Some Christians say Trump has pushed young people away from their churches

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

and his impact on Christianity could last well beyond his presidency

Maria Felix was on a mission trip, working alongside other Christians, when she first heard Donald Trump's name. It was 2015, and she said the group of teens was joking about him, baffled at the idea that he was casting himself as a Christian in his campaign for the US presidency.

Five years later, Felix, 23, said Trump's presidency — and the way he'd been embraced by so many churches, religious leaders, and Christians — had greatly shaken her faith.

"I have really struggled with continuing to even call myself a Christian, because I feel like I cannot continue to call myself a Christian if Trump is what Christians want to be like," she told Business Insider.

In many ways, Trump has successfully wooed Christians across the US, earning a majority of votes from Catholics and Protestants, and especially evangelicals, in 2016, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of exit-poll data.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/christians-said-trump-pushed-young-035508572.html

My guess is some so-called xtians are more concerned with power than the teachings of Christ.

[Mystery sage]

1. Agreed

"I have really struggled with continuing to even call myself a Christian, because I feel like I cannot continue to call myself a Christian if Trump is what Christians want to be like," she told Business Insider.

This. This so much.

[The Magistrate]

2. When You Sup With the Devil, Sir, Bring a Long Spoon

Clearly some clergy failed to read the fine print on the contract....


"For two thousand years evangelicals warning of the coming anti-christ, and when he finally arrives, they vote for him."

[Hekate]

9. This

[dalton99a]

14. +1

[catrose]

3. I'm not a young person, but I always considered church an essential part of my life, until recently.

Now I can't imagine attending again.

[Ms. Toad]

12. There are churches that reject Trump

So if you find yourself missing it, do some exploration and find a spiritual that fits.

[TygrBright]

4. They're more concerned with preserving privilege, hierarchy, and status quo.

Almost all Christian church doctrines, in complete contrast to the recorded words of Christ, prioritize making women second-class human beings, empowering a special class of shamans to speak on behalf of, and interpret, Divine sources, and preserving established religious and civil authority.

The uninterpreted teachings of Christ are too dangerous to privileged patriarchs otherwise.

sadly,
Bright

[bmbmd]

5. This life-long United Methodist

Will not go back.

[Cobalt Indigo]

6. Bingo!

I'm 29 and I haven't called myself Christian in years, way before Trump, but I have seen what the church I grew up in has become since he's been in office, and they're truly more concerned about control over the government than Jesus. They can over look all of Trumps faults and criminal actions, because they think he's going to get rid of Roe v Wade and and same sex marriage. Thats all they care about. They're so focused on who and what they hate that they hardly actually talk about Jesus. And then they wonder why the membership list keeps getting smaller and smaller.

[Crunchy Frog]

7. So at least there's something positive coming out of this shitshow.

[Vogon_Glory]

8. I believe that the churchmen and church women who climbed into bed with Donnie

are more responsible for driving people away from the church than he was. Church teachings are chock-full of injunctions against hanging around with sleazy people, but the evangelicals and other conservatives who fell in with Donnie willfully ignoring the piles of info that was available about him well before 2016. Their silence and their tacit endorsements of his horrible policies are what drove off many of their flock.

Just saying “I’m sorry” or “I made a boo-boo” doesn’t cut it. Nor do those fake-o Ted Bundy-style shows of pseudo-contrition. We’ve seen the Religious Right’s idea of cheap grace and continuing lies and slander to be taken in.

[TheRealNorth]

15. +1

They had plenty of repugnant Republicans to climb into bed with in 2016, and they chose the most evil and repugnant.

[hatrack]

10. The churches were doing just fine on that score already . . .

Trump just showed up as the bouncer at 2:20 AM to finish the job: "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay HERE!".

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

11. K & R

[TheRealNorth]

13. In this case, the problem isn't so much Trump as it is all the Christians that forsake Christ

to elevate the Mango Mussolini as being some sort of Christian savior.