Daily Intelligencer Nov. 3, 2016

Trump Decides the Bible Isn’t Quite As Good As Two of His Own Books

Donald Trump’s efforts to appear religious have often had a phoned-in, casual appearance. How much effort would it have taken to find a way to refer to the Eucharistic wafer that many Christians venerate as something more solemn than “my little cracker”? Did he really talk to anyone familiar with Holy Scripture before quoting “Two Corinthians”? When he called “an eye for an eye” his favorite Bible passage, was he aware that was a bit out of line with both Jewish and Christian ethics for the last millennia or so? And did he bother to run his statement disclaiming any need for forgiveness from God by anyone at all before appearing at a conservative Christian conference?

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