Posted on 11/27/2017 5:25:54 PM PST by marshmallow
LONDON — England's top religious authority, the archbishop of Canterbury, said Sunday that he doesn't understand why so many Christians in the U.S. support President Donald Trump.
The Most Rev. Justin Welby told ITV's "Peston on Sunday" program that he "really genuinely" can't comprehend why fundamentalists have provided such a strong base for Trump.
"There's two things going through my mind: Do I say what I think, or do I say what I should say? And I'm going to say what I think," he said on the show, referring to the support Trump has garnered, especially from so-called Evangelical Christians. "No, I don't understand it. I really genuinely do not understand where that is coming from."
"There's two things going through my mind: Do I say what I think, or do I say what I should say? And I'm going to say what I think," he said on the show, referring to the support Trump has garnered, especially from so-called Evangelical Christians. "No, I don't understand it. I really genuinely do not understand where that is coming from."
Welby did say he would be willing to attend a state dinner in Trump's honor if the president came to Britain on an official visit.
He noted that he's met with worse people than the president of the United States.
"I spent years and years involved in conflict stuff around the world where I met people who had killed many, many people," he told ITV.
He said part of his job is to meet with people he disagrees with "and to testify with the love of Christ to them and to seek to draw them in a different way."
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Also baffled why Christians refer to the birth of Jesus during Christmas.
We is stoopid.
The good rev, whatever that means, needs to get out more.
It’s called bounded rationality.
Back to the old Anglican Church vs Popish.
Where does the archbishop of Canterbury get his information about President Trump? The BBC?
Ask the archbishop if he knows that Christ is his Lord and Savior. For eXtra credit, ask him if homosexualityou is a sin and what his church should do in light of that.
[Yawn] Someone wake me when he replies with something meaningful.
Baffled agitprop alert.
Spot on. I walked out on the Episcopal church (notice the small “c”) 17 years ago under Rowan the Fuzzy and a Bishop who saddled our parrish with a lesbian priestess. This apostate is no better and this church is lost.
I’m sure this guy is also baffled real Christian’s in America are against redefining marriage to include gay unions.
Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?
This guy seems to be baffled by a lot of things. The Bible, Jesus, you get the drift.
For what it's worth, I'm not the least baffled by him. I can spot a neo-pagan modern day Gnostic at a thousand paces.
Certainty is baffling, to the spiritually uncertain.
In Europe, the main source for news about America is CNN.
? Try articulating why you are against Trump, rev.
Is it because we want to follow the Commandments
unlike the illegals? (Thou shalt not steal) Or uphold the sanctity of
marriage and family?
Really?
You want a rational explanation with facts?
How passé. /s
Perhaps it’s a Holy Spirit thing....something I’m sure the rev would be unacquainted with.
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