Evangelical Christians Agree: Trump Tells it Like it Is

[Mocking You]

GARY, IN – Millions and millions of self-described conservative Christian Americans continue to flock to Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump because, as they proudly report time and time again, “he tells it like it is”.

“He knows how to make America a winner again because he understands the real world and tells it like it is,” said 76-year-old Republican and professing Christian Freda Collins of the strip-club promoting, wife-upgrading, unrepentantly materialistic and adulterous Trump. “He’s exactly the kind of man that we need to make America great again!”

“Sure, I know that pretty much everything the guy stands for is exactly the opposite of what the Bible says,” admitted Harriet James, a 68-year-old retired public school teacher and longtime church choir leader who plans to vote Trump in the upcoming Indiana primary. “But we have to realize that those Bible values don’t really apply here and now. They’re for heaven or the future or church or our private lives or whatever.

http://theendtimes.news/2016/04/29/...unrepentant-professing-christians-in-america/

 

[Nick M]

He doesn't hide his sin. He is not a stage actor.

 

[Jonahdog]

Evangelicals are supporting the thrice married, admitted adulterer, hateful xenophobic name caller who changes his mind more than his underwear and runs his life based on money.

Is that supposed to be a godly person from and evangelical standpoint? Oh wait according to the church choir leader quoted in the article "Bible values don't really apply here and now".

Ah, the human mind, capable of almost any rationalization if it makes you feel better.

 

[Buzzword]

In other news, Evangelical Christians continue to pour time, money, and energy into maintaining their co-titles of "Most Impotent" and "Least Relevant" subgroup of American society, as well as working toward a special commendation for "Total Inability to Distinguish Between Politics and Religion".

Meanwhile, traditional liturgical churches continue to welcome everyone and serve wine in copious amounts at all church functions.

 

[patrick jane]

Evangelicals are supporting the thrice married, admitted adulterer, hateful xenophobic name caller who changes his mind more than his underwear and runs his life based on money.

Is that supposed to be a godly person from and evangelical standpoint? Oh wait according to the church choir leader quoted in the article "Bible values don't really apply here and now".

Ah, the human mind, capable of almost any rationalization if it makes you feel better.

Trump makes us feel better

 

[kmoney]

Why Evangelicals Support Trump - Steve Mitchell
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/03/06/why_evangelicals_support_trump_129864.html#!

One of the interesting questions about the 2016 Republican presidential primaries is why evangelical Christians are voting for Donald Trump. His language is salty (he had to give up swearing going into the South Carolina primary) and often impudent, he’s twice divorced – in other words, he certainly doesn’t seem to be the type of candidate evangelicals would support.

However, political polling we did 30 years ago just after I started my company provides an explanation of why he is getting so many of their votes. We found that evangelicals are drawn toward politics by messianic figures. Although Trump may not be Christ-like, the term messianic does have other synonyms such as “liberator” or “defender,” words that Trump supporters might easily use to describe him.

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Third, we found out what did draw this group toward politics: strong, decisive leaders, not issues. They got involved in politics for the same reason they got involved with their church -- because they were looking for someone to help “show them the way.” Evangelicals were drawn into politics by messianic leaders.

When you look at the presidential candidates who have won a majority of evangelicals, they have all been strong figures in their own way, some more religious than others. Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and both Bushes all won a majority of these voters.

Although Carter was very religious, some might say that Bill Clinton’s lifestyle was not always Christian. But, when Clinton spoke of a special “covenant” with voters, secularists didn’t understand the term but Christians did, and they voted for him.

And, finally, we were able to determine who these voters were. They tended to be less educated with lower incomes, the same groups that were the earliest supporters of Trump 30 years after we did our research.

Donald Trump is precisely the type of candidate that would have drawn evangelical Christian voters in 1987 when we conducted our poll, and I believe that he is precisely the type of candidate that is drawing them in today. Although certainly not Christ-like, Trump is perceived to be strong and bold; a leader that will help evangelicals navigate a world they believe is too often adrift and too different from what they want.

Sen. Ted Cruz’ Iowa/South Carolina strategy would have been very successful in winning evangelicals this year had it not been for Trump. Cruz, another strong, messianic figure, one who even speaks with the cadence of a Southern preacher, would have been the recipient of the evangelical votes this year, and after he won in Iowa the Texas senator might have been on the path to securing the GOP nomination had it not been for an even stronger messianic figure, Donald Trump.

So as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and radio and TV hosts like Rush Limbaugh, Greta Van Susteren, Bill O’Reilly, Megyn Kelly, and Sean Hannity ask why evangelicals support Trump – the answer can be found in that poll we did three decades ago. Trump is the “liberator” and “defender” they believe really will “Make America Great Again!”

 

[Jonahdog]

Trump makes us feel better

Interesting. He makes fun of and demonizes The Other. He is really, really, really rich.
Now I understand.

 

[kmoney]

Is that supposed to be a godly person from and evangelical standpoint? Oh wait according to the church choir leader quoted in the article "Bible values don't really apply here and now".

That is a strange thing for her to say. What values does she have in mind? If the idea is that we aren't electing a Christian leader then I think there is some merit to it, and his adultery and divorces and love of money may not have direct bearing on his ability to be President. But at the same time, Christian values being operative or not in someone's personal life, where this woman thinks they should be, can have influences in how one leads and I think we do see that in Trump's policy positions and rhetoric.

 

[kmoney]

Trump makes us feel better

So is it like Obama's "Hope and Change" but for a different group of people?

 

[ClimateSanity]

So is it like Obama's "Hope and Change" but for a different group of people?

He never gives a serious answer. It was a joke.

 

[Rusha]

Evangelicals are supporting the thrice married, admitted adulterer, hateful xenophobic name caller who changes his mind more than his underwear and runs his life based on money.

That does seem to be the case for some ... otherwise there would be no need for such for such defensiveness while defending the guy.

 

[kmoney]

He never gives a serious answer. It was a joke.

I know, but the answer he gave probably is true for a lot of people.