Trump Announces Change in Religious Affiliation

[Harel13]

@Evangelicalhumanist and whoever else, in particular the people who think he's the holiest man in the Democratic Party:

Family: Joe Biden does not care about his family. Or maybe he only cares about the part of his family that makes him look good, and discards the rest.

a. Joe has repeatedly stated that he only has five grandchildren. Who is he ignoring? Hunter's two kids.

Here's one time he remembered he has six:

But where's the seventh?

Judging Race And Sex | Ep. 635 00:01:08s Part - YouTube Cutter

b. Rather than helping Hunter out with his drug addiction, he's sent him out on his corrupt money-making schemes for years.

More evidence is surfacing every day, but here's a bit of it:

US Election 2020: Hunter Biden emails emerge hours before debate | Daily Mail Online

‘As Real As Real Can Be’: Jim Jordan Says Hunter Biden Emails ‘Independently Confirmed’ | The Daily Wire

Hunter Biden Business Partner, A Pro-Democrat Navy Veteran: Hunter Asked Dad To ‘Sign-Off’ On Deals | The Daily Wire

BREAKING: DOJ, FBI Confirm Hunter Biden Laptop Is NOT Part Of ‘Russian Disinformation Campaign,’ Reports Say | The Daily Wire

Telling the truth: Biden repeatedly does not do this.
Some examples can be found here:
Biden's Decency Is Being Greatly Exaggerated

Let's not forget that he quit his 1988 presidential campaign because he plagiarized other politicians' material:

And in connection to the Hunter Biden scandal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4JGQD9S6qE

And his claim that he doesn't oppose fracking:

Honesty: Biden is a hypocrite.

He continuously calls Trump a racist. Biden, however, once said that if a black person doesn't vote for him, they "ain't black":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_HqU_DNn6U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwic5_V2JHk

There's also his questionable position from the 70's on desegregation busing:
Joe Biden’s record on school desegregation busing, explained

Sexual integrity: Biden has committed several acts of sexual misconduct.

Some examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTp0H2Uqzek&feature=emb_logo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...a2ed2c-5622-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html

Biden Touches Girl At Rally Despite Pledge To Respect Women's Space, Gets Slammed Online | The Daily Wire

Joe Biden Cracks Another Joke About Inappropriate Touching | The Daily Wire

Dear Lord Would Joe Biden Be a Terrible Candidate for These Times

Edit:

The sanctity of human life: Joe Biden is pro-abortion, something not in line with Catholic theology.

What Is Joe Biden's Stance on Abortion? - Biden Reproductive Rights Policy

Respecting clergy: Joe Biden does not do this. He has attempted to force a contraceptive mandate against nuns, of all people.

Biden says nuns inspire him to run, plans to sue Little Sisters of the Poor

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-stance-on-little-sisters-shows-shrinking-democratic-support-for-religious-liberty

https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/10/biden-touts-catholic-faith-a-month-after-vowing-to-crack-down-on-nuns/


I rest my case.

 

[pearl]

Do you consider that faith, in the sense of surrendering to God's will? Or maybe more along the lines of God for self-profit? I lean to the latter in my thoughts about this. I wouldn't call that a devotional faith at all. Faith as a scheme for success, more like it. God profits me, emphasis on me.

Neither would I, but at sometime the family left the Presbyterian church and joined the church of Norman Vincent Peale.

 

[Windwalker]

Neither would I, but at sometime the family left the Presbyterian church and joined the church of Norman Vincent Peale.

I'm really glad you brought up Peale's name. I did a little more research on him yesterday, and I can see this person's "influence" upon even my own father, with me running into some of these distorted ideas of "positive thinking" that infected my own father's otherwise good insights about the power of the mind. It actually begins to answer some of those challenges for me as a teen facing negative situations in my life, being met by this idea of driving negative thoughts away.

While there is a certain truth to not dwelling on negativity, there is a difference between learning how to master your thoughts and being able to integrate positive and negatives, it's another thing to deny them altogether. Even in my early youth, that didn't feel right. It's confusing enough as a kid growing up, without denialism to real problems trying to sweep them away under the rug, and 'just be positive'. That actually, along with everything else growing up, sent me into a bit of a escapist path in my mid teens.

With anything like these capitalist exploitations of spiritual truths, where a kernel truth is present, yet distorted into something else, hearing the words which sound right, leads to confusion when put into a distorted context. Dad did understand a lot of these real truths, yet Peale's doctrines got picked up and distorted them into what I saw, and still do, as unhealthy responses to them. It's the right words, but the wrong container. Like hearing fundamentalism speaking of God's "Grace" as not sending you to hell when you deserve it. I'm sorry, no. That's not Grace.

Anyway, thanks for the gift of this little insight that helps me to unpack a bit of my own childhood here.