All posts tagged "Faith"

The text message seems perfectly godly.

“It’s Josh Hawley. Do you have a second to pray with me?” reads the message sent today from the first-term U.S. senator and Donald Trump loyalist.

Click on the link and it goes to “My prayer for today - January 30th, 2024.”...

Donald Trump’s list of “impressive” people on his recently released Iowa Faith Leader Coalition include several men of hate.

There’s a congressional candidate who once suggested hanging former President Barack Obama and offered conciliatory words for white supremacists and white nationalists.

Another man compared LGBTQ people to pedophiles....

WASHINGTON – Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) isn’t just proud of his faith. He believes his God sent him to Washington to legislate the Bible.

“I don’t believe there are any coincidences in a matter like this. I believe that scripture, the Bible, is very clear that God raises up those in authority,” Johnson told his House colleagues when he first addressed them from the speaker’s rostrum last week.

Johnson’s a Baptist. So is Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who served as Democratic leader for eight years. But Hoyer says that’s about where the comparisons end....

In a recent op-ed published by Religion News Service, Protect Democracy policy advocate Chris Crawford argues that "most religious doctrines do not require an embrace of democracy. But in today's world, authoritarians are attempting to do the opposite — to recruit communities of faith to undermine democracy."

The co-founder of Faiths United for Free and Fair Elections explains why despite various religious beliefs, "we ought to reflect on the ways that our shared belief in the equality of human beings demands that we defend democracy."

Crawford emphasizes that "the most dangerous example" of "the ways political movements can co-opt religious faith in harmful ways" was the "Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol, where some Christians shamefully cited their faith as the inspiration."...

Former president Donald Trump on Saturday claimed his multiple indictments are "a great badge of courage," essentially welcoming authorities to charge him in other cases while speaking at a Christian event in Washington, D.C., to promote his bid for the Republican nomination for presidency in 2024.

Trump, who is currently facing federal charges in Florida in connection with his alleged hoarding of confidential records from his time in executive office, spoke at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's event, entitled "Road to Majority." Among other things, Trump took aim at atheists and communists, all while promising to "evict crooked Joe Biden."

When addressing the criminal cases against him, Trump claimed on stage that the Espionage Act has nothing to do with his case, in which he faces numerous felony charges for his purported retaining and potential sharing of documents from the presidency, and that it should instead be governed by the Presidential Records Act, a civil act. Trump noted that, in school, he "never learned" about being indicted or criminally charged....

Republican presidential hopeful and former Godfather's Pizza CEO Herman Cain once again defended his anti-Muslim remarks to a group of bloggers over the weekend.