President Donald Trump unleashed another bold attack on Joe Biden over religion. Biden, who is a devout Catholic, condemned the comments as \u201cshameful.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo religion, no anything,\u201d Trump told supporters at a brief airport rally in Cleveland. \u201cHurt the Bible, hurt God. He\u2019s against God, he\u2019s against guns, he\u2019s against energy, our kind of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Biden, who has been open about how his Catholic faith helped him survive the death of his first wife and their daughter in a 1972 car crash, characterized Trump as a hypocrite making cynical appeals to religious conservatives.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor President Trump to attack my faith is shameful,\u201d the Democratic presidential candidate said. \u201cIt\u2019s beneath the office he holds, and it\u2019s beneath the dignity the American people so rightly expect and deserve from their leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n
Biden also expressed Trump\u2019s comments reveal more about him than they do about anyone else, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey show us a man willing to stoop to any low for political gain, and someone whose actions are completely at odds with the values and teachings that he professes to believe in,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n
Biden has been vocal about the role his faith plays in his life.<\/p>\n
In an emotional interview with Late Show host Stephen Colbert, Biden opened up about his faith and religion and how it helped him through his son\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
This interview was one of the first he had done since losing his son, Beau, to brain cancer before he had mentioned his bid to enter the presidential race.<\/p>\n
People didn\u2019t expect Biden to open up as much as he did, talking about his Catholic faith, and how it provided him with an \u201cenormous sense of solace.\u201d<\/p>\n
Years before his oldest son\u2019s death, Biden\u2019s first wife and daughter were killed in a car accident. Biden shared with Colbert that his faith helped him cope during his darkest period:<\/p>\n
\u201cI go to mass, and I\u2019m able to be just alone, even in a crowd,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just a place you can go.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also shared how his wife, Jill, plays a role in lifting his faith. She leaves inspirational notes for him, including a quote from philosopher Kierkegaard that says, \u201cFaith sees best in the dark.\u201d<\/p>\n
Biden shared that his religion not only helped him through the loss but also gives him tremendous comfort.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of it relates to rituals, some of it relates to the comfort of what you\u2019ve done your whole life,\u201d Biden said. \u201cWhat my faith has done is\u2026 it sort of takes everything about my life \u2014 with my parents and my siblings and all the comforting things. And all the good things that have happened around the culture of my religion and the theology of my religion.\u201d<\/p>\n