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.
In case you missed it, it was posted on this website. I chose not to ignore it.
It is too late. Ted is not going to win. You should realize this by tomorrow evening.
The article stated that “Trump demeans women and minorities.” Dr. Land, the executive editor of the Christian Post, lost a radio show because of insensitive racial comments. I wasn’t sure you were aware of that.
Personally, I like Dr. Land and I listen to Christian radio on a regular basis. However, I believe they should start focusing on leading people to Christ. That’s why I listen. I don’t care for their political rants all day long.
They failed this time around. They’re too late. That all said, I will likely be voting for Cruz tomorrow but I know that Trump is likely to win. If Trump wins, he will have my support against Hillary.
It’s just one more lie, in an ever-growing list of lies, that he has told. One more bogus, fraudulent bit of BS re: who (and what) the real Donald J. Trump is. (Hint: not a Christian if he never asks for forgiveness from God).
Apparently, even Donald thinks he can do no wrong and is ‘perfect’. I’m starting to wonder if he has a dad/son complex or something. His dad’s middle name is, after all, Christ.
Another screeching Church Lady.
Ben Shapiro is a metrosexual moron.
Additionally, I’ve heard Ted’s father on Christian radio. He’s guarantees us that Ted would be the man that would put the Lord first in every decision.
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In another story, I was disappointed to learn this .......
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“The story he references, first of all, doesn’t focus on “ten years ago,” it covers Ted’s tax returns for a five-year period that ended five years ago. From 2006 to 2010, Ted Cruz made $5,064,248.00 and gave $44,000.00 to charity. That’s 0.86% of his income, or about 8.6% of a tithe. In 2006, when Cruz made “only” $350 grand, he and Heidi weren’t “newly married,” they’d been married for five years, and they weren’t “starting a family,” they didn’t have kids until 2008.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/ted-cruz-lies-right-to-christian-journalists-face-about-tithing/
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This story doesn’t make me think more of him. Again, I may still vote for him tomorrow.
Thanks. I thought I was being called to write a book about this, but hopefully He will accept a few postings on the subject. ;-)
Your diatribe is disgusting.
The Holier than Thou crowd and GOPe.
Most of this holier than thou crowd had no problems voting for John McCain. His philandering and Keating 5 didn’t keep them from voting for him.
Also, if the guy that talks about his religion the most makes the best president, I guess they really liked Jimmy Carter.
Right back atcha, snookums. In spades.
“”I hope he wears his pants all high again and prances around like a gay retard.””
Is that you, Mitt?
Welcome to Free Republic!
that’s only one definition
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Wow. Just when I thought the idiocy spewing from the Trumpists couldn't possibly get any more inane.
I stand corrected.
I prefer Trumpistador, Mitt.
I’m pretty sure they haven’t even begun to go as low as they can go. It appears if the Donald does win the nomination, we may be asked to pick the Donald or leave.
>>>that’s only one definition
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/authoritarian
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/authoritarian
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/authoritarian
The more everyone screams against Donald Trump, except the few people who see the oligarchy in power using our tax dollars for their advantage, the more right we are that he is our only hope out of serfdom.
Trump has awakened the sleeping giant.
Don’t let anyone tell you you are pagan or racist or stupid for supporting Trump. They just want to own you, or they are owned and doing their master’s billing knowingly (like Rush Limbaugh) or unknowingly (like your mom or best friend).
OK
I have no problem with that. I have walked away from more than one forum that had devolved into a leftist circle-jerk cesspool. When freedom of speech is replaced by a fascist “our way or the highway” agenda...it’s time to leave that BS anyway.
Hey, did you hear the latest wacko Trump quote today? It just keeps getting weirder (if that’s even possible)....
“”Oh folks, isn’t it sad? We’ve gotta unify our country, we’ve gotta unify our country,” he said. “But it is fun, and exciting.”
No problem.
It’s not a good word; definitely not a good description for a political leader outside a dictatorship.
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