United States, Donald Trump | Pastor out against Donald Trump: – Blasphemy

– Some of you mix politics into the church. You think it’s spiritual stuff. Politics is of this world. You think your duty is one and the other. No! Your duty is to serve your God!

This is how Pastor Loran Livingston opens his thunderous address to his congregation in Charlotte, North Carolina.

In a clip seen over 1.8 million times on X, he takes a stand with the politicians and takes a clear jab at ex-president Donald Trump.

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He is one of the very few pastors in the United States who now take the magazine out of his mouth, after Trump launched his own Bible.

– Don’t talk to me about my spiritual responsibility to vote. I do not have that.

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The reason for the thunder speech is a Bible ex-president Donald Trump launched in March. The Bible is sold for 60 dollars, close to 650 Norwegian kroner and includes an American flag, the Declaration of Independence and the American oath of loyalty “pledge of allegiance”, in addition to the word of God.

Because Trump is in a deep economic crisis. A $454 million giga fine he was ordered to pay earlier this year, as well as the ongoing “Hush Money” case, have hit the former president hard.

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In February, he claimed to be unable to pay the large fine imposed on him in New York.

In 2023, he spent over NOK 500 million on legal expenses, according to the New York Times.

Around the same time as the giant bot from New York became famous, he launched his bible “God Bless America” ​​and his own sneakers.

– Heretical, blasphemous and disgusting

Trump himself is a professed Christian. But there have been doubts, particularly from opponents, about the extent to which this actually applies.

CNN has discussed how several Christians in the US call Trump’s book “heretical”, “blasphemous” and criticized by several pastors in God’s own country.

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Livingston doesn’t skimp on the gunpowder for his congregation of just over 6,000 members either.

– When you don’t read (the Bible, jou.anm.) and pray, you say “wow, you can get a Bible now that includes the constitution, isn’t that wonderful?” No. No, that’s disgusting. It’s blasphemy, it’s a trick. Are you joking with me?