Pogo
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Fascinating.Trump was on the rolls as a member, that is how Pastor Lewicki could say that. Back in the day, when Norman Vincent Peale was the pastor there, Trump's father dragged the whole family there. Trump's dad was a big fan.Lady, you need to learn to apply logic to these fake stories.Nor did he ever actually enter the church doors. Not one time,” tweeted Lewicki,Bible Study isn't the same thing as church, you moron.
That means he didn't attend church either.
How in the heck can this guy be Trump's former pastor if he never went to his church in the first place. Answer: This guy is lying.
How the heck does this asshole know if Trump didn't attend another church. BTW, Being a Christian doesn't require fellowship, it requires faith.
And G Dammit how can you SOBs complain about Trump's faith when you support a party that does not allow God in Congress or at your damned conventions?
https://www.theroot.com/trumps-former-pastor-he-never-actually-entered-the-chu-1832233472
I am not complaining--as a matter of fact, no one should be surprised by this.
Rump himself was a big fan. I posted a story about that way upthread. Peale seems to have nurtured Rump's incessant self-delusion.
I say "seems to" because we can't tell if Rump was already down that road and Peale just fed it like a bacteria, or if Peale gave him the idea.
I just can't care much, Pogo. Of course Trump didn't attend church. I don't really care much who he admired or what formed him. I just want to sprinkle salt on him and see him slither away.
Oh it actually is fascinating, as a psychological study. Here's the article I referred to: How Norman Vincent Peale Taught Doornail Rump to Worship Himself
I like to know where things come from. The more we understand that, the more we can (a) make some sense of a situation that doesn't make any, and (b) nip it in the bud when we see it germinating. Peale's snow jobbery was largely discredited and we can see the parallels --- Wiki notes:
>> One major criticism of The Power of Positive Thinking is that the book is full of anecdotes that are hard to substantiate. Almost all of the experts and many of the testimonials that Peale quotes as supporting his philosophy are unnamed, unknown and unsourced. Examples include a "famous psychologist",[15]:52 a two-page letter from a "practicing physician",[15]:150 another "famous psychologist",[15]:169 a "prominent citizen of New York City",[15]:88 and dozens, if not hundreds, more unverifiable quotations. Similar scientific studies of questionable validity are also cited. As psychiatrist R. C. Murphy exclaimed, "All this advertising is vindicated as it were, by a strict cleaving to the side of part truth," and referred to the work and the quoted material as "implausible and woodenly pious".[16] <<
Doesn't that sound eerily familiar? "Many people are saying that". Now we know where those people came from.
Fatter o' mact judging by the rate at which USMB posters just make shit up because they'd like it to have been true, indicates a lot of 'em must have been following Peale around hypnotized.
On the other hand I love the salt idea. I've got extra and I'll pitch in.