Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Why Evangelicals Should Be Terrified Of Trump


http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/09/01/3697159/donald-trump-evangelicals/


Trump is hardly the only one perplexed by his popularity among a subset of the Christian Right, which is currently more supportive of him than any other GOP candidate — including Republican veterans who identify as evangelicals such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. 
The demographic has traditionally supported candidates who espouse deeply held religious beliefs and focus campaigns on opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion. But while Trump leans conservative on both of those issues (albeit only recently), he has struggled to speak consistently — or even coherently — about his faith, often fumbling to muster answers to the most rudimentary questions about Christianity.
When Frank Luntz inquired in July whether Trump has ever asked God for forgiveness, the famously confident real estate mogul answered no, saying, “I don’t bring God into that picture” before offering a questionable explanation of Christian communion. He later explained to CNN’s Anderson Cooper that this is largely because he usually doesn’t believe he’s sinning in the first place.
“Why do I have to repent or ask for forgiveness, if I am not making mistakes?” Trump said, seemingly dismissing two millennia of Christian teaching on human sinfulness.
While speaking to reporters at a South Carolina campaign event last Thursday, businessman and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was asked a simple question: Could he explain his robust support among Protestant evangelicals — a religious group he has never claimed as his own, and which he has done relatively little to court?
“I don’t know,” he said, shrugging. “Why do they love me? You’ll have to ask them. But they do. They do love me.”
i think this is more of a referendum of the evangelicals and their conviction to their own tenets, they are embracing a liar, bigot, borderline racist and someone who thinks he's above the passions of mere mortals he does nothing wrong and without sin, there is blasphemy in there so why hasn't he been anointed a saint.  

one might say from his own words he's pretty much Godless the one religious org. he claimed any connection to said he was connected to them so rude, crude, bigoted, lying, despicable person he is turns out to be their choice to run the country one thing they have in common they both have misrepresented themselves to the people that would support.