While I certainly would not disagree that Trump is lying what I have noted in quite many discussions in here and elsewhere is the tendency to avoid accepting the truth by making claims about “fake news”, pointing to the fact that points are made by “liberals” and thus are invalid. So the lies are covered up in a seemingly never ending system of claims.
There is a seemingly never ending line of personal attacks for anyone who disagrees with Trump and great support for even some very doubtful sources supporting him. Not by everyone, and not everywhere but to a surprisingly high degree especially by Christians whom one would suppose stod the higher moral ground.
While I certainly do not agree with Frank Schaeffer on everything and I think he uses a harsh tone I think he has a fair point when it comes to showing that the lies are not discovered due to the development of a system in which one has learned to simply not trust anyone opposing Trump. I grew up in a Christian family and went to church every sunday and have often been baffled both by the tone and the ideas that Christians support on tweb. I think Schaeffer put words on my considerations when he wrote:
I think Schaeffer forgets that this does not go for all evangelicals but I certainly see the tendency. Another tendency I also noted in here is summed up by Schaeffer as well:
What strikes me most when I go to tweb is not that I disagree with the evangelicals. It is how I find that they seemingly disagree with the Christ and have gone very, very far in their aim for political power and lost the empathy, love and compassion which is at the heart of the Christian message.
I think we are seeing the evangelicals associating very strongly with a political movement that someday will fall due to the fact that it is simply not based on the truth. And i think the evangelical movement will fall with it to some degree. Christianity, however, will not. It is a different thing.
Take the time to listen to Schaeffer on this rather important clip with the title Abandoning Jesus. Embracing Trump. https://frankschaefferblog.com/2018/...bracing-trump/
Happy Easter
There is a seemingly never ending line of personal attacks for anyone who disagrees with Trump and great support for even some very doubtful sources supporting him. Not by everyone, and not everywhere but to a surprisingly high degree especially by Christians whom one would suppose stod the higher moral ground.
While I certainly do not agree with Frank Schaeffer on everything and I think he uses a harsh tone I think he has a fair point when it comes to showing that the lies are not discovered due to the development of a system in which one has learned to simply not trust anyone opposing Trump. I grew up in a Christian family and went to church every sunday and have often been baffled both by the tone and the ideas that Christians support on tweb. I think Schaeffer put words on my considerations when he wrote:
“Why do evangelicals support Trump instead of the evolution of empathy that is best represented by the ethical watershed event of the teachings of Jesus? Because evangelicalism isn’t about facts, let alone true spirituality. It’s a made up political reality based not on logic but theological methodology.” https://frankschaefferblog.com/2018/...orn-star-pres/
People who didn’t grow up in the evangelical bubble don’t realize what they’re demanding when they ask an evangelical to accept simple facts as true: say, that Trump is a lying fraud. The white evangelical brain is deaf, blind and dumb to reality given its cradle to grave conditioning as Nelle Smith writes about in “When You Argue with a Fundamentalist You Don’t Know What You’re Asking For” https://frankschaefferblog.com/2018/...orn-star-pres/
I think we are seeing the evangelicals associating very strongly with a political movement that someday will fall due to the fact that it is simply not based on the truth. And i think the evangelical movement will fall with it to some degree. Christianity, however, will not. It is a different thing.
Take the time to listen to Schaeffer on this rather important clip with the title Abandoning Jesus. Embracing Trump. https://frankschaefferblog.com/2018/...bracing-trump/
Happy Easter
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