Thanks Be To God
by tristero
An editorial from Christianity Today,
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…
To the many evangelicals who continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record, we might say this: Remember who you are and whom you serve. Consider how your justification of Mr. Trump influences your witness to your Lord and Savior. Consider what an unbelieving world will say if you continue to brush off Mr. Trump’s immoral words and behavior in the cause of political expediency. If we don’t reverse course now, will anyone take anything we say about justice and righteousness with any seriousness for decades to come?
Nope. Unless they immediately renounce their delusional obsession with Trump, no one should take anything an American evangelical says seriously about justice and righteousness ever again.
By the way, Christianity Today is not, by any stretch of the imagination, even a “centrist” publication, as it’s been described by an incredibly lazy mainstream press. It was founded by the preacher Billy Graham who was a close friend of Richard Nixon’s. They shared anti-semitic un-pleasantries back in the day. That’s not centrism in my book.
In other words, that even Christianity Today is calling for Trump’s removal is a sign of (1) how utterly unhinged from mainstream political discourse the rest of the evangelical movement has become; and (2) perhaps a hopeful portent that finally evangelicals are waking up to the strategic stupidity of supporting a president who is a moral disaster.
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