{"id":2219,"date":"2024-04-05T15:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/snl-wrecks-christian-grifter-trump-for-easter\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T15:04:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:04:41","slug":"snl-wrecks-christian-grifter-trump-for-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/05\/snl-wrecks-christian-grifter-trump-for-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL Wrecks Christian Grifter Trump For Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The parody was amusing but the actual grift was not like we shared earlier. \u00a0Having such a controversial figure as our former President “pitch” the Bible is definitely not congruent with our Evangelical values. \u00a0While we respect our Founding Documents and believe they are amazing documents this does not help people distinguish that they are NOT inspired like the Bible is.<\/p>\n

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SNL took apart Trump\u2019s Bible-selling grift and pander to Christianity just in time for Easter.<\/p>\n

\"SNLTrump said: It\u2019s Easter, the time of year when I compare myself to Jesus That\u2019s just a thing I do now, and people seem to be okay with it. I\u2019m going to keep doing it. If you think this is a bad look, imagine how weird it would be if I started selling Bibles. Well, I\u2019m selling Bibles. Look at this beautiful Bible made from 100% Bible. It sounds like a joke, and in many ways it is, but it\u2019s also very. As you know, I love the Bible. It\u2019s my favorite book. I\u2019ve definitely read it. My favorite part is probably the ending, how it all wraps up. But this is a very special Bible. And it can be yours for the high, high price of $60. But I\u2019m not doing this for the money. I\u2019m doing this for the glory of god and for pandering and mostly for money. But it\u2019s so sad. Religion and Christianity are totally gone from this country, and we need them back. To get more stories like this, subscribe to our newsletter The Daily. Without religion, you don\u2019t have laws, you don\u2019t have mission trips. I\u2019m told mission trips are a lot of fun. You go to Mexico, build a house, maybe make out with someone on the last night. Then it\u2019s back to Clearwater, Florida like it never happened. But you\u2019re going to love my new and even better Bible. It comes with everything you like from Bible, like the story of Easter, which primarily concerns Jesus, not so much the bunny. The bunny never showed up. That\u2019s okay. Now, my bible also includes some beautiful illustrations like Moses floating down the river in the basket, and uh-oh, look out, here\u2019s T rump in the basket. Right behind Moses about to pass on the left. And here I am in the Garden of Eden with my actual body. You know, I think I would be very good at saying no to the snake from the standpoint of not liking fruit. And here\u2019s Noah\u2019s Ark, all the animals are on the ark of There\u2019s me yelling at Noah, hey, buddy, you forgot the raccoon. \u2026 Anyway, it\u2019s Easter eve, so let us bow our heads \u2014 I\u2019m not going to \u2014 and say the lord\u2019s prayer, which we all know very well, me especially. Our father who are in heaven, hallowed beep beep, bing bing, bing bing bong, bing bong, bing bing bing, trespass, daily bread, and please lead us into temptation, and pay our automobiles. In the name of father, the son, and the Easter bunny, amen.<\/p>\n

Video: It is all a con.<\/p>\n

Everybody knows it is a con. Even the evangelical Christians who support Trump know that they are playing along with a con. The reality is that they don\u2019t care. Their \u201creligious values\u201d mean nothing to them. They want a president who will ban abortion and treat them like another constituency to be appeased. Trump is a joke, but the Republicans keep nominating him because he won that one time, and they so badly want to believe that they can win again and get the extremist policies that hey desire. The best thing that Donald Trump has done for the country has been to expose the fraud of evangelical right with his behavior.<\/p>\n

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The parody was amusing but the actual grift was not like we shared earlier. \u00a0Having such a controversial figure as our former President “pitch” the Bible is definitely not congruent with our Evangelical values. \u00a0While we respect our Founding Documents and believe they are amazing documents this does not help people distinguish that they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kHU7-zN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thelight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/SNL-Wrecks-Christian-Grifter-Trump-For-Easter.jpg?fit=750%2C468","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thelight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}