Trump: ‘I don’t belive in heaven or hell, but we go someplace’
That’s what he said in 1989 before he suddenly declared himself a Christian during his presidential campaign.
Donald Trump spoke about his faith this week in an interview with columnist Cal Thomas, boasting of his “great relationships” with ministers and the clergy and predicting he will do very well with evangelicals in the general election.
“I’m going to treat my religion, which is Christian, with great respect and care,” Trump said in the interview. And on who Jesus is to him, Trump answered, “Jesus to me is somebody I can think about for security and confidence. Somebody I can revere in terms of bravery and in terms of courage and, because I consider the Christian religion so important, somebody I can totally rely on in my own mind.”
Trump, over the course of the election, has played up his Presbyterian faith in typical Trump fashion as a way to appeal to evangelicals — praising the Bible by saying it is even better than his book The Art of the Deal and answering that his favorite verse is “an eye for an eye.” But throughout his career in public life before his presidential run, Trump’s actual views of religion and his own personal faith have been difficult to pin down.
In a lengthy 1989 profile with the Chicago Tribune, Donald Trump said he did not believe in heaven or hell but that the dead “go somewhere.”
In the profile, Trump was asked by reporter Glenn Plaskin if he was worried about his own mortality. “No,” Trump answered. “I’m fatalistic, and I protect myself as well as anybody can. I prepare for things. But ultimately we all end up going.”
Trump was heading up the stairs to dinner when he turned back to Plaskin, contemplating the afterlife. “No,” he said. “I don’t believe in reincarnation, heaven or hell — but we go someplace.”
“Do you know,” he said, “I cannot, for the life of me, figure out where.”
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16 responses to Trump: ‘I don’t belive in heaven or hell, but we go someplace’
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William June 10th, 2016 at 14:52
“I’m going to treat my religion, which is Christian, with great respect and care,”
StoneyCurtisll June 10th, 2016 at 20:10
High Five~!
William June 11th, 2016 at 09:59
Right back at you old friend.
Suzanne McFly June 10th, 2016 at 15:14
The only thing I have learned about the rise of rump is the republicans completely deserve him. They hate education, well this is what happens when you don’t educate yourself.
mistlesuede June 10th, 2016 at 17:16
But he has the “best words.”
Budda June 10th, 2016 at 15:20
Well, I don’t think this will go over too well with evangelicals.
whatthe46 June 10th, 2016 at 17:47
Hate comes first, they’ll get over it.
Larry Schmitt June 10th, 2016 at 15:23
If he doesn’t believe in heaven or hell, how much of a Christian can he be?
Suzanne McFly June 10th, 2016 at 15:32
As much as a church (so he claims) going Christian can be who reads the Bible with 2 Corinthians.
Dwendt44 June 10th, 2016 at 17:51
Isn’t that what it says on the first page?
whatthe46 June 10th, 2016 at 17:46
Those phony Christian’s don’t believe in them either. Otherwise they wouldn’t be the nasty racist, bigots they are. If they believe there’s a help they wouldn’t be the way they for fear. Molesting children and murdering people isn’t the Christian thing to do. So why should worry.
anothertoothpick June 10th, 2016 at 16:37
Why didn’t he just make a place up like all the religions Do?
mistlesuede June 10th, 2016 at 17:15
Why does everything he says start with “he is great with……?”
If someone has to preface every subject spoken about with I’m great with this group, or this person, or this issue, they aren’t “great with” anything. They suck.
amersham46 June 10th, 2016 at 22:34
but we go someplace, I think it is call Nebraska
fahvel June 11th, 2016 at 02:34
an outhouse in nebraska.
Chris June 10th, 2016 at 23:22
If we’re lucky, the influence that the extreme right fundamentalists have on the country’s politics will wither away after Trump loses and the fundamentalist voters, to their horror, wake up to realize that they almost elected an atheist monster to the highest office in the land.
I can dream, can’t I?