Pastor Clarifies That Giant, Shiny Trump Statue Worshippers Love Is NOT An Idol
Pastor Mark Burns, the president's informal "spiritual advisor," wants to make one thing very clear about the extremely tall gold statue of Donald Trump that was officially dedicated last week in Doral, Miami. "Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf. We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone," he wrote on Twitter.
He's technically right, just as Rene Magritte was technically right that his painting of a pipe was not actually a pipe. In the most literal sense, the statue of Trump, which is named "Don Colossus" is not a golden calf.
Despite the president calling it "The Real Deal - GOLD," on Truth Social, the statue is not made of gold. Unlike the golden calf, which was made from melting the jewelry of the Egyptians, the Trump statue is not actually made of solid gold. "Don Colossus" is cast in bronze and covered in gold leaf, making it much, much less valuable. It is also obviously not a calf, as calves are baby cows, and the statue is certainly not a baby cow.
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It's still definitely an idol, though.
tiny dick and all.
Probably the most American Idol to date
Isn’t that Taylor Swift?
with a golden calf just above each golden ankle
Cankle
Sorry couldn't resist
They all worship idols all the time and apply some mental gymnastics bullshit to pretend they don't. It's wild.
idolatry seems to be ignored by christians.
Certainly by the loudmouthed American ones that support Trump.
I'd like to ask Pastor Burns if he's read the book of Daniel, particularly chapters 3 and 4.
God struck Nebuchadnezzar (who likewise had a golden statue built for his entire kingdom to worship) with madness for 7 years for his pride.
We're having madness right now.
True, but in Nebuchadnezzar's case his kingdom was taken from him for those 7 years...
If only we could be so fortunate.
A monkey paw finger curls
Hey look, the brits are coming again!
If only
Trump only lost his for 4
We have madness at home.
Another 7 years?
Wouldn't have thought he'd live that long 🤷♂️
Well, he doesn't seem to care anymore.
Sometimes I wish God was real, so we'd get to see him swoop in and smite these fucking hypocrites.
if god isn't real it is up to us to make the world a just god would make.
It should be no problem to come to broad consensus on what that would look like!
Anarchy would be it if humans were capable of self governance and not being cunts. But it depends on all humans working together in sync, so it'll never happen.
Depends. Are those innate traits or learned skills?
It doesn't matter at this point. Either way you have to have all of humanity change at once and agree on everything.
I don't think either of that is true.
I think that every time one of these psychos assumes room temperature. Upon hearing of their death, I'd love the satisfaction of imagining their reaction upon entering Hell for the eternity of fiery torture that we've been promised.
But alas, it's all a fairy tale, as real as Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
It's a nice thought.
No, it's a giant pig.
Now, be nicer to pigs, they're intelligent, capable of empathy. It's actually a giant pile of gold leafed shit.
Valid. I actually love piggies.
A gilded turd.
Real pigs don't live in their own shit if they have a choice.
They're pretty clean animals in general, they just roll in mud to cool off.
I prefer to think about it as an orange turd, perfectly suitable for the eventual Trump Memorial.
Ohhhhhh SNAP ! 😂
…if you feel the need to let everyone know how much the golden idol isn’t a golden idol, perhaps you’ve forgotten what an idol is and why your religion speaks against them.
Which is why they erected a giant golden statue of the president of the United States. Makes perfect sense!
And blessed it, and have repeatedly said that Trump is either blessed by God, or God's divine instrument.
But this isn't idolatry.
This “church” wouldn’t know Christ if the Christ walked up to them and said to love their neighbors as Christ loved them.
They would know Christ: they would be in the front row yelling for another crucifixion
Indeed: most of present day America, especially the far-right, would be incredibly hostile towards a middle eastern guy preaching a philosophy of peace and equality and who was openly against the "money lenders".
If the real Christ came back, they'd call him a lunatic
Far left extremist
With a name like Jesús he is obviously from one of them Mexican countries and needs to be sent to Alligator Auschwitz.
No. It's a golden pig-like thing that is fatter and smellier than a pig.
But also: If they worship Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ alone that's pretty weird. What about God and the Holy Spirit? Did this pastor even go to seminary school?
I don't think most pastors study much.
It's man-cow-pig!
Do those bastards not see what can happen to despots?
I prefer this outcome:
how about both?
tomato potato. some of those ugly ugly giant bags of mostly water.
Can't wait to see these statues finally torn down by an invading imperial army doing a photo op for their dumb fat chud viewers on the other side of the planet.
They always think they're the exception. It's a symptom of their narcissistic personality disorder.
I am Ozymandius, King of Kings; look on my works, ye mighty, and despair ...
owner of the largest sand factory in east sandtopia
A lot of dictators die peacefully in their sleep a night. 😞
of natural causes too. once your fatal bullet poisoning reachees the butthole they have to replace your legs with wheels and your arms with those extendo boxing gloves or else we wouldn't have enough whimsical things to laugh at in the world (like when's the last time you saw a clown in a bathtub being pulled down the river by a flock of geese).
they do die peacfully from a bit of string too.
Baphomet is much better done
Not only that, a much better character to have a statue of.
And way safer around those children
The character design is on point
One is a statue of a cruel, merciless, sinful being that kills for fun. The other is Baphomet.
A gold plated statue is really on the nose for this con artist.
I am sure it's the thinnest gold coating possible, a lettuce head will last longer than the coating.
"The church has investigated the claims about rampant pedophilia"
And has determined that nothing unusual is going on?
In fact they found there's a shit-ton going on and they are all in favor! Imagine that.
Conveniently, unusual is not equal to immoral.
These people love vice signalling. This is clearly a giant golden idol they worship. They love their pedo prince so much because he's all the vices.
"While we are worshipping this golden idol, we want to make perfectly clear that we are in fact worshipping Jesus."
These fucking pharisees man...
Are you sure he is not a baby cow though? When I hear him speak all I hear is the exact same whiny mooing sound a calf makes.
I feel like he's both a baby and a cow, and yet somehow not a baby cow.
Baby calfs (calves?) are cute, the dumpster ain't pretty to look at and looks worse covered in gold
That's why I can't STAND to listen to Trump. He is ALWAYS WHINGING when he talks, even if he's winning. It sounds like he's upset over the winning because it's not enough winning.
its that wierd raspy voice of a old man.
and God later sent a plague upon the people for their idolatry.
Hanta virus.
frogs of locusts please. you can eat them. i'd prefer the locusts tho since the frogs will keep you up all night
You can eat locusts too. In fact they're very nutritious. Taste like... Potato chips basically. You need two things to make them palatable: 1) spices, 2) pretend they're not locusts
also the locusts are crunchy. people don't realize how much you need crunch in your diet until you haven't had it in a while
We are witnessing Olympic levels of mental gymnastics here.
It's obviously meant to be an homage to medical doctors.
My 'Not a golden idol' shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
How long before he's charging admission just as far as the statue, so MAGAs can kneel to it?
Don Kaaba
My first thought went to this:
There's he is!
It's not an idol, it's just a gold-looking representation of something a large group of people fervently honor and pray to, and according to their own chit-chat, hold in higher respect than jesus or god. And nothing more.
how blasphemous of evengelicals.
Right...bcz it's a statue of a large heffer.
if that statue was a baby anything his hand would be in a different spot
This statue is a PERFECT representation of Trumpism, he can't resist revealing himself by the art he chooses. Reminds me of Mussolini.
(caption: a photo of the massive Mussolini head staring down a public square)
I think it's because these personalities surround themselves with sycophants, and this leads to them being isolated and unaware of their own ridiculousness. A universal truth across the centuries.
What would Moses do?
Throw the idol into a fire, I guess.
The statue, too.
Reducing the idol into a powder, mixing it with water, and making the idolators drink the mixture is also on the table.
I can't wait until the righteous americans eventually tear all of that shit down just like the people did with Saddam.
If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's a golden idol.
He seems to be trying to claim that since it's not specifically a calf, it doesn't count.
Forgot to have the dick hanging out of the statutes pants. You know, for all the sucking the right does.
Could include the bite marks from the teenager he orally raped.
So what the fuck is it then Burns??
just one of the major heresies
Why use gold leaf instead of electroplating it? Isn't gold leaf more liable to fall off when exposed to the elements?
As per usual with all the shit the conservatives do, it is cheaper. Electroplating requires a gigantic bath or a massive hermetically sealed room that can fit the entire volume of the statue. Such a thing either doesn't exist, would be irrational to pay to build or, if it exists, it is really expensive as a service to use it (repurposing a PCB plant, maybe?) Modern public consensus also considers gold anything to be tacky and corny, of very bad taste. Despite the rise of gold prices, the jewelry market is somewhat stagnant. It looks gaudy to have much gold anything around for decoration. So it stands to reason that there's actually few services that could electroplate gold to copper at such a scale, much less so a statue of the turd in chief.
Ehh, the kind of person who would choose to make that probably doesn't care much about safety, but that much potassium-goldcyanide would be costly.
The pastor doth protest too much, methinks.
but it's very definitely not an idol. ask any anthropogist it's a fertility totem. well okay a sex toy. you can see a few of the places the pastor didn't clean up properly when someone knocked on the door.
Shouldn't this article be linked to the post about Trump wanted to check Fort Knox as apparently gold is being stolen?
Nice likeness of him jerking off Bill Clinton.
Well how about that! The high priest of the 12 tribes of Israel said the exact same thing to Moses when asked why everyone was worshiping a golden calf
Pastor Clarifies That Giant, Shiny Trump Idol Worshippers Love Is NOT An Idol
It’s called idolization. Excessive worship. One way to do that is to make a statue of someone not because of any great service, but because they’re idolized.
Is it excessive worship that was the issue? I thought the biblical God was fine with all manner of excess of worship as long as it wasn't of any other god.
True, not a calf. It is however a big fat golden cow. Plumped up on an orange ego and so many crimes. A very big dumb golden cow.
Idols can be negative. Trump actively makes me dislike Christians more by way of being a bad example.
Maybe we just square them? Negative x negative is... ?
They gave it wifi and call it i-Dol.
Dilldon.
I wonder who the golden calf-god was that had early Christians so afraid that they put it in their "absolutely don't" shortlist?
They were Jewish. Israelites fleeing slavery in Egypt. It wasn't out of fear of the calf-god, it was the rejection of one's own faith that made it a big deal for them.
Possibly Apis because the context of the story is the Israelites waiting for Moses to come down from the mountain with the Ten Commandments, just after their escape from Egypt, but worshipping bulls was a huge thing in the entire Fertile Crescent area so it could have been anything. Bulls are kinda a big deal at the time period - you see lamassu with human heads and bull bodies guarding lots of temples and palaces in Mesopotamia.
Moses is so pissed about the golden calf because he was literally just talking to god. He leaves them alone after getting them out of Egypt and they immediately get into polytheism.
The actual early Israelite religion was polytheistic, had temple prostitutes, burned cannabis for ritual purpose, and very likely had child sacrifice - probably of the first born.
Beyond what the others have said, no one put the golden calf god on a list, "Jehovah" disallowed the worship of all "false idols." And the people obviously weren't afraid of it, they were worshipping it. That was the whole issue.
I know it's not really important. But why have they made him fat?
Some of them actually believe this guy is the antichrist and they're helping him destroy the world, thinking Jesus will just be cool with that. They'll believe anything.
FR. I think devolution just went up a notch. Gold statues, ehmmm wasn't that a trend 1500 years ago in Europe?
Looks like a calf to me.
Also that's an insult to calfs. Or is it calves. The animal not the leg.