Michael Cohen, for 10 years lawyer to President Trump and who is about to spend three years in prison for participating in his corruption, called the president “a racist, a con man and a cheat.” That isn’t, and shouldn’t be, news to anyone who’s paid attention to what he’s said and done over the years and especially since early 2017, when he was inaugurated.
However, so far I haven’t heard a word from many of these conservative Christians who have defended the president as having a “Cyrus anointing” from God to bring “righteousness” back to this nation. Perhaps they have a different concept of “righteousness,” such as not exploiting people, treating them fairly et cetera, than I.
What I suspect they mean by “righteousness” must be limited to banning abortion, driving gays back into the closet and reclaiming their desire for cultural supremacy, because I’m seeing absolutely nothing righteous about him or his administration.
You mean that’s not enough? How can that be? There’s something called the “fruit of the Spirit,” the “love” chapter of 1 Corinthians 13 and the Beatitudes in Matthew 7.
Well, we didn’t elect a pastor, you might say. Right. You’re supporting a bully who’s about to have his head handed to him, and when that happens you’ll lose whatever spiritual authority you have or desire because you refused to hold him accountable for his sins — because, in practice, they’ve become yours as well.
Indeed, you’d be surprised with the number of people turned off the Gospel — I have a lot of Facebook friends who simply don’t want to hear it — because of Christian support for Trump.
During the hearing yesterday Cohen, who I mentioned is headed to prison, appeared humble and contrite saying, in effect, “I sold out.” True. I wonder how long it will take for Trump’s Christian supporters to realize that they too sold out.
However, so far I haven’t heard a word from many of these conservative Christians who have defended the president as having a “Cyrus anointing” from God to bring “righteousness” back to this nation. Perhaps they have a different concept of “righteousness,” such as not exploiting people, treating them fairly et cetera, than I.
What I suspect they mean by “righteousness” must be limited to banning abortion, driving gays back into the closet and reclaiming their desire for cultural supremacy, because I’m seeing absolutely nothing righteous about him or his administration.
You mean that’s not enough? How can that be? There’s something called the “fruit of the Spirit,” the “love” chapter of 1 Corinthians 13 and the Beatitudes in Matthew 7.
Well, we didn’t elect a pastor, you might say. Right. You’re supporting a bully who’s about to have his head handed to him, and when that happens you’ll lose whatever spiritual authority you have or desire because you refused to hold him accountable for his sins — because, in practice, they’ve become yours as well.
Indeed, you’d be surprised with the number of people turned off the Gospel — I have a lot of Facebook friends who simply don’t want to hear it — because of Christian support for Trump.
During the hearing yesterday Cohen, who I mentioned is headed to prison, appeared humble and contrite saying, in effect, “I sold out.” True. I wonder how long it will take for Trump’s Christian supporters to realize that they too sold out.
2 comments:
Well Rick; there you go again: showing you are consistently inconsistent. You hold Trump accountable while you leave people that you have supported alone. Now I know that Trump is rather far from perfect but so were the previous presidents. Your hatred of Trump comes through loud and clear. But you do not apply the same standards to Clinton or Obama. You also suggest that by my voting for Trump that I am as guilty of the same sins as he is which is dead wrong. By the way when did either Bill Clinton, Barack Obama or any of the previous presidents show any of the "fruits of the Spirit" that all of a sudden that you believe that Trump should show? What biblical principles did you have to ignore or overlook to support either of the Clintons? Was Barack Obama an example of a "righteous" individual before he became president? Besides, hasn't Cohen lied to the Congress before? Now all of a sudden he is telling the whole truth.
The problem with that comment is that Trump subscribes to no standards whatsoever, which is why comparing him to Obama and the Clintons is utterly irrelevant and indeed apples-and-oranges. This is what Trump supporters refuse to acknowledge -- their double standards.
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