Evangelical leader applauds Trump for 'relationship with Christ'
Source: MSN/The Hill
An evangelical leader said that Donald Trump did well with evangelical voters in the Republican primary because he recently entered "a relationship with Christ," according to Politico.
The presumptive GOP nominee received mixed reviews following a closed-door meeting with hundreds of Christian faith leaders last week, but James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, applauded Trump for renewing his commitment to evangelicals.
Dobson said in an interview that he knows "the person who led [Trump] to Christ. And that's fairly recent."
"I don't know when it was, but it has not been long," he added.
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/evangelical-leader-applauds-trump-for-relationship-with-christ/ar-AAhCnGq
The rapid embrace of Donald Trump by the Religious Right should not come as a surprise. While most folks will say that the controversy over abortion is what gave rise to the movement, the historical records clear: It was segregation. Thus, despite the fact that most of Trump's position would seem to conflict with what is commonly understood to be Christian doctrine, he is the most overly racist candidate in recent memory.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133_Page3.html#.V28BQLgrKUk
Weyrich saw that he had the beginnings of a conservative political movement, which is why, several years into President Jimmy Carters term, he and other leaders of the nascent religious right blamed the Democratic president for the IRS actions against segregated schoolseven though the policy was mandated by Nixon, and Bob Jones University had lost its tax exemption a year and a day before Carter was inaugurated as president. Falwell, Weyrich and others were undeterred by the niceties of facts. In their determination to elect a conservative, they would do anything to deny a Democrat, even a fellow evangelical like Carter, another term in the White House.
But Falwell and Weyrich, having tapped into the ire of evangelical leaders, were also savvy enough to recognize that organizing grassroots evangelicals to defend racial discrimination would be a challenge. It had worked to rally the leaders, but they needed a different issue if they wanted to mobilize evangelical voters on a large scale.
By the late 1970s, many Americansnot just Roman Catholicswere beginning to feel uneasy about the spike in legal abortions following the 1973 Roe decision. The 1978 Senate races demonstrated to Weyrich and others that abortion might motivate conservatives where it hadnt in the past. That year in Minnesota, pro-life Republicans captured both Senate seats (one for the unexpired term of Hubert Humphrey) as well as the governors mansion. In Iowa, Sen. Dick Clark, the Democratic incumbent, was thought to be a shoo-in: Every poll heading into the election showed him ahead by at least 10 percentage points. On the final weekend of the campaign, however, pro-life activists, primarily Roman Catholics, leafleted church parking lots (as they did in Minnesota), and on Election Day Clark lost to his Republican pro-life challenger.
In the course of my research into Falwells archives at Liberty University and Weyrichs papers at the University of Wyoming, it became very clear that the 1978 election represented a formative step toward galvanizing everyday evangelical voters. Correspondence between Weyrich and evangelical leaders fairly crackles with excitement. In a letter to fellow conservative Daniel B. Hales, Weyrich characterized the triumph of pro-life candidates as true cause for celebration, and Robert Billings, a cobelligerent, predicted that opposition to abortion would pull together many of our fringe Christian friends. Roe v. Wade had been law for more than five years.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Zorro
(15,740 posts)and there are plenty of people who will believe it.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Zorro
(15,740 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)who have systematically been stealing from our gullible great grandparents, grandparents and parents for decades. My mom died in poverty because she really believed these charlatans and sent them a large part of her meager income. You might say it was her fault for sending her paychecks to these snake-oil salesmen, but the truth is, the elderly are gullible, and some responsibility has to fall onto the people who willingly make false promises in order to line their own pocketbook. There is a special place in hell for these soul-sucking anti-Christs.
Donald Trump is a snake-oil salesmen of another kind, but it takes one to know one, so this is a perfect marriage.
packman
(16,296 posts)They have baptized Donald in the holy waters of profit and greed. Gotta keep your base together.
elleng
(130,865 posts)Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)just not a very good one.. So that dude makes zero sense. He's part of the more Left style wing . That even I don't like. I prefer mine a bit Right of Center. But poltics and religion should be seperated anyway
tom_kelly
(958 posts)How odd it is that when you focus on the family of these frauds like James Dobson they usually don't come out looking so wholesome. There is special considerations for folks like these on the other side, I hope.
stonecutter357
(12,695 posts)Archae
(46,318 posts)Was a small gate in the Jerusalem city walls.
Suffice to say, since it was small, getting a camel through that little gate (since at night the main gates were closed,) was very difficult.
Hence Jesus' quip about getting a camel through that gate and a rich man making it into Heaven.
stonecutter357
(12,695 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)The gate claimed to be the inspiration for this passage is in the wall of a sixteenth century church.
The more likely explanation is the similarity of the words for camel and rope.
Archae
(46,318 posts)Be the inspiration for a Biblical verse?
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)The story arose later to explain a passage that otherwise makes no damn sense.
Like I said, the more likely explanation is the similarity of the words for camel and rope, but biblical literalists have a problem with this explanation because they believe that mistranslation is impossible because the bible is an inspired supernatural work.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)Does anyone really think that aside from attending a few weddings or funerals, this dude has ever even seen the inside of a church?
If Donald Trump is a "good Christian", then I must be Saint Peter.
3catwoman3
(23,973 posts)...the Buddha.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)That's nauseating.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Initech
(100,063 posts)reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)TwilightZone
(25,464 posts)He does seem to have a relationship with Christie, odd as it is.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Poor Christie. In every photo with him and Trump, he looks like he just swallowed a turd.
bucolic_frolic
(43,128 posts)- Nicolo Machiavelli
"Property is theft!" - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Sorry, Donald. I'm not seeing poverty, humility, chastity here.
Mother Theresa you ain't.
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Srkdqltr
(6,271 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)TomCADem
(17,387 posts)Love Corgis!
Judi Lynn
(160,516 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)from back in Sept. At the end one of them facepalms him
okasha
(11,573 posts)okasha
(11,573 posts)"entering a relationship," I suppose he did.
nruthie
(466 posts)Person 2713
(3,263 posts)Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)Sorry, Jimmy but at best I think you're fooling yourself. It's more likely that you've crossed from the Kingdom into Fantasy Land yet again.
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)And it sure as hell ain't that hedonistic orange fraud.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Which makes sense in this case.
LannyDeVaney
(1,033 posts)Nothing more.
The religious community should be ashamed of what America has done to their beliefs.
rwsanders
(2,596 posts)Dobson has never been more than a partisan hack with a phony cloak of Christianity.
But on the upside, he was the first to make me realize how prevalent this was in the church.
dembotoz
(16,799 posts)i tried, i actually tried to follow along. but in the end the basic violation of my own moral compass as to what was right from wrong was getting me free from the bullshit. Never could quite grasp how jesus would want us to act like assholes....my short comings and lack of faith and study i guess....
47of74
(18,470 posts)No relation to Jesus Christ whatsoever. They love Jeeeeeeeezus because he's a white dude who carries a strap-on....excuse me, I meant a automatic rifle, and shares their hatred of the poor, minorities, women, foreigners, and especially those who don't worship as they do.
Xolodno
(6,390 posts)To be Christian is to runaway as fast as possible from established Christianity.
I have to agree....
Initech
(100,063 posts)"I read the best Bible, I quote the best verses. I consult the best pastors. We're gonna create God's army. Fill it with the best Christians, it's gonna be huge!"
jmowreader
(50,554 posts)"But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will set the sheep on his right hand, the goats on the left and Donald Trump in the middle. Then the King will tell those on his right hand, Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry, and you gave me food to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.
Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink? When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked, and clothe you? When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?
The King will answer them, Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me."
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry, and you didnt give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink; I was a stranger, and you didnt take me in; naked, and you didnt clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didnt visit me.
Then they will also answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and didnt help you?
Then he will answer them, saying, Most certainly I tell you, because you didnt do it to one of the least of these, you didnt do it to me.
And finally he turned to Donald Trump. "You gotta be fucking shitting me," said The King. "You didn't become a Christian because you had a change of heart. You became one to try to get a job you're completely unqualified for. Welcome to the Ninth Circle of Hell, asshole."