Posted on 12/21/2019 6:27:17 AM PST by Kaslin
I was very unhappy with our primary choices in the 2016 elections. The GOP field was way too large which allowed a reality star candidate, without the majority of GOP voters’ support, to win. The Democrat side, emerging from a convention that booed God and Israel, couldn’t promote the violence of abortion or the pseudoscience of LGBT activism enough.
Yet in the match-up between a documented fabricator (Hillary Clinton, a Planned Parenthood endorsed candidate) and an egomaniac (President Donald Trump), which one should Christians have voted for? The evangelical Left twisted themselves into a theological knot trying to advocate for Margaret Sanger Award recipient Clinton. Some on the evangelical Right went out of their way to promote a playboy, while literally standing beside Trump and his framed Playboy cover.
And now, Christianity Today—which relies on the name of its founder Billy Graham but increasingly not his wisdom or character—has called for the removal of President Donald Trump because of his “immoral behavior.” The editor in chief, Mark Galli, was not ambiguous in this proclamation: “Trump Should Be Removed From Office.” Well, we don’t remove presidents for mere immoral behavior. That would’ve required the removal of all of them. There’s a reason why the Constitution is the law of the land and not our subjective and misapplied understanding of Scripture.
Franklin Graham called out the magazine on social media saying, in part: “Yes, @BillyGraham founded Christianity Today; but no, he would not agree w/ their piece. He’d be disappointed.” He later tweeted this revealing fact about his father: “I hadn’t shared who my father @BillyGraham voted for in 2016, but because of @CTMagazine’s article, I felt it necessary to share now. My father knew @realDonaldTrump, believed in him & voted for him. He believed Donald J. Trump was the man for this hour in history for our nation.”
Uhhh, mic drop.
Christianity Today didn’t call for the removal of a Presidential Predator—Bill Clinton. In their 1998 article entitled “The Prodigal Who Didn’t Come Home”, they lamented his inadequate “apology.” According to CT, Clinton merely “missed a truly historic moment” with what could’ve been a “straightforward admission.” But the conclusion of the article really showed the “progressive” magazine’s hopes for the impeached President: “At this writing, we expect Clinton to hang tough, to remain the comeback kid he is known to be.”
That was gracious.
Then there was the 1974 CT editorial that asked the question “Should Nixon Resign?” In it, there is never a call for removal. “The transcripts show him to be a person who has failed gravely to live up to the moral demands of our Judeo-Christian heritage. We do not expect perfection, but we rightly expect our leaders, and especially our President, to practice a higher level of morality than the tapes reveal,” writes CT. I agree with those sentiments exactly. We should expect so much more from our elected leaders. It is tragic how Christians, too often, repeatedly justify political corruption over personal character all in the name of Party allegiance. The following two sentences show CT’s blatant contradiction, though: “Yet the Constitution does not provide for the removal of a President because of moral flaws. To resign would be to leave the presidency for other than a constitutional offense.”
Christianity Today, and many other liberal evangelical outlets, rightfully point out the moral failings in (select) elected leaders. Yet they often fail to apply the same standards to those on the Left, especially when those politicians are advocating issues that CT champions. But where was the call for removal of President Barack Obama? For the first time in history, an American President keynoted a fundraising gala for the leading killer of those made in God’s image—Planned Parenthood. Though Obama campaigned on “middle ground” rhetoric regarding abortion, he never sought it as President. In fact, he was the most radically pro-abortion President in history. Eerily echoing Democrat Governor George Wallace’s famous segregation declaration, Obama proclaimed at the gala: “Planned Parenthood is not going anywhere. It’s not going anywhere today. It’s not going anywhere tomorrow.” The response from the crowd was thunderous applause. He ended the speech to the organization that kills over 330,000 of the most marginalized and most victimized in our society: “God Bless Planned Parenthood!”
But enabling and supporting the shedding of innocent blood apparently isn’t enough for Christianity Today to have called for the ousting of President Barack Obama. That behavior wasn’t immoral enough for his removal.
I wish the evangelical Left were just as concerned about Christians’ support of the immoral behavior of movie and music celebrities, whose lifestyles are heavily funded by those who should value “loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments.” Why is this outrage relegated only to political leaders?
CT does the same thing as mainstream media. They promote a simplistic narrative in order to demonize an entire demographic. In this instance, they claim that evangelicals who support Trump “brush off Mr. Trump’s immoral words and behaviors in the cause of political expediency.” I never have. I find his past and even some current behavior reprehensible—whether it’s marital infidelity, unpresidential rally remarks or demeaning tweets. I find the Left’s obsession with demonizing and distorting his every action and word equally as immoral. Slander is a sin, too, people. I’ll never be invited, like many of my colleagues, to the Trump White House. I’ve never been a Trump apologist, but I will defend the rule of law. I know the alternative to a Trump presidency would’ve been a Hillary Clinton presidency. I didn’t choose the lesser of two evils. I chose to vote my conscience with a Party platform that aligns with my faith and with common sense.
I’ll keep praying for Trump…and every other deeply morally flawed politician who doesn’t have the privilege of daily denouncements.
As a Christian who happens to be an evangelical, I’m not worried about what CT laments as the consequence of not removing Trump from office: “It will crash down on the reputation of the evangelical religion.” I don’t live for an “evangelical religion.” I live for Christ. If Trump, or any other President, were actually found guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors, I would fully advocate his or her Constitutional removal. This sham impeachment process is not it.
Until then, I consider this partisan feigned outrage more of the predictable noise from the Left that we’ll continue to hear through the 2020 elections and beyond.
Another think piece about this pissant publication? Just let it die folks...
there’s no such thing as the ‘evangelical left’. If you vote for dems, you follow the devil.
I’ve never met an Evangelical Leftist. Maybe all of them are paid to opine in the media.
Or perhaps it would be: Do forth and procreated with the Sodomite to whom you claim to be married!"
As if the Hilabeast, or Biden, or Princess Lies-A-Lotus, or Best Gay Guy in the Multiverse are better than the Trumpster.
No person who’s moral could even THINK of voting Dimbulbcrat.
Another CRAZY collective? Tend to your sheeple.
here’s another pool of thought:
Go read Carlos the Jackal for his opinion of how to bring down the west. He acknowledged that Marxism by itself could not bring down the west , nor could islam; but an alliance, a coalition of the two could.
We see this alive in the EU and the UN.
The first sentence announces the author as a fool.
If you do not greatly appreciate President Trump at this point, you are hopeless.
As I posted on the other thread:
“...He is the perfect example of a “deceived Christian”...and I use the term “Christian” quite loosely in this context.
I don’t care what some man thinks, that includes this guy, the pope or the pastor down the road. I do care what God thinks and what His Word says. I didn’t vote for POTUS to be a “dancing thru the tulips” perfumed pansy while singing kum-by-ah like this clown. I voted for the POTUS to do the job that he’s doing....and he’s doing it quite well I might add given the opposition this man has had. To not support the POTUS is to condone the abortion god, Molech...devil worship. This “Christian” clown might want to dwell on that thought for awhile....over-educated idiot....”
... Maybe all of them are paid to opine in the media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_pieces_of_silver
"We thank you Lord, that we are not like those righteous prigs, but that we are free to mingle with the tax collectors and prostitutes, without fear of stones being cast."
"For the sin we are about to commit, O Lord, we thank Thee."
Anything the libtards have touched turns into a zombie that will just keep killing. Anything the libtards have breathed life into needs to be bashed until it stops wriggling.
Yup,that’s probably closer to the truth.
How George Soros ‘Rents’ Evangelicals to Confuse Voters
https://www.charismanews.com/us/73708-how-george-soros-rents-evangelicals-to-confuse-voters
Meanwhile, President Trump prays for America and calls for Americans to make America great and to trust in God:
President Trump is on the side of the Angels and of Jesus Christ. It is to Him that President Trump prays. It is with Them that President Trump has allied himself.
There is no “Mic Drop” there because Billy Graham spent the last few years of his life mentoring Donald Trump. People who followed Billy Graham occasionally saw the articles and pictures of the two during the last feww years before the 2016 election and figured that there had to be a mutual connection between the two.
That wasn’t a secret and certainly there is no surprise that Billy Graham didn’t vote for the abortion champion.
I’ve never understood these “Christians” complaining about “demeaning” statements the President makes. Are they sissies? Are they weaklings? Nothing the President can day about his enemies comes close to the ugly truth of what they are. And who o cares about words anyway, when action matters more?
The Left accuses us of hypocrisy by voting for and supporting Trump, yet do they really expect we would be consistent with what we believe by voting Democrat? Really? Failing that, they want us to not vote at all, and employ a false analogy btwn choosing a spiritual and moral leader as a pastor from among any candidates we choose from, versus the best secular general we see from among a field we have very limited power over, and to fight a war against us, and who is best fit for that earthly battle.
it may be said that devout evangelicals support Trump like as persecuted pilgrims may choose and support a brash and (too often falsely) outspoken captain to get them to their desired destination, because that is the general starboard direction he is determined to sail, and takes actions to get there.
And is overall undaunted despite very strong headwinds pushing him to port, and canon fire aimed at him and his passengers by competing captains and crews, who sail to port side on a destructive course and take actions to get there, to a final destination no wise person should want to end up in.
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