A great deal if not all of the religious news about Trump MAGA is support for Trump. Really I just want to know if their are hordes of Christian’s against the likes of Trump, MAGA, Deceit, Corruption, and the threat to our democracy, and I have no clue if there are. If we could find a statistic about the “Christian” community in the USA, how does this group break out for or against the Devil?
When Donald Trump was elected in 2016, the Catholic Church suffered an exodus of members seeking new spiritual homes, according to a report by the National Catholic Reporter. The fact that Trump was embraced by some Catholic leaders dismayed some of the faithful, who began looking elsewhere, Raw...
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According to this article, single issue voters: pro-abortion. Yet they appear to be oh so ready to sell their souls in the bargain.
I am increasingly dismayed by the number of Catholics who support President Trump. At the March for Life earlier this year, most of those participating were not only “pro-life,” but wer…
www.baltimoresun.com
This article says Trump Christian support is based on pro-abortion and him declaring a truce on Christian churches, huh? I suppose this means the Trump con of turning the country into a Christian Theocracy.
The twilight of Trumpism compels conservative believers to face hard facts
www.theamericanconservative.com
Christian denominations hold a vast array of beliefs, and the range of a supposed "authoritative voice" is equally diverse, e.g. all the way from such as the RCs asserting doctrinal infallibility of the Pope, to a Baptist who may affirm "priesthood of the individual believer".
I hasten to say in both cases there are plenty believers and nonbelievers alike who misinterpret what either of those two positions on leadership in matters of faith actually mean.
But the Constitution does not prefer either, nor any in between, and so in fact there an be no single "authoritative voice" of the Christian community, not about matters of faith in practice, and certainly not about the effect on human beings of any secular leader, including Donald Trump.
The question in the USA is to what extent a country --with a Constitution that affirms there is no established religion-- can tolerate the intrusion of religious belief into the public square.
It's true there's a fairly loud "evangelical Christian" answer to that question. But even the evangelical community leadership is divided about some aspects of the effect of having elected a man like Donald Trump.
I'd point out here that the magazine Christianity Today, which was founded in 1956 by Billy Graham as a mainstream but conservative media outlet, has been ridiculed by Trump in recent years as "far left" in its outlook, solely for having taken exception to a few of Trump's morally questionable policies and behaviors.
The magazine a few years ago noted that there are fewer protestant Christians nowadays willing to identify themselves as "evangelical" precisely because of the politicization of Christianity in the USA.
I think we're seeing a last gasp of fundamentalist Christians as attempted drivers of "conservative" political policy in the USA, because of the continuing decline of formal religious affiliation in this country combined with a decline in political party affiliation. The now aging Boomers and the slightly older Silent Generation have far higher rates of asserted belief than do the Millennials.
The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip, with both Protestantism and Catholicism experiencing losses of population share.
www.pewforum.org
Bottom line: We cannot afford to figure that professed Christians --evangelical or otherwise-- are somehow collectively obligated to rise up as one and declare Donald Trump morally unfit to lead (and to have led) either this nation or the band of diehard followers who've made the Republican Party into no more than the shell around a cult of personality.
There's no one voice of Christianity to lead either the GOP or the USA out of the confusion we now suffer by allowing politics, religion, social media, a public health crisis and a Congress indebted to private wealth to end up conflated as "American government." It's the Gen Z and the Millennials who are going to have to sort this mess out. Fortunately they're more educated and [arguably] somewhat more progressive than the boomers and silent gen. It's proving messy for the USA to get the baton away from the septuagenarians for keeps, but that's a self-solving problem if the planet can manage to stay in orbit for a few more years.
