainly claims to be, and i guarantee you he would never proclaim to be an outright atheist (unless of course it was socially or politically advantageous).