The Rapture can't come too soon

As we've seen, the Trump administration is intentionally hastening the apocalypse.  And some of his followers seem to be eager for it.

The unexpected election of Donald Trump in 2016 was an act of God, who chose the philandering billionaire and reality TV star to restore America’s moral values.

  The Guardian

That God guy has an ironic sense of humor.

This is the theme of The Trump Prophecy, a movie telling the story of Mark Taylor, a former fireman from Orlando forced to retire after suffering from PTSD, which premiered on Tuesday.

Between graphic nightmares featuring demonic monsters and hellish flames, Taylor received a message from God in April 2011, while he was surfing television channels.

As he clicked to an interview with Trump, Taylor heard God say: “You are hearing the voice of the next president.”

And so it came to pass, although it took another five years and a national prayer campaign. Taylor duly wrote a book, The Trump Prophecies: The Astonishing True Story of the Man Who Saw Tomorrow … and What He Says Is Coming Next, on which the movie is based.

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About 1,200 cinemas across the US were screening The Trump Prophecy on Tuesday and Thursday this week.

Heather's gonna love this one.

There may be repeat showings if there is demand. Given several rows of empty seats in the Regal River Ridge Stadium in Lynchburg, Virginia – a conservative evangelical heartland – that may prove unnecessary.

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Franklin Graham, the prominent conservative evangelical, said last year that Trump’s victory was the result of divine intervention. “I could sense going across the country that God was going to do something this year. And I believe that at this election, God showed up,” he told the Washington Post.

Taylor has made other claims, which he calls “prophetic words”, including that Trump will serve two terms, the landmark supreme court ruling on abortion in the Roe v Wade case will be overturned, and that next month’s midterm elections will result in a “red tsunami”, strengthening Republican control of both houses of Congress.

Let us pray.

Barack Obama will be charged with treason and Trump will authorise the arrest of “thousands of corrupt officials, many of whom are part of a massive satanic paedophile ring”. Trump will also force the release of cures for cancer and Alzheimer’s that are currently being withheld by the pharmaceutical industry.

I was going to say he's gone too far claiming Obama will be charged with treason, but I wouldn't put it past Trump and Sessions if by hook or by crook they get a second term.

The £2m movie was a collaboration between ReelWorks Studios and the film school at Liberty University, an evangelical Christian institution here in Lynchburg. More than 50 students and nine members of faculty were involved in the production.

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“God is definitely using Trump to restore America and bring revival to our land,” said cinemagoer Kathy Robinson. “He stands for the common man and protects our freedoms."

Boy, is she easily fooled. But then, you might expect that from an Evangelical.

"And he’s a good man himself – not perfect, but none of us are.”

A good man. Right.

The film was “a very pivotal, significant moment” for Liberty’s cinematic arts department. It was only the second time that a US film school had been involved in a feature film scheduled for theatrical release, [Stephan Schultze, Liberty’s professor of cinematic arts and the movie’s director] said.

Sean Barlow, a Liberty cinematic arts student who was a camera operator on the movie, said it had been a “great experience” while acknowledging that “a lot of people weren’t happy”. But, he added: “The message of unity is something this country really needs right now.”

How in god's name is that a message of unity?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.