30 evangelical leaders beg Christians to rethink their support for Trump in new book

[babylonsister]

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30 evangelical leaders beg Christians to rethink their support for Trump in new book
Published 36 mins ago
on June 15, 2020
By Sky Palma


A new book released this Monday is compiled of 30 essays written by evangelical leaders imploring white evangelicals to rethink their support for President Trump, The Christian Post reports.

The book, titled, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity, also warns of the damage done to how Americans perceive evangelicals as a result of their alliance with Trump’s messaging.

“Our plea is to white evangelicals to please take another look and ask, ‘Does this person measure up to biblical norms?’” Evangelicals for Social Action’s Ron Sider, who is also the book’s editor, told The Christian Post. “We are not telling you what to include. But please prayerfully think about that. Even if you think the book will make you mad, given the title, I challenge you to read it and decide for yourself if there are any valid points that we are making there.”

“The book is not a book to tell people how to vote,” Sider continued. “It is a book to call people to think biblically about this election and about the character of candidates.”

“We’re not just left-wing Democrats,” he said. “We are a whole range of views begging American white evangelicals to ask this simple question: ‘Does Donald Trump’s behavior and policies fit with or contradict biblical norms?’”

Read more at The Christian Post.

[RANDYWILDMAN]

1. sorry guys

Fox has been telling your people exactly what to think since late 1996

[AnotherMother4Peace]

3. Good guys speaking out is what it will take. Defeatism is not an option.

More power to those speaking truth to power to "your people".

[RainCaster]

2. Links to original story

Christian Post

National Association of Evangelicals

[smirkymonkey]

4. K&R

[cloudbase]

5. Too bad it's in a book.

Considering the target audience, that may not be the best medium to reach them.

[Baked Potato]

6. It took 3 years for them to digest Trump and shit him out, Sad.....

Not very healthy living!

[bobbieinok]

7. The comments to the article in Christian Post show what we are up against

State the Trump not a 'good Christian' , but he's 'done great things for the country preserving the Judeo Christisn heritage' Sanctity of life, ie antiabortion'

Absolute conviction that Democrats are anti-Christian---defining Christian solely as anti-homosexuality and anti-abortion

I really don't see how we can talk to them

I grew up in SoBapt churches. In last yrs I've done a lot if reading and discovered how horrifically badly so-called Christian leaders have interpreted the OT and NT

Bible has no passages attacking abortion. The v few verses read as anti-homosexuality are mistranslations of specific words used.

See slacktivist blog at patheos for history of how Weyrich et al shifted Evangelicals to antiabortion in 70s to get troops for GOP

And event in Acts where God tells Peter not to consider anything he ie God has made as 'unclean'

[gratuitous]

8. The conversation is overdue

But it's never too late to do the right thing. Let's get this conversation going and let evangelicals work this out with appropriate fear and trembling.

[Hortensis]

9. New young support is not replacing dying elders, like

the incredible shrinking White Male Power Party, and political scientists say we tend to form our political orientations formed when young and stay with them.

[Mariana]

10. 30 Evangelical leaders oppose Trump! Wow, that's impressive!

Not really, no.

[roamer65]

11. Doesn't matter evangelical freaks.

We are still coming for you.

666.