"Political Christianity" is a danger to American constitutional democracy.

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/12/evangelical-apostasy-is-big-danger-to.html

In spite of believing in some absolutes which would seem to lead people in the opposite direction of the kind of sinful worldliness that characterizes Trump's lifestyle and is his personal trademark, behavior which at least one Apostle labels as "anti-Christ," conservative Christians gravitate toward that kind of personality in the leaders they choose for their churches.

Southern Baptists have designed a denominational structure that allows strong, forceful personalities, the kind of people who seek power and use leadership to build their own personal kingdoms, to run the show and bypass the few democratic rules and structures they have in place. Over the past 30 years, almost all denominational practice and policy has been shaped by the influence of two men, one the President of a small, broken down Bible college in Dallas, the other a Republican political operative and appeals court judge in Houston. These men pointed to supposed "liberals" in the universities and seminaries, and convinced the uninformed and uneducated people in the pews to use the backward, provincial governing structure of the SBC to appoint trustee boards to fire people they claimed were liberal and to feather their own nests, along with those of their friends.

The kind of duplicity and hypocrisy this generates is visible in everything these people do. They take a hard line against adultery, but cheer and give unconditioned loyalty to a man who has claimed to have had affairs with literally hundreds of women, at times to openly humiliate one of the three women he's been married to in public, and who not only has not repented of it, as orthodox, conservative Christian doctrine requires, but has openly claimed he has done nothing requiring repentance. And politics and political affiliation has a lot to do with the standards that are applied. Former President Bill Clinton does not get the same consideration, even though he has repented and acknowledged his need for repentance. Baptist News Global has a good story on what's been going on with Clinton's former church in Little Rock, which you can read about in this article:

[link:https://baptistnews.com/article/on-al-mohler-paige-patterson-bill-clinton-immanuel-baptist-church-and-baptist-polity-and-politics/|

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1. Their Messiah Trump who ridicules Holy Communion.

My fellow Christians, support me; your savior, your Messiah, sent to you by God.

Trump: Drink my little wine, have my little cracker