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Quixote1818

(28,946 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 03:50 PM Jan 2020

Evangelical Singer Calls Out Trump's Christian Supporters In Scathing New Song

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 song’s title refers to the 81% of evangelicals who voted for Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Since then, they’ve remained one of his most consistent group of supporters despite the chasm between core biblical tenets and the president’s 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.
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Evangelical Singer Calls Out Trump's Christian Supporters In Scathing New Song (Original Post) Quixote1818 Jan 2020 OP
Nice try, Daniel... czarjak Jan 2020 #1
1st saw this at blog friendlyatheist at patheos---very sad, true song. Excellent, informative blog bobbieinok Jan 2020 #2
Thank you, Daniel. democrank Jan 2020 #3
"believe them the first time" bucolic_frolic Jan 2020 #4
South Bend...so who's he supporting then? CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #5
Read their FAQs, they'll perform wedding for same-sex couples. LisaM Jan 2020 #14
I was talking in general terms. This sounds like a great church. CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #22
It's in a fairly liberal college town. LisaM Jan 2020 #23
Just moving them into a more progressive path makes them great. CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #25
Good luck with that! mountain grammy Jan 2020 #6
Well, I like the song!❤ Glad to see at least one light trying to overcome the darkness. Karadeniz Jan 2020 #7
Donald's evangelicals/Christians keithbvadu2 Jan 2020 #8
It hurt my heart Farmer-Rick Jan 2020 #9
Those 81% don't follow Jesus, they follow Mammon. SunSeeker Jan 2020 #10
Calling out evangelicals and citing a black role model. AtheistCrusader Jan 2020 #11
Folksinging is not dead; hearfelt & well done. Bookmarking. Hekate Jan 2020 #12
I grew up in that world, too Maeve Jan 2020 #13
As someone raised as he was I 'GET IT' alittlelark Jan 2020 #15
you CANNOT be a true Christian and support Donald Fucking Trump Skittles Jan 2020 #16
Better angels... JudyM Jan 2020 #17
Good for him. tanyev Jan 2020 #18
Your favorite hymn sucks Blue Owl Jan 2020 #19
K&R UTUSN Jan 2020 #20
I don't tear-up easily but .... TomSlick Jan 2020 #21
K&R! n/t PandoraAwakened Jan 2020 #24
Make Evangelicals Christian Again jberryhill Jan 2020 #26
KR! Cha Feb 2020 #27

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
5. South Bend...so who's he supporting then?
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 04:59 PM
Jan 2020

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)
23. It's in a fairly liberal college town.
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 01:59 PM
Jan 2020

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)
25. Just moving them into a more progressive path makes them great.
Thu Jan 30, 2020, 04:19 PM
Jan 2020

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.

Farmer-Rick

(10,185 posts)
9. It hurt my heart
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 05:18 PM
Jan 2020

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)
10. Those 81% don't follow Jesus, they follow Mammon.
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 05:37 PM
Jan 2020

So good luck telling them to come back to Jesus. They were never with Jesus.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
11. Calling out evangelicals and citing a black role model.
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 05:54 PM
Jan 2020

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)
12. Folksinging is not dead; hearfelt & well done. Bookmarking.
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 06:03 PM
Jan 2020

Isn't South Bend where Buttegieg is from?

Maeve

(42,282 posts)
13. I grew up in that world, too
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 06:03 PM
Jan 2020

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.

tanyev

(42,568 posts)
18. Good for him.
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 08:40 PM
Jan 2020

I worked as a church musician for several years—late 80s, all of the 90s. I wasn’t 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 wasn’t 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 don’t know if Michael W. Smith is still tight with Sean Hannity, but he was for some time, and that was disappointing.

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