Posted on 02/29/2016 12:57:24 PM PST by Heartlander
Editors' Note: The Christian Post has not taken a position on a political candidate before today. We are making an exception because Trump is exceptionally bad and claims to speak for and represent the interests of evangelicals.
We the senior editors of The Christian Post encourage our readers to back away from Donald Trump.
As the most popular evangelical news website in the United States and the world, we feel compelled by our moral responsibility to our readers to make clear that Donald Trump does not represent the interests of evangelicals and would be a dangerous leader for our country.
Trump claims to be a Christian, yet says he has never asked for forgiveness.
While God, in His wondrous creativity, has drawn people to Himself through the saving grace of Jesus Christ in many different ways, there are certain non-negotiable actions needed to become a Christian: One must repent of their sins and follow Christ as Lord and Savior. Trump doesn't talk this way, even when urged to.
Further, his words and actions do not demonstrate the "fruit of the spirit."
Trump is a misogynist and philanderer. He demeans women and minorities. His preferred forms of communication are insults, obscenities and untruths. While Christians have been guilty of all of these, we, unlike Trump, acknowledge our sins, ask for forgiveness and seek restitution with the aid of the Holy Spirit and our community of believers.
On Sunday, Trump's apparent reluctance to disavow David Duke until late in the day was extremely distasteful. The Ku Klux Klan is an evil, unholy movement representing the worst of America. Anyone who will not immediately denounce their support is unfit to be president.
Trump claims he will "protect Christians." We already have a Protector, and He is not Trump.
The grievances of Trump's supporters are legitimate. Politicians for too long have promised to represent the best interests of all Americans before an election, only to represent the interest of their cronies after the election. But Trump's followers are being fooled into believing that he can help them.
Trump is promising many things that he cannot possibly deliver, but the most frightening part is Trump's stated willingness to ignore the authority of the Supreme Court, Congress and the U.S. Constitution if he were to become president.
Trump has been surrounded by controversy for decades because of his untruthfulness, questionable business practices, reported association with organized crime, and abrupt changes in fundamental positions. Many of these controversies involve defrauding the working class and decisions that compromised American workers. He has taken a political position both pro and con on virtually every subject and major political party. This should give evangelicals great pause and concern about supporting such a mercurial and chameleon-like candidate. Past performance is the best predictor of future behavior.
Trump said he wants to make it easier to sue newspapers that criticize him. When it was pointed out to him Sunday that he would have to amend the Constitution's freedom of speech and freedom of press clauses, Trump was unmoved, simply noting that England has weaker protections for the press.
Many evangelicals, including our friends, have criticized Trump on our own opinion page and elsewhere, such as Matt Barber, Dr. Michael Brown, Kristi Burton Brown, Susan Stamper Brown, Rev. Mark Creech, Wallace Henley, E.W. Jackson, Max Lucado, Dr. Russell Moore and Rep. Reid Ribble. If Trump were to become president we fear he would use the levers of government power to silence them and others.
We are already concerned about the expansion of executive power to dangerous and unconstitutional extremes in the current and previous administrations. Plus, in just the past year we have seen Christians put out of business and jailed for living according to the dictates of their faith.
Trump, an admirer of Vladimir Putin and other dictatorial leaders, may claim to be your friend and protector now, but as his history indicates, without your full support he will turn on you, and use whatever power is within his means to punish you.
This is a critical time in American history and we call on all Christians to pray for personal repentance, divine forgiveness and spiritual awakening for our nation. It is not the time for Donald Trump.
MORE DESPERATION FROM THE ESTABLISHMENT RATS!!
Thanks for the laugh!
Who died and had these people replace God?
These losers couldn’t even stop gay marriage, but feel like they have command authority over other Christians.
The Holier than Thou crowd and GOPe
Keep shaking the tree, Donald. The rotten apples are raining down.
Best endorsement ever - Jeff Sessions puts on a “Make America Great Again” hat!
30,000 there and 28,000 on the live stream;
Donald Trump Endorsed by Senator Jeff Sessions in Madison, AL (2-28-16)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ83CvMKYUQ
These folks are just flailing about trying to stop Trump with every silly accusation, etc. And they focus on the David Duke flap which is nothing. And then they focus on Trump’s past which is unfair. Trump is clearly not living as a ‘philanderer’ now.
For a supposed Christian publication it is full of lies, twists and half-truths. Good Lord! Aren’t there any real ‘spirit filled’ people anymore.
Getting downright sick and tired of what “evangelicals” think. Really don’t care now and never have.
Trump threatens their highly lucrative human trafficking biz.
Weak Christians seem to think they need a preacher in the Whitehouse. I don’t get that. They’ve never had one. Why the belief that Cruz, who seems as fake as Trump, is their man?
After Donald Trump finishes doing all the “un-Christian” things he has promised: build the wall, deport illegals and Syrian invaders, cancel Obama’s unconstitutional executive orders, roll back twenty years of intrusive government regulations, prosecute Hillary and her crew, release the secret 28 pages from the 9/11 report, negotiate prescription drug purchases, repeal and replace Obamacare, simplify the Tax code, repatriate $2.5 trillion in off-shore profits, stop the IRS from abridging the free speech of Christian Churches, reform the libel laws to remove the “public figure” distinctions, defund Planned Parenthood until the stop doing abortions, cleaning up the mess that is the VA, cutting waste, fraud and abuse where ever it is found, canceling Common Core and returning control of education to the States, end the assault on the Second Amendment, audit the Federal Reserve System, investigate the harmful additives in Vaccines and the coverup of studies at the CDC, and destroy the culture of Political Correctness, then we can talk about all those “Christian” issues you want to address.
Haven’t you noticed that no weapon formed against Donald Trump has prospered? Why would that be?
Isaiah 54
17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn.
This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD,
And their righteousness is from Me,” Says the LORD.
Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 717). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
Yes. Trump does not have the whole “face of God” thing going for him like Cruz does.
Be vigilant, lest he takes your cheese!
Sheesh, even Rush today suggested Trump is supportive of the KKK.
This evangelical voter is more evengelical than Christian Post; and I am staying w/ Donald, who will win. I wish Cruz could win, because he is the most perfect candidate I have seen in my 70 years. But he has no shot. We truly, deeply evangelicals are despised by a large majority of the population when it comes to the presidency. They will not tolerate a person who says only born-again people are going to heaven and the rest are going to hell; nor will they tolerate a person (as President, Supreme Court Justice, or even a cabinet post) if they have been recorded espousing that view. The public would be especially disdainful of one who has ever stated in public a literal view of Armageddon, Creationism, the Flood or what the Bible says about homosexuality. Those, too, is a fairly standard evangelical positions.
OK if we want to be mayors, governors, congressmen (probably not senators in most states), because Armageddon is not really relevant to those offices.
Maybe Trump will start rounding up the evangelicals and put them in a camp. Would you like that?
I don’t really care what pontificating “evangelicals” think or say. America is bigger than their whiny desires.
I applaud the Christian Post for taking an unpopular stand against Trump. I see many freepers are attacking them but their article is spot on. Trump would rank right up with Bill Clinton in terms of immoral behavior and Trump has been flirting with authoritarianism. Sadly, there is a good chance that the freepers will get what they want and it makes me fear for my country.
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