Evangelical conservatives are proving their harshest critics right

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DOWNright scary and it is happening amongst his base.






Evangelical conservatives are proving their harshest critics right


https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/10/11/evangelical-conservatives-are-proving-their-harshest-critics-right/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_2_na&utm_term=.cb813ab53f08


By Jennifer Rubin
14-17 minutes


For years, Democrats accused Christian conservatives of being closet theocrats, seeking to impose Christianity on the country and refusing to accept, let alone embrace, American diversity. That was a generalization, but it turned out to be more true than not.

The evangelical defense of President Trump has taken on a religious fervor immune to reason. The Post reports:

Although some say the Trump-evangelical alliance harms Christianity, it’s common to hear other conservative Christians say that Trump’s unexpected win — down to the electoral college — shows that God had a more-deliberate-than-usual hand, and has put Trump there for some reason.

Brian Kaylor, a Baptist pastor with a PhD in political communications who has written several books about religion and politics, thinks [White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee] Sanders holds this view of a divine plan and it gives her confidence at the podium.

“When you have to stand up there and defend whatever he’s done, it’s more than you are defending a politician, or even a president; you are defending God’s chosen leader for this time,” he said of Trump’s defenders.

That’s stunning to the many Americans who think the divine right of kings was what we fought against in the American Revolution. A God-chosen president can do no wrong, tell no lie, make no error. And that, it seems, has been the default setting for many of Trump’s most loyal supporters among the religious right.

An overwhelming number of white, evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, 81-16 percent, according to exit poll results..................................................................

[Iliyah]

1. That they are mean and evil, yep

[Girard442]

2. They dont even listen to their own spiel.

Trump fits to a “T” their own prediction of the Antichrist, right down to Jared Kushner’s ownership of 666 5th Avenue.

The reality, of course, is they’re a bunch of slimy little scamsters that would cast their own mothers into a fiery pit for one sweet, sweet taste of power.

[n2doc]

3. evil

[dalton99a]

5. Perfect.

[jaysunb]

4. so, if Trump is God's will, what was Obama ? n/t

[Lars39]

6. A test of their faith.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. Fuck their "Buy-Bull"

Buncha Crusader Pigs.

[Lucky Luciano]

8. There's a special place in hell for evangelicals. nt

[snort]

9. At the heart of it, they are the ultimate authoritarians,

they were born to follow the devil.

[Metro135]

10. One could just as easily say . . .

that three hurricanes and an unprecedented, horrific wildfire are God's punishment for America after electing Trump.

[Chalco]

11. The Electoral College or as I like to say...

Dirt elected Trump. Land mass aka Dirt elected Trump. Neither God nor People elected Trump.

[Paka]

14. "Dirt elected Trump." I like that.

[Beartracks]

12. Yet they balked when God put Obama in the White House.

Was God, then, wrong in 2008 and 2012?

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[czarjak]

13. Be ye not deceived...

Or something like that.

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. Putin is God

Trump is his disciple.

God wants these imbeciles to quit using his name in vain.

[GeorgeGist]

16. Wow these fuckers...

are fucked.

[yurbud]

17. unless he's black.