Evangelicals gave us Ted Haggard. Jim Bakker. Jimmy Swaggart. And now, Trump.

[scrabblequeen40]

The next time a good Christian says Trump is a man of God, ask them if they learned anything from the example of Haggard, Bakker and Swaggart.

Most likely, they're old enough to have regretted those scams, too.

[Girard442]

1. It amazes me that Evangelicals never notice that many of their standard bearers are dirtbags...

...grifters, sociopaths, and rank hypocrites.

I mean, the intellectual community has its share of misfits and outliers, but there are also giants. The closest the Evangelical community ever had to a giant was Billy Graham -- until he was outed as an anti-semite and a Nixon toady.

[Skidmore]

2. Evangelicals have

some real dirtbags amongst them who live to offend another day because they are taught that a prayer for forgiveness is a reset. They don't need to change behavior.

[Girard442]

3. Evangelicals actually believe that if you are truly "born again" your place in Heaven is assured.

You don't even have to pray. You're pre-forgiven for your sins.

Theologically, they cover their asses by saying that when you're born again, you (sort of) lose the desire to sin. Yet they freely admit they keep sinning. I suppose at some point they'd admit that the sin becomes so egregious that it calls into question the validity of the conversion experience. Dismember a family of four and dispose of the bodies in a woodchipper? Maaayyybeeee not really born again.

[MissMillie]

4. Good Christians don't REPEATEDLY

file for bankruptcy to avoid paying their debts and put hard-working people on the unemployment line.

there's so much more... feel free to add your own.