You Guys Are Getting Paid? Megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress claims that only those who’ve “sold their soul to the devil” will vote for Joe Biden.

Christian Post reports:

Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas, staunch support of President Donald Trump, said on Friday that only evangelicals who have “sold their soul to the devil” will vote for presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden in November.

Speaking to Lou Dobbs on Fox Business, the 64-year-old megachurch pastor and frequent Fox News contributor was asked what he thought of the Biden campaign’s attempt to appeal to voters of faith in the final days of the election. 

Speaking with Fox News host Lou Dobbs, Jeffress declared:

There’s not a snowball’s chance … of Joe Biden gaining any significant evangelical vote at all.

The only evangelicals who are going to vote for Joe Biden are those who have sold their soul to the devil and accepted the Democrats’ barbaric position on abortion. I mean, it’s so barbaric, Joe Biden believes in unrestricted abortion. He can’t even get his own church, the Catholic Church, to stomach it. They have denied him communion because of that.

Watch the interview below –

During the interview Jeffress also tried to explain Trump’s low poll numbers by suggesting Trump voters are being dishonest with pollsters because they don’t want to be identified as racist:

We know there is a whole group of evangelicals that didn’t tell pollsters they were going to vote for [Trump] in 2016. They didn’t want to be badgered or bullied. That’s even more so this time.

People are being told that if [they] support President Trump, [they] are a racist. Nobody wants to be called that. So, they are not going to admit they are voting for President Trump on Nov. 3.

For the record, if you vote for Trump, you are a racist.

Jeffress, an obviously ignorant and small-minded man, is no stranger to controversy. Previously this “good Christian” warned Jews that they and their children would be cursed by God if they voted for Democrats.

Bottom line: Megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress claims that those “who are going to vote for Joe Biden are those who have sold their soul to the devil.”

Willful ignorance: Robert Jeffress, Texas megachurch pastor and one of Trump’s closest spiritual advisors, claims “there is no such thing as a separation of church and state in the Constitution.”

Appearing in front of the National Quartet Convention, a gospel music gathering in Tennessee held earlier this week, Pastor Jeffress responded to a question concerning the separation of church and state. Jeffress said in part:

There is no such thing as a separation of church and state in the Constitution…

We have allowed the secularists, the atheists, the humanists to hijack our Constitution and pervert it into something our forefathers never intended.

Jeffress continued his ignorant rant by defending President Trump, and declaring “Thank God we have a president like Donald J. Trump who understands that (there is no such thing as a separation of church and state in the Constitution)”:

And I’m gonna say this. I’m gonna say this, and it may cost me some book sales, but I’m gonna say it anyway. Thank God we have a president like Donald J. Trump who understands that. I don’t like seeing my friend under attack like he is under right now, but I don’t like the prospect of what’s going to happen in America if we allow the left to seize control of this country again.

And I believe one of the great ironies of history is gonna be this: When the historians look back, they are gonna say with great surprise, that it was a secular, billionaire real estate tycoon from New York City who became the most pro-life, pro-religious liberty, and pro-Israel president in history.

In a superficial, and shallow sense, Jeffress is correct – the words “separation of church and state” are not found in the U.S. Constitution. However, Jeffress is being disingenuous and dishonest when he says “there is no such thing as a separation of church and state in the Constitution.”

In fact, there is no question that the sentiment and meaning behind the phrase “separation of church and state” is contained within the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…

The actual phrase “separation of church and state” is derived from a letter written by President Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to Baptists from Danbury, Connecticut, and published in a Massachusetts newspaper soon thereafter. The following is an excerpt from Jefferson’s famous Letter to the Danbury Baptist Association:

I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.

In the letter, Jefferson makes clear that the separation of church and state is contained within the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Yet despite the irrefutable historical and constitutional evidence, Christian extremists like Jeffress continue to deny the separation of church and state.

Jeffress, an obviously ignorant and small-minded man, is no stranger to controversy. Last month this “good Christian” warned Jews that they and their children would be cursed by God if they voted for Democrats.

And earlier this month Jeffress made the ridiculous claim that climate change is an “imaginary crisis” because God’s rainbow means “that the polar ice caps aren’t going to melt and flood the world again.”

The stupid, it burns.

Bottom line: Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress claims “there is no such thing as a separation of church and state in the Constitution.”

Anti-Semitism for Jesus and the GOP: Robert Jeffress, Texas megachurch pastor and one of Trump’s closest spiritual advisors, warns Jews that they and their children will be cursed by God if they vote for Democrats.

Jeffress made his over-the-top anti-Semitic remarks while making an appearance on Todd Starnes’ Fox News radio show. The two conservative Christians were trying to justify Trump’s recent claims that Jews who vote for Democrats are disloyal, and criticizing Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders for declaring:

I am a proud Jewish person, and I have no concerns about voting Democratic. And in fact, I intend to vote for a Jewish man to become the next president of the United States.

Jeffress told Starnes:

And the question he (Trump) is raising about how can American Jews support Democrats who support people like [Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib], despicable representatives of our country who are antisemitic to the core, how can Jewish Americans support that? 

Jeffress continued:

It makes no sense for those Jewish Americans not to support a president and a party that stands for Israel like Donald J. Trump does…

Jeffress added:

… I mean it’s obvious Bernie Sanders is completely illiterate when it comes to what the Old Testament teaches about Israel. 

Jeffress concluded:

You know, God said to Abraham in Genesis 12, “I will bless those who bless you and your descendants and I will curse those who curse you and your descendants.”

Robert Jeffress says that Bernie Sanders is “completely illiterate when it comes to what the Old Testament teaches about Israel,” as are all Jews who vote for Democrats. pic.twitter.com/KeTtpHRTX9

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 21, 2019

In other words, Pastor Jeffress is claiming that God will curse Jews and their descendants if they vote for Democrats.

Previously, Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, and Trump’s “spiritual mentor,” claimed:

God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jon-Un.

More recently, Jeffress claimed that teaching children evolution causes mass shootings. 

Bottom line: Robert Jeffress, Texas megachurch pastor and one of Trump’s closest spiritual advisors, claims that God will curse Jews and their descendants if they vote for Democrats. 

Tax The Churches: A new report from American Atheists, a religious equality organization, finds that the Trump administration spent $6 to $10 billion taxpayer dollars on church bailouts this year.

In addition to the $6 to $10 billion taxpayer dollars spent on church bailouts, American Atheists “estimated that another $4 to $8 billion of taxpayer money has gone to private schools, most of which are religious.”

To put that in some perspective, the total annual budget for the Center For Disease Control is only  $6.5 billion, which means the Trump administration spent nearly twice as much money bailing out churches than fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

American Atheists report:

Today, the religious equality watchdog organization American Atheists announced that the Trump Administration has spent at least $6 to $10 billion unconstitutionally bailing out houses of worship under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) run by the Small Business Administration (SBA).

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In addition, American Atheists estimated that another $4 to $8 billion of taxpayer money has gone to private schools, most of which are religious.

Commenting on the numbers, Nick Fish, president of American Atheists, said:

 In two months, the Trump Administration has given churches and religious schools more money than double the CDC’s annual budget of $6.5 billion. If that doesn’t make it crystal clear what this administration’s priorities are, nothing will.

As for specifics, it is no surprise that Trump allies are receiving special favors. For example, Reuters reports that the First Baptist Church of Dallas, whose pastor, Robert Jeffress, has been on Trump’s evangelical advisory board, “was approved for a forgivable loan worth $2 million to $5 million, according to long-awaited government data released on Monday.”

In addition, HuffPost reports:

The list of religious organizations approved for about 88,400 small business loans also included Joyce Meyer Ministries Inc, a Missouri church which in 2007-2011 was investigated by the Senate over its finances. That church was approved for $5 million to $10 million – the largest sum an individual entity could apply for.

Make no mistake, these church bailouts are a clear violation of the separation of church and state. Instead of helping America’s small businesses, the federal government is now supporting churches with taxpayer money, something the Constitution explicitly prohibits.

Indeed, it is outrageous to think that the current administration would sink so low as to violate the separation of church and state and trash the U.S. Constitution, but here we are.

Bottom line: In a clear violation of the separation of church and state, the Trump administration spent $6 to $10 billion taxpayer dollars on church bailouts this year, using taxpayer money meant to help American small businesses to bail out churches and pay pastor salaries.