Phil1111 1,183 #1 January 16, 2018 Resisting Trump, churches give sanctuary to immigrants facing deportation https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/11/29/resisting-trump-churches-give-sanctuary-immigrants-facing-deportation/904889001/ Pastor condemned Trump's 's---hole' in service Pence attended: report http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/369068-pastor-condemned-trumps-shithole-countries-comments-while-pence Religion predictions for 2018? Young Mormons become Democrats, white evangelicals stick with Trump https://www.sltrib.com/religion/global/2017/12/22/religion-predictions-for-2018-young-mormons-become-democrats-white-evangelicals-stick-with-trump-a-jewish-metoo/ The Rev. David Gushee: A crossroads for white evangelicals I predict that in 2018 some event involving President Donald Trump will pose a decisive moral test for his strongest base of supporters, white evangelicals. Sadly, I think that we already know what will happen. A core of #Trumpvangelicals will remain loyal no matter what. … And it will be even more clear that whatever happens to Trump will happen to these evangelicals, because they have become indistinguishable= = = HELL??? Max Perry Mueller: Mormons reach a tipping point on Trump The Mormons have never liked Donald Trump. As Mitt Romney put it, Mormons generally view Trump as a “a phony, a fraud.” In 2018, Mormons in Utah might help turn the ruby red congressional districts in Utah blu(ish). Perhaps more importantly, the lasting effect for young Mormon voters coming of age in the Trump era could be a generational fissure between the GOP and their most loyal religious voting bloc. At the opposite end of the religious spectrum are the: Donald Trump is like a cult leader, says religious studies scholar "Donald Trump is akin to a cult leader and his supporters are reminiscent of disciples of a sect, according to a religious studies scholar. Reza Aslan, an Iranian-American author, said he was using the word cult in the “pejorative sense” and argued the US president's supporters were united by a fanatical devotion to their leader. Aslan, who is a creative writing professor at the University of California, Riverside, said the intense sentiments expressed by President Trump’s support base shared more parallels with religion than politics. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-cult-leader-make-america-great-again-alt-right-religion-nationalist-us-president-a8053996.html The dangerous cult of Donald Trump "I am not the first person to point this out: There’s been a cultish quality to President Trump’s most ardent supporters. He seemed to acknowledge the phenomenon when he boasted that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose voters. Throughout the campaign, and in personal appearances since then, Trump has harnessed the kind of emotional intensity from his base that is more typical of a religious revival meeting than a political rally, complete with ritualized communal chants (“Lock her up!”)." http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-aslan-trump-cultists-20171106-story.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RonD1120 62 #2 January 16, 2018 Looks like it might be a good time to remove the 501(c)3 tax exemption for religious organizations.Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil1111 1,183 #3 January 24, 2018 Evangelical leaders give Trump a “mulligan” on Stormy Daniels Evangelical leaders say they were “tired of being kicked around by Barack Obama and his leftists” "Evangelical Christians, President Donald Trump's most devout base, have been able to easily turn the other cheek when the president exerts his bombastic rhetoric, or when scandalous reports from the past surface, such as his reported extramarital affair with a porn star." But the relationship between evangelical leaders and Trump, despite obvious instances that make them look to be the antithesis of one another, is more rooted in favors and policy, than any sort of legitimate moral high ground. "I don’t think this president is using evangelicals. … I think he genuinely enjoys the relationship that had developed. He has found, I think—and he’s a very transactional president," Perkins explained. "Trust is important to him. Loyalty is important to him, and I think in this transaction, he realizes, ‘Hey, these are people I can count on, because they don’t blow with the political winds." https://www.salon.com/2018/01/23/evangelical-leaders-give-trump-a-mulligan-on-stormy-daniels/ Many white evangelicals stand by Trump because they are more white than evangelical "What has happened to members of the “Moral Majority”? ... Consider the results of two surveys conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI). In 2011, fewer than one in three white evangelical Protestants said an elected official could behave ethically in their public life, if they had committed moral transgressions in their private life. Yet just five years later, in 2016, more than seven in ten white evangelical Protestants said a politician’s personal morality did not matter to them.... In January 2016, prominent evangelical Jerry Falwell Jr compared Trump to Christ, claiming the billionaire property tycoon lived “a life of loving and helping others, as Jesus taught” Only 35 per cent of non-white evangelicals voted for Trump compared to 59 per cent of non-white evangelicals who voted for Clinton. Jim Wallis, a progressive evangelical pastor and former spiritual adviser to Barack Obama, told me earlier this year that “black evangelicals, Hispanic evangelicals… did not vote for Donald Trump. White evangelicals did… because they were more white than evangelical.” https://www.newstatesman.com/world/2017/12/many-white-evangelicals-stand-trump-because-they-are-more-white-evangelical Ex-RNC chair rips evangelical leaders standing by Trump: ‘Don’t ever preach to me’ again ""Just shut the hell up and don't ever preach to me about anything ever again," Steele said during an MSNBC appearance on Tuesday. "I don't want to hear it, because after telling me how to live my life, who to love, what to believe, what not to believe, what to do and what not to do, and now you sit back. And if the prostitutes don't matter, if the grabbing the you-know-what doesn't matter, the outright behavior and lies do not matter, just shut up," he said. " http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/370473-ex-rnc-chair-rips-evangelical-leaders-standing-by-trump-dont Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
