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The first Sunday service following the election of Donald Trump held at Christian nationalist televangelist Kenneth Copeland’s Eagle Mountain International Church was dedicated almost entirely to thanking God for Trump’s victory.
Copeland has been an ardent Trump cultist since 2016, and used Sunday’s service to declare that Trump’s election will now unleash a “spiritual awakening” in America because “the atmosphere has been cleansed.”
“No more rainbow flags,” Copeland celebrated. “And the spirit of Margaret Sanger is gone.”
During the same service, which has been removed by Copeland’s church from its YouTube channel, Copeland also declared that anyone who didn’t vote for Trump will be held accountable by Jesus with a very specific punishment.
“I saw this in the spirit. Literally,” Copeland declared. “[It was] Judgment Day, and Jesus stood there and he said, ‘Those of you that didn’t vote, I put you in that nation and you didn’t vote … or you didn’t pray and vote like I told you to, you will listen to the names of all the babies that are here and never got any life. And it’ll take a while…
