Ex-evangelical pastor says supporting Trump has been 'damaging' to church

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former megachurch pastor and evangelical author Joshua Harris said in a recent interview that he believes some of the massive support President Trump has enjoyed from the evangelical community has been "incredibly damaging to the Gospel and to the church."

Harris, an influential evangelical teacher and writer during the late 1990s and up until he announced he'd abandoned his faith earlier this year, added that having "a leader like Trump I think is in itself part of the indictment" of Christians.

Evangelicals have been staunch supporters of Trump since his 2016 election, with his job approval higher than average among white evangelical Christians throughout the three years of his presidency, according to Pew Research Center data. In a poll earlier this fall conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute, about 77 percent of evangelicals approve of the president's job performance, compared to an average 43 percent in other polls.

But Harris told Axios's Mike Allen that he's concerned about the end result of the church becoming "identified with President Trump." "I don't think it's going to end well," Harris said in a clip of an interview on "Axios on HBO" released Monday.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ex-evangelical-pastor-says-supporting-trump-has-been-damaging-to-church/ar-AAJP9v0?li=BBnb7Kz

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Sorry dude, this isn't Trump's fault it is the fault of the hypocrites in your church.

[jimlup]

2. Gee do yah think?

f8cling idots

[Bettie]

3. Really? Shocking

Oh, wait, not so shocking at all, but hey, the people who attend those churches think it is nifty that they can let their hate loose and still be "saved".

[Grasswire2]

4. he "abandoned his faith"

What exactly does that mean?

[GulfCoast66]

5. I guess technically I did the same.

I grew up in an evangelical household. Way before they became attached at the hip with republicans. And really believed it all. The resurrection, the flood, the young earth thingy. It’s all I knew as a child.

Then I came to believe it was all a cultural lie because I studied science. So I no longer call myself a Christian. Do not have any qualms with those who are still Christians. All my democratic friends and my few republican friends are. I call myself a freethinker or rationalist rather than atheist. After all, I can’t prove there is no god. Reading the work of Hume had a profound influence on me.

So I ‘abandoned my faith’ as the faithful call it. I call it coming to my senses.

I doubt he admits abandoning his faith. But who knows, maybe he does.