Posted on 07/22/2018 2:24:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Washington Post asked locals at a southern Baptist church in Alabama why they voted for President Donald Trump despite that the former reality TV stars conduct. Their answer was short and to the point.
Members of the First Baptist church of Luverne, Alabama say former Secretary of State Hillary Clintons campaign for president was a no-go for them, according to a report Saturday from WaPo.
She hates me, Terry Drew, a member of the church, said of Clinton, who lost Alabama by almost 700,000 votes.
She has contempt for people like me, and Clay, and people who love God and believe in the Second Amendment. I think if she had her way it would be a dangerous country for the likes of me, he said, referring to people like the churchs pastor, Clay Crum. Trump has demonstrated a willingness to hang tough with Christians, Drew said.
Drew weighed Trumps character with what he thought is Clintons willingness to destroy his way of life. The choice was clear, he told WaPo reporters, who attended one of Crums sermons to get a lay of the land. Trumps going to stick to me, while Clinton will look the other way, Drew added.
I hate it, he acknowledged. My wife and I talk about it all the time. We rationalize the immoral things away. We dont like it, but we look at the alternative, and think it could be worse than this.
Other members of the church shared similar sentiment.
Jan Carter, another parishioner, said supporting Trump was the only moral thing to do.
You can say righteously I do not support him because of his moral character but you are washing your hands of what is happening in this country, she said, adding that America is slipping toward a civil war on our shores.
Crum, for his part, said supporting Trump is not easy, especially when the president does not demonstrate a keen understanding of Biblical law.
There are times when Christians have to stand up, he said.
Trump is an immoral person doing what Crum considers moral: nominating conservative judges and pushing anti-abortion policies. The presidents victory over Clinton convinced Crum and other members of something else, too. It encouraged them that we do still have some political power in this country, said Crum.
Recent polls suggest that Crums sentiment is prevalent in other states that tilted heavily toward Trump.
More than 6o percent of South Carolina Republicans said Trump was moral in a Winthop University poll conducted in April. Only 51 percent of evangelicals said that term was somewhat inaccurate in describing the president.
The fact that fewer than half of evangelicals overall would describe Trump as godly or moral suggests that his strength with these groups comes not from modeling pious behavior, but from them viewing him as a bulwark against a culture that they feel is increasingly hostile to them, Winthrop Poll director Scott Huffmon said in the poll.
An immoral person can do moral or immoral things just as a moral person can do moral or immoral things. The guy does not know what he is talking about. Look at Samson, David, Moses, Jezebel, Jeptaph, and on and on....
Agreed. That comment cut deep in middle America.
Watershed Moment.
I’m.no Bible scholar, but have often heard, that God used imperfect, and sometimes flawed people, towards His goals.
Speaking of religion, it’s hard to listen to Hillary’s professing to be such a strong Methodist and all that. As an Alinsky liberal, her holy book is Rules For Radicals. Point is, at least to me, Hillary comes across as insincere in talking of her alleged faith.
Did none of these Christians answer thus?
That was his past, Jesus Christ changes people. All these allegations are from 12 to 20 years old.
I heard him preach in Rose garden. He is a Christian and my take is he is a new creature in Christ.
We can no longer hold Papal elections. They require smoke and smoking is bad, mmmk? Worserer than Satan!
Reading... The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics...by Salena Zito and Brad Todd
People she interviewed so far were mostly first time voters for president..
they disliked D.C. both Dems and gop..
Voted Trump because he was an outsider..
Many had not voted in tweet years
The others were democrats ...and said the democrats did nothing for them..worked against them..
2. We are the country.
3. Draw your own conclusion.
I mean, let's face it, "Why do you miserable oppressor Nazi bigots think we don't like you?" is not a particularly informed question, and it's taken them 20 months even to come to that point. Now it's "We don't understand, we've accused Trump of all of the things that sway your little pin heads and still you support him. You must all be hypocrites." And that pretty much brings us up to date.
Christian know Christ admonishes us "to judge not lest you be judged."
No one but Trump knows what's in his heart. Christ gives everyone a second chance......
Luke 15:7 I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents
than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.
You are morally right to prefer this fireman to the arsonist that wants to throw more gas on the fire.
-- My genius analogy for why Christians enthusiastically support Trump
I give you that. But it is easily seen through. Trump is pretty consistent in his actions.
They didn’t have a choice is why they had prayer chains praying a full month before the election and turned out in record numbers.
Trump's not.
Pointing out that one candidate is more immoral that the other is hardly a good thing.
What would be so wrong with having a candidate that isn’t a serial adulterer for once?
Compare them character to character. I still choose PDJT.
I think it’s the remark that got enough fence-sitters off the fence to vote for Trump and ensure her defeat.
Exactly.
Was Cyrus King of the Persian Empire a righteous Jew?
Of course not.
Yet Yahweh used him to restore His People.
I didn’t vote for a pastor. I voted for a president. I like the results.
Is the lightbulb going on for the leftists? Not a way to get Christians to vote for your candidates if you categorize them as “deplorable.” Although I would say it would be an affront to God for any Christian to vote for a Democrat since the Democrats public denied God 3 times at their national convention and removed Him from their platform. Democrats are the party of sexual perversion and abomination.
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