While visiting a nondenominational church in Iowa on Sunday, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump mixed up the communion plate with the offering plate. He took communion as it was passed, but then also pulled several bills out of his pocket to place in the same tray. "I thought it was for offering," he laughed to nearby staffers.
This is hardly Trump's first awkward interaction with Christianity on the campaign trail. There was the "Two Corinthians" gaffe at Liberty University, his announcement that he has never asked God for forgiveness, and his comparison of the Bible to "a great, incredible movie."
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