Even John Piper Recognizes the Hypocrisy of the American Evangelicals
John Piper today laid out his thoughts on how he is going to vote. He did not explicitly state who he was going to vote for. But, you can easily see where he is leaning. May I add I disagree with much of what he says. Nevertheless, I was struck by the denunciation of the willingness of a majority of White evangelicals to so easily dismiss Trump's own unrepented sins. Piper recognizes the caste system that the American church has today for viewing some sins as worse than others, when truth be told, they are all equal in God's eyes.
If for nothing else, the last four years of Trump's presidency have revealed how sick the Christian church in America is today!
Source: https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/policies-persons-and-paths-to-ruin
LAS14
(14,496 posts)regnaD kciN
(26,543 posts)...and, from this article, it seems pretty clear that he is not voting for Trump.
For those in the "religious right" camp, and particularly those who make everything about abortion, he makes an interesting argument: that a leader like the one we have now (although he doesn't specify him by name) promotes and normalizes all the character vices that lead to a world-view that makes human life unimportant; so it can be said that such a leader, even if he espouses "pro-life" policies, actually reinforces the conventional wisdom that makes "baby-killing" (to use Piper's term) acceptable.
LAS14
(14,496 posts)... there is no virtue in choosing only one right-to-life position. Pope Francis is one of them. Maybe Piper was at the heart of some of those stories.