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progressoid

(49,978 posts)
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 03:40 PM Dec 2016

"Satan must love all this division"

So I posted this story on Facebook about an evangelical leader who calls out other evangelicals' hypocrisy for voting for Trump. Got a few thumbs up from liberal, and even Christian friends.
But one person (and evangelical) simply replied, "Satan must love all this division". I'm not sure how to respond to this. I kind of want to just say, "strap in, its going to get worse".


Evangelical Leader Under Attack For Criticizing Trump Supporters

A prominent evangelical leader who harshly criticized Donald Trump during the presidential campaign now faces a backlash from fellow evangelicals who backed Trump.

Russell Moore, who presides over the political arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, called Trump "an awful candidate" and criticized "the old-guard religious right political establishment" for supporting him, notwithstanding Trump's "serious moral problems" and a Southern Baptist tradition of opposing politicians whose personal behavior is considered un-Christian.

"The religious right," Moore argued in an October speech, "turns out to be the people the religious right warned us about." As president of the Southern Baptists' Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, Moore is in charge of his organization's policymaking and lobbying apparatus.

Now Moore himself, as the ERLC leader, is under attack from some of the religious right figures he criticized during the campaign.

...http://www.npr.org/2016/12/20/506248119/anti-trump-evangelical-faces-backlash?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social
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"Satan must love all this division" (Original Post) progressoid Dec 2016 OP
"Satan must love all this division..." trotsky Dec 2016 #1
Exactly. progressoid Dec 2016 #2
True. After all, God said "Go forth and multiply!" Ron Obvious Dec 2016 #3
Bravo! DavidDvorkin Dec 2016 #4
Bang! Zow! Iggo Jan 2017 #5
It certainly fits another hypocritical evangelical article I read a few years ago: DetlefK Jan 2017 #6

trotsky

(49,533 posts)
1. "Satan must love all this division..."
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 03:54 PM
Dec 2016

"So why can't we all just forget how my side questioned Obama's citizenship and called him a Kenyan Muslim Socialist Communist Fascist for 8 years, and just all embrace Trump as our new president? Tsk tsk, such division!"

progressoid

(49,978 posts)
2. Exactly.
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 04:09 PM
Dec 2016

Although, now that I think about it. She might only be concerned with the division within her circle of "true Christians". Can't have their own people criticizing the flock! Next thing you know, people will start thinking for themselves.

HA! Just kidding. That's not likely to happen with most of them.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
6. It certainly fits another hypocritical evangelical article I read a few years ago:
Mon Jan 2, 2017, 09:47 AM
Jan 2017

I don't remember how I found it. It was a blog-post by an evangelical pastor.

She wrote how bad the prosperity-gospel is.
How she once once went to a Mega-Church to see it with her own eyes.
How she made a huge scene and yelled at these heretics (she didn't use that word) for worshipping money and how she stormed out.
And THEN she finished the post by imploring her readers to not cast these money-worshippers out as fake Christians. She said that these people claim to worship God and that's good enough and other people should accept that.



Recap:
Screaming and making a scene: Good.
Paying mere lip-service to God: Good.
Actually doing something about it: Bad.

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