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Cyrano

(15,046 posts)
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:09 PM Aug 2017

God gives Trump okay to take out North Korea

From Rachel Maddow's Blog:

As Donald Trump threatened North Korea this week with “fire and fury,” one of the Republican president’s closest allies from the faith community argued that God has extended His approval to the White House launching a deadly attack. USA Today reported:

Texas pastor Robert Jeffress, one of President Trump’s evangelical advisers, said that God has given the president “full control” to take out North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

In a statement to CBN News Tuesday, the First Baptist Dallas pastor wrote that a biblical passage in the book of Romans endowed “rulers full power to use whatever means necessary — including war – to stop evil.”

“In the case of North Korea, God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong-Un,” Jeffress told CBN News.



http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/one-trumps-favorite-pastors-god-backs-attack-north-korea#break




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God gives Trump okay to take out North Korea (Original Post) Cyrano Aug 2017 OP
Once one realizes that god doesn't exist, these kind of statements stopbush Aug 2017 #1
Well, phew, guess the ass got the approval OK. n/t RKP5637 Aug 2017 #2
Well thank God for that Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2017 #3
Excuse me... Wounded Bear Aug 2017 #4
No GOD did not, Robert Jeffress and his minions did Iliyah Aug 2017 #5
Well, now that we got the Big Man's approval on this... we can all relax and embrace the change... JoeStuckInOH Aug 2017 #6

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
1. Once one realizes that god doesn't exist, these kind of statements
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:11 PM
Aug 2017

are seen in a much different light, the same kind of light that sends cockroaches scurrying.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,426 posts)
3. Well thank God for that
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:16 PM
Aug 2017

I mean, whew, that's important to have before potentially plunging us into a global nuclear war. And I used to think such talk from and around GWB was troubling/creepy.

 

JoeStuckInOH

(544 posts)
6. Well, now that we got the Big Man's approval on this... we can all relax and embrace the change...
Thu Aug 10, 2017, 12:41 PM
Aug 2017

yes, the changing of Hydrogen into Helium and Uranium into Krypton & Barium.



Pretty sure the bible talks about destroying the earth by fire, no?

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