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An evangelical Christian musician is calling out his fellow members of the faith for their widespread support of President Donald Trump in a new song titled: Hymn For The 81%.
This song might ruffle some feathers, but maybe some feathers need to be ruffled, Daniel Deitrich told Religion News Service, adding:
The songs title refers to the 81% of evangelicals who voted for Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Since then, theyve remained one of his most consistent group of supporters despite the chasm between core biblical tenets and the presidents behavior and policies.
Even after enacting deliberately cruel policies to rip families apart and put children in cages at the southern border, evangelical support is as fervent as ever, Deitrich, who is listed as the pastor for arts and worship at South Bend City Church in Indiana, wrote on YouTube.
More: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/daniel-deitrich-evangelical-anti-trump-song_n_5e3114ebc5b6e8375f64ce56
Here is the song:
Daniel Deitrich
In 2016, 81% of white evangelical Christians voted for Donald Trump after (among other things) hearing an audio recording of him bragging about sexually assaulting women.
Maya Angelou famously said, when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
In the years since, even after enacting deliberately cruel policies to rip families apart and put children in cages at the southern border, evangelical support is as fervent as ever.
I was raised in the Evangelical world. It shaped me. I learned to take the words of Jesus seriously - love God, love your neighbor, feed the hungry, fight for justice for the oppressed. I thought that things like love, kindness, gentleness, and self-control MATTERED. I have been so confused and deeply saddened by the unflinching loyalty to a man who so clearly embodies the opposite of these values.
This song is a lament. It's a loving rebuke. It's a plea for the 81%, to come home to the way of Jesus.
czarjak
(11,278 posts)But alas, that will faze about as many of them as Trump brought to Jesus.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)democrank
(11,096 posts)May love overcome......
bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)Filter your life history through that truthbomb.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)The so-called religious leaders should support love in any form between two consenting adults. They're total hypocrites when they b*tch about same-sex couples, my own priest included.
That hatred violates the Golden Rule and Love Thy Neighbor, along with other quotes from the Bible.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)LisaM
(27,813 posts)I don't know that it's a great church, but at least they give the impression of moving the Evangelicals into a more progressive path.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)Both my serious posts and my more wacky ones are meant to make people think. That's because I'm sure the righties are reading here too.
This church seems to be the same way--choose love over hate. The evil-gelicals have alternative messages to digest that way. They can always find their hate on AM radio.
mountain grammy
(26,624 posts)Karadeniz
(22,537 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Donald's evangelicals/Christians
Farmer-Rick
(10,185 posts)I believed in a God for far too long. One of the reasons was that some of those Evangelicals I knew were so loving and kind. It breaks my heart to see them so easily manipulated by greedy and power hungry liars.
They support a man who has never ever done anything out of love or kindness.
Why don't you live the words you put into my mouth?
SunSeeker
(51,572 posts)So good luck telling them to come back to Jesus. They were never with Jesus.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Prepare to be Dixie Chick'd by the conservative fuck-knuckles.
Streaming services will really put a damper on the whole CD-burning parties.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)Isn't South Bend where Buttegieg is from?
Maeve
(42,282 posts)And I left it years ago in sorrow because too many of them were just mouthing the words. There is a lot I still believe in--churches aren't in that section, tho, not anymore.
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)Amazingly powerful.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)YOU CANNOT
JudyM
(29,251 posts)Heres hoping it gets airplay where its needed most.
tanyev
(42,568 posts)I worked as a church musician for several yearslate 80s, all of the 90s. I wasnt a big fan of Contemporary Christian Music but I felt like I needed to be familiar with it. One artist that seemed to really walk the walk and wasnt afraid to call out hypocrisy was a guy named Rich Mullins.
He died in a car accident in 97. I often thought of him during the Bush years and what he might have said about the Iraq war and the cozy relationship between Christian evangelicals and the Republican party. I dont know if Michael W. Smith is still tight with Sean Hannity, but he was for some time, and that was disappointing.
Blue Owl
(50,425 posts)n/t
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)TomSlick
(11,100 posts)This song says what I feel as a very disenchanted evangelical.