Ugh. New studies are showing that somewhere around 80% of white evangelical voters are backing Donald Trump. Yep, the same people who have for years talked about how we need a Godly, Christian man in the White House are now saying that they want to vote for Trump.
Look, I'm not expecting anybody to vote for Hillary in protest to this man who, for all we can see in him, has nothing to do with the Kingdom of God. And I'm sure that some of these people are more afraid of Hillary and Bill Clinton and liberalism than anything else and so are more anti-Hillary than they are pro-Trump.
But...how can you vote for somebody like this? I mean, it's not that there are not other choices out there. There are dozens of other candidates who have declared, even some who are going to be on our ballots in the fall. But no, we vote for Trump. The Republicans have used white evangelicals as a steady base for years even while never actually doing anything for them...what are they really expecting Trump to be able to do for them that others (who had genuine, if sometimes misguided beliefs) have not?
Let me take a break and go scream.
I've repeated endlessly my statement that the Kingdom of God stands above and sometimes against the Kingdom of the United States. They are not equal nor similar...one relies on Godly power and righteousness, the other on military might and material wealth. And Christians are mistaken if they are expecting their primary support for one to lead to the prosperity of the other.
And haven't Christians learned everything by the last 20-30 years of the de-Christianizing of America? That the youth in our country are staying away or leaving the churches in droves should have warned us that the current politicalization of Christianity is not working. But we keep doing it, even to the point that we throw our support behind Trump.
Of all the things Christendom in America has to be ashamed of, the support of Trump has to rank near the top. Why don't we just go and admit it...we were never concerned about somebody with real values, about somebody wanting to make this a Christian country again. We just wanted power. That's it. Power. And in doing so we drag the glory of Christ through the depths of hell.
This is getting embarrassing. May God save us from ourselves.
