Why Evangelical Christians Should Not Support Donald Trump

Townhall.com ^ | November 29, 2015 | Michael Brown

[cuban leaf]

The problem with Trump is that he doesn’t engage his brain before he opens his mouth.

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And the problem with a lot of conservatives is that they don’t care. They are so done with the GOPe that they will elect ANYONE who stands up to them from within the party, regardless of that person’s stance on the issues.

[bert]

I heard him say he was Presbyterian but of course to some that is not Christian

[Patton@Bastogne]

[mkjessup]

The problem with Trump is that he doesn't engage his brain before he opens his mouth.

Have you and CW considered volunteering your services to the GOP-e? I understand Karl Rove has the connections to get you some $$$ for your hate-Trump vendettas, why not cash in?

[JJ_Folderol]

You Evangelicals have your orders from the GOPe now:

You are not allowed to vote for Trump! Period.

[ Personally, I’ll be voting AGAINST whatever soul-sucking, parasitic, America-hating, progressive-communist, Christian-hating, pro-muslim, pro-diversity, open borders douche-nozzle the Democrats nominate. ]

[cuban leaf]

The main reason I like Trump is because the left hates him.

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One reason he will be our next president if he gets the nomination is that many on the left LIKE him for reasons similar to why many on the right like him. Each side is just cherry picking the attributes they like and ignoring the ones they don’t.

[Founding Father]

Sure it is. Time to bring down the gop. We need a new party.

[Tamatoa]

So now they are using the Bible to try and bring down Trump. I can also think of many versus in the Bible to justify why Christians should vote for Trump. Now they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. What is next? Use the Koran to justify why we should not vote for Trump? This is pure rubbish talk now.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Meanwhile, too many conservatives display nothing but shame when attacked by opponents that are far more deserving of shame but have none.

I’ll take a fighter rather than a weeper this time around.

[Shugee]

Your comment is ridiculous. Our country has HUGE problems and the man’s occasional brash comments are what sets you sitting on a pin’s point?

[mkjessup]

Not bad, not bad at all ...

Thank you FRiend, feel free to copy and use it as you see fit.

[Memphis Moe]

What tortured thinking!

Trump is running for President, not Pope.

Evangelicals’ national and local pastors and leaders are in the papers for committing incest, adultery, theft, murder of spouse — you name it.

Apply your legalistic standards to yourself and don’t be pharasaic.

The same God who can send a leader to be a judgement to a nation can send one to be a blessing.

It seems the “evangelicals” would have stayed in Babylon and not gone back to Jerusalem because the ruler that freed them (Cyrus) was uncircumcised.

[Liz]

Seems to me Evangelicals are more politically astute than we give them credit for; they “get it” more quickly than others.

An evangelical pastor on BOR said his congregation rose en masse to applaud Trump’s unequivocal statement that hell “bomb the crap out of Isis.”

Another 200,000 evangelicals downloaded the pastor’s words later.

[Kaslin]

BTTT

[cuban leaf]

He said he does not need forgiveness for anything he has done.

By his own lips, he is not a Christian.

You can’t know a person is a Christian, for a person may say they are one even though they are not. But you can know a person is NOT a Christian if they say things like what Trump said about his own need for the blood of Christ.

I’m not judging the man. I’m just saying he said he doesn’t need the blood of Christ. That makes him, by definition, not a Christian. He’s probably an agnostic.

I divide people into three groups:
1. Found sheep.
2. Lost sheep.
3. Goats.

He is not number one, but may be number 2. Time will tell.

[Popman]

As a evangelical Christian I support Cruz, but have no problem voting for Trump...

Trump isn’t a Christian, (at less by my measure) many former POTUS were not either, so I don’t see an issue here evangelicals voting for him...

[cuban leaf]

Sure it is. Time to bring down the gop. We need a new party.

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Watch Dr. Zivago.

Be careful what you wish for.

[odawg]

from article:

“or his more serious attacks on Mexican immigrants”

Agree. The above distortion of what Trump said was as far as anyone needs to read to get a grasp of what this writer is about.

[Jim Noble]

I cannot understand how evangelicals can back him, especially when we have a number of solid, God-fearing, capable alternatives

Can the candidate who is acceptable to "evangelicals" (whatever that means) get elected?

Very, very doubtful.

[ilovesarah2012]

Well, CNN sure hates him. That’s good enough for me.