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babylonsister

(171,070 posts) Mon Dec 23, 2019, 08:13 AM Dec 2019

Christianity Today receives boost in new subscriptions after calling for Trump's removal...

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Christianity Today receives boost in new subscriptions after calling for Trump’s removal, editor in chief says
Published Sun, Dec 22 20193:47 PM ESTUpdated Sun, Dec 22 20193:58 PM EST
Spencer Kimball

The Christian magazine that published a blistering editorial calling for President Donald Trump’s removal from office over his “blackened moral record” has received a boost in subscribers despite a public backlash among leading evangelicals, according to the publication’s editor in chief.

Mark Galli, the editor in chief of Christianity Today who authored the op-ed, acknowledged to MSNBC on Sunday that the magazine has lost subscribers, but he said there has also been an outpouring of support.

“A stereotypical response is ‘thank you, thank you, thank you’ with a string of a hundred exclamation points — ‘you’ve said what I’ve been thinking but haven’t been able to articulate, I’m not crazy,‘” Galli said of the response from supporters. “We have lost subscribers but we’ve had 3 times as many people start to subscribe.“

In the editorial published Thursday, Galli argued that Trump’s effort to use his power as president to coerce a foreign leader to investigate Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden “is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral.“

Galli called on evangelicals who continue to support Trump “despite his blackened moral record” to “remember who you are and whom you serve. Consider how your justification of Mr. Trump influences your witness to your Lord and Savior.“

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Christianity Today receives boost in new subscriptions after calling for Trump's removal... (Original Post) babylonsister Dec 2019 OP

trump* declaring that he wont 'read' CT again...... samnsara Dec 2019 #1

Just like me boycotting Chick-fil-A Cartoonist Dec 2019 #2

LOL mdbl Dec 2019 #3

Maybe he thought it was GT...Golf today. progressoid Dec 2019 #6

It is a little late Christianity today. His blackened moral record is not new. pwb Dec 2019 #4

Evangelicals keep supporting Trump because they are getting what they want. Lonestarblue Dec 2019 #5

They follow the money, read polls, and never miss a marketing opportunity bucolic_frolic Dec 2019 #7

The new subscribers are just curious because it made wnylib Dec 2019 #8

samnsara

(17,622 posts)

1. trump* declaring that he wont 'read' CT again......

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 08:24 AM

Dec 2019

..the funniest thing I have heard all year!

Cartoonist

(7,317 posts)

2. Just like me boycotting Chick-fil-A

Reply to samnsara (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 08:33 AM

Dec 2019

I've never eaten there.

mdbl

(4,973 posts)

3. LOL

Reply to Cartoonist (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 08:44 AM

Dec 2019

progressoid

(49,991 posts)

6. Maybe he thought it was GT...Golf today.

Reply to samnsara (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 09:30 AM

Dec 2019

pwb

(11,276 posts)

4. It is a little late Christianity today. His blackened moral record is not new.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 08:44 AM

Dec 2019

Trumps entire life is morally blackened.

Lonestarblue

(10,011 posts)

5. Evangelicals keep supporting Trump because they are getting what they want.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 09:05 AM

Dec 2019

Trump and McConnell are packing the federal courts with extremists who are white supremacists, corporatists, and anti-rights for women, LGBTQ, minorities, and all non-Christian religions. They will vote for him in 2020 because they see the opportunity for at least two more right-wing Supreme Court justices during a second term. That is all that’s important to them. Republican-led state legislatures are already working on laws to make transgender transitions illegal and to ban abortion pills entirely. The Ohio legislature already introduced a bill to require physicians to re-implant embryonic cells from an ectopic pregnancy—a medically impossible feat but failure to accomplish it could be prosecuted under this law (which thankfully has not been passed).

The country can go to hell so long as white evangelicals get to control medical decisions for other people.

bucolic_frolic

(43,182 posts)

7. They follow the money, read polls, and never miss a marketing opportunity

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 10:27 AM

Dec 2019

Maybe 'libruls' en masse should invade the pews to change the culture

wnylib

(21,487 posts)

8. The new subscribers are just curious because it made

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Dec 23, 2019, 11:11 AM

Dec 2019

the news. But new subscriptions to CT are not reassuring to me. The readers that are attracted to CT still hold the fundamentalist views that drew them to Trump in the first place. Even if they turn away from Trunp, they will still vote their views of anti abortion, anti human and civil rights, xenophobia, misogyny, and imposition of their religion on everyone.

Not good news that their readershio is increasing. Be sure that at this very moment they are looking for a replacement to Trump as their new hero.

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