Posted on 12/23/2019 4:26:59 PM PST by Morgana
Christian radio host Eric Metaxas took on a big job when he agreed to try to explain to CNN's Chris Cuomo on Friday night why an evangelical Christian or a Catholic would vote for Donald Trump and not somehow be a terrible Christian.
Metaxas began by suggesting it's like hiring a pilot. He'd like a pilot who's in a stable marriage, but what if an often-divorced pilot is also an excellent pilot? Cuomo couldn't stand the analogy, because Bill Clinton was impeached for adultery (or so they still claim on CNN).
METAXAS: The day Hillary Clinton was chosen as the standard-bearer for the party and Trump was chosen, most people had a tough choice. It was not, you know, it was not Ronald Reagan and Mondale or whatever it was. It was a tough choice for everybody. So you had to think hard about what matters. And I think that given the track record of Hillary Clinton, a lot of people, like myself, were scared to death at the thought of a Clinton presidency.
He said the Democrats have moved dramatically to the left, and Christians voted (in part) for Trump to preserve religious liberty. This caused Cuomo to slam religious liberty as discrimination: Religious liberty meant I'm a Christian. I don't want to bake your cake. I don't want to look at you. I don't want to sell to you." Metaxas asked if it's fair to demand a Jewish baker make a swastika cake, and Cuomo took offense, claiming you can't compare Nazis to LGBT advocates. But he wasn't. He was illustrating the principle.
Later, Metaxas asked Cuomo if Catholics would be violating their faith to vote for a pro-abortion candidate. Cuomo said no, because we "live in a secular society." So why is demanding evangelicals can't vote for Trump? Cuomo implied Trump's personal behavior should disqualify him among Christian voters.
Cuomo slammed Christian radio host Eric Metaxas as "anti-choice" on abortion. Metaxas said he was "anti-murdering the unborn." It was fun to see Metaxas point out Cuomo's brother Andrew signed a law in New York that legalized third-trimester abortions.
Metaxas said "By the way, you're -- you happen to be related to somebody who took a stand on this about a year ago." Cuomo shot back "All New York State did was codify Roe v. Wade. That's sophistry. That is taking a point and twisting it to upset people of faith. Why do that?" Metaxas said "Because it's true."
Cuomo claimed he's "not a scientist," so he can't proclaim when an unborn baby is human. Metaxas replied "My wife and I go to get an ultrasound, we see the baby, four months along, and we go, That's our baby, that's our daughter." Cuomo said "a lot of candidates who believe what you believe in when it comes to reproductive rights," so "Why get behind a man who makes a mockery of your faith?" Metaxas replied "I certainly don't think -- most people that I know do not think he makes a mockery of our faith."
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Socialism is substitute Christianity.
It is trying to earn heaven.
Get Real!
He hates Trump AND he hates Evangelicals.
This is a two-fer for Bloomberg.
What would this guy know about faith?
"It's the judges, stupid"
Brilliant reasoning Chris. Obviously God desires open season on baby slaughter it’s right there in the Bible. Gotta get Trump outta the way. Surely any REAL Christian could see how having a strong pro life President like Trump is evil. Right Chris?
CNN for mental midgets.
Objectively speaking, Cuomo is a rather stupid individual.
I have olympic level gophers.
They can burrow under bird-netting and still get their snack.
Please do not insult gophers on this site by comparing them to Cuomo’s brains.
The media have all turned into snakes in the garden.
That bizarre rationale that a Christian should have no problem voting for a pro abortion candidate because we live in a secular society is the same lame argument that his father Mario used. Cardinal O’Connor who was a man of true faith, cut up his father regularly for the hypocrisy. Chris Cuomo is too stupid to come up with his own rationale to justify his neo pagan barbarism.
President Trump has never mocked Christianity, at least not while I have listened to him while he has been president. Cuomo is an idiot.
FakeNewsMSM devotes an inordinate amount of time to trying to hive off Trump voters from groups that usually vote Republican - such as evangelicals - plus from demographics that normally vote Dem, but are potential Trump voters, in particular, African Americans.
for their work, the DNC should surely pay them!
What a truly great and heart wrenching scene among dozens of them in The Godfathers I and II.
A man who thought he should have gotten something not based on merit but on something else and was screwed. A man so naive and gullible that he couldn’t see that he was being completely used. A man bathed in self pity and self absorption that in the end all that mattered was him.
Sounds like a D voter. And about as smart as one.
What would a demonic disciple of Satan know about the Christianity?
To NOT support POTUS Trump would be to condone devil worship by supporting/condoning the abortion god, Molech.
Years ago a friend worked for a public institution in New York and had to deal with Governor Mario Cuomo, and he also knew the entire family from church. He said of them, the sons are half as smart as their father but they make up for that by being twice as mean.
why would this guy agree to an interview with Fredo?
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