"Iowa's conservatives pretend their faith says whatever they feel like when voting, and some say it leads them to Cheetos."

Its because they're Christian Nationalists.

They don't think of it as our country, they think of it as their country that was stolen by secularism and "wokeness." Their version of religion means they must rule at the top of the theocratic hierarchy and force the rest of us to live under a system where women are subservient, sexual minorities are persecuted, and the church writes the law.

WWJD?

According to these people He'd lie, cheat, steal and rape his way to power - then He'd con a few people into beating and murdering others while committing insurrection against a democratically-elected gov't.

As a former Christian, I still can't believe how many of these people never even read that book they're so fond of. Not a god damn clue in their heads if they think Trump is anything "Christ like". He does in many ways resemble an anti-christ though, so I could see the Armageddon accelerationists being supporters for their own twisted reasons

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ― Susan B. Anthony

Get fucked religious people, I’m sick of your delusional life. Go somewhere else and fuck it all up, you aren’t wanted here.

What a backwards shithole this place sounds like.

Ron Betts, a 72-year-old Republican who said he plans to caucus for “Trump all the way,” said he felt the former president “exemplified what Jesus would do.”

And lo, did our Lord grabbeth Mary Magdalene by the pussy...

Are American Christians not able to tell the difference between their internal monlogue and divine guidance, or what?

If your religion leads you to trump, you need a new religion or no religion at all

This shit is so aggravating, it's like how tf do you interpret the Bible so badly that you wind up following the guy that checks every box for being the antichrist?

It's the same thing with all my fellow veterans who follow Trump, they all claim he's the best leader, yet I and similarly minded veterans have to wonder wtf leadership classes these idiots got that they would think Trump qualifies for any kind of leadership position, because he absolutely does not.

he felt the former president “exemplified what Jesus would do.”

I feel like Ron Betts has never actually read any of the Jesus parts of the Bible.

If you think your faith leads you to Trump, then you've betrayed basically every tenant of your faith to get to that conclusion.

but then again, these people never read their bibles, so they have no idea what their faith actually is besides what the hateful, manipulative and money grubbing preachers spout at them to believe.

Ron Betts, a 72-year-old Republican who said he plans to caucus for “Trump all the way,” said he felt the former president “exemplified what Jesus would do.”

Nietzche's The Antichrist apparently didn't go hard enough:

One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

Honey, it ain’t you faith leading you there. It’s your racism. It always boils down to that one way or another in America.

What kind of shitty ass god would choose Donald J Trump as their prophet?

To "follow their faith" they'd have to know what the hell it was. Hypocrites blow in the wind and would call Jesus a "Sociologist/Marxist libcuck" if they saw him in real life. Fucking evil circus.

Neither Donald Trump nor actual conservative politics have any core foundation in the Christian faith.

While it’s cathartic to ridicule fundamentalist Christian’s knowledge of their own faith as the only possible source of such dissonance, I imagine their view of the Great Cheetoh is also very far from reality. It’s not just the Bible they quote as something they don’t know, but the last 8 years of history? Any actual news in that time? Trumps background as a reality show host, but before that decades of questionable real estate fraud?

So how is it possible that they either don’t know or don’t care who Trump has proven himself to be, over and over? How could they have missed so much reality, or willfully ignored the last bright years?

What a coincidence! So do brain damage and/or lead poisoning.

Religion is just a cultural affectation. None of these people actually believe in anything outside themselves.

When "take the wheel Jesus" affects a whole country and not just one self

"I listen to the voice in my head, and it tells me to vote for the one that promises to fulfil my basest desires."

If your conscience and your religion lead you to an idiotic, misogynic and xenophobic fraud with obvious delusions, you don't actually have the former and the latter is irrepairably broken.

Plus, Trump is a cherub! Micro penis is a total giveaway. He just needs to drop trousers, get the wings and the bow.

Why are yanks having such a hard time wrapping their heads around the separation of state and church?

hateful, racist assholes. the whole lot.

These people are fucking hopeless. And almost a third of the US voting population is operating on similar logic. We are so fucked.