Christianity vs Trumpery

"The facts in this instance are unambiguous: the president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president's political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral… Trump "has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration….” He has hired and fired a number of people who are now convicted criminals.”… He himself has admitted to immoral actions in business and his relationship with women, about which he remains proud. His Twitter feed alone -- with its habitual string of mischaracterizations, lies, and slanders -- is a near perfect example of a human being who is morally lost and confused."​

CHRISTIANITY TODAY
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/opinions/christianity-today-editorial-opinion-parini/index.html​

White evangelicals rejected their pretense to righteous, moralistic posturing when they opted to overtly venerate the Whore of Mammon, a shameless degenerate who treats sacred marriage vows with the same contempt he flaunts for campaign promises and truth in general.

A few, like latter-day prodigal sons, are returning to ethical strictures.

In reaction, Cry Baby is lashing our hysterically, of course.

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If White evangelicals sudden;y prioritize morality over political expediency, Fake Don will quickly go the way of other false gods.

"Damn! I’m spending eternity looking up at Dingle’s butt!”
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Alas, "I am a voice crying in the wilderness," is the liemotif of the faith.
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The editorial in Christianity Today might give us some hope that Evangelicals might finally start debating the two. Especially the younger ones who might be open to understanding the facts behind the abortion debate. And to start a new internal movement that weighs the possibility of a compromise between the women rights that they consider immoral, and other issues they now consider "less important" like the many real and potential deaths by Climate Change, inhumane treatment of refugees (including taking children away children from their family), this administration's struggle to end protection for preexisting conditions, inaction on mass murders, racism, homophobia, and their overall patriotism.

We can hope that White Evangelism could one day stop being a one-issue movement.

 

If you're a Christian and you do not cotton to anti-nationalism and the fall of the USA under world government, Trump is your only choice:

 

People who turn to hell to promote their moral superiority are evil. I would be willing to bet the guy that wrote the artical is a very bad person.

If you're a neo-commie and a Christian, you're either not a very good neo-commie or you're not a very good Christian.

 

"White evangelicalism"

Everything is race race race. I think there is a term for people who obsess in racial stereotypes...

 

Too little too late, IMHO. The evangelical Christian right lost all credibility and all claim to any moral high ground when they voted for Trump in 2016.

Screw 'em. Nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.

 

WhileI admire your optimism, see comment #6.

 

History begins now...

Democrats have always loved evangelical Christians. Especially the white ones till 2016...

 

Good grief, Jay. Is this really where you want to get your information? Is this who you want informing your views?

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/church-militant/

Wow. Just amazing, what people are willing to believe.

 

Then again, there are those of us for whom the term "good Christian" has become an oxymoron. Yes, I know that's a generalization, but in hypocrisy, Christianity has no peer.

 

Proof?

 

Nothing Dirty Donald or his right hand man Steven Miller espouse is remotely Christian,neither has the slightest idea of what Christianity means.

 

Doesn't your Big Book make it clear that there are no good Christians?

 

that's awesomeness

 

Christians are like football players. There are good ones and bad ones. Being a neo-commie makes it likely you are a bad one.

 

Democrats seem to be trying to equate sin. Seems Democrats believe a pedophile and a pickpocket are the same.

There are good Christian's and bad ones.

 

Thread premise has been debunked in the other threads on this topic, yet here we go again. Christianity Today has only ~100,000 paid circulation, so it's not the "voice" of anyone or anything, and there are millions of youtubers with more followers.

Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, the magazine's founder, reiterated his and his father's strong support of the Trump Administration. The magazine wouldn't be the first or the 100th where LW lobbies and activism have capitalized on a media source's credibility, come in and totally changed its perspective to LW hoping to fool people.

This topic is a great opportunity to learn more about LW propaganda though. The magazine's circulation numbers and Graham's follow up comments are necessary context in any claims made about that single Op-ed. Anyone omitting necessary context is a propagandist pushing propaganda.

Are they fooling you with their constantly out of context lie narratives? Me neither.

 

1st Christianity Today is Evangelical in the way the left uses the term to the same extent Karl Marx was a card carrying Hindu.

2nd there are no facts that support the rags assertion.

3rd Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

 

LMAO

Clearly you haven't a clue on the background and founder of Christian News!

Start here and don't forget to relish over Billy's son! I'm sure he will be loved by all Democrat just as much as Bo Biden is as they have all the same morals and habits

 

Don't hold your breath. The religious right is motivated more by hatreds and resentments than by morality and has already shown that they are ready to throw God and country under the bus to serve their new messiah.

 

Once out the front door of church after service, most Evangelicals are simply full of ****.

While they're still in church, of course, that's God's problem.

 

The position Evangelicals have expressed is obviously a serious hypocrisy (hypocrisy being a lie and transgression of Commandment #Eight. They're out to lunch.

 

This is nonsense.

Christians have been duped by Republicans for a very long time.

Remember that Billy Graham was Nixon's sidekick, advocating war in Vietnam.

There is huge synergy between Christian and Democratic concern for the wellbeing of our population.

However, the GOP has been able to sway Christian leadership with promises of power.

As for Trump, he sees this purely as a business deal.

He paid for votes from Christians by providing judges, etc.

Now, CT went back on Trump's contract with Christians.

It really has nothing to do with religion. It's purely a business deal for him and he feels cheated.

 

Even if the movement itself refuses to change, the newer generations that feed the movement might. There is dissent among the youth at all levels of this society who are taught that morals are partisan. I don't see why young Evangelicals would be the exception.

 

No, the guy that wrote this is very ignorant. Trump didn’t need to

especially when Joe Biden implicated himself with a video of self admitted bribery/extortion and bragging about it.​