Joe Scarborough Declares Evangelical Leader Guilty Of 'Blasphemy' For Support Of Trump

On today's Morning Joe, Defender of the Faith Joe Scarborough ruled that an evangelical leader who expressed his support for Trump was guilty of "depravity," and "straight-out blasphemy." What a display of religious illiteracy. Scarborough was outraged that the pastor had pointed out that, like Trump, Jesus had been convicted of crimes, and yet Christians worship Jesus. Blasphemy would be saying Trump is Christ, not that he's persecuted like Christ. Nodding along like Scarborough's own Ed McMahon-style sidekick, Willie Geist agreed: "There used to be a word for that: blasphemy."

Scarborough didn't specify the punishment to be doled out to the pastor whom he condemned for blasphemy. Perhaps Joe will take inspiration from history: we're just a few days past the anniversary of Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, having been burned at the stake. Eugene Robinson, who doubles as a Washington Post columnist and an MSNBC analyst, had kicked off the conversation, playing off his current WashPost column: "Here’s how Trump could make America great." You can guess Robinson's predictable answer: Trump should drop out of the race. (…)

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