In regard to Trump:
Faith writes:
He has plenty of lamentable personality traits, as do most of us, but none of them reaches to that level, and his virtues as a President outweigh them.
So how does Evangelical "morality" work?
Ok Trump I'll trade your thousands of lies (as reported by non-partisan Politifact, or over 10,000 lies as reported by the Washington Post) for two seats on the Supreme Court.
I'll trade 22 viable sexual assault accusations for your tax cuts for the rich.
I'll trade NATO for removing legal protection from the LBGTQ community.
I'll trade overtuning your tax fraud conviction for our desire to abuse immigrant children.
And so on.
I didn't realize Evangelicals believe the Ten Commandments are negotiable.
At least you are winning the war against Christianity.
quote:
The strategy ends by delivering the coup de grace to a belief long held by Americans that places of worship are the most reliable sources of moral instruction. Since the generation of the founders, even American Protestants of less than fervent conviction took their children to church to learn the difference between right and wrong. The disaffected young aren’t likely to expose their children to preachers who tell them that women count for less than men, that their gay friends are going to hell, and that white men with locker room language should rule.
This is nothing to cheer. It’s pathetic that while the voices of evangelical leaders don’t speak for all religious Americans and in fact are anathema to many of them, the latter seem to be paralyzed by the thought that speaking ill of someone else’s religious belief is intolerant. Their good manners won’t win back the loyalty of young people. Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, claims that attacks on President Trump are attacks on the judgment of many conservatives of faith. Exactly so!
https://www.thedailybeast.com/...ecline-in-christian-faith
Transactional morality? Seems more about Capitalism than Religion.
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon