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Post by Josh on Dec 20, 2017 18:17:17 GMT -8
So, the political discussion here has been dormant from long before the Trump candidacy/ Presidency, which feels like a gaping hole. The last two years have been so momentous politically, that a person (even one as a-political as me) can't help to have strong opinions on the subject.
I’ll put my cards on the table: I think the 80%+ support of Evangelicals for Donald Trump is a major travesty, the selling out of our gospel birthright for a mess of worldly-power porridge. The impact on the church’s witness in North America and elsewhere is and will be massively detrimental, a cause for God’s name to be “blasphemed among the Gentiles” (Romans 2:24).
We could debate all the fine points that Republican and Democrat Christians have gone over for years, but that’s not anything new. What is new is the embracing of a wolf-in-sheep’s clothing as if he is “one of us”, and the hypocrisy that comes with that- turning a blind eye to Trump’s unrepentantly blatant sins, some of which just a decade ago many castigated Democractic candidates for.
I’m not a fan of the “lesser of two evils” philosophy of voting, but can respect that line of reasoning far more than the one that seeks to embrace Trump.
Your thoughts?
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