{"id":11410,"date":"2019-11-25T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T16:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11410"},"modified":"2019-11-25T11:28:25","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T16:28:25","slug":"dismal-theology-related-quote-for-the-day-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=11410","title":{"rendered":"Dismal theology-related quote for the day, I"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fox News’ Fox & Friends show on Sunday showed a preview of an interview in which soon-to-depart Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said Donald Trump was God’s “chosen one” to be president of the United States.<\/p>\n

In the interview conducted as Trump faces an impeachment inquiry, Perry implied that Trump is imperfect and that is fine.<\/p>\n

“God’s used imperfect people all through history,” Perry said, naming several Biblical figures. “King David wasn’t perfect, Saul wasn’t perfect, Solomon wasn’t perfect.”<\/p>\n

Perry added that he gave Trump “a little one-pager on those Old Testament kings” about month ago.<\/p>\n

“I shared it with him and said, ‘Mr. President, I know there are people that say you said you were the chosen one and I said, ‘You were,'” Perry remarked. “I said, ‘If you’re a believing Christian, you understand God’s plan for the people who rule and judge over us on this planet in our government.'”<\/p>\n

Rick Perry, in Newsweek<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I know that a lot of evangelicals think this way; you can hardly surf around the Internet without tripping over some idiot saying this or something comparable. I have always supposed, however, that the people actually running the country are smarter. My bad, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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