{"id":40398,"date":"2019-12-20T19:29:27","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40398"},"modified":"2019-12-20T19:29:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:29:27","slug":"christianity-today-trump-has-crossed-moral-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40398","title":{"rendered":"Christianity Today: Trump has crossed moral line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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My head is still spinning over the extraordinary condemnation of Donald Trump published by Christianity Today, a publication founded by the late Rev. Billy Graham and has become a leading voice for evangelical Christians who form arguably the president’s most reliable support bloc.<\/p>\n

The editorial in the magazine takes Trump to task for across-the-board immoral behavior and asks his supporters how they can maintain their support of him while he continues to act with no moral compass.<\/p>\n

It’s an extraordinary commentary. Editor-in-chief Mark Galli says that the impeachment inquiry was the deal-breaker for him and for his publication. He said the inquiry has revealed without question that Trump solicited personal political help from a foreign government; that act, Galli writes, is “profoundly immoral.”<\/p>\n

Galli has expressed in eloquent and elegant prose feelings my wife and I have been expressing to each other for the past, oh, three years. It is that Donald Trump’s pandering to the religious right should be seen as an affront to those who actually believe in Christian theology and live by its teachings.<\/p>\n

We have noted repeatedly that Trump, in our eyes, has violated practically every one of the commandments handed down by God himself. Christianity Today agrees, saying: That he should be removed, we believe, is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments.<\/em><\/p>\n

Will this be a decisive argument? That remains to be seen. He will keep insisting that he intends to appoint judges faithful to the issues near and dear to evangelical voters.<\/p>\n

So far, Trump has managed to maintain that support, even while he behaves<\/em> like a religious reprobate.<\/p>\n

Mark Galli has written a superb essay. Take a look at it\u00a0here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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