The big problem is not Trump. It is "Trumpism"

[CJD]

(04-30-2019, 08:03 PM)Dill Wrote: LOL, Your Republicans are Evangelicals, or does the Cyrus line refer to some Republicans in the national group?

Totally agree with you on the de-sensitizing part.  And defending Trump requires otherwise good people to compromise their values, not to mention standards for truthful discourse.  

The Cyrus line, as far as I can tell, means "This is a bad guy who does bad things, but he inadvertently is helping us through his bad actions." 

"Isaiah 45 celebrates Cyrus for freeing a population of Jews who were held captive in Babylon. Cyrus is the model for a nonbeliever appointed by God as a vessel for the purposes of the faithful."

It's basically a religious person's way of justifying voting for someone who is so insanely unreligious (and, in many ways, completely opposite to what religious people claim that they believe).


And yes, my Republicans use the Religion angle, for sure.