Evangelicals + Trump = "An affront to God's Agenda"

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Critics of the Christian right often point out how hypocritical the Rev. Franklin Graham, Liberty University’s Jerry Falwell, Jr., the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins, and other far-right white evangelicals are for supporting President Donald Trump despite his history of adultery and the fact that he been through two divorces.

Rev. William Barber, in an October 8 op-ed for The Guardian, Slammed the Evangelicals for Trump Coalition. Barber (a Protestant minister known for his work in the NAACP) writes, "I am troubled anytime I see Christianity used to justify the injustice, deception, violence and oppression that God hates.  Even if Donald Trump had a perfect personal moral résumé, his policy agenda is an affront to God’s agenda to lift the poor and bless the marginalized. The distorted moral narrative these so-called Evangelicals for Trump have embraced is contrary to God’s politics, which have nothing to do with being a Democrat or Republican."

Back in the 1960s, Barber recalls, the notorious segregationist George Wallace used religion to promote racism -- and some pastors made the ludicrous claim that he wasn't a racist, including Dr. Henry L. Lyon in Montgomery, Alabama and the Rev. R.L. Lawrence.  Long before that, Barber adds, colonists who supported the oppression of Native Americans as well as slavery hid behind religion.

"No one who has read American history can be surprised by the hypocrisy of Evangelicals for Trump", Barber asserts.  "But we can learn from the history how their undoing will inevitably come from their public arrogance."

Source: This Salon Article.

Seems to be quite a few of these articles floating around.

I am not arguing about if it was supported, I was only acknowledging that it seems that a lot of Evangelicals are calling the current administration as going against their values.

What are their other options?

Personally, I don’t think that Jesus Christ would even stand a chance against the Fundamentalists. (I refuse to call religious leaders like Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, JR, etc. evangelicals. If you look at the Greek origins of the work, it means “Good News.” They certainly are not preaching that very well, nor are they really trying to live like Christ (come to think of it, neither do I, or anyone else)

What if Christ himself were to run for office?

Would American Evangelicals vote for him?

Would ANY American voting bloc support him?

Well, Jesus was born in what is now Palestine, so He could not legally run for president.

But as King of Kings He could, theoretically, walk into the Oval Office, tell Trump "You're sitting in my chair" and the Orange One would have no choice but to vacate.

If only ... if only ...