RIDICULOUS: Evangelical Pastor: Trump Is Perfect Because He’s ‘A Disruptor’ Like Churchill (VIDEO)

As I have been writing about the upcoming election over the past few months, I’ve become intrigued by the people who support the Republican presidential candidate.

I find it incomprehensible for any thinking person to believe that this man would make a decent national leader. In an effort to understand, I’ve been spending time on some very conservative web sites.

Holy eye opener.

After writing about the crazy eyed Michele Bachmann the other day, I was lead to the site American Pastors Network. One of the the articles there struck me as just about the thinnest argument a man could make for supporting Donald Trump.

The article is called Measuring the Man.” In it the author tries to find a coherent argument for his Trump support by comparing the candidate to Winston Churchill.

For real.

He said that he’d been wondering if Trump would be good for America. After all, he added:

“I knew that he was not a ‘saint,’ but I thought that he would be like a bull in a china shop. He is a disrupter and I believe America could use a fresh thinker especially in the political arena.”

Being a “disrupter” was seen by this evangelical pastor as a good thing. That’s an interesting start.

Next he went on to say that he admired Winston Churchill, the man who lead Britain through WWII. He wrote that the famous statesmen had a reputation as a misogynist and a boor. Churchill was famous for his surly temper and his rude comments. The pastor quote a couple of those comments. I won’t put them in here, but there were no references to grabbing body parts.

He pointed out that even though Winston Churchill was a jerk, he was the right man at the time to lead Great Britain. He said:

“There are many websites that discuss the outlandish comments and activities of this great world leader. But, he had exactly what was needed to stop Hitler at the Channel, to rouse a nation to never give up and to partner with America to find final victory in Europe. You probably wouldn’t want him as your pastor, maybe not even your father, but he was the right leader for that moment in England’s history. Such a brazen man that would go up to the roof of his quarters in central London and smoke cigars as Hitler’s air force bombed all around him. I’m not sure I would have voted for him…. but he was the right man!

The pastor then turned the discussion to God’s use of imperfect people to do his good works. He referenced Cyrus, from the Bible. He said that the Persian King Cyrus wasn’t the kind of guy who was usually described as a Godly type, but God used him to save the Jews anyway.

So Donald Trump might be a racist, angry, dishonest sexual predator, but God could still choose him as the one to lead the country in the right direction. God doesn’t ask us to like our leaders, says the pastor, he just asks us to trust his judgement.

Funny, he doesn’t tell us how we are supposed to know that God prefers to Trump to Hillary. I guess he just assumes that most of his readers hear voices in their heads.

So there you have it.

Donald Trump, according to this one Christian Right website, is good for America because he has disrupted our political system. He is a lecherous, hateful liar, but God is going to vote for him anyway.

After all, God picked Winston Churchill, didn’t he?

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Karen is a retired elementary school teacher with many years of progressive activism behind her. She is the proud mother of three young adults who were all arrested with Occupy Wall Street. To see what she writes about in her spare time, check out her blog at "Empty Nest, Full Life"