A good article on faith based politics.
During the campaign I had numerous discussions were I had to frequently remind people we were voting for President not pastor.
Many Christians did not vote for Trumpin 16 but many of the ones I know that did not, they would walk over glass to vote for him in 2020.
Trump in a landslide in 2020.
The conflict goes back much further than that. This is just the latest chapter.
In this chapter, the split may go deeper, and divide Evangelicals against themselves, rather than against mainstream or liberal denominations, but it may be shallower, more about Trump's behavior and style than about religion or politics.
One could make the counter-argument that everything is about religion and everything is about politics, but in this case there are a lot of people in between, people who support Trump on the issues but don't approve of his behavior or style.
People just don’t get it. The choice was between a liberal-stacked supreme court or a conservative-stacked supreme court. Should I, as a Christian, have voted for Clinton?
We have to honestly admit to a large dose of pragmatism on the part of evangelicals voting Trump. The alternative was Hillary, and Christians were willing to overlook 3 marriages, profanity, various forms of unsavory things to avoid another Clinton Obama term.
Turns out his policies have been marvelous. The EPA has been reduced by 1/3, people!
In 2020 the choice will be starker, as the dem nominee will be a neo Stalinist. Trump it is, warts and all.
And so apart from the Rapture, grape juice and KJV hyperbole, you became a liberated liberal, denying what the NT church believed about Creation, and how they would class “Hollywood movies,” holding hands with your girlfriend in youth group, and the public baring of the legs of ladies?
If you grew up that way too you’ll recognize it
I was discipled in a FBC for 6 years after leaving Rome, thanks be to God, and will i disagree about the Pentecostal gifts, the time of resurrection of the just, and eternal security, no class of churches I know of had a higher degree of commitment to purity and quality preaching and evangelism of young and old the they.
Katha Pollitt writes of the “discrediting of evangelical Christianity” as being a “good thing” to come out of Trump’s presidency. “They’ve sold their souls to Donald Trump, who has partaken freely of practically every vice and depravity known to man. Urged on by their leaders, 81 percent of white evangelicals voted for Trump—more than voted for George W. Bush, an actual evangelical—and now everyone is laughing at them. It’s about time.”
Which is simply absurd, for we did not vote for Trump as a church pastor, or due to his personal purity, but due to his commitment to policies important to us, and refusal to cower to the liberal politically correct, who are substantially more immoral in their personal and public morality. And as an alternative to a supporter of foundation immorality which was being foisted upon them, and attacking and punishing them for opposing it, and was a friend of those who denigrate them as homophobic, Islamophobic, xenophobic, misogynist hatters who will not submit to the politically correct censoring of the “Left,” and which works to seduce votes with the demonic victim-entitlement mentality in promoting a welfare state which increases reliance upon a ever-growing regulatory government