Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Trump is a personality flawed champion for believers and traditionalists. So was Constantine a flawed champion of Christians. The thing about Trump was he is a fighter which is more than can be said, except with the possible exception of Cruz, of the rest of the GOP candidates for POTUS.
1 posted on 12/08/2016 3:47:19 AM PST by C19fan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-34 next last

2016 when finally we punched back twice as hard.


2 posted on 12/08/2016 3:49:07 AM PST by C19fan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

Yeah,yeah, that’s it....it’s the SCOTUS fault....
poor Hilda


3 posted on 12/08/2016 3:51:17 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

Hillary Clinton and RINOs cost Democrats the presidency.


4 posted on 12/08/2016 3:52:58 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

5 posted on 12/08/2016 3:57:14 AM PST by Bobalu (See liberal MSM heads explode...make Milo Yiannopoulos Trump's new Press Secretary!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

More rationalizing. “We have the right policies but you rubes are too dumb to understand.”


6 posted on 12/08/2016 3:58:31 AM PST by IamConservative (Hillary walks while 100's of teens get prosecuted for mishandling Miley Cyrus MP3's..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan
Not bad for a thrice-married adulterer of no discernible faith.

The author needs a jar of vasoline for his butthurt.

7 posted on 12/08/2016 3:58:38 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

>>> Trump did significantly better than the overtly religious Mitt Romney and the overtly evangelical George W. Bush. <<<

It is called discernment. Not only of the Republican candidate, but of the Democratic candidate. In the case of Romney, the “overtly” part of the description reminds me of the parable of givers who make a big fanfare with their offering...they already have their reward.

Like Trump, Bush too had his personality flaws that Christians recognize and forgive. Throw Hillary into the mix, and one can see where some of Trump’s support comes from. I personally find God’s intervention in this election cycle to be darn near undeniable. That He can use a flawed man like Trump to His ends, is a common theme in Scripture. I had no problem reconciling the seeming contradictions and voting for this man. I stood out at the polling place on election day, sign in hand, which is something I did neither for Bush nor Romney.


8 posted on 12/08/2016 4:00:44 AM PST by XEHRpa
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

I’m going to get flamed for this but that’s OK.

I think Trump is a Christianized pagan who is not personally redeemed but apparently under the influence of his wife has moved towards the Lord as he has gotten older. Romney is a heretic. He is not merely a Mormon but a Temple Mormon.

In such a case I’ll vote for the pagan every time


10 posted on 12/08/2016 4:01:20 AM PST by Fai Mao (PIAPS for Prison 2016)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan
In short, many religious Christians of a traditionalist bent believed that liberals not only reduce their deeply held beliefs to bigotry, but want to run them out of their jobs, close down their stores and undermine their institutions.

Well, Mr. Bernstein, you provided a litany of examples of exactly this. It isn't just how Christians "feel", it's what they've seen with their own eyes.

12 posted on 12/08/2016 4:05:59 AM PST by workerbee (The President of the United States is public enemy #1)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan
I read the article.

As WaPo articles go, not bad.

The conclusion that the democrat persecution of anyone with a contrary opinion to same sex marriage cost them the election and the supreme court....probably true.

God moved and Christians of all stripes saw the threat and got out and voted.

17 posted on 12/08/2016 4:22:53 AM PST by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

David Bernstein of the Washington Post, lecturing Christians on how they should have voted. No.


19 posted on 12/08/2016 4:26:31 AM PST by cdcdawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan
 photo 656609_zpsq1hcfzwn.jpg
22 posted on 12/08/2016 4:29:26 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

When discussing the same sex marriage that the bakery refused to bake a cake for on religious grounds, I have found so many people who say they are business people and should be forced to bake that cake.

Then I bring up the case of the supermarket refusing to make a cake for the whacky parents who had named their kid Adolf Hitler (Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler cake). Everyone thinks the Supermarket had a right to deny that cake. In fact, the kid was taken from his parents by the State of New Jersey.

Most honest people give a pause to think about the Christian bakery after you bring up the second case....


25 posted on 12/08/2016 4:37:26 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

“... religious traditionalists felt that their religious liberty was under assault from liberals, and they therefore had to hold their noses and vote for Trump.” No we recognized, not felt, that our religious liberty is under assault and would continue to be under Democrats.

Oh and no reasonable person would deny that Democrats booed God at their 2012 convention.


26 posted on 12/08/2016 4:38:26 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

This election was not CLOSE. Media keeps repeating that. Trump’s 306 electoral votes would amount to landslide for the Democrats. Just think how they would be crowing.


27 posted on 12/08/2016 4:44:46 AM PST by Hattie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

No doubt that played a role but it overlooks major other factors related to religion that the court had nothing to di with, especially the war by Islam in us. This was directly related to Trump’s promises to curtail immigration.


30 posted on 12/08/2016 5:03:23 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

Extremely over thought article designed to appeal to mental masturbaters. The ugliness of their champion stared them right in their face and they couldn’t see it. I thinks it’s because they are as ugly as she was.


31 posted on 12/08/2016 5:06:00 AM PST by johniegrad
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ..

PING!


32 posted on 12/08/2016 5:07:38 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hey, New Delhi! What the hell were you thinking???)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

Brings to mind the sentiment John Ross expressed in Unintended Consequences:

“Stripping motivated people of their dignity and rubbing
their noses in it is a very bad idea.”


33 posted on 12/08/2016 5:09:19 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: C19fan

Not bad for a thrice-married adulterer of no discernible faith.


This might surprise a liberal but those who read and understand the Bible know for sure that God is not averse to choosing the weakest among us to be our leaders.


34 posted on 12/08/2016 5:14:09 AM PST by New Jersey Realist (America is the land of the free BECAUSE of the brave)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-34 next last

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson