(RNS) Donald Trump, (click here) the New York rich guy/reality television
star/conservative news commentator/real estate mogul/hair disaster,
announced he will run for the Republican Party nomination for president
of the United States on Tuesday (June 16). To the Faith Fact Machine!
My father was a very faithful Catholic. He couldn't recite the Bible either. If Donald Trump was running for President of the Presbyterian Congress, I'd be worried about his ability to recite passages from memory. I am confident the next time he appears before a large group of people he'll be carrying his Bible and not the New York Times.
“First
Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Queens, is where I went to
church,” he told Christian Broadcasting Network in 2012. “I’m a
Protestant, I’m a Presbyterian. And you know I’ve had a good
relationship with the church over the years. I think religion is a
wonderful thing. I think my religion is a wonderful religion.” Other
famous Presbyterians who have run for the highest office and won include
Andrew Jackson, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan (who grew up in
the Disciples of Christ but joined the Presbyterian Church). Trump
has also been a member of Marble Collegiate Church, a Reformed Church
in America congregation and once the pulpit of Norman Vincent Peale,
author of the mega-best-seller “The Power of Positive Thinking.”
Bonus faith fact: Trump’s paternal grandmother’s maiden name was “Christ....
... In the lead-up to the 2012 presidential election, Trump told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that there is a “Muslim problem.” “I don’t notice Swedish people knocking down the World Trade Center,” Trump said, and then moved on to the so-called Ground Zero mosque. “I came out very strongly against the mosque being built virtually across the street.”...
...In the same 2012 CBN interview, Trump said fans often send him Bibles and he keeps every one of them “in a very nice place.” “There’s no way I would ever throw anything, to do anything negative to a Bible,” Trump said. “I would have a fear of doing something other than very positive, so actually I store them and keep them and sometimes give them away to other people but I do get sent a lot of Bibles and I like that. I think that’s great.”...
I find his views on bibles and faith very main stream and rather middle class actually.
...“Not only do I have Jewish grandchildren I have a Jewish daughter and I am very honored by that,” he told The Jewish Voice.
Both Senator Sanders and the former Secretary Clinton have the Jewish faith within their lives. These two very fine Democrats probably carry similar views regarding the Iran agreement.
My father was a very faithful Catholic. He couldn't recite the Bible either. If Donald Trump was running for President of the Presbyterian Congress, I'd be worried about his ability to recite passages from memory. I am confident the next time he appears before a large group of people he'll be carrying his Bible and not the New York Times.
1. He’s a Presbyterian.
Bonus faith fact: Trump’s paternal grandmother’s maiden name was “Christ....
... In the lead-up to the 2012 presidential election, Trump told Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that there is a “Muslim problem.” “I don’t notice Swedish people knocking down the World Trade Center,” Trump said, and then moved on to the so-called Ground Zero mosque. “I came out very strongly against the mosque being built virtually across the street.”...
...In the same 2012 CBN interview, Trump said fans often send him Bibles and he keeps every one of them “in a very nice place.” “There’s no way I would ever throw anything, to do anything negative to a Bible,” Trump said. “I would have a fear of doing something other than very positive, so actually I store them and keep them and sometimes give them away to other people but I do get sent a lot of Bibles and I like that. I think that’s great.”...
I find his views on bibles and faith very main stream and rather middle class actually.
...“Not only do I have Jewish grandchildren I have a Jewish daughter and I am very honored by that,” he told The Jewish Voice.
Both Senator Sanders and the former Secretary Clinton have the Jewish faith within their lives. These two very fine Democrats probably carry similar views regarding the Iran agreement.Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (click here) is a Jewish American politician and the current junior Senator from Vermont. He is married to Jane O'Meara Sanders; they have four children.
I think it's okay to talk to candidates about their faith, but, to question their faithfulness isn't the best way to find out they are moral and good people. Faith and spirituality is personal.
If someone is deliberately deceiving people about faith and god, (ie: John Oliver's exposure of 'perpetual exemption') that is a different issue, but, I don't see that level of deception with any of the current candidates.
