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One may disagree about who of the two candidates (Trump or Harris) was the lesser evil, but Christians should agree that both are evils.![]()
Christians Rebuke John Piper for Calling Trump’s Re-Election Win an ‘Evil’ - Milton Quintanilla
Christians Rebuke John Piper for Calling Trump’s Re-Election Win an ‘Evil’, Milton Quintanilla - Read breaking news headlies with a Christian perspective and commentary from Milton Quintanilla.www.crosswalk.com
John Piper received backlash on social media this week after remarking that President-elect Donald Trump's victory was an "evil."
"Presidential election results," Piper wrote on Wednesday. "Having delivered us from one evil, God now tests us with another."
He added a reference to Deuteronomy 13:3: "The Lord your God is testing you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul."
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John Piper Under Fire for Referring to Trump’s Re-Election as an ‘Evil’
John Piper is drawing criticism for his remarks about the re-election of former President Donald Trump.churchleaders.com
While Piper’s stern opposition to Trump is notable among evangelicals, he has been equally opposed to the candidates against whom Trump has faced off in the last three election cycles.
In 2020, Piper said in reference to the race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that his calling as a pastor would be “contradicted by supporting either pathway to cultural corruption and eternal ruin.”
“When I consider the remote possibility that I might do any good by endorsing the devastation already evident in the two choices before me,” he added, “I am loath to undermine my calling (and the church’s mission) to stand for Christ-exalting faith and hope and love.”
“At times, it happens in a fallen world that a vote for any proposed candidate is so offensive, so morally compromised, so misleading,” Piper said in 2023, “that it may be a matter of greater integrity, more faithful obedience to Christ, and a clearer witness to truth if we do not vote for any of the proposed candidates.”
Piper’s remarks on Wednesday raised the ire of a number of Trump supporters, many of whom are Christian leaders and influencers.
Harris is a greater evil in respect of moral values (but you cannot trust that Trump will stay pro-life, given his many turns on that matter), Trump is a greater evil as a danger for democracy (he openly opposes the system of check & balance, if he succeeds, the USA will become like Hungary, or even worse).
The forced resignation of Gaetz gives hope that the GOP will resist the attempt to wipe out the Dems by brute »legal« force.
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