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‘She Hates Me’: WaPo Reveals Why Evangelicals Jumped Aboard The Trump Train
The Daily Caller ^ | July 22, 2018 | Chris White, Energy Reporter

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 star’s conduct. Their answer was short and to the point.

Members of the First Baptist church of Luverne, Alabama say former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 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 church’s pastor, Clay Crum. Trump has demonstrated a willingness to hang tough with Christians, Drew said.

Drew weighed Trump’s character with what he thought is Clinton’s willingness to destroy his way of life. The choice was clear, he told WaPo reporters, who attended one of Crum’s sermons to get a lay of the land. Trump’s “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 don’t 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 president’s 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 Crum’s 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.


TOPICS: Charismatic Christian; Evangelical Christian; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
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To: Bryanw92

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....


21 posted on 07/22/2018 2:43:58 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: TomGuy

Agreed. That comment cut deep in middle America.


22 posted on 07/22/2018 2:44:20 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: TomGuy

Watershed Moment.


23 posted on 07/22/2018 2:45:01 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Whose Gonna Fill Their Shoes...?)
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To: Ikeon

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.


24 posted on 07/22/2018 2:48:52 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


25 posted on 07/22/2018 2:51:30 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: VRWCarea51

We can no longer hold Papal elections. They require smoke and smoking is bad, mmmk? Worserer than Satan!


26 posted on 07/22/2018 2:54:48 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbgT70vuyAQ

She hates me...


27 posted on 07/22/2018 2:56:04 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Still Thinking

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..


28 posted on 07/22/2018 3:02:30 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
1. Hillary hates the country.

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.

29 posted on 07/22/2018 3:02:47 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
......in the Winthrop Poll, fewer than half of evangelicals escribe Trump as ‘godly’ or ‘moral’ suggesting
that Trump's strength with these groups comes not from modeling pious behavior, but from Christians viewing
Trump as a bulwark against a culture that they feel is increasingly hostile to them....

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.

30 posted on 07/22/2018 3:09:33 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If a fireman comes to save your children from a burning house, you do not care that he used to be a Democrat.

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

31 posted on 07/22/2018 3:09:43 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is fixing the world's problems just to distract us from Russia.)
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To: Bryanw92

I give you that. But it is easily seen through. Trump is pretty consistent in his actions.


32 posted on 07/22/2018 3:11:08 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


33 posted on 07/22/2018 3:11:17 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Was an easy choice for me. Clinton is evil incarnate.....as is the party she belongs to.

Trump's not.

34 posted on 07/22/2018 3:13:08 PM PDT by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
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To: a fool in paradise

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?


35 posted on 07/22/2018 3:13:25 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Compare them character to character. I still choose PDJT.


36 posted on 07/22/2018 3:33:20 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: TomGuy

I think it’s the remark that got enough fence-sitters off the fence to vote for Trump and ensure her defeat.


37 posted on 07/22/2018 3:45:32 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Exactly.

Was Cyrus King of the Persian Empire a righteous Jew?

Of course not.

Yet Yahweh used him to restore His People.


38 posted on 07/22/2018 3:50:50 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I didn’t vote for a pastor. I voted for a president. I like the results.


39 posted on 07/22/2018 3:52:06 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (Stupidity kills. Just not often enough.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


40 posted on 07/22/2018 3:58:34 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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