{"id":23142,"date":"2017-07-16T03:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T03:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23142"},"modified":"2017-07-16T03:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T03:22:29","slug":"evangelicals-support-of-trump-as-perplexing-as-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23142","title":{"rendered":"Evangelicals’ support of Trump: as perplexing as ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An article that was published slightly more than a year ago remains relevant today.<\/p>\n

It comes from Esquire magazine. The noted documentary filmmaker Ken Burns asks: What is it about Donald Trump that reminds evangelical voters of Jesus Christ?<\/p>\n

Burns was troubled a year ago over why evangelical Christian voters glommed onto Trump’s candidacy. I remain puzzled in the extreme as to why they remain loyal to this guy a year later, and six months into his presidency.<\/p>\n

Burns said, for example:\u00a0“The Republican Party has been extraordinarily successful at getting many groups of people to vote against their self-interest. Evangelicals are voting for Donald Trump. What part of Donald Trump reminds you of Jesus Christ? Trump lusts after his own daughter on national radio, talks about women’s bodies and breasts in such a disparaging way, and mocks them. How is this in any way Christian? When you make the ‘other’ the enemy, how is that Christian?”<\/p>\n

Check out the Esquire link.<\/a><\/p>\n

Burns noted a year ago that Trump once lusted after his own daughter, Ivanka. He carried on highly publicized extramarital affairs on his first two wives. Of course, we have that infamous “Access Hollywood” video in which Trump is overheard boasting about how he grabbed women by their genitals.<\/p>\n

He routinely denigrates women and there is zero evidence anywhere in his professional or personal history of any commitment to the teachings of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

But he remains on evangelicals’ A-list. He’s their guy. Their “dream come true,” in the words of Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr.<\/p>\n

Someone has to explain it to me. I’m all eyes and ears.<\/p>\n\n

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An article that was published slightly more than a year ago remains relevant today. It comes from Esquire magazine. The noted documentary filmmaker Ken Burns asks: What is it about Donald Trump that reminds evangelical voters of Jesus Christ? Burns was troubled a year ago over why evangelical Christian voters glommed onto Trump’s candidacy. I … Continue reading Evangelicals’ support of Trump: as perplexing as ever<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,15],"tags":[1424,7185,5912,7186,2649,2783],"class_list":["post-23142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-religious-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-esquire-magazine","tag-evangelical-voters","tag-jery-falwell-jr","tag-ken-burns","tag-liberty-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23145,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23142\/revisions\/23145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}