(February 26, 2016 at 11:10 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: So I log in to Facebook this morning, only to see this comment made by my Southern Baptist (fundamentalist evangelical) mother, who is otherwise very intelligent (and has her PhD in theater and performing arts) about the upcoming election. I didn't want to start a fight on FB or in other ways embarrass her for it, but I just had to sit there a minute and roll this one around in my brain...
I know she has been opposed to Hillary Clinton since Bill was in office, so I'm not surprised by that remark. And she actually posted a surprisingly insightful critique, from a Christian POV, of Trump... but I'm trying to figure out how Sanders gets lumped into that mix. Here's what she commented:
RocketsMom Wrote:D*** P*** R*** If Trump, Clinton, or Sanders wins the Presidency, it will prove to me that God has taken His favor from our country and given us the leader He thinks we deserve.
Seriously, mom? When God sends us a Jew who gives away free stuff and feeds the hungry (Matthew 14), worries about the poor and critiques the wealthy (Matt. 19:24), defends the humanity of prisoners (Matt. 25:36), and says we should put others first and treat everyone the way we want to be treated (Matthew ch. 6-7), it's "withdrawing His Favor"???
No wonder the Temple got razed only 40 years after that guy arrived on the scene in Judea!
Be glad she isn't for Trump.
Quote:Among white evangelical Republican voters nationally, Trump earned the support of 37 percent, while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, whose father is a pastor and has played a key role in recruiting faith leaders to support his son, is at 20 percent. In the same survey conducted the previous week, Cruz registered 9 percentage points higher. Below the top two contenders, Ben Carson earned 11 percent among evangelicals, and Marco Rubio took 10 percent.http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/tr...oll-218210
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/trump-evangelicals-poll-218210#ixzz41IYMpPxB
Evangelican appears to mean racist, xenophobic, paronoid, and jinogoistic.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
