Posted on 05/09/2016 12:09:31 PM PDT by C19fan
Pastor Gary Fuller planned a Sunday service focused on involving Christians in the political process and featuring a speech by the pastor father of Sen. Ted Cruz. But after a week in which Cruz abruptly dropped out of the race, his father scrapped his appearance here and Donald Trump became the Republican Party’s standard-bearer, a dismayed Fuller kept the political portion short.
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I’m an evangelical that voted for Trump.
There are more of us than even voted for Cruz.
This article is BS.
They didn’t feel abandoned when we had a pro-gay, pro-choice Mormon who was “proud” to have “inspired the ACA (ObamaCare)”? Seriously?
God himself often used imperfect men for His purpose. The Apostle Paul started as one of Christianity's most zealous enemies. He approved the stoning of Stephen (Acts 7:58), and was a merciless persecutor of the church. Yet he was hand-picked by Jesus Christ to become the gospel's most ardent messenger.
God used the gifts He had given Paul, among them, a brilliant mind and a commanding knowledge of philosophy and religion. Paul’s clear, understandable explanation of the gospel made his letters to early churches the foundation of Christian theology.
And God can use the gifts he's blessed Trump with as well if He chooses.
Funny as most seem to have voted for DJT.
Evangelicals feel abandoned by GOP after Trump’s ascent”
No, Ted Cruz crybabies feel that.
And aren’t these guys supposed to be the “true anti-establishment conservatives”?
Why would they care about the GOP?
This evangelical is feeling better about this election cycle than at any time since 1984. I think that a number of pastors out there ought be more concerned with their flock’s spiritual security and health than hanging out in the palace on the hill. Just a thought.
“I feel abandoned by the GOP because they tried to foist a guy with a theology which is seven parts Benny Hinn, two parts Jehova’s Witness, and one part David Koresh off as some kind of Christian political messiah.”
Yes. That conflicted mishmash is repugnant to most believers. Very few will sign on with Seven Mountain Mandate Dominionism, and I’m still waiting for someone to point out the priests and kings clause of the Constitution, for all of us who do subscribe to original intent.
Does the article list all the wonderful things that Republicans have accomplished for Evangelicals over the last 15 years?
WashPost seems to miss that evangelicals picked Trump over Cruz and the others. They are not left out.
I think some Evangelicals don’t like Trump because he’s not “nice-y nice” and he has said some (what they would consider) rude things. They liked Cruz because he was “nice” and claimed to be an Evangelical, and because of his conservatism.
The thing some people don’t realize is, we are not voting for a Pastor. We’re voting for a President.
I think it very telling of Cruz’s father’s character (lack of) that he would scrap (bail on) his visit because Cruz suspended.
Is there no longer any political conversation to be had with Cruz out?
” The occupation is put out feelers for a new narrative to suppress the vote. “
NAILED it.
The remnants of Puritanism. Most American evangelicals have evolved from their spiritual roots in a good way.
Rush explained today that the MSM is now and until Hillary is elected writing false stories in order to split Conservatives by pitting them against each other rather than focus on Hillary.
While I’m waiting for the Rapture, I’ll vote for Trump.
Trump won the Evangelical vote in most of the primaries. This is a bunch of BS.
Glad you two posted. I feel the same way as you guys. Nothing screams “fraud” to me more than the guy who tries to tout himself as the most pious among men. Cruz’s never ending insistence that everyone “do the REAL Christian thing” (and wink wink, nudge nudge by that he means he’s the MOST Christian) became really off-putting to me. Especially starting in Iowa when his campaign basically came out of the gate scraping the bottom of the barrel of sleazy tactics.
I’m glad he’s out and we can move on, but I’m sure he’ll be back selling the same phony act the next cycle he thinks he can get anywhere, and the whole frustrating situation will just replay itself.
I went back to calling myself a fundamentalist years ago, because evangelical is such a big umbrella, it could include anything—including heretics.
12 mountains is fringe even for Pentecostals. It is disturbingly similar to Mormonism (modern prophets proclaiming new doctrines, a theocratic government system, the Constitution is divinely inspired).
No wonder they were comfortable with Beck (a Mormon) being the spiritual spearhead on the campaign, and with Beck claiming Cruz to be the fulfillment of the Mormon White Horse prophecy.
Then there’s the whole David Barton thing. Again, probably cost Cruz as many votes as he gained.
I suspect Cruz’s religious beliefs (or at least the beliefs of his ardent followers) lost Cruz as many votes as it gained him.
With all due respect to evangelicals, low-information evangelicals are barking up the wrong tree imo. They don’t seem to understand that, regardless what FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices waned everybody to think about Jefferson’s “wall of separation,” the states, not the feds, have the 10th Amendment-protected power to address religious issues, power now limited by the 14th Amendment.
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