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Trump’s cringeworthy gaffe during Communion at Iowa church
New York Post ^ | January 31, 2016 | Geoff Earle and Marisa Schultz

Posted on 02/01/2016 5:49:35 AM PST by tlozo

The seemingly endless presidential campaign finally gets real Monday, with Iowa voters heading to the polls for the state's caucuses.

The candidates blitzed the Hawkeye State in a final push Sunday, making public demonstrations of their faith and getting in their last jabs.

Both the Republican and Democratic races are considered up for grabs, with the winners certain to get a burst of momentum.

In a show of solidarity with the evangelical Christians who dominate the GOP caucuses, Donald Trump began the day at a nondenominational church in Council Bluffs with his wife, Melania.

Melania Trump took Communion from a silver tray, but Trump thought it was a collection plate and reached into his pocket to donate before realizing his mistake.

"I thought it was for offering," he said later with a laugh.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: caucuses; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; elections; iowa; marisaschultz; tds; trump
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To: tlozo

I dont doubt that this could happen but I dont think it did. Uber rich dude made to be looking like he is obliviously pandering by goofing up the sacraments but no specifics?

The name of the church would be in the story.

Who we gonna poke fun at for charging for communion? Church ‘O God? Baptists? Episcopalians?


21 posted on 02/01/2016 6:10:35 AM PST by Delta 21 (Patiently waiting for the jack booted kick at my door.)
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To: tlozo

“Here you go Padre - buy yourself a nice new mumu. Thanks for the cracker.


22 posted on 02/01/2016 6:11:07 AM PST by dead ("I'm up to my eyeball in virgin goats!" - Mullah Omar)
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To: hey Bean
Someone praying in church is cringe worthy?

My, how this election is really separating the wheat from the chaff.

23 posted on 02/01/2016 6:13:00 AM PST by nitzy (I don't vote for Republican'ts)
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To: tlozo

I have been to a few church services that were foreign to me and I was clueless.


24 posted on 02/01/2016 6:13:01 AM PST by odawg
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To: The_Victor
If you pay attention to the service, it's pretty difficult to get the alms basin and the paten confused.

The...WHAT?
25 posted on 02/01/2016 6:13:22 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: tlozo

I could see myself doing this.


26 posted on 02/01/2016 6:14:23 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Sacajaweau

We use a velvet bag with nice wooden handles. Wonderfully silent. 😊


27 posted on 02/01/2016 6:15:12 AM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

A true conservative like Trump instinctively reaches into his pocket, since charity is second nature with him.
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Funny given his history .


28 posted on 02/01/2016 6:15:13 AM PST by Leto
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To: tlozo

So, he was in church and wanted to donate....

Oh. the horror!


29 posted on 02/01/2016 6:16:00 AM PST by nevergore
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To: Sacajaweau

That’s why we use a basket....and it’s deeper.

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Honest mistake Trump feels God should come to him since his properties are “Great” and so much “Classsier” that a mere church. :D


30 posted on 02/01/2016 6:16:33 AM PST by Leto
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To: tlozo

In an Orthodox Church, there is NO mistaking Communion for anything else! It is the culmination of the entire Liturgy!!!! And if you’re not Orthodox in good standing, you do not receive it.

In both of my Orthodox parishes, we use baskets for collection. In one parish, the baskets come around just before the Lord’s Prayer, and in the other they come around after the entire Liturgy is over. There is no mistaking the collection for anything else, either.


31 posted on 02/01/2016 6:17:13 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: tlozo

I think that in Presbyterian churches — his church — people go forward to receive communion. Probably this church passes it through the pews, as ours does. No big deal.


32 posted on 02/01/2016 6:18:03 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Proud bitter clinger)
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To: tlozo

How’s that compare with Obama helping Iran with their nuclear weapons program?


33 posted on 02/01/2016 6:18:15 AM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: Delta 21

My father - The head deacon - was tapped for scripture reading unexpectedly one Sunday. The scripture that morning was from 1st Corinthians

“At the final trumpet when Jesus returns, we shall be raised to immortality and incorruption. Death is swallowed up in victory. O Death, where is thy sting “

He misread the word “Immortality” as “Immorality”

If he can do that then I can easily imagine a a nominal church goer making the mistake in the article.


34 posted on 02/01/2016 6:18:36 AM PST by Fai Mao (Just a tropical gardiner chatting with friends)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Reminds me of the scene in Coming to America where Arsenio drops the chicken bone in the collection plate. LOL I love that movie.

Give it up for SEXUAL CHOCOLATE!!


35 posted on 02/01/2016 6:18:40 AM PST by txhurl (I'm NO LONGER with the Nasty Canadian '16 (well, unless he wins ;)))
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To: Jane Long

Pharaoh?


36 posted on 02/01/2016 6:19:16 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Delta 21

” but I dont think it did...”The name of the church would be in the story.”

First Christian Church, in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/02/01/donald-trump-accidentally-put-money-in-the-communion-plate-at-a-church-in-iowa/


37 posted on 02/01/2016 6:19:28 AM PST by tlozo
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To: Resettozero
The...WHAT?

GPTW!

Google prior to whining.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paten

38 posted on 02/01/2016 6:20:02 AM PST by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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To: tlozo

Well when you haven’t been to church for 50 years or so it’s easy to miss the changes.


39 posted on 02/01/2016 6:20:04 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: patq

LOL!


40 posted on 02/01/2016 6:20:58 AM PST by CottonBall
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