Posted on 12/20/2019 2:19:55 PM PST by lightman
Whether Mr. Trump should be removed from office by the Senate or by popular vote next election—that is a matter of prudential judgment. That he should be removed, we believe, is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments.” –Mark Galli, Editor-in-Chief, Christianity Today
We now have it on the authority of the Editor-in-Chief of the magazine founded by Billy Graham and Carl Henry that, if you are a Christian believer, you are disloyal to God, have betrayed the Holy Trinity, and are unfaithful to the Lord Jesus if you (1) oppose the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump or, if he is not removed by impeachment, you (2) support Trump over whichever Democratic candidate opposes him in the 2020 election.
And they said that Pastor Jerry Falwell and the old Christian Right stepped over the line with voter guides and insistence that Christians must vote for Candidate (fill in the blank)!
Let’s see what this implies, taking the views of a not-so-hypothetical Christian whom Galli tells us is a bad, disloyal, disobedient believer (an anti-Christ, if you will).
Suppose that a Christian believer finds persuasive the anti-impeachment arguments of Constitutional scholars such as Jonathan Turley (a liberal Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton), Alan Dershowitz (a liberal Democrat who voted for Clinton) and Ken Starr (an Evangelical who knows a little bit about constitutional law and impeachment). But, then, out of the blue, comes an obscure editor of a Christian magazine who – as far as readers can tell – has no equivalent expertise, and he tells him that he has a high moral obligation as a Christian believer to support not just impeachment, but removal of Trump from office. This is not a matter of prudence, but moral duty, Galli insists.
Why would any informed Christian layperson, who knows about law, politics and history, take seriously what this guy has to say, rather than the arguments by Turley, Dershowitz and Starr?
A counter-argument could be made to the anti-impeachment arguments of Turley, or Dershowitz or Starr. It could be argued that they are irrational and incoherent arguments, although I don’t find them to be so. Take to the pages of Christianity Today and tell us why Starr, as an Evangelical believer, is being disloyal to the author of the Ten Commandments. Have at it. But Galli doesn’t do that, he simply proclaims from the high perch of the CT editorial desk that that Trump should be removed and that the facts supporting impeachment and removal are “unambiguous.”
Oh, really?
That’s bad enough, but Galli insists that it is a Christian moral imperative that “Trump should be removed from office…by popular vote next election.” Set aside ignorance of how Presidents are elected (not by popular vote but the votes of the Electoral College), Galli has now implicitly endorsed whoever Trump’s Democratic opponent is in 2020. One must not, according to Galli, even prudentially weigh and balance the Democratic alternative to Trump – for to do so would violate the moral imperative that Trump be removed.
In other words, Galli tells those who find Trump preferable to Sanders or Warren that they are not faithful Christians. Sojourners Chief Jim Wallis, I am told, has already carried this to its logical conclusion – removal of Trump, he declares, is a matter of faith not politics. Really? Is there enough time to place that in the Creed? Make it an official confession or statement of faith? Call for the excommunication of those heretics who support Trump’s reelection?
Every Democratic candidate publicly favors the legality of abortion until the moment before birth. Each supports public funding for abortions and the repeal of the Hyde amendment. But I am told – upon pain of being charged with being a bad and unfaithful Christian, by the Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today – I must not vote for Trump and that I cannot even contemplate doing so.
Good thing Galli is not the pope and that Christianity Today is not the magisterium. This editorial should disabuse those who are inclined to think that ignorant political fundamentalism and self-righteous moralism is the exclusive province of Trump court theologians. Which means faithful Christians of good will may oppose impeachment and may choose to support Trump’s reelection without worry about whether their souls are in danger, despite the posturing from Evangelical “gate-keepers” writing from the lofty heights of the editor’s desk at Christianity Today.
Our churches are also filled with these kind of pseudo Christians. They are in places of leadership. It’s almost impossible to find a place of worship
without an added agenda that has nothing to do with worship and praise.
Even the song service has an agenda different from worship.
Two suggestions:
Don’t let the ethnicity and language scare you away.
Christianity Today IS a Soros publication!
Not to be believed!
Great!
Revoke their 501c3
That’ll lean ya!
Suck on this, vermin.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7614667/JFKs-long-list-secret-lovers-including-Audrey-Hepburn-revealed-new-book.html
I was OK w the comments until Col. Pavlischek said “It’s a good thing (Mark Galli) isn’t Pope.”
Really, w those wacky Trump hating ideas, how would Galli be different from Senor Bergoglio?
They’ve infiltrated and gotten control of more things than we realize. They are evil beyond belief.
Jesus wept.
Yes, LIEberals are PURE EVIL!
They certainly are. What bothers me most is that so many are unable to discern that.
After watching the EVIL LIEberals conduct their Impeachment hoax, perhaps more will come to understand?
I think so. They’re at least detecting that something isn’t right and good with the Dems.
Decent and good people are seeing the Dems true colors and they don’t like what they’re seeing.
Didn’t read the entire article, but here is the headline on the Bongino Report: “Right Now, Republicans Are Dominating the Voter Registration Game in Florida” (https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/12/20/right-now-republicans-are-dominating-the-voter-registration-game-in-florida-n2558208)
A snippet: “Despite much-publicized efforts by the Florida Democratic Party and its allies, state data shows Republicans in the swing state are far outpacing Democrats when it comes to the raw number of registered voters.
“Between January and September 2019 — the latest month for which data is available — Republicans registered a net 23,084 new voters in the state, compared to 10,731 Democrats, according to the Florida Division of Elections.
“That’s more than a two-to-one net advantage for Republicans.”
I’m not overconfident, and after the New Year will volunteer for Trump here in Jacksonville. We have to work hard to ensure he gets re-elected and the LIEberals lose the House and lose seats in the Senate!
LIEberals are our FRiends, oddly enough. As long as they continue their LIES and THUGGISH MAFIA BEHAVIOR, POTUS wins and the USA wins!
TRUMP/PENCE 2020!
Thanks for that. It’s very encouraging, but you are exactly right about not becoming overconfident. We can put nothing past the evil ones.
Yes, they are their worst enemy if people open their eyes. As I said, their true, ugly colors are showing and good, decent people don’t like what they’re seeing.
Trump has supported religious freedom and the right of Christians and other religions to worship.
ALL the Democrats would force Christians to affirm things like sodomy, abortion, phony homosexual marriage, the demons of transgenderism, etc., or face losing their livelihoods and perhaps prison.
Doesn’t seem that Galli thought about this much.
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