Ben Carson: President Trump is very different. He has deep feelings of Christian beliefs. He was saved by God for a purpose. The Biden administration had very different belief system.
— Ron Smith (@Ronxyz00) September 8, 2025
Wtf is wrong with these people? pic.twitter.com/JcaQWsGzaz
What may be most amazing about this is, despite tossing "God" and "religion" into some of his speeches now, Trump actually is done with the charade. CBS News reported
At his first inauguration in 2017, Mr. Trump did place his hand on the two Bibles — the family Bible and the Lincoln Bible — when he took the oath of office. Mr. Trump received the family Bible in 1955 to to mark his Sunday Church Primary School graduation at First Presbyterian Church, in Jamaica, Queens, according to Trump's inaugural committee
However, when Donald was inaugurated for his second term
Mr. Trump's right hand was raised while his left arm stayed by his side as he was sworn in.
Mr. Trump did reference God during his first remarks as the 47th president. "I was saved by God to make America great again," he said in his inaugural address, referencing the assassination attempt on his life over the summer.
With much of the country watching, and many of the remainder certain to see the ceremony on video, Donald couldn't even be bothered to pretend that he believes in Christianity and the book which tells the story of God and the Trinity. He's telling Americans what he believes- or, more accurately, doesn't believe- but Ben Carson and others won't listen.
People laughed when on January 31, 2016, Donald Trump was thwarted only at the last second before he could place cash into the communion plate.
Not so funny but condescending and more telling was his statement a few months earlier "when we go to church and I drink my little wine.... have my little cracker." In both Catholic and Protestant traditions, that "little wine" carries major significance, as does that "little cracker," though arguably more in Catholicism. And when Trump added "that's a form of asking for forgiveness," one needn't have been a doctoral candidate in theology to know that the congregant is not requesting forgiveness. The words of Jesus "do this in remembrance of me" might have been a hint.
Perhaps Donald has changed, chastened by the assassination attempt in June of last year in Butler Pennsylvania or as Carson puts it, "saved by God for a purpose." That purpose, however, was not in evidence on Easter Sunday when Trump tweeted
Happy Easter to all, including the Radical Left Lunatics who are fighting and scheming so hard to bring Murderers, Drug Lords, Dangerous Prisoners, the Mentally Insane, and well known MS-13 Gang Members and Wife Beaters, back into our Country. Happy Easter also to the WEAK and...
A real journalist, not a Fox News mouthpiece for President Trump, would have asked Dr. Carson how sarcastically referring to "radical left lunatics" and "the mentally insane" fits in with the the Apostle Paul's admonition that "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."
That isn't to suggest that Donald doesn't believe in a god of some sort. Unless he's pretending otherwise and putting on a great act, he obviously does not believe in the God of the Old and/or New Testament. He may believe in a supreme being, someone who recognizes Trump's greatness and indispensability.. That God is one whom, Trump has said, he never has asked for forgiveness, though the Apostle John wrote "if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." Those are Trump's "deep feelings of Christian beliefs," choosing not to repent because he is perfect. Step aside, Jesus: Donald Trump is the "Chosen One."
Presumably, though, when Dr. Carson claims Trump was "saved by God for a purpose," he means a good and loving purpose. The pretext is that the USA is a great and virtuous country, upon which a loving and all-powerful God will shower with His favor.
Carson always has been a fervent advocate of forced birth, an abortion opponent so extreme that, in contrast to Donald Trump, he has called for a national ban on abortion. Such an individual would assume that, with Trump having been saved from assassination, God's purpose would have been to raise the nation to the greatness it deserves.
Yet, while statistics vary from year to year and reporting quirks may yield difference numbers for any one year, it is clear that there consistently are over 600,000 elective abortions each year in this country. And God, we are to believe- especially from rabid opponents of the procedure- wants to reward the USA.
So perhaps God did save Trump, though serendipity or an inept gunman, is more likely. But if God did assert his country, to what purpose? As reward or punishment? Ben Carson himself is yesterday's news. even last decade's news. However, there are a lot of people who believe- or seem to believe- what he does and if they're never questioned, we won't know what "is wrong with these people"
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