Trump's hush-money trial is another major embarassment for Evangelical supporters

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/05/trumps-hush-money-trial-is-disaster-for.html

You'd expect that there would be a few high profile Evangelical "leaders" who would be disturbed enough by the vulgar, horrific scandal involving a totally unrepentant former Republican (party of family values, remember?) President and a pornographic film star having an affair during and immediately following the pregnancy of the former President's wife with their youngest son, to, at the very least, try some kind of pathetic excuse or attempt to excuse the behavior. They can't accuse the media of making this up, because Trump himself has revealed the affair, bragged about it and declared that he doesn't have to ask forgiveness for it because he did nothing wrong.

But there's been nothing. We can hear crickets chirping in the background, when the cheers and accolades for this same former President are not pouring forth from his Evangelical sycophants and followers. They've thrown Jesus under the bus, given their loyalty to a corrupt, adulterous politician and sold their soul for the proverbial bowl of soup, to use a Biblical expression.

It's not judgmental to conclude that the continuing support of Trump, even as a secular politician, by people who claim to believe in the Christian gospel because they accept the Bible as the inerrant, infallible written word of God, is a hypocritical denial of the truth of the Christian gospel. It doesn't matter that his leadership is secular, not spiritual. Supporting Trump is raising up a leader over one's own nation who has openly denied the conviction of the Spirit and has put himself at odds with Jesus and the Christian gospel as a result of it.

[onecaliberal]

1. Why? Because they know we can see they are all frauds?

[underpants]

2. 1. He stopped a woman from being POTUS. 2. They don't admit mistakes

Admitting a mistake might let their womenfolk think maybe they aren’t as great and noble as the womenfolk have been told.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Their Messiah... sent by God.

[lees1975]

5. That's the best characterization of this whole relationship that I've seen.

Nailed it!

[FakeNoose]

4. 95% of Americans don't go to Evangelical church

... and probably the same amount are indifferent to what these preachers think and say. I suppose these preachers are influential among their own small group, but it doesn't matter to the rest of us.

Even among Americans who consider themselves Christians, not that many are Evangelical. Most are your everyday Protestants - Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, etc. These are good American citizens who may or may not support Chump. (Many don't support him.)

The problem with Evangelical preachers is that they have parlayed their positions into political influence that is definitely un-Christian and it's probably a good reason to start taxing their churches.