Posted on 09/20/2024 5:11:18 PM PDT by Angelino97
Donald Trump faces a biblical battle to hang on to evangelical voters, as some stray from the Republican base to cast a ballot for Kamala Harris despite her liberal views.
Surveys suggest about 8 in 10 white evangelical voters cast a ballot for him in the 2020 election, with two in 10 voting for Joe Biden.
However, Biden performed better with evangelicals of all faiths, winning about a third of those voters.
Now, groups like evangelicals for Harris have run advertisements and Zoom calls in an attempt to argue she is the better choice this election despite serious policy disagreements.
'I am tired of watching meanness, bigotry and recreational cruelty be the worldly witness of our faith,' said Rev. Lee Scott, one of those evangelicals. 'I want transformation, and transformation is risky business.'
Harris remains on an uphill climb with faith-based Christian voters, with around six in 10 'born-again' or 'evangelicals' having an unfavorable view of Harris.
Among white evangelicals, this goes as high as eight in 10 seeing her negatively, with only 33 percent of the entire faith saying they see her in a positive light.
Scott, a Presbyterian pastor and minister, says he's taking a big risk on the Democrat nominee.
'The easy thing for us to do this year would be to keep our heads down, go to the ballot box, keep our vote secret and go about our business,' Scott told a Zoom call. 'But at this time, I just can´t do that.'
Scott lives in Butler, Pennsylvania, the same town where a would-be assassin shot former President Donald Trump in July.
He said that the attack and its impact on his community pushed him to speak out against Trump and the 'vitriol' and 'acceptable violence' he normalized in politics.
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Whenever I think evangelicals I think the Bush clan.
I didn’t know they are stupid.
Sounds like Astroturf to me.
Christian Commies for The Komrade.
Bingo....and I didn;t know they HATED this country!!
Sounds like their churches need some taxing.
And it makes you wonder if they really do believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
They would have to be Fing idiots.
Abortion is her number one issue.
Don’t know about that. Have you seen the thousands of young Christians who show up for Charlie Kirk’s seminars.
Enjoy your chains, whack jobs.
Methodists are mainline Protestant.
Who is this pos in Butler who was moved to speak against
rump because Trump was shot?
I swear the devil works overtime.
There are going to be many more of these false reports as the election gets closer. The left is getting desperate.
Just a greater proportion of them than in past generations.
People talk about leftist inroads into mainline Protestantism and the Catholic Church. But the left has also made inroads into Evangelical Christianity.
A lot of the mainline “Christian” denominations have gone full woke.
This is disinformation and psychological warfare.
I can call my self Pope of America, but it doesn't make it so.
I bet "Scott" denies the Westminster Confession too.
"Scott" used to be one of those names like "Bruce" and "Randy". We knew they marched to a "different drummer".
I don’t see any true believers voting for Heels Up Harris or any other RAT candidates.
This guy sound like a slave owner, justifying human beings as "property" rather than human beings with natural rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of property (happiness).
Screw these people.
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