That’s really strange that people in Australia would say " Two Corinthians ". I mean, it’s Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. Saying " Paul’s 2 letter to the Corinthians " is weird. No one in the US would ever say it like that.
But even beyond that, the way he presented it clearly demonstrates that he was just reading a line. He clearly thought, “what do Christians do? They read lines from the Bible. So if I do that, they will like me!” Again, it so trivializes their faith, that I cannot understand how it could be anything other than profoundly insulting.
It’d be like going to a gathering of black people and saying something like, “I love fried chicken and watermelon! Vote for me!” It highlights that his view of all those people is hugely insulting.
The fact he said it oddly is not on its own the issue, it was just a big flag to highlight the real issue, which is that he was just saying words written on a piece of paper by someone else. Those words had literally zero meaning to him personally.
Per the rest of your post, I think it demonstrates that he has a very good grasp of what those people think. Or, at least, that there’s a large base of “religious” people that he grasps, well. They certainly seem to outnumber the Kasich type that you laid out.
Oh, without question.
I think that its an indictment of those people as Christians, and an illustration that they do not actually value or indeed even understand the tenants of their own faith, despite actually choosing to identify themselves specifically based on their faith.
These people have been here for a long time. The westboro Baptists are a prime example. Everything they do is antithetical to everything Christ stood for, and yet they choose to define themselves as Christians.
The reality is that these people are just like the Muslims who join ISIS, albeit less overtly violent.
