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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEvangelicals accuse fellow believers of abandoning faith to support Trump
Evangelicals accuse fellow believers of abandoning faith to support Trumpby Jon Ward at Yahoo
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/evangelicals-accuse-fellow-believers-of-abandoning-023303073.html
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Trumps popularity among self-identified evangelical Christians has led national figures in American Christianity to question whether large swaths of the church even know what their faith teaches, and how it applies to public and political life.
The split is between a subset of evangelicals best categorized as creedal believers those who take their faith most seriously and who oppose Trump. Less devout Christians, often described as notional or cultural, are more open to the businessman and GOP frontrunner. The majority of national evangelical leaders are on the side of creedal believers.
If Trump becomes the Republican nominee, many of these creedal evangelicals who have traditionally voted Republican say they would distance themselves from the GOP. But nobody knows whether this would result in evangelicals moving over to vote for the Democratic nominee or whether there would be a broader movement among conservatives to form a third party.
Nonetheless, many anti-Trump Christian leaders believe that the American church has been in decline for decades, leaving many casual Christians for whom faith is more of a cultural identity rather than a day-to-day experience vulnerable to Trumps appeals to anger and resentment.
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Evangelicals accuse fellow believers of abandoning faith to support Trump (Original Post)
applegrove
Mar 2016
OP
I thought the GOP was gaining control again after the GOP nominee speeches. Trump
applegrove
Mar 2016
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applegrove
(118,696 posts)1. LOL! Trump is smashing the GOP's wedge issues.
malaise
(269,054 posts)2. Great news indeed
applegrove
(118,696 posts)3. I thought the GOP was gaining control again after the GOP nominee speeches. Trump
said that he could make America win again without the rich last night. So I was down in the dulldrums till I saw this article today.
malaise
(269,054 posts)4. ReTHUGs are trying to blame Dems for Drumpf's behavior
It's not working. They would support Hitler himself
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)5. Yet another set of leaders that doesn't understand their base
American Evangelicals are about greed, guns and hate for all who differ.
as if carpet bomber Cruz is Christlike.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)6. Like the average evangelical knows what the hell their faith is
These people have warped Christianity beyond belief to support their moronic end times prosperity gospel. Fuck em all I hope they eat each other alive.
phylny
(8,380 posts)7. Most evangelicals I know easily separate
"faith" from politics. They'd vote for anyone and anything that had an "R" next to their name. And I say that as a Christian, but not an evangelical one.
Liberty University's chancellor endorsed Trump. Enough said.
Albertoo
(2,016 posts)9. Switching from one cult to another
From that of a Hebrew sheperd to that of the wearer of an orange hair wig
czarjak
(11,278 posts)10. Abandoning faith?
That ship sailed long ago.