Trump: Church Attendance Will Rise When I'm President

[progressoid]

In his typically incoherent way, Donald Trump told a meeting of right-wing pastors today that church attendance has declined in America “and a lot of it has to do with the fact that you’ve been silenced.”

“You’ve been silenced like a child has been silenced,” he told the pastors at an Orlando event organized by the American Renewal Project, making the bogus claim that pastors are barred from addressing political issues. “Your power has been totally taken away.”

Trump said that “they took away your voice” but he can restore it by repealing the Johnson Amendment, which he claimed will in turn increase church attendance.

He then expressed dismay that people don’t even know about the existence of Sunday school: “I mean Christianity, when you think of what’s happening and you look at the numbers, I talk about Sunday school and people don’t even know what I’m talking about anymore, it’s true, they don’t even know what I’m talking about.”

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/trump-church-attendance-will-rise-when-im-president

[rug]

1. It usually does when disaster strikes.

[Siwsan]

2. Well, there is the old "There are no Atheists in Foxholes" saying

Desperation and fear can cause some very out of character behaviors.

[unblock]

3. he would certainly drive many people to prayer.

bar attendance would rise as well....

[struggle4progress]

8. I think I might add visits to both church and bar to my daily routine

[louis-t]

4. "God, please deliver us from this crazy asshole"?

[True Dough]

5. Bahahaha

The replies here all are similar to what I had in mind.

[3catwoman3]

6. "...they don’t even know what I’m talking about.”

Well, he is right about that. WTH is he talking about?

[TexasProgresive]

7. And many will be lifting imprecatory prayers that a piano drops on his head.

"Let death take my enemies by surprise; let them go down alive to the grave."Psalm 55:15

"O God, break the teeth in their mouths." Psalm 58:6

"May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous." Psalm 69:28

"May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow."Psalm 109: 9

"How blessed will be the one who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks." Psalm 137: 9

[rug]

9. Don't forget Proverbs!

Proverbs 12:22-23 Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight. A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.

[Still Blue in PDX]

10. "It's true, they don't even know what I'm talking about."

People rarely know what Trump is talking about, least of all himself.

And not every church has a Sunday School program. The Catholic church my in-laws attend doesn't, but it's attached to a parochial school.

[Angry Dragon]

11. people don’t even know what I’m talking about anymore, it’s true, they don’t even know

what I’m talking about


Trump finally does tell the truth

[bluestateguy]

12. I'll certainly go to church more often

To pray for no nuclear war.