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Friday, February 8th, 2019

Sarah Sanders No Surprise: Religious Right Leaders Constantly Say Trump Is God’s Anointed

Author:     Peter Montgomery
Source:     Ring Wing Watch
Publication Date:     February 1, 2019 1:13 pm
 Link: Sarah Sanders No Surprise: Religious Right Leaders Constantly Say Trump Is God’s Anointed
Stephan:   How is it possible, given what the news brings us every night, that a large number of Americans --  40.1 percent of the country -- still passionately support Trump. To a rational person, the continued support for him seems... well, frankly, insane. Here, I think, is a  major part of the answer. Christofascists believe he is God's anointed agent. I mean, really, God's agent. Just think about that for a minute, and the kind of worldview you would have to have to actually believe first that God chooses agents and, then, that his choice is Donald Trump.

Credit: fivethirtyeight

Media outlets and social media were buzzing this week about White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders’ Wednesday interview on the Christian Broadcasting Network, during which she said that God wanted Donald Trump to be president.

Here’s a new flash: Since the earliest days of his presidential campaign, Trump has been hearing from Religious Right leaders, including his personal “spiritual adviser” Paula White, that he was chosen and anointed by God to be president; they routinely portray his 2016 victory as miraculous—the direct result of divine intervention.

The Christian Broadcasting Network is every bit as much a pro-Trump propaganda outlet as Fox News, with the added bonus of promoting Trump as God’s anointed. The same can be said for the Pentecostal media platform, Charisma, and other conservative Christian media networks.

And if Trump is God’s chosen instrument, Religious Right leaders repeatedly tell their followers, it follows that Trump’s opponents—including his “deep state” enemies—are opposing God and are in league with Satan’s demonic forces of darkness.

During the 2016 campaign, Religious Right leaders worried that their supporters might have qualms about voting for a guy with such glaring […]

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