Sen. Raphael Warnock slams Trump for selling Bibles

Warnock, the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, said Trump’s decision to sell $60 Bibles is “risky business for somebody like” the former president.

Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., on Sunday excoriated former President Donald Trump over the $60 Bibles he is selling in partnership with country music star Lee Greenwood.

Warnock, who serves as senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, condemned Trump for selling the Christian holy text at a high price during an interview on CNN.

“The Bible does not need Donald Trump’s endorsement, and Jesus, in the very last week of his life, chased the money changers out of the temple, those who would take sacred things and use them as cheap relics to be sold in the marketplace,” he said. “The sad thing is that none of us are surprised by this — this is what we expect from the former president.”

Warnock pointed to Trump’s failed business ventures including steaks and the defunct Trump University, both of which have faced legal repercussions.

“If he’s not selling us steaks, he’s selling us a school whose degree is not worth the paper that is written on it. If he’s not selling us a school, he’s selling us sneakers, and now he’s trying to sell the scriptures,” he said.

BigMacHole,

There’s a copy of the Constitution in this Bible? Quick! Someone shoot up a Kindergarten classroom so I can PRETEND to care about the Constitution again!

Viking_Hippie,

So… Warnock is absolutely right but… Nobody else finds it fucked up that’s he’s apparently still a senior pastor even though he’s also a senator?

Pretty sure it’s difficult to separate Church and State when you’re a leader of both🤦

FenrirIII,
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Do you think it’s fucked up that many politicians are connected to businesses that profit from the government? Or that they go to churches and engage in political speech? Or all the Republicans constantly pointing to God and the Bible to justify their votes and laws?

Viking_Hippie,

Yes. All of that is fucked up.

Schadrach,

Meh, he’s got to come up with some way to milk sycophants for money to pay all those lawyers fees and civil damages. At least it’s not transparently just money being supplied by foreign agents to buy a presidential candidate.

And besides, what could be more American Christofascist than a Bible with included Constitution, Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights?

GunValkyrie,

We did it guys! He’s been slammed!

modifier,

FINISH HIM

lewdian69,

Come on and slam

anon6789,
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As someone who is not religious, the part that drives me nuts is this is supposed to have a copy of the Constitution in it as well.

The fact we have a sexual predator president hawking Bibles after helping stir up war in the holy land, and then inserting the Constitution inside it that says we need to maintain a sepration of Church and State blows my mind. And that same president is still getting away with using the office to make money, potentially to pay off legal bills for aiding in an attempted coup. Add on top a third of the population is very in favor of this and wants to give him more unbridled power.

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