Posted on 02/29/2016 12:57:24 PM PST by Heartlander
Editors' Note: The Christian Post has not taken a position on a political candidate before today. We are making an exception because Trump is exceptionally bad and claims to speak for and represent the interests of evangelicals.
We the senior editors of The Christian Post encourage our readers to back away from Donald Trump.
As the most popular evangelical news website in the United States and the world, we feel compelled by our moral responsibility to our readers to make clear that Donald Trump does not represent the interests of evangelicals and would be a dangerous leader for our country.
Trump claims to be a Christian, yet says he has never asked for forgiveness.
While God, in His wondrous creativity, has drawn people to Himself through the saving grace of Jesus Christ in many different ways, there are certain non-negotiable actions needed to become a Christian: One must repent of their sins and follow Christ as Lord and Savior. Trump doesn't talk this way, even when urged to.
Further, his words and actions do not demonstrate the "fruit of the spirit."
Trump is a misogynist and philanderer. He demeans women and minorities. His preferred forms of communication are insults, obscenities and untruths. While Christians have been guilty of all of these, we, unlike Trump, acknowledge our sins, ask for forgiveness and seek restitution with the aid of the Holy Spirit and our community of believers.
On Sunday, Trump's apparent reluctance to disavow David Duke until late in the day was extremely distasteful. The Ku Klux Klan is an evil, unholy movement representing the worst of America. Anyone who will not immediately denounce their support is unfit to be president.
Trump claims he will "protect Christians." We already have a Protector, and He is not Trump.
The grievances of Trump's supporters are legitimate. Politicians for too long have promised to represent the best interests of all Americans before an election, only to represent the interest of their cronies after the election. But Trump's followers are being fooled into believing that he can help them.
Trump is promising many things that he cannot possibly deliver, but the most frightening part is Trump's stated willingness to ignore the authority of the Supreme Court, Congress and the U.S. Constitution if he were to become president.
Trump has been surrounded by controversy for decades because of his untruthfulness, questionable business practices, reported association with organized crime, and abrupt changes in fundamental positions. Many of these controversies involve defrauding the working class and decisions that compromised American workers. He has taken a political position both pro and con on virtually every subject and major political party. This should give evangelicals great pause and concern about supporting such a mercurial and chameleon-like candidate. Past performance is the best predictor of future behavior.
Trump said he wants to make it easier to sue newspapers that criticize him. When it was pointed out to him Sunday that he would have to amend the Constitution's freedom of speech and freedom of press clauses, Trump was unmoved, simply noting that England has weaker protections for the press.
Many evangelicals, including our friends, have criticized Trump on our own opinion page and elsewhere, such as Matt Barber, Dr. Michael Brown, Kristi Burton Brown, Susan Stamper Brown, Rev. Mark Creech, Wallace Henley, E.W. Jackson, Max Lucado, Dr. Russell Moore and Rep. Reid Ribble. If Trump were to become president we fear he would use the levers of government power to silence them and others.
We are already concerned about the expansion of executive power to dangerous and unconstitutional extremes in the current and previous administrations. Plus, in just the past year we have seen Christians put out of business and jailed for living according to the dictates of their faith.
Trump, an admirer of Vladimir Putin and other dictatorial leaders, may claim to be your friend and protector now, but as his history indicates, without your full support he will turn on you, and use whatever power is within his means to punish you.
This is a critical time in American history and we call on all Christians to pray for personal repentance, divine forgiveness and spiritual awakening for our nation. It is not the time for Donald Trump.
Checked all of your links. They were all about church organizations that are helping the administration distribute refugees into the United States. Once again, if you’re referring to “human trafficking” as facilitating the distribution of refugees into the U.S., I would agree with you. If you are talking about finding and helping those who have been trafficked, I will respectfully disagree with you.
They made quite a few valid points.
None of which Trump supporters can refute because he said and did those things himself.
What did they say about Trump that isn’t True.
Name one thing.
They are not talking to you.
They are talking to their subscribers who may still have minds, not Trump zombies.
What did they say about Trump that isn’t True.
Name one thing.
That God hasn’t chosen him. It is obvious that the hand of the Lord is upon Donald Trump.
It is hard to kick against the goads, Saul.
and it’s a disgrace.
What I read in this article was totally un-Christian.
Pious effetes with their slick magazines in their Crystal Cathedrals that deign to instruct their inferiors.
Born as Richard Duane "Rick" Warren has an estimated net worth of $25 million. He is an author, evangelical Christian pastor. Warren is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church. It is an evangelical megachurch located in Forest, California.So tired of it.Warren has been invited to speak at national and international forums, including the United Nations, the World Economic Forum in Davos, the African Union, the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, TED, and Time’s Global Health Summit. He has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) since 2005.
3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Matthew 7:3-5
There is not a post on this page that addresses any of the areas of concern mentioned in this article.
Just mindless bashing of a Christian magazine.
Clue: They are not talking to you. They are talking to their subscribers whom, one can hope, do not worship Mr. Trump but still worship God.
Bashing Christians is not really an answer to all the concerns mentioned in the newsletter.
But not one Trump supporter in 50 posts has even attempted to defend Trump for the charges.
I spoke with God this morning. He told me that he did not choose Donald Trump and, in fact, he does not care for Donald Trump.
That’s how con men stay in business. Way too many people want to be scammed.
Trump has been conning people all his life.
He’s created a community of willing victims who are determined to love him, worship him, in fact.
They will be dealt with, not in the afterlife but right here if they manage to elect the Supreme Con Man.
No shortcuts. Nobody can subscribe to a fantasy such as this that denies reality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeenwVyIKz4&list=RD4Buj0lMJX80&index=33
What does Hillary Clinton have to do with Trump’s many failings.
Yes, she is worse than Trump and
yes, that is the very best thing I can say about Trump.
Aye, but the holy hand of democracy is about to lay that particular lie bare.
Why do you deny the evidence in the vote? Why is it that God is obviously working to raise this man up and you say the opposite? Can God not use our system of government to accomplish his will? Does God not place the government powers in place according to his good pleasure?
It’s time you asked forgiveness for your hubris...
Whatever their age or income, Trump supporters are the Sheeple we’ve been warned about.
They have not discussed on item listed in the newsletter that looks very bad for The Donald.
Not one.
Spare me.
I went to their website and identified their leadership. I know who they are and the politics they spew all day long.
They’ve pushed Cruz about as far as they can. He’s not going to win. Like it or not, Trump will be the nominee. Should they just continue to tear him down when the opponent is going to be Hillary Clinton?
It is fair for me to be critical of the article when I am able to identify the source. Dr. Richard Land, Executive Editor, bashes Trump all day long but he doesn’t present any viable options.
Your post is what was mindless and ignorant.
Exactly. This is a magazine devoted to subscribers who presumably agree with the faith as written therein.
They neither sent the magazine to you nor forced it into your hands at the airport.
They have not asked for your money or your support.
They are simply giving advice to their subscribers.
Dang good advice if you ask me.
How about right after The Don asks for forgiveness.
He has said himself he never has and doesn’t need to.
Nice dodge.
Did they force this magazine into your cold dead hands.
You can ignore it or not.
He does present a viable option.
Ted Cruz.
Dodge? You are dodging. Did Trump say that or not?
Sure.
What does that have to do with you ignoring God’s will as expressed via our primary process?
And, also, what business is it of yours that he ask forgiveness? Are you the judge of Donald Trump? Let him stand or fall on his own.
Right now he’s doing just fine.
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