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Related: About this forumGod Gave Us the Donald, 'Firefighter Prophet' Says in Film
The more crazy things that Firefighter Prophet Mark Taylor has said God is telling him, the more popular he seems to become on the right. Now, there's a movie based on hin.
Will Sommer
10.06.18 9:39 PM ET
Retired firefighter Mark Taylor was snoozing in front of a Donald Trump appearance on Fox News one afternoon in 2011 when he started to hear a voice coming from the TV.
But the sound wasnt coming from the real estate mogul, Taylor would claim later. It was coming from God.
I have chosen this man, Donald Trump, for such a time as this, Taylor claims the voice told him. For as Benjamin Netanyahu is to Israel, so shall this man be to the United States of America!
Taylor became convinced that he had received a divine prophecy that Trump would become president. He felt sure after hearing the voice that Trump would run against Barack Obama and win the White House in 2012.
Trump didnt end up running for president in 2012, and Obama won reelection. But in 2015, after Trump launched his presidential bid, Taylor circled back to his old vision: maybe his prophecy was right all along.
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SHRED
(28,136 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Voltaire2
(14,724 posts)SouthernIrish
(531 posts)Trump was God's test for evangelicals. They failed.
Vogon_Glory
(9,572 posts)whatever remaining moral and spiritual authority white Protestant Evangelicals had in the real world.
As the younger Evangelicals reach their fifties and sixties and look around at their tiny, remaining congregations and their long-abandoned or repurposed mega-churches and wonder what the deuce happened, few of them will have the intellectual bravery or integrity to realize that their downfall came about when they decided to support Donald Trump and support him regardless of his character flaws and moral failings.
In the meantime, I expect that their Afro-American counterparts will persevere, as will at least some "Mainstream Protestant" congregations who resisted the temptation to worship Mammon and Trump.
gtar100
(4,192 posts)Jehovah busy whispering in people's ears. Only those with the racist bone can hear.
Just a tip, if you hear a voice claiming to be God, ask for credentials. Could be a demon.