If you don't want Christians voting for Trump, your party should have offered a better choice. Unfortunately, progressives love antagonizing Christians, and many other faiths as well. A lot of Christians would like to tell Trump to go take a flying leap. But they can hardly do that when progressive/leftist/Democrats are poking Christians with sharp sticks.
For which they should beg forgiveness from the god they pretend to worship.
Evangelical zealots.
Ours is a secular constitutional federal republic, by design.
And yet, Jesus was capable of showing his anger.
Grow up.
Only the shitty fake ones.
More childish excuses.
Yes of course, but what did he get angry at? He didn't get angry at unbelievers. He didn't get angry at the gays or trans in the Roman Empire. He showed his anger at the money changers and those profiting in the temple. A modern equivalent would be Jesus showing his anger towards a presidential candidate hawking a 60-dollar Bible with his name on it. He also showed anger at those that didn't show compassion when they witnessed suffering.
We all know how Christians played a vital role in the 2016 election.
The 2016 presidential election cycle will long be remembered for the drama it created—including the social unrest that has taken place since Donald Trump was declared the winner.
The Republican victory shocked millions of Americans, but millions more were elated by the outcome—one that surprised the mainstream media and political pundits alike.
Religion played a significant role in the election, from the activity of dozens of national religious leaders, to the importance of various faith-related issues, to the high level of turnout among key segments of faith-driven voters.
This is the first of several summaries based on Barna Group’s election survey concerning the role that faith played in this historic political contest.
Evangelicals emerged as one of Donald Trump’s most ardent bases of support.
Nearly four out of five (79%) voted for Trump, compared to 18 percent siding with Hillary Clinton, providing the Republican candidate with better than a four-to-one margin.
Non-evangelical born again Christians also gave the President-elect a comfortable margin, 56 percent to 35 percent.
The remaining Christian-leaning segment, the notional Christians, essentially split their vote, providing Trump with a scant two-point preference (49% to 47%).
While the media have made a big deal about the prolific level of evangelical support won by Trump, the real story may be elsewhere.
Barna’s research indicates that perhaps the most significant faith group in relation to the Trump triumph was notional Christians.
These individuals – who consider themselves to be Christian, typically attend a Christian church, but are not born again – have supported the Democratic candidate in every election since 1996.
On average, notionals have given the Democratic candidate 58 percent of their votes.
That trend was broken this year as Hillary Clinton took just 47 percent of the group’s votes while Trump was awarded 49 percent.
Given that notionals are by far the largest of the five faith segments, that transition was a game changer for the Republicans.
Notional Christians: The Big Election Story in 2016 - Barna Group
Religion played a significant role in the 2016 presidential election, from the activity of national religious leaders to the importance of various faith-related issues, to the high level of turnout among key segments of faith-driven voters. This is the first of several research releases based on...www.barna.com
Thus, we see Trump speaking to Christians, and Harris addressing the issue of faith in promoting her policies.
This election could be the most important election in the USA.
As we see the stark picture on what each candidate represents by their policies -
ALL CHRISTIANS have to galvanize again, to do what is right by the LORD.
That is utter nonsense. In both the 2016 and 2024 primaries, there were multiple alternatives to Trump, yet y'all still chose him. White Evangelicals choose Trump in the primaries, in fact ya'll gave him more primary votes than any other Republican candidate in history. Y'all chose him to be your candidate, so man up and own that. No one made you do it, y'all did it on your own.
As a side note that passage you are quoting was not in the earliest manuscripts of the Gospel of John. It was added at least 150 years later.
They have anonymity with their votes so can tell him to take a flying leap by voting for someone else if they lack the courage to publicly state their convictions. They fear being ostracized by their church and their communities not by imagined sharp sticks from progressive/leftist/Democrats. They choose church and community over god and country.
John 5:1-15
It’s much worse than that. Many, not all, but many Evangelical churches have become dens of utterly unhinged conspiracy theories and they are often driven by the members in spite of the pastors. Trump’s extremist rhetoric is moderate compared to the mishmash of Qanon, extreme antivaxx, and utterly apocalyptic stuff you will hear in some Evangelical churches today. We are talking the COVID vaccines were the Mark of the Beast garbage.
I am Christian, I was merely pointing out that passage was added later it wasn’t in the original Gospel.
True and tragic and I hope that evangelicals specifically and mainstreams religions generally see an epic backlash for nurturing and spreading their corruptive evilness.
pres-outlook.org
How very Christ-like: vote for the devil to own the libs.
I know this is not directed at me, but personally, if the "Christians" (no true scotsman fallacy aside) that you are referring to had anywhere near the influence over Democrats that they currently have on the Republican party, I would not be voting for Democrats ever.
Party of personal responsibility indeed.
1. You are confusing commonplace with universally accepted. Homosexuality was common in Rome, at the same time people like to gossip and condemn others. For example, homosexuality was common and open in 1980s America and at the same time, it was common for people to insult gays and lesbians.
We need to do away with the popular vote, just have each State's representatives act as electors. Take all the pomp and pageantry out of it.