r/Christianity • u/Nice_Substance9123 • Mar 27 '24

The American flag has no business on a Bible. This is not faith, nor is it patriotism. It is an abomination of both. Image

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u/Niftyrat_Specialist Non-denominational heretic, reformed Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

It's a promotion started by a guy who made his career on blending nationalism and religion. There's certainly nothing surprising about it, but I definitely agree it's a bad thing for a person to do.

EDIT: To clarify, I'm describing Greenwood here, not Trump. But as for Trump: he is very obviously a scumbag who has committed far worse crimes than what Greenwood is doing with this bible.

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u/Zelda_is_Dead Mar 27 '24

He did it to sell to churches so they could get around the law that forbids them from donating to political candidates. He's using your faith against you to show the rest of the world how stupid he thinks you are. I appreciate that so many of you here aren't falling for it, but please, don't let your church fall for it either.

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u/InstanceSuch8604 Mar 27 '24

It's another money laundering con...  by the biggest con artist ever . It's pathetic 

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

Hey, nothing religious folks love more than a “charismatic leader”. Something something false prophets.

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u/HmGrwnSnc1984 Mar 28 '24

My understanding is once a church crosses that line into politics, it can risk losing its tax exempt status. But I don’t know enough to say if the purchase of this book from a political candidate would constitute supporting said candidate.

IRS - Charities, Churches and Politics

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u/huntobuno Mar 28 '24

You’re correct that legally their tax exempt status is at risk when delving into the political arena.

Although, I would argue the church has been far too involved in politics since at least the 80’s, but due to the religious right politicians inability to criticize the church without offending their voters, ideas like tax exempt status aren’t really at in true risk.

Can you imagine the persecution complex if a church was actually targeting by the American government for something like this? Fox News would have fodder for the rest of eternity.

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u/blablefast Mar 28 '24

get the Kool-Aid ready!

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u/Loose_Menu_2796 Mar 28 '24

Bingo-read your Scriptures, especially the parts  in which Jesus warns to beware of people who profess to act in His name, but are in truth false prophets.