Not that Donald Trump is trying to pander to the religious right or anything. So, OK, Ben Carson says he’s an “instrument of God.” Big deal.
I’m sure Donald Trump really believes that he’s done the right thing in finding himself an advisor on religion.
RawStory reports that the Trump campaign has brought on televangelist Frank Amedia of “Touch Heaven Ministries” as their “Christian policy liaison.”
Good for them! You can’t win the White House unless you prove that you’re more Christian than the other side, right? So Trump found himself somebody so uber-fundamentalist Christian that he can actually speak in tongues!
Watch this. But be careful. You won’t want to watch the whole thing, trust me. Just find the part where Trump’s religion guy starts yelling “shasta hoosa!” and knocking people over with his Jesus vibes. It’s at 2:14:41.
Religion can work wonders in the world of Pastor Amedia. Not only can it cure people with pretend magic words, it can also stop the forces of nature. I am not kidding.
Pastor Amedia once claimed that he stopped a tsunami from hitting one specific island in Hawaii, because his daughter was there. He didn’t stop it completely, because it smashed up another island, He says he used prayer to steer the disaster away from his own kid. He’s very proud of that. Speaking on the TV show of his buddy, the televangelist Guillermo Maldonado, the “apostle” said:
“I stood at the edge of my bed and I said, ‘In the name of Jesus, I declare that tsunami to stop now.’ And I specifically said, ‘I declare those waters to recede,’ and I said, ‘Father, that is my child, I am your child, I’m coming to you now and asking you to preserve her.’ Apostle, it was seen by 400 people on a cliff. It was on YouTube, it was actually on the news that that tsunami stopped 200 feet off of shore. Even after having sucked the waters in, it churned and it went on and did devastation in the next island.”
I looked for the video footage of the miracle, but couldn’t find anything.
There are a few other important points to be made about Mr. Trump’s advisor on the Christian religion. He has claimed that AIDS is caused by “unnatural sex.” He warned the people of Haiti that all of their troubles are related to “the curse of voodoo.”
So this is the man that the GOP Presidential candidate has chosen to guide him on religion. He seems a little bit insane to me.
Then again, he does understand a lot about politics. According to RawStory, Amedia was talking about Trump at a church service this week. He said:
“In this instance, it’s not because Donald Trump has heralded his faith or the name of God, but the Lord has put His favor upon him, and how amazing it is that the favor of God can overcome so many mistakes, so many bumbles, so many things that otherwise we would think would destroy somebody in business, destroy them in politics, destroy them in relationships. But yet it’s very evident it was the will of the Lord to do this and here we sit now.”
At last. An explanation for how a racist liar can insult his way to the top of the Republican Party. It’s the will of the Lord.
Watch the “apostle” talking about his tsunami magic (but of course, only for his own child.)
Featured image via YouTube screengrab.
