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mnmoderatedem

(3,863 posts)
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 07:27 AM Apr 26

Obama did not attend church on Easter Sunday!


OMG! What a godless individual! Such a stain on our nation's reputation. What shame he has wrought! How on earth did this morally decrepit individual get elected president?

Oh wait, my bad. Obama always does, and did, attend church on a regular basis, including Easter Sunday. It is trump who does not and did not.

So, never mind...
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Obama did not attend church on Easter Sunday! (Original Post) mnmoderatedem Apr 26 OP
Trump showed up in his bright blue suit for the Popes funeral Historic NY Apr 26 #1
Was he wearing his red MAGA hat? bif Apr 26 #6
He wanted a miter. Historic NY Apr 26 #10
After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt, everyone knows Trump has been anointed to be God's Chosen One. sop Apr 26 #2
Obama and his family regularly attended church, TFG's family never did Rhiannon12866 Apr 26 #3
Lots of good people don't go to church. Stop making it seem so. twodogsbarking Apr 26 #4
I believe the original poster was transferring the ridiculous reality of the far-right so-called Christians. chouchou Apr 26 #15
Could be. Could be not. twodogsbarking Apr 26 #16
I will never hold anything against somone not going to church Woodwizard Apr 26 #5
I hear ya! bif Apr 26 #7
And yet the bible bouncers vote for Trump and support him. Such hypocrisy on so many levels. dutch777 Apr 26 #8
He represents their values. Mariana Apr 26 #17
Yahweh/God is a cruel, murderous, psychotic asshole Sky Jewels Apr 26 #18
No, just those who claim to represent him. Xolodno Sunday #25
His grand parents were both members of a UU church. multigraincracker Apr 26 #9
I haven't attended a church service of any kind in over 30 years. paleotn Apr 26 #11
Church is not a measure of morality. Gore1FL Apr 26 #12
I don't care whether anyone attends church or other religious things JI7 Apr 26 #13
Obama and Biden Maine Abu El Banat Apr 26 #14
Biden is Catholic ... Sky Jewels Apr 26 #19
there's nothing wrong with not attending church Skittles Sunday #20
Further... Morbius Sunday #21
THANK YOU Skittles Sunday #23
The old saying is as true as ever: DFW Sunday #22
you got that right Skittles Sunday #24
seems many here misconstrued my original post mnmoderatedem Monday #26

sop

(13,952 posts)
2. After narrowly surviving an assassination attempt, everyone knows Trump has been anointed to be God's Chosen One.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 07:53 AM
Apr 26

The Anointed One doesn't have to go to church, christian worshippers have to prostrate themselves before Trump.

chouchou

(1,819 posts)
15. I believe the original poster was transferring the ridiculous reality of the far-right so-called Christians.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 10:04 AM
Apr 26

Just sarcasm.

Woodwizard

(1,169 posts)
5. I will never hold anything against somone not going to church
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 08:10 AM
Apr 26

Grew up Catholic never accepted it, plenty of other things to be critical about the orange blob.

The Catholic guilt has certainly damaged some of my relatives.

Rejecting religion is freeing.

bif

(25,293 posts)
7. I hear ya!
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 08:17 AM
Apr 26

I'm a recovering Catholic myself. 8 years of Catholic grade school does a lot of damage.

 

Sky Jewels

(9,148 posts)
18. Yahweh/God is a cruel, murderous, psychotic asshole
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 11:51 AM
Apr 26

in their silly mythologies, so of course Trump models himself after "Him" (and of course the part was written as male ).

Xolodno

(6,973 posts)
25. No, just those who claim to represent him.
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 06:31 PM
Sunday

Speaking of which, if you donate to me a grand I'll make sure....

multigraincracker

(35,556 posts)
9. His grand parents were both members of a UU church.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 08:29 AM
Apr 26

Secular Humanists. They were the ones that raised him.

paleotn

(20,310 posts)
11. I haven't attended a church service of any kind in over 30 years.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 08:44 AM
Apr 26

Nor do a large number of wonderful folks left of center. But some of the nastiest pieces of shit ever to walk the planet attend every single Sunday, so I'm not sure exactly where you're going with this.

Gore1FL

(22,441 posts)
12. Church is not a measure of morality.
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 09:04 AM
Apr 26

If anything, not going is a moral and social win that ultimate advances civilization beyond d fairy tales.

JI7

(91,823 posts)
13. I don't care whether anyone attends church or other religious things
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 09:21 AM
Apr 26

Obama berber claimed it made him better than those who didn't. It's a personal and family thing mostly. There are good and shitty people that do and don't attend religious services.

The fact that those that made region and church a sign of morality supported Trump in huge numbers shows how it's all bs.

 

Sky Jewels

(9,148 posts)
19. Biden is Catholic ...
Sat Apr 26, 2025, 11:56 AM
Apr 26

The RCC is one of the most evil, women-despising and erasing, gay bashing, child-rape enabling, hypocritical institutions and grifting rings to ever blight this planet. And it's still negatively affecting us all, believers and non-believers alike. Look at all the SCOTUS Opus Dei freaks who stripped women of bodily autonomy in this country. And that church far from the only malevolent organization that falls under the umbrella of Christianity. The vast majority of these sects are massively harmful in millions of ways beyond misogyny, including elevating "faith" (belief without evidence) over science and reason.

Morbius

(446 posts)
21. Further...
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 04:44 AM
Sunday

I do not accept the notion that those who attend church are any better than those who do not.

I do not accept that any of us are necessarily better than anyone else, period.

We are all flawed. We are all miracles. We are all temporary.

Skittles

(163,850 posts)
23. THANK YOU
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 04:37 PM
Sunday

why can't people just do the right thing without expecting some kind of reward in the end? IMAGINE THAT!

DFW

(57,868 posts)
22. The old saying is as true as ever:
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 04:49 AM
Sunday

"Entering a church no more makes you a Christian than entering a garage makes you a car."

mnmoderatedem

(3,863 posts)
26. seems many here misconstrued my original post
Mon Apr 28, 2025, 07:16 PM
Monday

I was pointing out how much it obviously would be different had it been Obama not attended church services on Easter Sunday.

The right would have screamed bloody murder. But instead it was trump, so, crickets.

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