The 2024 intersection of faith and politics is on display, from a messianic-like video which claims, “God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker,’ so God gave us Trump,” to some comparing the former president to Jesus Christ.
“Believe that the man that can help this nation – the one man that was ridiculed, destroyed as – Jesus. Trump can come back and save the American dream for all,” Academy Award winner Jon Voight said in a video earlier this year.
When President Trump entered the scene in 2016, he was not a regular churchgoer, nor was he seen as a person of deep faith. Now, eight years later, he is incorporating religion into his re-election bid for the White House.
“We have to bring Christianity back into our lives and back into what will be again a great nation,” Trump said in one video online.
Jackson Laymeyer heads Pastors4Trump – a group supporting the former president.
“The religious themes I think are very appropriate because this is a very spiritual battle,” Laymeyer told CBN News.
Leading up to Easter, Trump began promoting the sale of the “God Bless the USA” Bible.
“This Bible is the
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