Trump’s Christian Apologists Are Unchristian
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Ed Stetzer is grappling with a moral crisis. Stetzer, the director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, is preaching the Gospel to his fellow Christians. And they’re not listening. “White evangelicals are highly motivated to support President Donald Trump around the issue of immigration,” Stetzer, a Trump critic, wrote in Vox on the morning of the midterms. The next day, after reading exit polls, Stetzer lamented that the president’s scare talk about migrants had proved once again to be a winner with white evangelicals. “I’d hoped it wouldn’t be,” Stetzer told NPR . “But it was.”
Stetzer and other evangelical leaders are in the business of saving souls. But today, the souls in peril are in their own flock. Nationalism, tribalism, and a corrupt, ruthless Republican president are reviving old demons and summoning new ones. The “family values” concerns of 10, 20, or 30 years ago—homosexuality, premarital sex, women in the military—have been overtaken by a different set of moral issues, often derided by the right as “social justice.” On these emerging issues, white evangelical Protestants—for simplicity’s sake, I’ll call them WEPs—are, more than any other religious constituency, standing on the wrong side. The problem isn’t that they’re imposing their morality on others. The problem is that what they’re imposing isn’t morality. It’s wickedness.
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Christ said, "Love one another." He gave no exceptions.
Trump says, "Hate brown people."
The two messages are antithetical. A person can try to follow Christ, or to follow Trump... but not both.
Do provide a link where he has said this and no being against illegall imigration is not being against brown people [Deleted]
The ungodly gop has for over a generation abused the names of God and Christ to advocate for public policy Christ would have abhorred. The gop called for wars and torture and for mideveal walls to divide us and opposed helping the least among us in favor of giving ever more wealth and privilege to those already unconscionably rich and powerful which is antithetical to the message of the Christian Bible...