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originally posted by: Astyanax
a reply to: asabuvsobelow
Have you checked the price of a Bible at ' Barnes & Noble ' Lately ? $59.99 is a deal
You people are so Trump-besotted you think you can lie like him and not get caught like he does. Oh the arrogance.
Bible prices at Barnes & Noble
I don't know what the big deal is
We must make America pray again.”
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.
originally posted by: gortex
a reply to: lilzazz
I don't know what the big deal is
Perhaps it's because Trump is using the Bible as a money making tool and describing it as “the only Bible endorsed by President Trump!” , it's a grift that if I were religious I'd probably find it offensive too more especially at this time of year.
We must make America pray again.”
MAGA MAPA !
If you were religious. You are not. Why care?
James Waterman Wise was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace which ran from March 25 - 27, 1949 in New York City. It was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. The conference was a follow-up to a similar gathering, the strongly anti-America, pro-Soviet World Congress of Intellectuals which was held in Poland, August 25 - 28, 1948
Of course trump can endorse his bible....after all, he has been anointed by God.
Sheep are there to be fleeced so he may as well fleece them I guess but his message kinda runs counter to the message of the book he's using to make money from.
originally posted by: matafuchs
a reply to: gortex
Sheep are there to be fleeced so he may as well fleece them I guess but his message kinda runs counter to the message of the book he's using to make money from.
The sheep choose who to purchase from. It is not your concern or anyone elses.
How is his message countering anything? Buy a Trump Bible.....he is not selling guarantees to heaven.
This is how I relate to it as well. Free will is not easy, it takes a whole lot of care to understand the difference between decisions which are maybe free and those that are just outcomes of previously complex impressions, if that makes sense to you.
My god's creation is in-deterministic and doesn't give me truly free will, so ultimately prayer could only be a psychodrama and not directly related to causality. It's not applicable here.
Trump's an ass, but I can't see him forcing me to pray. I don't even see any avenue in which that would ever happen.