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RSherman

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8. Elmer Gantry! Great article comparing this tent revival/fraud movie and Trump

Reply to mucifer (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2024, 08:07 AM

Mar 28

https://religiondispatches.org/welcome-to-the-rncs-elmer-gantry-tent-revival/

"The Trump convention is trading on a long-standing religious tradition structured by a drama of salvation from a quite vividly conjured hellfire and damnation (Hillary Clinton, “secular progressives,” etc.), a healing of one’s suffering and loss, scripted—in his case—by the highly emotional testimonial, the one-on-one story. “I took Jesus as my savior; you take him too.” Of course Trump, like Gantry, is a fraud."

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With trump's bible scam, anyone else thinking about Ryan O'Neal and Tatum O'Neal and Paper Moon? [View all] mucifer Mar 28 OP

Yes! I thought of that too. IjustDontlikeRepugs Mar 28 #1

First thing that came to my mind when I saw Trump hawking them in his commercial. Squaredeal Mar 28 #2

Don't forget John Goodman in "Oh brother, where art Thou?" harumph Mar 28 #3

First thing I thought of too! redwitch Mar 28 #4

Why is he hawking bibles? Omnipresent Mar 28 #5

...or unless a camera is filming him in a church. TSExile Mar 28 #7

I guess no camera crews ever catch him entering a church? Omnipresent Mar 28 #9

I instantly thought of Trailer Park Boys... Glamrock Mar 28 #6

Elmer Gantry! Great article comparing this tent revival/fraud movie and Trump RSherman Mar 28 #8

If I remember correctly... appmanga Mar 28 #10