Trump’s Faith Office violates the Gospel of Jesus Christ by holding loud, public prayer circle

We're on the stupidest timeline.

Hey, Trump did say he was a devout Episcyterian

A flock of fraudsters.

As somebody raised Catholic, prayer was silent and staid.

Speaking in tongues and charismatic prayer is extremely odd. If you’re looking for that kind of emotional high, they could go clubbing, sing along to music or have sex.

It's very American, r4

When did we go back to 1825?

I should add, I wish I could go back and be an historian of American religious movements. It's a topic that fascinates me.

I really miss the Old Money New England WASP Republicans.

Sure, they were Christian Conservatives, but they would NEVER EVER have such a tawdry and sloppy display of religion or emotions like this.

Even trashy Southern Baptists don't engage in this shit.

R4 Same here. My mom was a very quiet Catholic, and that verse OP quotes was one of her favorites, and part of how we kids were raised to think about prayer.

True, R9, I was raised southern baptist, the sermons were extremely boring.

Southern baptists were/are very bigoted towards catholics. When I was a child (1970's) no images of Jesus (except for prints & posters) were allowed, we were taught that the catholics were Mary worshippers who prayed to statues & stained glass windows.

These people make me sick.

And OP? You forgot the end of that Bible quote: and God, who sees what you do in secret, will reward you.

R8

My dad is so WASPy about religion that he’s offended by those Christ/fish car emblems.

r13 My dad is too! lol He always says "I'm just a traditional Presbyterian, we don't do that."

These freakazoids run the country!

Fundies LIVE to shove their obnoxious religiosity down your throat!

Thanks, senior lesbian/r12. I had a long and faded memory of the passage. I did a quick search and found a BBC site where the passage was apparently truncated.

I'm a Catholic school product -- West coast from early 70s to '82 -- taught by Franciscans and Sisters of Mercy (with a 2 year public school pitstop for Jr High). The theology I learned was more along the lines of Matthew and the Sermon from the Mount, which is ever-perplexing to "Christian" MAGAts. Their notions of Christianity are so medieval that they would spit on JC and disavow him if he walked the earth now.

BTW, I'm a happy atheist. JC may or may not have been an actual real historical figure -- probably an amalgamen of figures from regional legends.

R17 - MAGA is straight-up Roman paganism with the absolutely thinnest of veneers slapped on top that supposedly make them Christians.

Christ, these people are fucking insane!