Trump Shows Off His Family Bible in Message to Evangelicals

The president of the world’s largest Christian school, Liberty University, has endorsed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, which has led to a backlash from a number of other Christian leaders. When asked about his faith, voters here sometimes bring up Trump’s embarrassing gaffe at Liberty University where he quoted from “Two Corinthians” instead of “Second Corinthians”, or the event in Ames previous year where he said he didn’t think he’d ever sought forgiveness from God. “It’s not that where you’re born doesn’t define your Christianity or being an evangelical, it’s your relationship with the Lord and if he can get to that I’d feel more comfortable with it”.

Appearing on stage with Jerry Falwell Jr, the president of the Christian Liberty University, whose endorsement he has received, Mr Trump claimed the poll by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg News which placed him five points clear of Ted Cruz, rested on a bedrock of Christian support.

But for more moderate, often younger, evangelicals, “they care about a mix of issues”, Green said. “Bush’s response of “no” indicated his disagreement with the premise of the question and was not in response to the question as to whether he believes Donald Trump is a Christian”, claimed the Jeb campaign.

Follow Casey on Twitter and like him on Facebook. “If he’s a Christian, that’s great but if he’s not I want the best shot in the foxhole with me”.

But that’s still an open question for some evangelicals here. Moore’s tweets, questioning Falwell’s effusive praise of Trump last week, were featured in a CNN article. “He makes fun of the media, but then he uses the pro-choice, and pro-abortion term instead of what an Iowa evangelical would see as being a person of life and value”. For more conservative voters, social issues such as abortion and gay marriage may be deal breakers. Still, Cruz’s support has dropped 12 points since last month with evangelicals in the state, according to the survey. “They don’t know what he’s going to do next”. “He is not an act”, he said.

Trump can win only in the sort of celebrity-focused mobocracy that Neil Postman warned us about years ago, in which sound moral judgments are displaced by a narcissistic pursuit of power combined with promises of “winning” for the masses.

It’s noteworthy that the piece argues that progressive Christians support Black Lives Matter because of the teachings of Jesus and Paul – a thoroughly religious reason, of course – but conservative Evangelicals don’t support the Black Lives Matter due to their unflinching loyalty to the Republican party – a thoroughly political, non-biblical reason.

Christians, he noted, are “taught to love our fellow man, not to run him into the ground or condemn him…”