Posted on 04/11/2019 3:48:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
Merriam-Webster defines the term “evangelical” this way: of or relating to a Christian sect or group that stresses the authority of the Bible, the importance of believing that Jesus Christ saved you personally from sin or hell, and the preaching of these beliefs to others.
By definition, that makes me an “evangelical.” I think it defines the overwhelming majority of Christians if you asked them what makes them “Christian.”
But it’s that word. “Evangelical.” Most Christians I know may agree with the proper definition of the word when it comes to their own faith, but they’d bristle if someone called them an evangelical.
Understandable, since it’s been hijacked, compromised, and besmirched as a political label through the years to mean rigid, intolerant, and even bigoted. To be called evangelical in mixed company today is to be considered outside the bounds of social politeness.
In the increasingly crowded Democrat field for the presidency, South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg is a proud and practicing Episcopalian who seems to want to start a holy war with the President and Vice President.
Buttigieg is openly gay and married to his husband Chasten. He’s had a well-documented professional and political friendship with Vice President Mike Pence while Pence was governor of the Hoosier State.
Now, the Mayor seems to have calculated an effective political strategy throwing down the communion cup and challenging Pence and President Trump’s Christianity.
On President Trump, Buttigieg told USA Today,“I'm reluctant to comment on another person's faith, but I would say it is hard to look at this president's actions and believe that they're the actions of somebody who believes in God."
He continued…reluctantly.
“I just don't understand how you can be as worshipful of your own self as he is and be prepared to humble yourself before God.I've never seen him humble himself before anyone.
Buttigieg continued to pound away on the President’s Christianity… reluctantly, of course.
“And the exaltation of yourself, especially a self that's about wealth and power, could not be more at odds with at least my understanding of the teachings of the Christian faith.”
As for the Vice President, Buttigieg – again, reluct…you know – has been more pointed. Regarding Pence’s support for Trump:
“The idea that God wants somebody like Mike Pence to be the cheerleader for a president largely known for his association with hush money to adult-film actresses seems to me to give God very little credit.”
Just last weekend, Buttigieg – all together now – “reluctantly” – said that if Pence and those who share his opposition to gay marriage have a problem with who he is, then they have a problem with God himself.
“And that’s the thing I wish the Mike Pences of the world would understand: That if you have a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me. Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.”
By now I think you understand Mayor Buttigieg isn’t a reluctant Christian critic. He sounds more obnoxious than Dana Carvey’s Church Lady on SNL.
All ol’ Pete needs to do to complete the act is break into Carvey’s signature “superiority dance” at the end of each speech.
Come to think of it, Buttigieg sounds an awful lot like those evangelicals he and so many leftists and moderates despise.
He’s judgmental, he’s condescending, and perhaps most offensive is his presumptuous and arrogant notion he is the arbiter of what makes for or disqualifies one as a quality Christian.
Pete Buttigieg knows well his denomination suffered a painful split years ago over the issue of gay marriage. The Methodist Church just held a narrow and divisive vote over the same issue weeks ago.
The issue of Mayor Buttigieg’s sexuality and marriage as well as President Trump’s past behaviors is all subject to debate and division if you’re strictly discussing it through a spiritual lens.Good Christians can and do disagree.
But as a matter of governing the nation, none of it is particularly relevant when it comes to the metrics of policy decisions you believe best suit the direction of the country.
If it’s not in the Constitution, it’s for states and communities to sort out. It’s that simple. But for the left and people like Buttigieg, their version of morality MUST be foisted upon the rest of the country because they’re unwilling to make the case in their communities. They’d rather the Supreme Court do their bidding when the Constitution has nothing to say on their issue.
As a true conservative as well as a Christian voter, I can walk and chew gum at the same time. I can question whether my Christian faith sanctions the behaviors of a candidate personally while at the same time elect them to do a job well.
Mayor Buttigieg doesn’t believe both can be true. If I hold him to his own standard, I can’t vote for him either. He’s an all-or-nothing candidate on the issue of faith. How’s that for ironic? I either support gay marriage or I’m a no-good Christian.
My reading of the Bible and my interpretation of God’s teaching may or may not tell me to stand firmly against Mayor Buttigieg’s personal life as well as President Trump’s.
If I ultimately determine their lives don’t jive with my understanding of Christianity, it doesn’t mean I stand in judgment of them as men. In fact, I’m commanded to not.
Said another way, we can simultaneously identify the speck in someone’s eye while attempting to remove the log from our own.
My Christian faith instructs me to love them, pray with and for them, forgive them, worship with them, and most importantly understand any perceived sins they possess I can match in my own life.
Very simply, evangelical Christianity is a personal relationship. It can be complicated, too. Which is why it’s been studied, debated, and discussed for thousands of years.
But it should never be used as a blunt-force instrument to attack someone’s Christianity or candidacy. Yet it’s happening now. Political money is being raised from such behavior.
Yes, the most judgmental and intolerant evangelical of the presidential campaign cycle happens to be an openly gay Democrat.
Isn’t that special?
Absolutely Not
bump
There’s something Evil about him.
Homosexuality is the sharp tip of Satan’s spear. Where it penetrates, great damage follows. First criminal sex fiend Bill Clinton, then muzzie Obama, then criminal dyke Hillary Clinton, now socialist and faggots. Democrats must be so proud.
Pete seems to be arguing that you can’t be Christian if you believe in the bible.
I bet his wife made a quite felchimg, um fetching bride.
Armageddon!!!!
I bet so too.
“Homosexuality is the sharp edge of Satan’s spear...”
Well put. As one Christian mystic proclaimed: the final battle will be over marriage and the family. May God help us.
“Homosexuality is the sharp edge of Satan’s spear...”
Well put. As one Christian mystic proclaimed: the final battle will be over marriage and the family. May God help us.
Peter Buttplug/Eric Swallowell 2020
The demonrat values ticket.
And so comely in his virginal white wedding outfit, I bet.
Would he become First Faggot?
“Pete Buttigieg Sounds Like The Church Lady” I’m sure he appreciates the compliment. He works hard of increasing his feminine side; and keeps a picture of Dana Carvey on his bedroom wall.
re: “There’s something Evil about him.”
He’s a psychopath, ala Ted Bundy with the superficial charm.
That’s evil.
Psychopaths look at you and I and say to themselves “Easy marks; they have morals, I can USE those against them ...”
Buttigieg wants to change God into his image. Not the first to try it. God won’t change. He never has and He never will. so Buttigieg will have to find that out himself and he will...
How can someone who has publicly spit in God’s face by flaunting his abomination be listened to as a critic of anyone else’s faith?
this buttplug guy is on the fast road to hell and obviously doesn’t even know who Jesus is, let alone know Him.
...who attends THIS 'church' https://www.mccchurch.org/
Genesis 18:20-21
20. Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21. that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."
Genesis 19:4-7
4. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom--both young and old--surrounded the house.
5. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."
6. Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him
7. and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing.
Leviticus niv
18:22 Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.
20:13 If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
Isaiah 3:9 The look on their faces testifies against them; they parade their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! They have brought disaster upon themselves.
2 Peter 2:13b Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
Ezekiel 16:49-50
49. "`Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
50. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.
1. But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them--bringing swift destruction on themselves.
2. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
3. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them into gloomy dungeons to be held for judgment;
5. if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others;
6. if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly;
7. and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the filthy lives of lawless men
8. (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)--
9. if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from trials and to hold the unrighteous for the day of judgment, while continuing their punishment.
10. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the sinful nature and despise authority. Bold and arrogant, these men are not afraid to slander celestial beings;
11. yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.
12. But these men blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like brute beasts, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like beasts they too will perish.
13. They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. Their idea of pleasure is to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.
But there IS hope!!!
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
9. Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived:
Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders
10. nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
11. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
If you could NOT change, you would be in most pitiful shape...
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