Eighty percent of white evangelicals would vote against Jesus Christ himself if he ran as a Democrat
"But the ultimate answer may be the simplest. Mr. Trump owes his continued high standing among white evangelicals to the fact that nearly 40 years after the Moral Majoritys founding, the partisan meld is complete. Decades of fearmongering about Democrats and religious liberals have worked. Eighty percent of white evangelicals would vote against Jesus Christ himself if he ran as a Democrat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/31/opinion/sunday/trump-evangelicals-christians-easter.html
Excellent article.
PaulX2
(2,032 posts)I wonder....
Voltaire2
(13,052 posts)They are generally good people who promote freedom and equality.
DFW
(54,403 posts)They don't think they worship Satan, but they definitely serve Satan.
BootinUp
(47,158 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)Would be voting to crucify him if they were the religious leaders of Palestine 2,000 years ago. As staunch conservatives they would be very scared of the guy preaching revolution and calling bullshit on hypocrisy.
dalton99a
(81,514 posts)Stupid and willfully ignorant. Facts don't matter to them at all.
hibbing
(10,098 posts)What a twisted version of Christianity they hold high.
Peace
sandensea
(21,636 posts)Christ's priorities certainly resemble ours a lot more than those of our Rethug friends.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Such bullshit
ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)It would not in any way differ from what right-wing fundamentalist evangelicals have created. An ingenious corruption that undermines everything Jesus stood for.
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AwakeAtLast
(14,130 posts)He is the Anti-Christ!
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)I generally think (but don't say) that evangelists are idiots, but these people really are the ultimate hypocrites.
I HATE them.
rtracey
(2,062 posts)Laughs on the evangelicals.... Jesus Christ WOULD have been a liberal....
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)If you look at whose job they're actually doing, it isn't Christ they're representing, but the other guy.