Trump to send Betsy DeVos, Rick Perry and scores of others to Iowa on caucus day
"Rage of the Trumpvangelicals: Religious Right Slams Christianity Today Over Impeachment Editorial "Church of The Donald "Donald Trump’s Presidential Run Began in an Effort to Gain Stature" ""
Trump campaign aims to steal Democrats’ thunder with help from more than 80 of president’s most controversial allies
David Smith in Des Moines, Iowa @smithinamerica
Fri 31 Jan 2020 09.25 AEDT Last modified on Fri 31 Jan 2020 13.05 AEDT
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Among the surrogates will be Paula White, a televangelist and religious adviser to the US president, recently caught on video .. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/paula-white-miscarriage-video.html .. declaring during a church service in Florida: “In the name of Jesus, we command all satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now.” White has claimed that she was quoted out of context for political ends.
As Trump seeks to shore up his rightwing religious base, Jerry Falwell Jr, president of Liberty University, one of the world’s biggest Christian colleges, will also be deployed. He has previously opined there was nothing that Trump could do that would threaten his support from evangelical leaders. It has been reported .. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-politics-falwell-exclusive/exclusive-trump-fixer-cohen-says-he-helped-falwell-handle-racy-photos-idUSKCN1SD2JG .. that Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen intervened in 2016 to ensure that racy “personal” photographs of Falwell were destroyed.
Ken Blackwell, Penny Nance and Ralph Reed, Pro-Life Voices for Trump advisory board members, will be on the ground, reflecting the president’s personal reinvention as a scourge of abortion rights. Last week he became the first sitting president to address the March for Life in Washington .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/24/trump-march-for-life-washington-anti-abortion .
Neil Sroka, a spokesman for the progressive political action committee Democracy for America, said: “When you have an absolutely amoral, unrepentantly bigoted president, you’re going to need to turn out the religious sell-outs to try to hold together the Republican coalition.”
The president’s surrogate army, spreading out across the state, will further include Mick Mulvaney, the White House acting chief of staff; the housing secretary, Ben Carson; the education secretary, Betsy DeVos; the commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross; and the former energy secretary Rick Perry.
And in a glimpse of the coming campaign, some of Trump’s biggest defenders during the impeachment hearings in Washington will make his case to voters at Iowa caucus sites. Among them are Matt Gaetz of Florida, Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mark Meadows of North Carolina, Elise Stefanik of New York and Liz Cheney of Wyoming – daughter of the former vice-president Dick Cheney.
Trump with and Paula White in Miami this month. Photograph: Larry Marano/Rex/Shutterstock
Coronavirus: Trump and religious right rely on faith, not science
"Rage of the Trumpvangelicals: Religious Right Slams Christianity Today Over Impeachment Editorial "Church of The Donald "Donald Trump’s Presidential Run Began in an Effort to Gain Stature" ""
March 29, 2020 10.42pm AEDT Updated March 30, 2020 2.18pm AEDT
Author André Gagné Associate Professor, Department of Theological Studies; Full Member of the Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance, Concordia University
Others appeared to minimize the physical health threats of the virus or emphasized how atonement, spiritual preparation or protection is strengthened through church tithing or donations.
These initial and ongoing response of some of these leaders have highlighted dangerous worldviews that stress the authority of Christian charismatic personal prophecy and sees in calamitous events signs of Christ’s final triumph.
Bolz also recently claimed on a Christian website that the economy would surge, that Donald Trump would win another electoral term, that “God’s going to turn the tide of this thing” and the U.S. would “hit one of the greatest times … of economic stability.”
President Donald Trump has called for full churches at Easter. Here he is pictured at the White House with Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Pastor Jack Graham, Paula White-Cain and Vice President Mike Pence. AP Photo/Evan Vucci
On Twitter he told his 432,000 followers: “No weapon meant to hurt you will succeed … No disease. NO VIRUS. … Believe it. Receive it. Speak it in Jesus’ Name!”
Paula White-Cain, the religious advisor to President Trump, has so far advised her followers to stay home for 15 days. Here White-Cain is pictured at the benediction at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2018. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite
Mike Bickle, a Kansas City pastor, said in a YouTube sermon on March 22 that the virus is part of the enemy’s agenda — that enemy being Satan — to stop “stadium Christianity” in the U.S. and worldwide. Bickle said, “there are 20 stadium events planned in 2020 across our nation … and the enemy says, ‘Enough! I’m going to stop this!’”
These neo-charismatic leaders’ battle with the virus is one they consider to be “spiritual warfare,” where they confront and take authority over the “spirit of fear” and over the disease in the name of Jesus.
In this context, these neo-charismatic leaders may believe Christians will be endowed with supernatural abilities, working miracles and healing people from diseases, also having the responsibility of converting souls to the Christian message.
Many of these preachers are writing end-time scenarios. There have been several scenarios presented which interpret stories from the Bible which they use as an authority and as a way to legitimize their beliefs — many of which could have deadly consequences.
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