Evangelical Christians now known more for their support for Trump than for following Jesus

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/06/far-right-wing-politics-is-pushing.html

Beware of any Christian movement that demands the government be an instrument of God's wrath, but never a source of God's mercy, generosity or compassion. Rev. Benjamin Cremer

In spite of the rhetoric the far religious right has developed to excuse their support for Republican political candidates who do not reflect their Christian beliefs or practices, it is not philosophically or practically possible for a person who professes the conservative Evangelical testimony of Christian conversion to give their political support and their vote to Donald Trump, and claim that is consistent with their faith and beliefs. The two worldviews, Trumpism and what we now call the MAGA base, and biblical Christianity, are practically, philosophically and religiously incompatible with each other.

t takes a level of what I refer to as "Biblical literacy," which includes knowledge of the themes and principles of each of the Bible's 66 books, along with some ability to discern how to interpret a text written in a culture and society in the Middle East over 2,000 years ago, to understand, and practice, the Christian gospel as a personal faith experience. Most church researchers, like Barna, or Ed Stetzer, for example, have discovered that, among those who are found in the church's pews on a regular basis each week, fewer than 25% of them have enough working knowledge of what can be found in the Bible to discern the difference between authentic Christian teaching and what the Apostle Jude calls "intruders" who have "crept in...and perverted the grace of our God into sensuality."

That's an apt description of exactly what has happened with Trump and the Evangelical far right. Look at the rhetoric. Trump has no qualms about making statements that Christians would recognize as sheer blasphemy if anyone else was making them, but they are blind to his use of that kind of terminology. Franklin Graham was caustic and judgmental in his condemnation of President Clinton, calling out his "marital infidelity," and publicly claiming that it "morally disqualified" him from the Presidency. His response to Trump's affair with Stormy Daniels? He should be "left alone" to deal with it with his wife, and with God. And that statement morally disqualifies Franklin Graham, as far as I am concerned.