Evangelicals who support Trump are betraying Christian principles, values and faith.

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/08/trumps-politics-pseudo-christian-or.html

Trump's takeover of the Republican party, and the blending of those right wing politics with conservative, Evangelicals have caused their departure from the biblical version of the Christian faith and have transformed Trump-supporting Evangelicals into pseudo-Christians. They use the language, some of it anyway, and they give off an appearance of being Christian, but there is a lot of evidence which proves that most of them have given up their Christian faith to place their trust in something, or someone else other than Jesus Christ.

The prayers,, given by pastors prior to Trump rallies, and written out for them, are a dead giveaway. First, telling God that, from their perspective, the leaders of this country are evil, and "with every passing day, we slip farther and farther into George Orwell's tyrannical dystopia."

If that is happening, it's not necessary to fill God in, that is, if you believe who the Bible says he is. He'd know that and the sermon in the prayer, which is not directed at God, but at the audience, is the first clue that we're not dealing with someone who has an understanding of the Christian gospel, the Christian faith, or prayer.

esus himself taught that the most important commandment, loving God with all one's heart, soul, mind and strength, was connected to, and demonstrated by "loving your neighbor as yourself." And Jesus defined "neighbor" in a parable, known as "the Good Samaritan," in which "neighbor" was illustrated in the person of the Samaritan, a man from an ethnic background and religious sect despised and looked down on by the Jewish population. The love to be extended to the neighbor was not conditioned upon the neighbor being of the same religion, race, ethnicity or even a citizen of the same political district or country, since Samaria and Judea were separate provinces under Roman rule at the time.

So I have to ask this pointed question. When we observe politically engaged Evangelicals, who are representing their faith and the Republican party, where do we see examples of their public obedience to this, one of the two commandments Jesus clarified as being "the greatest"?

[Wonder Why]

1. You could also say it this way

Evangelicals who betray Christian principles, values and faith, support Trump.

Which came first - the betrayal or Trump? I think they have long betrayed Christian principles, values and faith - long before Trump made it socially acceptable to do so.

[lees1975]

4. This edition of the betrayal started just before Reagan was elected.

They abandoned Jimmy Carter, who was perhaps the very best example of an Evangelical serving as President who knew exactly how to follow the Constitution's first amendment establishment clause, holding to his Christian faith and convictions, but refusing to use the power of the Presidency to achieve religious ends.

Carter did two things that stirred the pot and angered Falwell, Robertson and a demented evangelist by the name of James Robison. One, he brought Egypt and Israel to the peace table and successfully ended hostility between the two countries. That angered them. Two, he expressed a strong personal moral conviction that abortion was wrong, but noting that only a religious perspective concluded so, and believed that life began at conception, he realized that to restrict access to it would be unconstitutional, since opposition to it was based solely on a religious belief.

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2. Texas State Rep. James Talarico takes on Christian Nationalism

Worth watching every minute. And rewatching. This guy is fantastic

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3. From my Catholic experience... The ones that preach the loudest...

Practice the least.

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5. I'll repeat myself: Theirs is a faith without works.

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6. christians have a 2000 year track record. their allegiance to that jesus stuff is on the record nt

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7. or

maybe they are just HYPOCRITES and it is all just a bunch of nonsense

[MartyTheGreek]

8. Share this Far & Wide Documentary "Bad Faith" with your Religious MAGAs and Others

Rick Wilson of Lincoln Project interviews the Director of Bad Faith and he covers the History of how many of the evangelicals going back to the Klan brought up to date with the Moral Majority, Tea Party etc., and were used by politicians and how they combined church lists to knock on doors 7 times as was quoted by Ralph Reed to get them out to vote for Trump and this is how he captured 80% of their vote, while Clinton had very little support from them.

It covers how they rewrote the Bible Story about King Cyrus in the Old Testament to fit modern times transforming Cyrus as Trump for their goals to glory!

Below the Director's Interview

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Below Bad Faith Trailer. Movie is on Amazon and others one free with commercials.