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Mark Cuban Wades Into Religion And Politics With Trump Bible ‘Blasphemy’

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Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban shared a video of an excited preacher excoriating Donald Trump‘s Bible/Constitution mashup, calling it a “trick” and “blasphemy.” Cuban amplified Rachael Bitecofer’s post featuring the preacher, simply asking his nearly nine million followers, “What does everyone think of this sermon?”

(Bitecofer captioned the share, writing: “This evangelical is over Trump. Calls his Bible disgusting.”)

Pastor Loran Livingston of Central Church Charlotte, NC says separating politics from “spiritual matters”: “Politics is of this world. You think it’s your duty to be political about this and that. No! It is your duty to serve the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, body, soul and strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. Don’t talk to me about my spiritual responsibility to vote. I have no spiritual responsibility to vote.”

He continues to bash Trump’s Bible-cum-Constitution mashup, saying the man-made political documents regard “the people” as the highest power in the world — “of the people, by the people and for the people.”

The pastor opposes the idea that these (almost heretical) documents belong together with the Bible, which sees God as the only force worth considering, whereby people are only meaningful to the extent that they are created in God’s image.

Trump’s Bible mashup is “disgusting, blasphemous and a trick,” he says, saying the Gospel is not an American gospel.

A former pastor who has organized rallies for Donald Trump responds to Cuban, saying the pastor is wrong about his separation of God’s world from this world. Ex-pastor turned political official Chris Widener claims that the Bible requires people to be “stewards” – charged with caring for and influencing their communities, country, government, etc.

Cuban responded to Widener with a question about stewardship and the qualities a good steward should possess. In his question, Cuban lists a large number of so-called Christian values ​​– values ​​that, not coincidentally, Trump’s opponents say are largely missing.

Cuban writes, “How do you determine who can be a good steward? Do any of these qualities come into play: humility, self-awareness, compassion, respect for others, putting others before self, honesty, charity, accepting, caring, trustworthy, patient, wise, forgiving?

Others professed gratitude for the separation of church and state – honoring a separation between the practice of faith and the business of party politics.

The commentary below underlines that the idea long predates Trump’s courtship of evangelicals, as the writer recounts a moment at his church when it seemed to turn into a rally for George W. Bush.

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