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Music Well, welcome to this week's edition and portification of Spin Bullie Pulpit.

We're a few weeks out from the election now and a few weeks before the next inauguration of President Donald Trump,

as he will be. And I want to start by throwing out a question. Obviously, Christians are very,

have been very interested in politics, and the Trump election is one that has, in some

ways, posed a significant challenge because Trump is certainly not a conventional conservative,

doesn't appear to be a conventional Christian in any shape or form, and that raises, I think, issues for Christians as they come to think about

how to look towards what they should expect from Trump presidency. So I want to start by asking

a question. This was a question that was posed to me in the form of a statement a few weeks ago.

Did God intervene at the beginning of November to make Donald Trump president?

What do you think about that?

Well, before the election, God was just kind of hanging out with his arms behind his head, relaxing,

letting us run the show.

Yes.

And then all the sudden... he saw that there were problems

yeah and um so he had to reach down then and intervene kind of like when i'm looking for a parking

space yes um at Costco on one of those busy days and i have to you know please lord intervene and

open up a parking

space for me. Yes, yes. Oh, that's so refreshing. Yeah, well, you know, Amy makes the point.

And I've had the statements made to me through social media as well as in personal conversations,

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