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Silence during a litany of Trump lies also condemns his conservative Evangelical followers.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/02/after-litany-of-lies-silence-of-trumps.htmlThere's a segment of the American population that is ignorant about Ukraine, the war, the people and what's happening, don't care and are easily duped by simple assertions. But a majority of Americans have been following it, and not all of those have done so from the limited, and skewed perspective of Fox News or Newsmax. It's fairly easy to identify, out of the word salad that Trump has dumped about the Ukraine War, what is true and what is not. What is true is that Ukraine is at war with Russia. Nothing else Trump said is true.
There may still be some confessing Christians among the conservative, Evangelical denominations, but I believe most of that movement, which was already steeped in a litany of false doctrine and faulty theology, falls well outside the boundaries which define Christianity as a set of core values on which a lifestyle is based, more than the legalistic assertion of a set of subjective doctrinal points of fundamentalism, or the phony "signs and wonders" of Pentecostalism. Evidence of its collapse is visible by watching where followers of those considered to be it's "leaders," named in the Baptist News Global piece cited above.
Those named include Franklin Graham, Executive director of Samaritan's Purse and son of the late Billy Graham; Tony Perkins, former Louisiana legislator and head of Family Research Council; Robert Jeffress, Pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, who captured Trump's attention; Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church of Dallas, one of the largest megachurches in the Southern Baptist Convention, and Paula White-Cain, a self-proclaimed "prophetess" in the prosperity gospel movement who is Trump's "spiritual advisor. The fact that he chose a prosperity gospel heretic for this role shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who understands that "the love of money is the root of every kind of evil [I Timothy 6:10].
Trump lies, and these pseudo-Christian leaders are silent. In their silence, and that of hundreds of other pastors and church leaders caught up in the anti-Christian evil of the cult that has been formed by blending conservative Evangelicalism with right wing political extremism, is the reason why nothing they say can be trusted. Their failure to call out his lies makes them liars right along with him. They preach a distorted, false gospel, exposing their heresy and proclaiming their churches as apostate.
There may still be some confessing Christians among the conservative, Evangelical denominations, but I believe most of that movement, which was already steeped in a litany of false doctrine and faulty theology, falls well outside the boundaries which define Christianity as a set of core values on which a lifestyle is based, more than the legalistic assertion of a set of subjective doctrinal points of fundamentalism, or the phony "signs and wonders" of Pentecostalism. Evidence of its collapse is visible by watching where followers of those considered to be it's "leaders," named in the Baptist News Global piece cited above.
Those named include Franklin Graham, Executive director of Samaritan's Purse and son of the late Billy Graham; Tony Perkins, former Louisiana legislator and head of Family Research Council; Robert Jeffress, Pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, who captured Trump's attention; Jack Graham, pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church of Dallas, one of the largest megachurches in the Southern Baptist Convention, and Paula White-Cain, a self-proclaimed "prophetess" in the prosperity gospel movement who is Trump's "spiritual advisor. The fact that he chose a prosperity gospel heretic for this role shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who understands that "the love of money is the root of every kind of evil [I Timothy 6:10].
Trump lies, and these pseudo-Christian leaders are silent. In their silence, and that of hundreds of other pastors and church leaders caught up in the anti-Christian evil of the cult that has been formed by blending conservative Evangelicalism with right wing political extremism, is the reason why nothing they say can be trusted. Their failure to call out his lies makes them liars right along with him. They preach a distorted, false gospel, exposing their heresy and proclaiming their churches as apostate.
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Silence during a litany of Trump lies also condemns his conservative Evangelical followers. (Original Post)
lees1975
Feb 22
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GreenWave
(11,091 posts)1. And their "Christ" did not touch the Bible while being sworn in!
BoRaGard
(5,122 posts)2. Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness* - God
*Eternal Damnation is the penalty, right?
sinkingfeeling
(55,080 posts)3. The difference between an atheist and an evangelical is the
atheist is honest about not believing in Jesus.
Norrrm
(1,280 posts)4. the love of money is the root of every kind of evil
Judas was an early, modern-day, conservative disciple.
Judas got 30 pieces of silver, but just once, for selling Christ.
Franklin Graham, Jim Bakker, Pat Robertson, and their ilk get millions of dollars repeatedly for selling Christ.
Judas was a fool for doing a one-time sale.