{"id":414,"date":"2016-09-10T08:26:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T12:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/jacoblupfer\/?p=414"},"modified":"2016-09-10T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2016-09-10T15:22:01","slug":"trumps-gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jacoblupfer\/2016\/09\/trumps-gospel\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Twitter users recently compressed the Gospel according to Donald Trump into some pretty funny \u2264140-character statements.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrumpGospel?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TrumpGospel<\/a> \"There's something about 'you'll always have the poor with you' so I'm just trying to make sure it holds true, okay?\"<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ornery One (@Ornery1951) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ornery1951\/status\/774582274796974080\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Hebrews went down into Egypt. Believe me,they didnt send their best people. The Egyptians barely had a country.No wall. Sad <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrumpGospel?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TrumpGospel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshtpm\/status\/774463759607816192\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jesus just doesn't get it. People don't like waiting. Second coming is taking WAY too long. Americans want results NOW. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrumpGospel?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TrumpGospel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Heath Carter (@heathwcarter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heathwcarter\/status\/774619351542562817\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Judas was a good guy. A great guy. I met him once. He loved me. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrumpGospel?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TrumpGospel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 (((Maria))) (@mariadishappy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mariadishappy\/status\/774568083797270528\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If elected l will redo the Commandments. Ten is too many. Big government. I like commandments that don't mention adultery, ok? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrumpGospel?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TrumpGospel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Therra (@Therra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Therra\/status\/774566659453554690\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"Come to me, all you who are weary and heavily burdened, and I will send you back to wherever the hell you came from\" <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrumpGospel?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TrumpGospel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cole Brown (@colebrownpdx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colebrownpdx\/status\/774464227750711296\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jesus is very low energy. Took 3 days to rise from the dead. Sad! I could have done it in 3 hours! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrumpGospel?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TrumpGospel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Historical Trump (@HistoryDTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HistoryDTrump\/status\/774459711471181824\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have a lot of friends but I'm not about to lay my life down for them. Not smart. At least not until we abolish the death tax. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrumpGospel?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TrumpGospel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Heath Carter (@heathwcarter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heathwcarter\/status\/774616340409806848\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pilate, very strong leader. Different system from ours, but very strong. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TrumpGospel?src=hash\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TrumpGospel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshtpm\/status\/774457779541139456\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_240\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-240\" style=\"width: 517px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-240\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/700\/2016\/07\/donald-j-trump-1342298_640.png\" alt=\"Image credit: Pixabay\" width=\"517\" height=\"640\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image credit: Pixabay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are pretty funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2779,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faith2016"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump&#039;s gospel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"These are pretty funny.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jacoblupfer\/2016\/09\/trumps-gospel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump&#039;s gospel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"These are pretty funny.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jacoblupfer\/2016\/09\/trumps-gospel\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Capitol &amp; 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