Seems too many academics have entirely too much time to ponder on their hands...
Posted on 02/11/2021 9:07:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Religions shouldn’t be considered responsible for the misdeeds of their followers, right? That has been the consistent establishment media line on Islam since 9/11, and before that, and it has been enshrined in public policy on both sides of the Atlantic and become axiomatic in the West’s approach to terrorism.
But wait. Issac Bailey is a columnist and a professor of Public Policy at Davidson College in North Carolina. He writes in Newsweek: “If Christianity can convince so many to follow a man like Trump almost worshipfully—or couldn’t at least help millions discern the unique threat Trump represented—what good is it really?” So now apparently the followers of a religion do reflect on the religion itself – if the religion is Christianity, and the evil follower is Donald Trump.
Bailey explains: “I’m struggling to hold fast to my Christianity—because of Donald Trump. Not exactly Trump himself, though, but the undying support of the self-professed Christian pro-life movement that he enjoyed. My faith is in tatters because of that alliance. And I am constantly wondering if I am indirectly complicit because I dedicated my life to the same Jesus the insurrectionists prayed to in the Capitol building after ransacking it and promising to kill those who didn’t do their bidding.”
Faith in tatters! Heavens to Betsy! Yet this poor lost soul Issac Bailey is manifesting confused thinking in all sorts of ways. Trump is not and never claimed to be the leader of a Christian sect. Millions of people didn’t support Trump because of Christianity, but because of the policies he stood for and implemented.
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Seems too many academics have entirely too much time to ponder on their hands...
And yet “beheadings” DO “target Muslims (and their Christian victims) .... right in the back of their necks.
He’s struggling to follow Christ because of Donald Trump?
His Christianity is not Biblical.
I don’t think that this guy’s faith was too strong to begin with if it’s shaken by the political leanings of the people who represent him.
I’m from Chicago. “My alderman disappointed me. I no longer believe in God.”
Absurd.
So-called academics are often the most narrow-minded, reactionary and stupid people you will ever meet.
“this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.” Shakespeare.
Oh Gosh! Beheadings! Bring ‘em on! What’s wrong with that?
This “academic” is a moron who should NOT be teaching.
Typical of the run-of-the-mill academic.
Knows everything but doesn’t know what to do with it.As president, President Trump demonstrated many times over that he supports the freedom of speech and religion, without which religion would be harassed.
Not only by his personal actions as president, but especially by his judicial appointments.
To mu knowledge, every judge he appointed believes in the 1st Amendment right to free speech and religious freedom without regard to denomination, church or belief.
The professor is a fool.
It simply amazes that such an intelligent and highly educated man can be so unwise, naive, and foolish. Sadly, in our day, common sense has become less and less common as ideology’s blinders have replaced it.
He also is reading history - if he has indeed done so - with intensely and mistakenly rose-hued lenses, for they are in fact crimson-hued, stained crimson with the martyred blood of thousands - at least! - and more probably millions who have been slain in the name of Islam, most of whom were Christian.
The difference is simply this: Those slain in the name of Allah were slain in accordance with Islam’s teaching. Those slain in the name of Christ were slain in contravention of Christianity’s teaching.
“Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.”
― Aldous Huxley
This man doesn’t believe in God now?
He should read Shakespeare. One of God’s greatest gifts to humanity.
Michaelangelo, Dante, Da Vinci...can’t think of another right now except for (as a lawyer and avid reader) ... John Grisham. LOL!
This thread is full of references that I need to write down!
What play or poem is that from?
Hamlet Act 3 scene 1
If I wanted a reason to struggle with my faith because of a politician, it would be because Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi still receive the Eucharist after declaring that the unborn deserve to be killed on the whims of the born.
And yes, that makes me “Christian pro-life,” not “self-professed,” but rather GOD professed.
I would say this man lost his hold on Christianity long ago.
If he were a Christian, he could not be a member of the Democrat Party that allies itself with Planned Parenthood and defends the murder of the unborn.
If he is a practicing Christian the cognitive dissonance in his head must be deafening.
Apparently the professor has a problem with separating “his religion” from “his state”, as is very common on the left. Religion is necessary only when to advance leftist causes.
Professor could have written that he was having problems with his politics because of his Christianity challenges him to love thy neighbor, and forgive those who hurt you. Thus his politic views are causing his struggle.
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