That prayer breakfast

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08 Feb 20

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08 Feb 20

The 2020 National Prayer Breakfast 6 Feb 2020

Any reaction to it from anyone here?

I'd be particularly interested to hear what Christians made of it.

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08 Feb 20

@fmf said
The 2020 National Prayer Breakfast 6 Feb 2020

Any reaction to it from anyone here?

I'd be particularly interested to hear what Christians made of it.

I haven’t watched it but had a quick look as I didn’t know what it was. It looks toe-curlingly embarrassing as a concept even before they start! Sadducees and Pharisees spring to mind.

Trump is such an awful personality, ugh.

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09 Feb 20

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I wrote an OP in the Debates forum about this, talking about Esquire Magazine's take on it.

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Note that I am a Christian, yet this echoes my position. Various Christian groups came out against the article, as one might expect.

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09 Feb 20

If you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to ... and it will be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your vote.

-Arnold Vinick, in The West Wing

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09 Feb 20

@bigdoggproblem said
If you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to ... and it will be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your vote.

-Arnold Vinick, in The West Wing

I suppose I was thinking more about the reaction of the evangelical Christians who were in the room rather than Trump's "known entity" behaviour.