Friday, December 20, 2019

Anything we say about justice and righteousness

The evangelical magazine Christianity Today has called for the removal of the nasty guy. Excerpts:
But the facts in this instance are unambiguous: The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president’s political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral.
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Consider what an unbelieving world will say if you continue to brush off Mr. Trump’s immoral words and behavior in the cause of political expediency. If we don’t reverse course now, will anyone take anything we say about justice and righteousness with any seriousness for decades to come? Can we say with a straight face that abortion is a great evil that cannot be tolerated and, with the same straight face, say that the bent and broken character of our nation’s leader doesn’t really matter in the end?
I object to abortion being called a great evil, though I like his argument. Another bit:
To use an old cliché, it’s time to call a spade a spade, to say that no matter how many hands we win in this political poker game, we are playing with a stacked deck of gross immorality and ethical incompetence. And just when we think it’s time to push all our chips to the center of the table, that’s when the whole game will come crashing down. It will crash down on the reputation of evangelical religion and on the world’s understanding of the gospel. And it will come crashing down on a nation of men and women whose welfare is also our concern.
Of course, this brought on a flurry of rage-tweeting from the nasty guy.

This is an important evangelical voice and I’m glad they said it. But, alas, this is only one evangelical voice. Most evangelicals remain firmly in support of the nasty guy. They want supremacy and he is offering it.

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