On Sunday, a prayer event called Rededicate 250 was held on the National Mall. The event acted as a way of celebrating America’s upcoming 250th anniversary through religion.
Trump made an appearance via prerecorded video, reading a Bible passage to the masses.
“Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord, and the king’s house: and all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of the Lord, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.”
“And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.”
“If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
“Now my eyes shall be open, and my ears attent to the prayer that is made in this place. For now I have chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever, and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.”
“And as for you, if you will walk before me, as David your father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded you, and shall observe my statutes and my judgments, then will I establish the throne of my kingdom, according to as I have covenanted with David, your father, saying, there shall not fail you as a man to be ruler in Israel.”
“But if you turn away and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them, then will I pluck them up from the roots out of my land which I have given them, and this house which I have sanctified, for my name will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among nations.”
“And this house which is high shall be an astonishment to everyone that passes by it. So that he shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house? And it shall be answered, because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore has he brought all this evil upon them.”
…Yikes. On that note, here’s 26 chuckle-worthy tweets about whatever the hell that was:
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