I think the issue is… evangelicals praise Trump for being Christian and Trump himself calls himself Christian… he also said Obama wasn’t. This is just showing hypocrisy.
If Trump never said anything about his religion or others, this would be a non-issue.
Something I am still not too keen on, that “whataboutism”, but sometimes it is just too damned appropriate to not go there.
Especially with the mass hypocrisy of the Trumplicans on display, via TDS aka Trump Defense Sickness, since early August of 2015, when we reached World Upside Down status in America.
World upside down, that came when the things Right Wingers cursed and rued about President Barack Hussein Obama were suddenly fine and wonderful attributes in a president, when Donny descended the Trump Tower stairs and declared his candidacy.
I believe Jimmy Carter is in a Southern Baptist church here in GA. I’ve been involved with a few Southern Baptist churches, and they typically don’t recite the Apostles Creed on a regular basis.
Obviously not well enough to recite it without the cue card.
When I am in another’s church I don’t pledge or participate in things I don’t believe in. And I don’t want people who don’t believe what we do to pretend they are “respecting” something they don’t believe in by pledging or participating in stuff they don’t believe.
Common prayer and common rites are a statement of unity. Non-believers participating in them make a farce of that unity.
To me is says nothing either way. I do not know what he believes, so it’s not my place to say that he should (not) have read along.
I’m baffled why you would demand that he should have read it.
Reading a prayer about faith in God has nothing to do with honoring a president.
What a twisted culture we’ve become if reading a prayer is necessary to honor a president. (And what a lowly state our view of religion has become if our prayers are to be recited to honor a president.)
I don’t agree with the evangelicals who try to pass off Trump as Christian. He’s certainly not a good example of one, anyway. To me, it’s a fool’s errand.
But yes, Trump’s own assertions and his charges against Obama on that point fly in the face of just about any outward appearance of Trump’s own behavior vis-a-vis being a Christian.