Christianity Today Editor Laments 'Ethical Navet' of Trump Backers

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People have been upset with Mark Galli before. As the editor in chief of Christianity Today, a prominent evangelical magazine, he has printed some controversial editorials. But the people he irks usually do not include the IT department of his own publication.

That is what happened when Mr. Galli published an explosive editorial on Dec. 19 arguing that President Trump should be removed from office. So many readers flocked to read the editorial online that the website crashed, overwhelming those whose job it was to keep it running.

Mr. Galli had been working for Christianity Today for two decades after being a Presbyterian pastor for about 10 years, first in Mexico City and later in Sacramento, Calif., but the response to the editorial was like nothing he had ever seen. The traffic to the website was 50-fold what it is on a typical day.

Mr. Galli’s last day with the magazine will be Friday. He had announced his retirement in October, long before the editorial and the response to it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/christianity-today-editor-laments-ethical-naivete-of-trump-backers/ar-BBYyIby?li=BBnb7Kz

That's because many of them believe that all they have to do is say the magic words "I believe in Jesus" and they're saved. Never mind that the bible also says, "Faith without works is dead."

[guillaumeb]

1. Naivete should be inserted rahter than "navet".

[Glorfindel]

3. Actually, I rather like "navet."

https://dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › french-english › navet
navet. noun. turnip [noun] a type of plant with a large round root. a field of turnips. turnip [noun] the root used as food.

A fitting description, indeed, except that the "Christians" aren't edible.

[guillaumeb]

4. I like "les navettes" as well.

Sometimes accents can make the software do strange things.

[guillaumeb]

2. From the article:

Despite that, of course, evangelicals as a bloc largely support President Trump. Is there anything Trump could do to lose that support?
I’ve been surprised by the ethical naïveté of the response I’m receiving to the editorial. There does seem to be widespread ignorance — that is the best word I can come up with — of the gravity of Trump’s moral failings. Some evangelicals will acknowledge he had a problem with adultery, but now they consider that a thing of the past. They bring up King David, but the difference is King David repented! Donald Trump has not done that.

Jesus said to forgive, but He also said to go and sin no more.

[Girard442]

6. "There does seem to be widespread ignorance...of the gravity of Trump's moral failings."

No. There doesn't. They know exactly who he is. He told them, in language no one could fail to understand.

[guillaumeb]

9. Yes, he did.

And he demonstrates his lack of morality on nearly a daily basis.

[catrose]

5. I'm sorry he's leaving. His was certainly a voice crying in the evangelical wilderness.

[Azathoth]

7. Like Flake and the other cowards, he only spoke out on his way out the door

He almost certainly wouldn't have written the editorial had he been planning on spending another ten years at the magazine.

[catrose]

8. Sadly, you're right. I wonder if his tribe will forgive him, though.