Back during the 2016 election, Hillary Clinton suddenly became very religious. She talked about how important her faith was to her, and even claimed a preacher sent her Bible verses daily on her cell phone for her to read and study. The response from conservatives and evangelical Christians was ridicule, and well deserved. The idea that this very corrupt woman being a Christian who had been caught lying and was suspect of much more, was ludicrous. And how amazing that right at election time when the Christian vote was wanted was when she suddenly became so religious.
But then Donald Trump, a man who to my knowledge had never done or said anything religious, suddenly became a born again Christian.....according to James Dobson. A man (Trump) who had not long before that said he had never done anything he needed to repent of.....a man who is vulgar, cheated on 2 wives and bragged about it, owned strip clubs, bragged that he liked to grab women by their genitals, who said Planned Parenthood did a lot of good, had donated money and given other support to liberals for years...including the Clintons, a man who fought the Tea Party and had held the opposite view on everything Christians and conservatives held dear for years. And like Hillary becoming religious miraculously at election time, his miraculous conversion happened just when he needed the Christian vote.
Yet Hillary's religious experience was scoffed at, while Donald Trump's was held up as true by his supporters, and anyone who dared question it was called judgmental and a Pharisee.....even though no change had ever happened in his behavior or language. And still, if one dares point out how bad his behavior is, you are told that "he is still a baby Christian." As I asked a Facebook friend who deleted me for it, just how long does the baby Christian stage last? He has supposedly been a Christian since a little before the election, which makes it close to 3 years......yet the man is still a bully, a jerk, he still acts horribly, and has not changed at all. No matter how badly he acts or talks, no matter what he does....his evangelical supporters will claim he is a Christian and that he is a baby Christian. So where was this charity for Hillary? And why does he never testify to his conversion and talk about what Jesus has done in his life? Why does James Dobson and others have to say he is a Christian and had a conversion? Because it was a political move to get the Christian vote, and a ton of gullible Christians fell for it and continue to fall for it.
I have a theory. It would appear that as long as Donald Trump, and possibly others in the office he holds, does some things politically that his supporters want, they equate that with his being a Christian and it being God's will that he won the presidency. Hillary Clinton and Obama, on the other hand, have done nothing that conservatives and evangelical Christians support or want, so they cannot be Christians. When it comes to politicians, actions and words are not an indicator of their Christianity, but what they do politically is. Sound off the wall? Yes, but I believe it to be true.... and I challenge anyone to prove otherwise.
Let me be blunt: Donald Trump is a bully and a jerk. He treats people horribly, and acts in some ways like Obama. Though his supporters love to point out that he wasn't a politician, he supported liberals and their policies and thus is liable for some of the bad laws and polices put in by the liberals he has funded. Though his supporters crow about him draining the swamp, he helped make that swamp and is part of it.
As news comes out about his dealings with prostitutes and his paying people off to keep them quiet, his loyal supporters say it doesn't matter and is in the past.....yet they would be screaming from the rooftops if there was a "D" by his name instead of an "R". No matter what is brought up about Trump, it is in his past, he is a wonderful Christian, and it doesn't matter......yet everything in other liberals' pasts matter, no matter how far back. I even had a friend post the following:
I Don't Care About The Trump Tapes. I Don't Care Who Trump Slept With While He Was A Private Citizens! You Hear That #Mueller
Now can you imagine my fellow conservatives having that attitude about him if he had run and won as a liberal? Those very things WOULD matter if Trump didn't have an "R" by his name.
I dislike Donald Trump for a lot of reasons:
The pressure I got to vote for him when I felt I could not in good conscience vote for him.
The nasty things said by so-called Christians because I stood against him.
The double standard his supporters held and still hold with him.
The comparing of this vile and corrupt man to good men and women of the Bible.
The over the top worship and adulation of this man.
I have sarcastically taken to calling him the Republican Messiah, and that is not a big stretch. The things Christians say about him are nauseating and over the top. The Bible did NOT foretell him becoming president. It was NOT God who put him in, but so-called Christians who for some ungodly reason beyond me made him the GOP nominee over several good conservatives and decent people... which gave us not one bad choice, but two.
I don't mean this in an irreverent way, but if Donald Trump is a Christian, then Jesus was wrong about the Christian way being a narrow way......it is as broad as it can be.
A book recently came out titled "The Faith of Donald Trump." Since I have too many snowflakes on Facebook, I didn't say what I wanted....but I will say it here. If I still worked at the Christian bookstore I used to work at, I would not know whether to put the book in fiction or humor. For it is both.
If the world keeps going the way it is going, the day may come when we face true persecution. And from what I have seen of Christian's reactions to criticism of Trump and questioning of Trump's Christianity, evangelical Christians aren't going to handle persecution very well if they can't handle their guy being criticized or their voting choices questioned.
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