Author Likens Trump’s Message to a ‘Prosperity Gospel’

‘As the gospel tells you if you just put your faith in, it’s not a spirituality, it’s almost like a science’

SHARLET: “Well, for Donald Trump, it comes from the book that he has often talked about as the most important book in his life. Recently he started holding up the Bible. Before that, it was the book called 'The Power of Positive Thinking' by Norman Vincent Peel, this mid-century preacher that his father introduced him to and was very influential in this idea of how do you make yourself successful, you believe in yourself as successful, that God wants you to be successful and that God puts these successful business men among us as models for how to be ... If you can put your faith in him, God will choose you as well.”

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