Pastor leads leads wild dedication ceremony for Trump’s giant gold statue

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-gold-statue-golf-course-pastor-b2972303.html

You would think a Pastor would have a serious problem with that. Only in Trumps America.

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adespoton@lemmy.ca · 50 pts · 101d (4 replies)

Burns wrote on social media before emphasizing that the gilded effigy was not a false idol.

“Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf,” he said.

No, not a calf. A different bovine comes to mind.

And this pastor really doesn’t know his bible. Either that, or he knows it but didn’t enter the sheep fold by the gate.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 101d (3 replies)

A different bovine comes to mind.

Porcine, more like.

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 101d

I loath to insult pigs that way.

DokPsy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 100d (1 reply)

Ungulate feels like a better fit

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d

I would go with Blattodea

Blade9732@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 101d (1 reply)

Psalms 115:4-8

  • But their idols are silver and gold, made by human hands.
  • They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but cannot see.
  • They have ears, but cannot hear, noses, but cannot smell.
  • They have hands, but cannot feel, feet, but cannot walk, nor can they utter a sound with their throats.
  • Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 99d

Sounds like ALa description of AI.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 101d

You would think a Pastor would have a serious problem with that. Only in Trumps America.

Evangelical pastors are bullshit. They have no doctrine, no structure, no guidance, they make up whatever the fuck they want as long as it brings in money.

Evangelicals are the black-and-orange-wrapped-taffy-candy in the halloween candy dish. They wave a book and say “Jesus” and dumb people follow them.

Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 101d (1 reply)
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WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 101d

GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 100d (1 reply)

SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 100d

I thought that was a golden calf, not a jackass.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 101d (1 reply)

Several statues depicting Trump have recently appeared in front of the Capitol building. One, titled “Best Friends Forever,” portrays the billionaire president alongside the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Another, called “King of the World,” shows the pair posing like Jack and Rose at the prow of the Titanic.

I liked those better

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 101d

And no actual gold (however little) was harmed in making them.

crystalmerchant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 101d

Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images

Sualtam@lemmus.org · 7 pts · 99d (1 reply)

Europeans were correct to expell their cultists to America.

backalleycoyote@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 99d

The natives and the wildlife would disagree. Let’s not hype colonialism as a means to deal with extremism. Europe dumping it’s undesirables across the globe was a double benefit to their power structures at home and the peoples living in those “new worlds” paid a heavy price for it.

newton@feddit.online · 5 pts · 101d

His on the Epstein files ?

Akasazh@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 101d

#nottheonion

HermitBee@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 99d

You would think a Pastor would have a serious problem with that. Only in Trumps America.

Nonsense. American religion has been this fucked up for decades. Every time I hear about some horrible act of depravity, I get less surprised when I find out it was perpetrated by a pastor, not more.

GarboDog@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 100d

Ooohhh so that’s where they put the T1 Trump phones

UninvestedCuriosity@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d

Respect that the artist kept the tiny hands and unattractive silhouette at least.

CircaV@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 100d

Classy

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tacoplease@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 98d

What a shitty, weeble-wobble looking statue with the sunken chest and the slobby gut hanging over the beltline.