People like Blanche and Patel don't understand that respect needs to be earned. They use it as a weapon. 'It's very disrespectful of you to ask us difficult questions.'

Except it isn't even that. It's white nationalism masquerading as Christianity. Nothing Christian about it.

The Suppuration of Church and State.

That may be so, but many people live good lives according to the stories contained in them. While others just make stuff up as it suits them (e.g. Hegseth et al)

Well, yes, that makes 18000 but I'm not sure that you can ever be more than 100% sure of anything. But that's nit-picking - I take his point and agree with it in principle - 100%!!

Trump comparing himself to Jesus while Vance tries to lecture the actual Pope on matters theological proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the ‘Christian’ element of their support is, morally & doctrinally, about as Christian as a hula hoop. Their conduct is literally unconscionable.

I don't know who James Bembridge is but he's a very silly man.

Not sure how 18000% equates to not sure! But yes.

Spent a month in Budapest in 2002 and the only Hungarian word I can remember is 'krumpli' - potatoes.

Genuine evangelicals might disagree with the Pope regarding his theology, but not for 'wokeness'. It's the fake MAGA 'evangelicals' who only seem to understand wealth, power, greed and cruelty - all the antithesis of what Jesus stood for.

Memories of looking at this hill from the classroom window in Albert Road School, Saltaire, mid 1950s. And Dad gave organ recitals in that church.

This almost-80-year-old drove from Ireland to UK and back covering almost 1000 miles in three days last month without any problems - for himself or anyone else! He conducts four choirs whose ages range from 10 to his own. No-one should be disqualified from anything on the grounds of age alone!!

If the BBC said that, the BBC is lying too. Sadly, that's not unusual these days. For most of my life it would have been unthinkable.

Bet he doesn't even know what the letters IQ stand for.

rightfully or rightly??

That's about as evil as it's possible to be. Glorying in destruction of life and claiming it's God's will.

My worry is that if people keep making fun of Trump for being 'TACO' he might eventually say 'I'll show them' and finally do something really catastrophic.

How do people like this sleep at night? Their whole lives must be a lie.

Trump's expression in this pic is exactly the same as Musk when he gave the Nazi salute. I feel it indicates hatred to everyone and everything - including self.

I spent a month in Budapest in 2002 - (aged 56!) not that long after Hungary had freed itself from Soviet clutches - and found it both unbelievable and disturbing that the young students I met were already worrying about the rise of the far right, and their Russian connections.

...or Kenneth Copelands. The majority of them are as appalled by the fake Christianity of Trump's mob as you or I are.

The title 'evangelical' meant people who believed the bible (not always literally) and tried to share their faith with others. Amongst them were those who went to extremes that went way beyond that, and sadly that's who most people now think evangelicals are. Evangelicals are not all Paula Whites.

I know that. I'm so sorry that you have to find a way to live through this.

Sadly, I'm not sure that's true any more. I've never been anti-America, but now I must add it to the list of things I'm glad I'm not.

What a horrendous country the USA has become. Maybe it always was, and just hid it.

To be fair, quite a lot of people on here don't know the difference between 'rein' and 'reign'.

Must be so upsetting to his poor mother to be told she's responsible for the existence of the world's greediest man.

I thought it already did.

Paula White or Cain or whatever is just as much a fraud as Trump.