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30 Percent of Americans Believe Trump Appointed President by God (www.rawstory.com)

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Why do so many evangelical Christians support former President Donald Trump despite his decades of documented ungodly behavior?

An in-depth report from The Economist shows that it has a simple explanation: They believe that God personally appointed him to rule the United States.

In fact, the report cites a survey conducted by Denison University political scientist Paul Djupe that around 30 percent of Americans believe Trump "was anointed by God to become president."

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

About 10 or 20 minutes after I posted the story, I found the actual study by Dennison University that is the basis of many of the claims.

Here is the /official/, paywalled, abstract only link on Cambridge's journal or study publishing site:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/full-armor-of-god/2B21DC6F17E88C6DF7275F45A66DF104

And here are various links to the full study provided by scientists amd volunteers who believe information should be freely available:

https://annas-archive.org/md5/da76eb110551fd4028c9c0a8e185f0ce

I have not had enough time to read it but given that 40% + of American adults believe in the Biblical Creation narrative of the world and do not believe in evolution, I'm pretty confident the 30% figure refers to basically American Adults, ie potential voters, in this context.