While watching CFN13 our local cable news
outlet in early October 2016, a segment was aired about how leading
conservatives, fearing a lower voter turnout in Florida on November 8th,
are launching an evangelical campaign called “Face Down 40”. It’s intended to reawaken
the religious right by praying, fasting, and then voting for Donald Trump for
president. Face Down 40 takes its name from people bowing their heads in
supplication for the 40 days leading up to the general election.
If prayer works, and social conservative
and Face Down 40 organizer Pam Olsen claims it does, why has whoever they are
praying to let come it to this, begging for his attention just 40 days before the
vote? This seems to be a rather uncaring and capricious being on whom they are
wasting their breath. What is He waiting for? Pam Olsen revealed how much she
trusts prayer to work when she says "If we go back to sleep again (as she
thinks Christians did in 2008 and 2012), just like we've done so many times,
then we're in trouble and it's on us.” So what good is praying? If just two of
you Christians pray for something, doesn’t Matthew 18: 19-20 where it
says
“Again, I tell you truly that if two of you on the earth agree about anything
you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or
three gather together in My name, there am I with them,” guarantee it
will happen? I have read numerous Christian responses to this
piece of scripture, all claiming that it is taken out of context. Read the paragraphs
before and after it. What caveats does Jesus impose? “Anything you ask for, it will be done for you…” There is no “but
only if you do this, this, and this first”, or "it only applies to the most holy
among you.” Christians use those excuses to get themselves out of a hole they’ve
dug themselves into.
Over a year ago, when the Republican field was crowded
with 17 candidates, no less than four of them; Scott Walker, Rick Perry, Mike
Huckabee and Ted Cruz. all claimed divine inspiration to run and made it clear
God favored them and wanted them to
be president. What happened? The most unsavory character of them all, Donald Trump, is
who Pam Olsen and her evangelical cohorts are now praying for to win. She is
actually praying for a man who, in what he whimsically called locker-room
banter, talks about grabbing women by the crotch, that he wanted to f*ck a woman
he was not married to when he had only recently married third wife Melania, and "when you're
a star, they let you do it”. As president, would Pam allow him to grope her
crotch, or have sex with her while her husband was away - because he’s a star? If
her answer is no, why would she support, and encourage others to support, such
a person? Olsen claims Trump’s
conversions on key social conservative issues is genuine and deserving of evangelical
support, yet she offers not one shred of evidence that it is genuine or that he
has converted. Sort of like her support for Christianity on not one shred of evidence that
the bible is true.
Pam simply wants to
believe it, and she wants evangelicals on their knees for the next 40 days praying
that this misogynistic, sexist, dishonest, shallow, and crass XY chromosome
carrier attains the presidency. Why would this god they are praying to offer up
a candidate who is so lacking in everything the evangelicals stand for? This
man has been married three times, has claimed he didn’t need a god’s
forgiveness, has called women dogs, pigs, fat slobs, bimbos, and disgusting
animals, supported abortion right up until he became a Republican candidate (before
then, he was a registered Democrat), claims he could shoot someone and not lose
voters, and has unashamedly claimed “it doesn’t really matter what they write
as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” Any man of God would
do the same, wouldn’t they, Pam? You would no doubt be flattered if Trump told
everyone - in front of your church - that you are a “piece of ass”.
At least his final word there accurately
describes you, Pam.
Uh, um...praying and communion....that's what he means!
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