Baptist minister slams Jerry Falwell Jr for 'disaster' promise to put Trump over Jesus

[Quixote1818]

MARTIN CIZMAR
01 JAN
2019 AT 20:44 ET

ASouthern Baptist minister has spoken up to “vigorously critique” an interview in which evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. said that he would support anything President Donald Trump decides to do as president.

Alan Cross is a Southern Baptist pastor in Montgomery, Alabama.

“Wow,” was his first response to Falwell’s interview with the Washington Post.

He then went on to analyze how Falwell’s position was a “clearly articulated” version of the “approach German Lutherans took as Hitler rose to power.”

More: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/baptist-minister-slams-jerry-falwell-jr-disaster-promise-put-trump-jesus/?utm_source=push_notifications

[elleng]

1. GOOD!

[ProudLib72]

2. Baby Trumpesus?

What's next, the blessed virgin Melanie?

[LakeArenal]

6. To be fair ( why, I don't know )....

Not just Michelle, any First Lady...ever..

Barbara Bush?
Jackie Kennedy?

Not bloody likely.

[enid602]

14. Mamie

Mamie Eisenhower maybe.

[LakeArenal]

15. Sure That one!!

[jmowreader]

8. You seem to have forgotten something

The people currently supporting Melania Trump just about shit themselves when Michelle Obama started wearing sleeveless dresses.

If Michelle Obama Lesbian Porn existed, they would have stormed the Bastille...er, White House...with pitchforks and tiki torches.

[ProudLib72]

11. This is a religion based cult. That is truly frightening

And part of that religion is based purely on racism.

[dalton99a]

12. +1

[sarcasmo]

3. First the pool boy now comparing Falwell with German Lutherans under Hitler, this is fun.

[Buckeyeblue]

4. When Jesus warned of wolves in lambs clothing he really meant the Falwell's

[hibbing]

5. "Obama decimated the military"

I'm so sick of this bullcrap that the Democratic Party does not support the military. I'll probably get alerted for this but the military industry has established such a complex web of suppliers that I don't think there is one congressional district in the U.S. that does not have some economic interest in the machine. The budget increases every year with support from both parties.

And Jerry Falwell Jr. is another example of the great American meritocracy.

Peace

[keithbvadu2]

7. Would believe Trump over Jesus for credibility...

Would believe Trump over Jesus for credibility...

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/11/21/trump_voter_if_jesus_christ_came_down_from_the_cross_and_told_me_trump_was_with_russia_i_wouldnt_believe_him.html

About 2:55 on the timeline.

"Let me tell you," he continued. "If Jesus Christ gets down off the cross and told me Trump is with Russia, I would tell him, hold on a second, I need to check with the president if it is true. That is how confident I feel in the president."

[alterfurz]

13. "Trump is Jesus to followers of Jesus...

Last edited Wed Jan 2, 2019, 07:53 PM - Edit history (1)

...who have rejected the teachings of Jesus." -- John Fugelsang

[Honeycombe8]

9. A liberal Baptist minister who advocates for immigrants and refugees?

I've never heard of such a thing. In Alabama, no less.

Wow! He's probably taken some heat over the years. A strong person. Good for him for speaking up.

[Mariana]

17. They exist, but they are a very tiny minority

as this story attests. "A" Southern Baptist minister has spoken up. One.

[BumRushDaShow]

19. There was an initiative that former President Carter was part of

almost 20 years ago, that encouraged southern Baptists of good conscience, to break ranks with the Southern Baptist Convention.

Mr. Carter is the highest-profile defection yet from the Southern Baptist Convention. He not only made his born-again Baptist beliefs a part of his public life during and after his presidency, but also helped move evangelical Christianity closer to the American mainstream.

''He made talking about Jesus Christ a part of our public discourse in politics,'' said Douglas Brinkley, a historian at the University of New Orleans who has written about Mr. Carter's postpresidential years.

But Mr. Carter's decision to dissociate himself from the national denomination is the latest sign that as conservatives have wrested control of the group over the last 15 years, liberal and moderate believers are giving up hope of having a home among them.

In recent years, a handful of churches have broken off from the national group or joined moderate national networks, like the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, based in Atlanta, of which Mr. Carter is a member. The executive committees of the Texas and Virginia state Baptist conventions have rejected the national group's latest doctrinal changes, officials with the national convention said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/21/us/carter-sadly-turns-back-on-national-baptist-body.html

And just over 10 years ago, he and former President Clinton founded a new organization - http://newbaptistcovenant.org/

So there are Baptists who have seen the light and refused to drink the GOP koolaid.

[Honeycombe8]

20. +1. nt

[blue-wave]

10. Well, well, well!

The apple certainly doesn't fall far from the tree or is it closer to like father like son?

[Mariana]

16. "A" Southern Baptist minister has spoken up?

One?

Isn't that nice.

[Takket]

18. good....

We need more religious leaders to start pointing out that Falwell and his ilk are literally promoting the OPPOSITE of Christian teachings and bastardizing religion for the good of ONLY the GOP traitors