Posted on 05/09/2016 9:19:12 AM PDT by CHRISTIAN DIARIST
“Christians are ‘called to resist’ Trump.” So read the headline accompanying a polemic authored by Rev. Dr. David Gushee, Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University in Georgia.
It was published this past week by Religion News Service, which provides left-of-center religious news and commentary to more than 100 media outlets, including the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Huffington Post.
The “call” to which Gushee referred is a statement (which he helped draft) that was released last month by “a multiracial group of Christian ministers and scholars.”
The group condemns Donald Trump, they say, because the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee “promotes racial and religious bigotry, disrespects the dignity of women, harms civil public discourse, offends moral decency, and seeks to manipulate religion.”
The Trump “phenomenon,” as Gushee put it, “challenges Christians at a core moral level.” And nothing less than “faithfulness to Jesus is at stake in how American Christians respond.”
Indeed, wrote Gushee, there were “two particular moments in 20th-century history in which groups of Christians made major statements claiming that the very purity of the faith was at stake and that a failure to resist represented a failure to follow Jesus.”
Those two instances, according to the Mercer theologian, “were Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa.”
This is the narrative Gushee and his friends on the religious Left are promulgating about Candidate Trump – that if he is elected president, the United States will transmogrify into Germany under Adolf Hitler, or South Africa under Daniel François Malan (on whose watch apartheid was instituted).
So, suggests Gushee, those of us who count ourselves Christ followers must resist Trump – which, presumably, means we should cast votes for Hillary Clinton in November).
In fact, in previous of Gushee’s writings, the theologian-turned-political activist has exalted the presumed Democratic presidential nominee like she’s but one notch below the Virgin Mary.
As he sees it, “Hillary’s mainline Christian faith” is “about love and service, not judgment,” in contrast to “the conservative evangelicalism mainly being offered by the Republicans.”
And here’s what you won’t hear from Madam Clinton, Gushee wrote, approvingly:
“Nothing about America as a Christian nation or America’s Christian heritage. Nothing about defending Christians or protecting Christianity or religious liberty. Nothing about rolling back gay rights or abortion. Nothing about America’s dangerous slide into secularism. Nothing that involves attacking people of other faiths or saying we need to keep them out.”
Well, who wants a president who refuses to acknowledge America’s Christian heritage? Who won’t stand up for religious liberty? Who dismisses the Apostle Paul’s warning that homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Who is sanguine about the yearly slaughter of the unborn? Who prefers that America be a strictly secular state, rather than one nation under God? Who refuses to recognize that radical Islamists pose a clear and present danger to the American people?
That’s the kind of president the Rev. Dr. David Gushee and his friends on the religious Left desperately want.
But for those of us on the Christian Right, who do not share the decidedly unBiblical worldview of Gushee and like-minded ministers and scholars, we find Donald Trump the more palatable choice.
All 100 of them?
And the atheists on the left who condescendingly describe Jesus as an “imaginary friend” fathered by an “invisible sky daddy” love “Christians” like this.
Since when is there a “religious left”
It has always been “Religious-Right” - as if they were one and the same - if you were religious, then you were also right-wing.
There was the Right, and then there was the RELIGIOUS right, which was much much worse thing to be.
The Christian Left is content to embrace evil in order to accomplish “progressive” ends. These “people of God” do not give a damn.
[[“Christians are ‘called to resist’ Trump.” So read the headline accompanying a polemic authored by Rev. Dr. David Gushee, Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University in Georgia. ]]
Utter BS
No such thing as a leftist Christian .
If you support LGBT right - You are going against God
If you support abortion - You are siding against God on murder
If you support socialism - it’s called theft
If you don’t like God’s word then don’t call yourself a Christian because you can’t love and follow Jesus if you hate what he says and does .
If you support Hillary or Bernie you are voting for the anti God party . No don’t call yourself a Christ follower if you have the nerve to go against him and vote that way
I had a Seminary prof explain this real easy one time...He said you either believe Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created” or you don’t ...if you don’t the rest of the 66 books won’t be the WORD of God and they are not to Gushee..they are to him and like minded ilk whatever they deem it to be.
It’s like this LGBT stuff of whatever bathroom I want to use today. Well God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow and Gushee is a hell bound nincompoop. The good news for him there are jillions just like him.
That will change.
This is projection once again.
He said he would ban the Confederate flag and he attack Scalia for being against affirmative action.
“...What is the ‘religious left’?...”
The religious left worships Gaia...Al Gore is their Pope...
“Religious left? Isn’t that something of an oxymoron?”
Unitarians !
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Post a link to this effect....I don’t believe you.....
absolutely !
**Is Donald Trump Evil?**
NO!!!
Trump is against abortion.
“Religious left? Isn’t that something of an oxymoron?”
Nope. There were loads of them back during the ‘60s. James Pike, the Berrigans, William Sloane Coffin, and even M Scott Peck whom the dopey Hannity is overly fond of.
Trump: ‘I don’t like’ what Scalia said about affirmative action
Do you have any proof of that?
“I think they should put it in a museum and respect whatever it is you have to respect.”
Nothing wrong with that....
There are a lot of really evil folks who claim to be holier than thou Christians...Funny how they picked up on Cruz’s last-ditch efforts to define his contest with Trump as a battle between good and evil.....
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