The makers of the God Bless the USA Bible, endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump, have launched a brand new version simply in time for Trump's second inauguration.
The limited-edition “Inauguration Day Bible,” which went on sale Monday, prices $69.99 — or 4 copies for $59.49 — and options an embossed cowl with Trump's title and the date of his upcoming inauguration. The Bible contains the King James translation, together with the textual content of the US Structure, the Declaration of Independence, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the lyrics to the refrain of “God Bless the USA,” Lee Greenwood's 1984 hit. It additionally comes with a live performance DVD celebrating Greenwood's profession.
Trump followers can nonetheless order the unique God Bless the USA Bible for $59.99. There may be additionally an version of “The Day God Intervened” stamped with the date of the failed assassination try in July. A few of Trump's supporters claimed that God saved Trump's life. The web site additionally gives a signed Trump Bible for $1,000, Trump-related attire, and hyperlinks to Trump-themed guitars and God Bless the USA cash.
First introduced in 2021 by a advertising and marketing firm with ties to Greenwood, God Bless the USA Bible has been a supply of controversy ever since. The preliminary New Worldwide Model was canceled after numerous authors revealed by Zondervan, which additionally publishes the NIV, raised objections. The Bible was then resurrected when the advertising and marketing firm switched to the King James Model, which is within the public area.
It was largely forgotten till this spring, when Trump started selling the God Bless the USA Bible in video adverts, linking it to the necessity to reverse the decline of Christianity in America. The video advert claims Trump is bringing religion again “to the forefront of American life.”
“Christianity has been experiencing a latest surge and now greater than ever, each house wants a Bible available,” the advert claims, urging Trump followers to buy the version by Jan. 19. A press launch for the brand new version says Trump has not but determined which Bible to make use of throughout his Jan. 20 inauguration.
Trump has a sophisticated historical past with the Bible. As a candidate in 2016, throughout a speech at Liberty College, he referred to the Apostle Paul's Second Letter to the Corinthians as “Two Corinthians”. In 2019, he prompted additional uproar by signing a Bible throughout a go to to an Alabama church, whereas in 2020, police eliminated a priest from an Episcopal church close to Lafayette Sq. in Washington, DC, so then-President Trump could possibly be photographed holding a Bible throughout the protests that adopted the demise George Floyd.
Final fall, the state of Oklahoma issued a request to buy 55,000 Bibles that needed to comprise the Structure and different patriotic paperwork — an outline that appeared tailored for the God Bless the USA Bible. This request was later amended.
The God Bless the USA Bible, like virtually all different Bibles offered in america, was printed in China, a rustic that Trump has been vocal in criticizing. In 2019, Bible publishers within the US feared that proposed tariffs throughout the first Trump administration would elevate the price of Bibles, however the Bibles have been later exempted from the tariffs.
His paid Bible endorsement, during which Trump mentioned “we now have to make America pray once more,” debuted throughout Holy Week and got here a few month after he promised to return political energy to Christians throughout a speech to the Nationwide Spiritual Broadcasters in Nashville.
“If I get in, you're going to make use of that energy at a degree you've by no means used earlier than,” Trump mentioned on the annual gathering in February.
American Christians supported Trump's return to the White Home, with practically two-thirds of Protestants (63%) and 58% of Catholics voting for him, in keeping with polls. This included 72% of white Protestants, 61% of white Catholics, 64% of Hispanic Protestants, and 53% of Hispanic Catholics.
Black Protestants (85%) have been the one main Christian group to assist Harris, together with 78% of Jews, 58% of different non-Christians, and 71% of religiously unaffiliated voters.
Whereas it claims that the God Bless the USA Bible is the one Bible that Trump has formally endorsed, the location additionally clarifies that Trump doesn’t personal or have any management over the God Bless the USA Bible, however was as a substitute a paid promoter.
The brand new advert for the God Bless the USA Bible comes at a time when gross sales of Christian scriptures are booming, The Wall Road Journal experiences.
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