Posted on 09/06/2021 8:04:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
At the risk of pummeling an already, very dead horse, allow me to ask you once again: so, how is your pro-life vote for Joe Biden looking right now?
As I’ve said repeatedly in the past, I can understand if you could not cast your vote for Donald Trump, despite all the good that he did. In your view, the damage he did and the example he set more than outweighed the positives. And so, as a lover of Jesus and the Word of God, you could not vote for him.
But a vote for Biden, specifically, as a pro-life evangelical? What on earth were you thinking?
During the elections, I strongly challenged your rationale in casting a “pro-life” vote for a strongly, pro-abortion candidate. And I was incredulous when you expressed shock and disappointment when President Biden lived up to his promises and strongly reiterated his pro-abortion sentiments, asking this on February 1, 2021: “Did you not see the radical, destructive, anti-Christian policy decisions he would make?”
That would be like me, as a Trump voter, expressing shock and disappointment when Trump sent out nasty tweets as president. Why on earth should I have been shocked or disappointed? That was his expected behavior.
In the same way, Pres. Biden’s staunch opposition to the pro-life movement should have surprised no one. It is exactly what he said he would do, and it is in harmony with the Democratic platform.
Now, he has taken things one step further, pledging to oppose Texas’ landmark, pro-life bill with all the might of the US government. As the President tweeted on Thursday, “The Supreme Court's overnight ruling is an unprecedented assault on constitutional rights and requires an immediate response. We will launch a whole-of-government effort to respond, looking at what steps we can take to ensure that Texans have access to safe and legal abortions.”
This is the man you voted for. This is the man you helped put in office. This is the man you backed as pro-life Christians. And now he is pledging to fight for abortions with “a whole-of-government effort.” How do you feel about that?
The time for surprise and shock is long since past (and was never, for a split second, justified in the least). Instead, it is time for serious reflection and introspection.
Could it be that your loathing of Trump so colored your thinking that it distorted your view of reality? That, by rejecting the over-exaltation of Trump (which I also opposed) that, in turn, you created a new Joe Biden, a man after your own views and convictions?
And speaking of Donald Trump, have you considered the fact that the Supreme Court’s decision to let this landmark Texas bill stand, representing a watershed moment in the pro-life movement, is largely due to the efforts of Pres. Trump?
After all, all three of his appointees, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett sided with justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas in agreeing to let the bill stand. And while we still do not know how they will vote in the important, forthcoming Dobbs case, we do know how they voted here.
Had Hillary Clinton rather than Donald Trump been president from 2016-2020, the landscape would look radically different.
That’s why so many of us were willing to put up with Trump’s many, obvious failings because of his larger policy accomplishments. It is not an overstatement to say that some of his policies will have a positive impact for a generation or more.
In October 2020, I wrote this to pro-life evangelicals for Biden, “With all respect, I say this: Do not talk to me about ‘biblical balance’ while urging evangelical followers of Jesus to vote for the party that justifies the slaughter of more than 60 million babies in their mother’s womb and will fight tooth and nail to codify Roe v. Wade.
“Any mention of ‘biblical balance’ that doesn’t start with concern for the shedding of innocent blood is so far out of balance it is no longer biblical.”
I repeat those words here today. Your vote for Joe Biden was a vote against the unborn. Own it.
Michael Brown holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and has served as a professor at a number of seminaries. He is the author of 25 books and hosts the nationally syndicated, daily talk radio show, the Line of Fire.
Did you forget the /sarcasm off tag?
No sarscam. Voting makes no difference.
Please explain then.
Justice system is broken. Last federal election was completely stolen and nothing happened.
Time for something else.
Reinforcements? lol
The article is specifically to those evangelicals that voted for Biden. Why did they vote for him? Because he professes to be Catholic? He’s a pedophile. They vote for Pelosi too, because she professes to be Catholic. That’s all the evangelical crowd needs.
Oh, Trump cheated on two wives? He’s terrible and will destroy the country!
That holds us back from purging the country of communism.
I agree that there is no justification for voting for the Left, but since only about 15% of evangelicals did then that hardly justifies your scornful reply that "The sooner the evangelical crowd loses mass voting power as a whole, the better the country will be." For to the contrary, if the country overall voted as the evangelical crowd votes as a block then the conservative candidate would win every time over Western liberals.
They’ll vote for whoever passes themselves off as the “best Christian.”
Which is simply contrary to what is substantiated by the evidence, as instead it has been that of policies. Though conservative policies usually are held by professed Christians, whoever passes themselves off as the “best Christian" must support conservative policies. Thus the question again, what is the reason for the irrational animus against the evangelical crowd that brings one to assert that the country would be be better off without their collective vote?
Aside from black evangelicals
Who did?
It depends on context and tone
Bless her heart can mean just that
It’s not always sarcasm
Those watch girls speak southern videos have kind of skewed this phrase like it’s always a dig
That’s not true in Mississippi or the few southern speaking parts of Tennessee left
I’m in my 50s, native Texan, and it’s been a dig pretty much as long as I can remember. My mom has a similar opinion.
It was seemingly Yankees or folks from out west who moved into the area who adopted it and used it otherwise.
Maybe in different States it has been used it differently though?
If a child stumps there toe
you hug them and say bless your heart
Someone dies and you say of the surviving wife “ bless her heart I cannot imagine what she’s going through”
That’s too examples off the top of my head
I’m only 7th gen white Mississippian my experience with southern vernacular could be suspect
That was sarcasm lol
Did you read the article? They’ll vote for a mafia princess because she says she’s catholic. They’ll vote for a pedophile because he says he’s catholic.
They’ll vote for someone like that over a Buddhist that matches all their political positions.
Anyone pretending to be a schoolmarm to justify voting against Trump is a false Christian to begin with.
Rather, did YOU read the article, as well as the statistical data? They "they’ll" refers to a small minority of evangelicals who would vote for your "mafia princess because she says she’s catholic," while over 80% voted for nominally Christian (he is not) Trump because of his policies. Also, evangelicals usually oppose Catholicism as a faith, and the latter tend to vote 50/50 at best for the conservative candidate.
"They’ll vote for someone like that over a Buddhist that matches all their political positions."
Prove it, since you have nothing. Rather, what the reality shows is that the vast majority of evangelicals vote for the conservative candidate, even for a Mormon (which faith evangelicals oppose as not being Christian) vs. Obama, and which was not due to race.
Aside from just ignorance, maybe the animus is due to believing that evangelicals do not support a violent sectarian anti-authority libertarian uprising or something.
“We have far more than just religion to worry about.”
Define religion please like denominations, Christianity, or whatever else comes to your mind.
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