Posted on 09/27/2019 10:30:14 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Liberals have a tendency to wring their hands at the strong support President Donald Trump he of the three wives and multiple affairs, and a tendency to engage in exceedingly un-Christian-like behavior at the slightest provocation continues to receive from the white evangelical community. White evangelical support for Donald Trump is still at 73 percent, and more than 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for him in 2016.
But focusing on the disconnect between Trump's personal actions and the moral aspects of their faith misses the issue that keeps their support firm: racism. Modern evangelicals' support for this president cannot be separated from the history of evangelicals' participation in and support for racist structures in America.
Evangelicals, in religious terminology, believe that Jesus Christ is the savior of humanity. They have a long history in America, and include a number of different groups, including Baptists, Pentecostals, Methodists and nondenominational churches. After the schism among the Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians in the 1850s over slavery, conservative denominations like the Southern Baptists who defended slavery through their readings of scripture came into being. And because the primary schisms between northern and southern denominations was over the issues of slavery, in the pre- and post-Civil War years, African American Protestants formed their own denominations.
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I clearly have a minority view:
I did not hesitate to vote for Donald Trump, and would not hesitate to vote for him again. I have no moral dilemma, since I was and am voting for a secular, political office, not any ecclesiastical position.
I do not consider him any moral paragon, and, as someone who has served in ministry, would not permit him to have any authority in a congregation. Comparing him to the Clintons, with a trail of scores of dead bodies in their wake, is a very low bar.
The Bible speaks plainly about living a moral life as a believer, about being the husband of one wife, and speaks plainly about confession and repentance.
I have seen no evidence of Donald Trump truly confessing and repenting - ever. He simply does what he likes, justifies it, and moves on.
Excusing him as just another fallen sinner is a cop out. One might as well say, Go and sin some more; one might as well say, Sin so that Grace may abound.
It is also a thorough insult to those who strive to live a sanctified life, as service to God, and witness to others.
The real implication of excusing Donald Trump’s lifestyle carte blanche while portraying him as a devout Christian is that anyone who really lives a sanctified life is just a chump.
The opinion of another racist, neo-Nazi professor of African studies.
What a LOAD of HORSE CRAP.
Yes I hope he is a Christian but am not assured of it.
I was unsure about voting for him but voted enthusiastically for Pence who I see as a true brother.
I have been delighted with his performance and see him as a great friend of the church whether he is actually saved or not. My number one issue was religious freedom and in that area he GETS it.
He will have my enthusiastic support in 2020 and I pray for him frequently. I try to get my Christian friends on board and have seen some
positive turning.
I think that when unbelievers say evangelical they mean Bible believers.
Yeah, such minor provocations as calling him a liar, trying to impeach him, saying his 12 year old son DESERVES to be placed in a cage with pedophiles.
Yeah, that's overreacting.
Putz
I disagree with you, often, and on on many things. On and in this sentiment, we are UTTERLY in agreement.
G_d Bless.
Of course.
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