Evangelical Support for Trump Eroding?

[Dill]

(10-11-2018, 04:22 PM)bfine32 Wrote: As to the first I'm pretty sure he frowned upon killing the innocent regardless the stage of life,

To the latter. Jimmy Carter was probably the most pious POTUS we've had in recent times. if anyone said voting for Clinton was against biblical principles and voted for Trump; then they are a hypocrite.

I know the only time I'll bring up Clinton's transgressions is when folks state you shouldn't have voted for trump because he's not a saint.

Ha ha "not a saint." When you leap to the most general standards then suddenly everyone is the same, equally good or bad. Trump no worse than Clinton. Either Clinton.  And maybe no worse than you or me.

But when people complain about Trump they are not upset because he is "not a saint." They are upset because he mocked a sexual assault victim or lied about his taxes or fired someone for doing the right thing or appointed someone to the Supreme Court likely to rule favorably on investigations pending against him--as opposed to thinking of what is best for the country.

And you have touched on the problem for Evangelicals. LOL Character Counts! --or does when Democrats run.

Trump-Loving Christians Owe Bill Clinton an Apology
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/evangelical-christians-trump-bill-clinton-apology/495224/
n response to what they perceived as widespread moral decline, some religious groups had become aligned with the Republican Party during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations. To them, the allegedly draft-dodging, pot-smoking, honesty-challenged womanizer symbolized everything that was wrong with America.
More than two decades after Clinton’s first inauguration, many evangelical leaders of that era have endorsed the draft-dodging, foul-mouthed, honesty-challenged womanizer named Donald Trump for president.

‘You get a do-over here’: Evangelical leaders’ apparent double-standard on the alleged Trump-Daniels affair
https://www.washingtonpost.com/

Evangelicals slammed Bill Clinton's sexual misconduct. So why does Trump get a pass?
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article107819532.html

All this brings us back to theology:

The Little-Known Theology Behind White Evangelical Support of Donald Trump
https://www.texasobserver.org/the-little-known-theology-behind-white-evangelical-support-of-donald-trump/

As news of Donald Trump’s alleged affair with a porn star heated up the airwaves this month, Robert Jeffress, a Dallas megachurch pastor and Trump religious adviser, assured Fox News viewers that the affair is “totally irrelevant” to his fellow evangelicals. In fact, Jeffress said this week that Trump “is the most faith-friendly president we’ve ever had.”

That’s more than a little surprising, considering how conservative Christian leaders castigated Bill Clinton for his sexual misdeeds back in the 1990s. And Jeffress himself, an outspoken supporter of the idea that America is a Christian nation, argued in his 2016 Twilight’s Last Gleaming that Christian leaders are preferable to non-Christians because their “core beliefs” work to restrain them from “immorality” and “corruption.”

But that was before Trump’s surprise electoral victory. Since then, Jeffress’ message seems to have changed. He’s said that a president shouldn’t embody Jesus’ teachings in the Sermon on the Mount. And he recently praised an article that declares it’s “out of place” to try “to force Gospel principles on the state.”

LOL sorry to keep steering discussion back to he Evangelical vote.