Evangelical Christians now known more for their support for Trump than for following Jesus

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/06/far-right-wing-politics-is-pushing.html

Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath, but never a source of God's mercy, generosity or compassion. Rev. Benjamin Cremer

In spite of the rhetoric the far religious right has developed to excuse their support for Republican political candidates who do not reflect their Christian beliefs or practices, it is not philosophically or practically possible for a person who professes the conservative Evangelical testimony of Christian conversion to give their political support and their vote to Donald Trump, and claim that is consistent with their faith and beliefs. The two worldviews, Trumpism and what we now call the MAGA base, and biblical Christianity, are practically, philosophically and religiously incompatible with each other.

t takes a level of what I refer to as "Biblical literacy," which includes knowledge of the themes and principles of each of the Bible's 66 books, along with some ability to discern how to interpret a text written in a culture and society in the Middle East over 2,000 years ago, to understand, and practice, the Christian gospel as a personal faith experience. Most church researchers, like Barna, or Ed Stetzer, for example, have discovered that, among those who are found in the church's pews on a regular basis each week, fewer than 25% of them have enough working knowledge of what can be found in the Bible to discern the difference between authentic Christian teaching and what the Apostle Jude calls "intruders" who have "crept in...and perverted the grace of our God into sensuality."

That's an apt description of exactly what has happened with Trump and the Evangelical far right. Look at the rhetoric. Trump has no qualms about making statements that Christians would recognize as sheer blasphemy if anyone else was making them, but they are blind to his use of that kind of terminology. Franklin Graham was caustic and judgmental in his condemnation of President Clinton, calling out his "marital infidelity," and publicly claiming that it "morally disqualified" him from the Presidency. His response to Trump's affair with Stormy Daniels? He should be "left alone" to deal with it with his wife, and with God. And that statement morally disqualifies Franklin Graham, as far as I am concerned.

[Sibelius Fan]

1. They like tRump's version of make believe more than the make believe of the Buybull.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. All and I mean all they care about is abortion

[BOSSHOG]

5. They are very fond of their tax exempt status

Which they abuse daily.

I marvel at those who would force a 15 year old homeless rape victim to have her baby. Then send her back to the homeless shelter with a months worth of pampers and a handful of medical bills. What WOULD Jesus Do?

[swimboy]

9. Gay man here would like a word

[50 Shades Of Blue]

11. They don't vote for Trump to ban gays. They vote for Trump to ban abortion.

Sure they hate gays and want to take away LGTBQ+ rights. But they haven’t spent the last 50+ years obsessing over removing them and preventing them like they have over undoing Roe v Wade and preventing all reproductive rights. Abortion is their #1 and that’s why they pick Trump no matter what.

[303squadron]

3. German census in 1939

95% Christian:54% Protestant, 41% catholic with Protestants being over represented in Nazi party leadership.

“It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” ~ Robert Heinlein

[msongs]

4. hate to break it to you but most of them never have much followed jesus. they cant get beyond leviticus nt

[ancianita]

6. Exactly. Nor do they even read Leviticus. They're stupidly following antichrist. (No such thing as THE antichrist,

but if there were, Trump would be it, and for that matter, plenty of Christian pastors are quoting scripture that reveal Trump as antichrist. He is a dark, divisive force, a tool of what some Christians call 'the enemy.'

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

10. I thought the Big Anti-Kahuna would be smarter

He hadn't fooled me one bit.

[markodochartaigh]

7. In my opinion the problem with churches is

that there are too many sodomites.

""`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."
Ezekiel 16:49

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

8. With evangelicals, he's more popular than Jesus!

Something about being too woke or sumpin'. Jesus is way too nice for 'em. They cheered when 34 cursed inside a church last week.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus