Posted on 02/20/2016 6:34:27 AM PST by GilGil
"For those of us who are evangelical leaders and pastors, we are led by listening to the spirit of an individual, and we also believe that through the Holy Spirit, [it] will reveal to us whether someone is truthful or not," said Burns. "All of us, especially after that first meeting, and especially us in the African-American evangelical community, [we] came out believing that this person is legit."
Many supporters are convinced that his consistent popularity (in New Hampshire he garnered 35 percent of Republican votes, with runner-up Ohio. Gov. John Kasich at 16 percent) will carry him to another victory in South Carolina's upcoming primary. As the billionaire's campaign fights in earnest for the evangelical vote, national polls place him solidly in the lead. Yet the issue of race will loom large, particularly in a general election: 72 percent of black Protestant churchgoers identify as evangelical or born-again, yet 82 percent of black Protestants - like blacks more generally - lean Democratic compared with just 11 percent who align with the Republican Party.
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They thought the same of Obama.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Everything has changed since 2007, everything.
That would be the end of the Democratic Party.
And Reagan.
A Pew research pole said that 57% of evangelicals do not believe that Jesus is the only way to God. If that many can be so wrong about their own doctrine, there can be absolutely no reliability in there political judgment either. I put no immediate confidence in labels like ‘evangelical’ or ‘born again’. Talk is cheap.
It’s not as if Pew were a credible operation with a history of rational methodology.
Look at it’s history, and how it came to exist.
Obamna pandered and offered free stuff. Trump tells the truth and offers the opportunity of a job.
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