Christian Post Editorial: Trump is a Scam

[TGHusker]

Here is the full article. It speaks for itself.

 

http://www.christianpost.com/news/donald-trump-scam-evangelical-voters-back-away-cp-editorial-158813/

 

Donald Trump Is a Scam. Evangelical Voters Should Back Away (CP Editorial)

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/donald-trump-scam-evangelical-voters-back-away-cp-editorial-158813/#dMGj2uQxd4g42GAL.99

 

Editors' Note: The Christian Post has not taken a position on a political candidate before today. We are making an exception because Trump is exceptionally bad and claims to speak for and represent the interests of evangelicals.

We the senior editors of The Christian Post encourage our readers to back away from Donald Trump.

As the most popular evangelical news website in the United States and the world, we feel compelled by our moral responsibility to our readers to make clear that Donald Trump does not represent the interests of evangelicals and would be a dangerous leader for our country.

Trump claims to be a Christian, yet says he has never asked for forgiveness.

While God, in His wondrous creativity, has drawn people to Himself through the saving grace of Jesus Christ in many different ways, there are certain non-negotiable actions needed to become a Christian: One must repent of their sins and follow Christ as Lord and Savior. Trump doesn't talk this way, even when urged to.

Further, his words and actions do not demonstrate the "fruit of the spirit."

Trump is a misogynist and philanderer. He demeans women and minorities. His preferred forms of communication are insults, obscenities and untruths. While Christians have been guilty of all of these, we, unlike Trump, acknowledge our sins, ask for forgiveness and seek restitution with the aid of the Holy Spirit and our community of believers.

On Sunday, Trump's apparent reluctance to disavow David Duke until late in the day was extremely distasteful. The Ku Klux Klan is an evil, unholy movement representing the worst of America. Anyone who will not immediately denounce their support is unfit to be president.

Trump claims he will "protect Christians." We already have a Protector, and He is not Trump.

The grievances of Trump's supporters are legitimate. Politicians for too long have promised to represent the best interests of all Americans before an election, only to represent the interest of their cronies after the election. But Trump's followers are being fooled into believing that he can help them.

Trump is promising many things that he cannot possibly deliver, but the most frightening part is Trump's stated willingness to ignore the authority of the Supreme Court, Congress and the U.S. Constitution if he were to become president.

Trump has been surrounded by controversy for decades because of his untruthfulness, questionable business practices, reported association with organized crime, and abrupt changes in fundamental positions. Many of these controversies involve defrauding the working class and decisions that compromised American workers. He has taken a political position both pro and con on virtually every subject and major political party. This should give evangelicals great pause and concern about supporting such a mercurial and chameleon-like candidate. Past performance is the best predictor of future behavior.

Trump said he wants to make it easier to sue newspapers that criticize him. When it was pointed out to him Sunday that he would have to amend the Constitution's freedom of speech and freedom of press clauses, Trump was unmoved, simply noting that England has weaker protections for the press.

Many evangelicals, including our friends, have criticized Trump on our own opinion page and elsewhere, such as Matt Barber, Dr. Michael Brown, Kristi Burton Brown, Susan Stamper Brown, Rev. Mark Creech, Wallace Henley, E.W. Jackson, Max Lucado, Dr. Russell Moore and Rep. Reid Ribble. If Trump were to become president we fear he would use the levers of government power to silence them and others.

We are already concerned about the expansion of executive power to dangerous and unconstitutional extremes in the current and previous administrations. Plus, in just the past year we have seen Christians put out of business and jailed for living according to the dictates of their faith.

Trump, an admirer of Vladimir Putin and other dictatorial leaders, may claim to be your friend and protector now, but as his history indicates, without your full support he will turn on you, and use whatever power is within his means to punish you.

This is a critical time in American history and we call on all Christians to pray for personal repentance, divine forgiveness and spiritual awakening for our nation. It is not the time for Donald Trump.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/donald-trump-scam-evangelical-voters-back-away-cp-editorial-158813/#dMGj2uQxd4g42GAL.99

[knapplc]

"Trump, an admirer of Vladimir Putin and other dictatorial leaders, may claim to be your friend and protector now, but as his history indicates, without your full support he will turn on you, and use whatever power is within his means to punish you."

 

This is a very apt line, one which Trump's supporters ignore. Trump is vindictive and spiteful. I shudder to think how hard it'll be to fight against his reprisals if he's elected.

[TGHusker]

Yep, if conservatives thought Obama used the IRS against them, they haven't seen what Trump would do wt all of that hair in a furry.

[TGHusker]

"Trump, an admirer of Vladimir Putin and other dictatorial leaders, may claim to be your friend and protector now, but as his history indicates, without your full support he will turn on you, and use whatever power is within his means to punish you."

 

This is a very apt line, one which Trump's supporters ignore. Trump is vindictive and spiteful. I shudder to think how hard it'll be to fight against his reprisals if he's elected.

Again think of how he has responded to anyone who has questioned him. In the last CNN debate he attached the conservative talk show guy (I can't remember his name) who was asking. He smeared is low ratings into his face because he didn't like the question being asked. He did the same wt the Hispanic lady who asked questions. Trump distains everyone who does not agree wt him.

 

Max Lacado, who is mentioned in the article, was just interviewed on a national radio show. He never speaks out about politics and has written almost 100 books with 80 million copies in print sold. So he is no light weight thinker. He is a very humble pastor of a large church in San Antonio. This was his point also (one of the many). He is concern about Trump's retaliatory nature & his pride. He also says when God has to humble a leader, it affects the nation. The contrast between Reagan and Trump cannot be any deeper (and Reagan was far from perfect but he acknowledge it and God's grace. Trump is too proud to admit he's done anything wrong or needing to ask forgiveness.

 

Lacado posted this blog last week:

 

https://maxlucado.com/decency-for-president/

[Moesker]

Trump is a scam but how it relates to religious views is irrelevant.

[teachercd]

Trump is a scam but how it relates to religious views is irrelevant.

Yeah...I agree on how he relates to religion.

[Moesker]

 

Trump is a scam but how it relates to religious views is irrelevant.

Yeah...I agree on how he relates to religion.

 

Trump seems to be a lot like the Raymond Reddington character on "The Blacklist". Nothing he does, no matter how good it appears on the outside, would be done if it didn't benefit Trump in some way.

[BigRedBuster]

Trump is irrelevant to religion OTHER THAN, he seems to have convinced a great number of "Christians" that he is the greatest thing since pockets on a shirt. This article speaks directly to those people and it's an important article to have been written.

 

He is a scam on anyone who even tries to think of themselves as Christian.

[Moesker]

Trump is irrelevant to religion OTHER THAN, he seems to have convinced a great number of "Christians" that he is the greatest thing since pockets on a shirt. This article speaks directly to those people and it's an important article to have been written.

 

He is a scam on anyone who even tries to think of themselves as Christian.

Without a doubt Trump's 'Christianity' is just lip service. But one could argue all candidates are the same, Trump just doesn't pander as well in that area.

 

As for the article, it really just seemed to use Trump as another reason to falsely claim that Christians are under attack in this country.

[Moiraine]

Trump is a scam but how it relates to religious views is irrelevant.

It's very relevant considering religious people are allowed to vote and he claims he's Christian.

[Moesker]

 

Trump is a scam but how it relates to religious views is irrelevant.

It's very relevant considering religious people are allowed to vote and he claims he's Christian.

 

I guess my question is: If Trump was a true Christian, would his nuttiness then be acceptable? Is his faith really the main issue for anyone?

[Moiraine]

 

 

 

Trump is a scam but how it relates to religious views is irrelevant.

It's very relevant considering religious people are allowed to vote and he claims he's Christian.

I guess my question is: If Trump was a true Christian, would his nuttiness then be acceptable? Is his faith really the main issue for anyone?

It is the main issue for a non-insignificant portion of the population.

[BigRedBuster]

 

 

Trump is a scam but how it relates to religious views is irrelevant.

It's very relevant considering religious people are allowed to vote and he claims he's Christian.

 

I guess my question is: If Trump was a true Christian, would his nuttiness then be acceptable? Is his faith really the main issue for anyone?

 

I don't care if you are claiming to be in the hoobee doobee club to get elected, if you are in the process of convincing a large number of other hoobee doobees that you are a hoobee doobee to vote for you on that premise, information pointing out that you actually have NOTHING to do with relating to or following hoobee doobee is very important to be pointed out.

[Danny Bateman]

 

"Trump, an admirer of Vladimir Putin and other dictatorial leaders, may claim to be your friend and protector now, but as his history indicates, without your full support he will turn on you, and use whatever power is within his means to punish you."

 

This is a very apt line, one which Trump's supporters ignore. Trump is vindictive and spiteful. I shudder to think how hard it'll be to fight against his reprisals if he's elected.

Again think of how he has responded to anyone who has questioned him. In the last CNN debate he attached the conservative talk show guy (I can't remember his name) who was asking. He smeared is low ratings into his face because he didn't like the question being asked. He did the same wt the Hispanic lady who asked questions. Trump distains everyone who does not agree wt him.

 

That was Hugh Hewitt that he barbed, by the way. The question was regarding his tax returns, which he had told Hewitt last year on his show he'd release. Hewitt asked why he hadn't.

 

I'm going to beat this dead horse some more, but in my unprofessional opinion, Trump has a serious case of Narcissistic personality disorder, or at least his persona does. This basically means that he has a very inflated sense of self, a need to regularly stroke his ego, be the center of attention and/or have a sense of entitlement, and cannot empathize easily with others.

 

Relevant symptoms regarding retaliatory behavior:

 

• Emotional regulation mirrors fluctuations in self-esteem
• Antagonism, characterized by:

a. Grandiosity: Feelings of entitlement, either overt or covert; self-centeredness; firmly holding to the belief that one is better than others; condescending toward others.

 

Any time anyone needles him or brings up a topic he feel slights him in any way, he will lash out as a way to preserve his own belief that anything he espouses is best, and he knows better than the other person. I cannot stress enough that these behavior problems are pathological (caused by an illness), and that pathological behavior of this nature from the president would be very dangerous.

[TGHusker]

 

 

"Trump, an admirer of Vladimir Putin and other dictatorial leaders, may claim to be your friend and protector now, but as his history indicates, without your full support he will turn on you, and use whatever power is within his means to punish you."

 

This is a very apt line, one which Trump's supporters ignore. Trump is vindictive and spiteful. I shudder to think how hard it'll be to fight against his reprisals if he's elected.

Again think of how he has responded to anyone who has questioned him. In the last CNN debate he attached the conservative talk show guy (I can't remember his name) who was asking. He smeared is low ratings into his face because he didn't like the question being asked. He did the same wt the Hispanic lady who asked questions. Trump distains everyone who does not agree wt him.

 

That was Hugh Hewitt that he barbed, by the way. The question was regarding his tax returns, which he had told Hewitt last year on his show he'd release. Hewitt asked why he hadn't.

 

I'm going to beat this dead horse some more, but in my unprofessional opinion, Trump has a serious case of Narcissistic personality disorder, or at least his persona does. This basically means that he has a very inflated sense of self, a need to regularly stroke his ego, be the center of attention and/or have a sense of entitlement, and cannot empathize easily with others.

 

Relevant symptoms regarding retaliatory behavior:

 

• Emotional regulation mirrors fluctuations in self-esteem
• Antagonism, characterized by:

a. Grandiosity: Feelings of entitlement, either overt or covert; self-centeredness; firmly holding to the belief that one is better than others; condescending toward others.

 

Any time anyone needles him or brings up a topic he feel slights him in any way, he will lash out as a way to preserve his own belief that anything he espouses is best, and he knows better than the other person. I cannot stress enough that these behavior problems are pathological (caused by an illness), and that pathological behavior of this nature from the president would be very dangerous.

 

Thought I'd add these since you didn't: dedhoarse

I agree with your diagnosis doctor!

 

And to think he called Doctor Ben Carson pathological