Evangelical Christian support for Trump's candidacy is "absurd"

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/12/to-conservative-evangelical-christian.html

I'm not sure how many DU'ers still have connections to people who are Evangelical Trumpies, but if you do, here's something you can share with them. Response I've received includes everything from silence to denial, and even some smoldering anger, though most of those with whom I still communicate are very careful not to invite criticism based on their response to stuff like this.

Turning the most salient points of conservative Christian theology and preaching on to the massive inconsistencies exhibited by Trump and his whole entourage to point out how everything he says and does is completely and totally opposite of even their manipulated and mis-interpreted doctrine might change just enough minds to keep some of those who already had their own doubts about the man at home on election day.

The fascination that some of the more mystical conservative Christians have with end-times eschatology, especially having to do with the "rapture" and second coming of Christ, out of which they've made a manipulative mess, and with the term "antichrist," which they also mis-appropriate, does get some attention.

[Yonnie3]

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[LuvLoogie]

2. Their piety shrouds their bigotries.

They are perfectly aligned with trump. They get pissed when you remove their shrouds.

[lees1975]

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David Gushee, a Baptist professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, has authored a book which identifies the heresy of Christian authoritarianism and calls out its attack on American democracy. Defending Democracy from its Christian Enemies Personally, from my own convictional point of view, this is such an aberration of Christian theology and doctrine as to render congregations who are duped by it apostate. And while it may be a good thing that we are now seeing the wolves in the church in sheep's clothing, we must still vanquish the wolves before they destroy the republic.

While American Christianity, in the broadest sense of the term, is not an enemy of American Democracy, the parts of it that have fallen victim to the heresy of Christian nationalism, and in which the values of the Christian gospel have been turned upside down and emptied out in favor of a sensual worldliness, are an enemy to democracy, to the rest of the church, and to American society as a whole. So to those Christians caught up in this who value their faith, this should be a warning that your support for Trump is also separating you from biblical, orthodox Christianity. You must make a choice. Trump or biblical Christianity. You can't have both.

[Yonnie3]

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[Gaugamela]

5. This presupposes a capacity for rational thought from people who believe in the rapture.

Patriarchal authority figures are exempt from moral rectitude because patriarchal authority figures are self-justifying and chosen by god. King David had a harem and Solomon had an affair with Queen Sheba. Noah got drunk and his daughters schtupped him. They don’t care what Trump does.