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Michael Gerson Is Mostly Right about Evangelicals and Trump; But what he's wrong about is important
PJ Media ^ | 03/17/2018 | John Ellis

Posted on 03/17/2018 7:20:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 03/17/2018 7:20:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 03/17/2018 7:31:36 AM PDT by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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3 posted on 03/17/2018 7:32:12 AM PDT by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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4 posted on 03/17/2018 7:32:38 AM PDT by Bobalu (12 diet Cokes and a fried chicken...)
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The author is drowning in the Satanist cultural revolution, and believes that individuals should swim or tread water, and not grab onto a flotation device.

No, Trump is not perfect. Throughout the Bible God has used imperfect people to do good. The author seems to think it better to support a spawn of Hell like Hillary Clinton than allow an imperfect leader to help fight the flood. And not supporting Trump is supporting Hillary.


5 posted on 03/17/2018 7:37:38 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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If Trump has had a conversion and sought God’s forgiveness no Evangelical need listen to this confused author.

The evidence is that Trump has had such a conversion.


6 posted on 03/17/2018 7:41:26 AM PDT by amihow
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I do not always like some of president Trump’s behavior. What this author fails to be able to comprehend in his self-righteousness is that not supporting Trump essentially supports worse.

You can not - unless you are a completely delusional lunatic even argue that whatever President Trump’s moral failings The PIAPS were worse. In fact, given the obvious, egregious, intentional sin and advocacy of sin propounded by The PIAPS to fail to cast your vote for the ONLY candidate that had any chance of keeping her from power for a moral reason is the same as the Pharisees standing on the corner and praying out loud, announcing to the world how pious they were.

It like saying is that because Hezekiah wasn’t perfect you’d he’d rather have Ahab! What a fool. What an evil thing to desire!

Would this man have refused to vote for King David because he was an adulterer? Would he have withheld his approval of David’s sons for having not three but three hundred wives and 700 concubines? Yet the Bible says both of these men, with moral failings as great as any of Trumps were chosen by God.

Would he have, as the Sadducees and Pharisees did condemn Jesus for having a meal with sinners? Is he more righteous than our Lord?

Apparently, he believes he is. That is the argument he is making.

I doubt he will ever see this but I am calling on this recalcitrant sinner to soften his heart and repent of his self-righteousness.


7 posted on 03/17/2018 7:47:17 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I still want to see The PIAPS in prison)
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Mr. Ellis, you are not God and it seems you have a very over blown opinion of your own righteousness and believe yourself to be a judge. Such arrogance.

This is a common occurrence with many of you leftists and pretend conservatives.

If people were perfect in God’s eyes, he wouldn’t of sent us Jesus.


8 posted on 03/17/2018 7:47:24 AM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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This dude says he did not vote for Trump. I wonder if he voted for Hildebeast? To me, voting “none of the above,” is almost the same as voting for the rat 🐀 I go along with Reagan’s philosophy. EVERY election, is ALWAYS about the choice between the lesser of two evils. I don’t believe there is any middle ground.
Is Trump a flawed man? Absolutely. However, if there is a dictionary definition of “flawed,” a rat 🐀 like the Hildebeast’s picture would be there, and he essentially voted for her. I just don’t agree with him.
9 posted on 03/17/2018 7:48:37 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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What great Biblical patriarch or character did not have major character flaws or moral failings? God works through imperfect humans because we are all deeply flawed. God applies his wisdom and strength to mankind’s efforts to accomplish his will. God makes the rules, not self-righteous politicians, pundits,journalists or theologians.


10 posted on 03/17/2018 7:48:50 AM PDT by RatRipper (Unindicted co-conspirators: the Mainstream Media and the Democratic Party)
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We report, God decides!


11 posted on 03/17/2018 7:48:55 AM PDT by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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Bought and paid for by the swamp


12 posted on 03/17/2018 8:00:28 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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Beautifully said. My conscience is more clear for voting for Trump than if I had stood aside and allowed that evil, wicked Hillary be the one to make SC appointments.


13 posted on 03/17/2018 8:00:47 AM PDT by Wm F Buckley Republican
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Amen—it is never acceptable to allow a Democrat to gain power—never!!!!!


14 posted on 03/17/2018 8:02:14 AM PDT by Wm F Buckley Republican
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As an actual evangelical Christian I follow God’s word above all else. Not some fanciful milquetoast socialist utopian version where everyone marches in lockstep with zealot shamers like this twit.

Is Trump the ideal Christian? Hell no. But then recall that none of us are worthy of heaven or could be called proper Christians as we all fall short of God. Besides - we don’t elect presidents to be our religious orthodoxy (good thing too)

So Trump has had sex with lots of women - good for him - as a male I applaud his ability to attract that many women. I also applaud his ability to respect them as individuals and giving them positions of power in his administration. I’ve yet to see one allegation of assault about him.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone

As for his language - again it doesn’t bother me. I’ve heard far worse from evangelicals in the locker rooms.

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Above all things, for all his foibles, for not being “god like” - Trump is enacting Gods Word in deed.

That’s all I need to know.


15 posted on 03/17/2018 8:04:53 AM PDT by Skywise
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It is good to see sanity returning to FR. When Romney was defeated by Obama there were Freepers who were declaring the glory of being rid of Romney. The point is that the Democrat will ALWAYS be worse than a flawed Republican. ALWAYS vote straight Republican as they will always be better than the Democrat.


16 posted on 03/17/2018 8:06:21 AM PDT by Wm F Buckley Republican
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Gerson’s much-ballyhooed articles in The Atlantic and The Washington Post are just a pile of BS. Not once in his Atlantic article did NeverTrumpista Gerson mention Hillary as the reason many Christians voted for Trump.


17 posted on 03/17/2018 8:07:35 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!
Psalm 58:6


18 posted on 03/17/2018 8:13:42 AM PDT by WKTimpco
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What the author doesn’t seem concerned about is that voting “none of the above” doesn’t achieve that result. Normal people are concerned about getting the best of the choices before them, not registering a protest vote over the imperfect choices on offer.


19 posted on 03/17/2018 8:24:19 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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Report what?


20 posted on 03/17/2018 8:28:25 AM PDT by amihow
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