Evangelical Advisers Condemn Charlottesville Rally More Than Trump

[tulc]

Evangelical Advisers Condemn Charlottesville Rally More Than Trump

While many American politicians and citizens criticize President Donald Trump for not specifically calling out white supremacists for the deadly violence in Charlottesville over the weekend, his evangelical advisers have been more vocal.
All but a handful of the two dozen evangelical leaders on the President’s advisory board posted in response to the “Unite the Right” rally that drew white nationalists and neo-Nazis to the historic Virginia city on Friday and Saturday, spurring counter-protests from interfaith groups.

...it's a start.
tulc(not huge, but still a start)

 

[redleghunter]

Evangelical Advisers Condemn Charlottesville Rally More Than Trump

...it's a start.
tulc(not huge, but still a start)

A start for whom?

 

[tulc]

A start for whom?

...for whoever takes steps.
tulc(didn't think it was all that complicated)

 

[redleghunter]

...for whoever takes steps.
tulc(didn't think it was all that complicated)

I was addressing your dangling modifier issue.

These comments are a start for Trump or Evangelicals?

 

[ViaCrucis]

I was addressing your dangling modifier issue.

These comments are a start for Trump or Evangelicals?

I imagine the Evangelicals. Or really anyone who associates with the Trump regime.

Condemning evil shouldn't be difficult. But Trump, whenever he speaks his mind, can't help but equivocate here.

There used to be a time in this country (2015 by last recollection) when we all were able to come together, liberal and conservative, to decry the evil of white nationists, nazis, and fascists.

America is currently a dumpster fire, and we have a mad pyromaniac as president with a fondness of hanging out in landfills with gasoline and matches.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Mountainmanbob]

Evangelical Advisers Condemn Charlottesville Rally More Than Trump

It's good to see that many of our spritual leader have some brains and can see through the fog of hate shown by so many these days towards Mr President Trump.

M-Bob

 

[Jamsie]

It's good to see that many of our spritual leader have some brains and can see through the fog of hate shown by so many these days towards Mr President Trump.
M-Bob

I don't think it necessary to term it hate, but rather the "spiritual" leaders condone and support the self induced fog of incompetence, lies, distortions, and narcissism created by Trump. "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness..." seems to sum up Trump,his ego/character, his rhetoric, and his actions. It becomes difficult to comprehend why "evangelicals" and "spiritual" leaders turn a blind eye to what is so plainly obvious. Certainly not my spiritual leaders ... what is the fruit of the spirit?

 

[redleghunter]

There used to be a time in this country (2015 by last recollection) when we all were able to come together, liberal and conservative, to decry the evil of white nationists, nazis, and fascists.

I think we are still there to come together. Notice the OP article from a conservative Evangelical publication. Notice why I posted it. {edit: here's the link:Charlottesville, Racism, and the Gospel} It was not to defend one group or the other or point fingers. It was to point out we as Christians should not be getting down into the muck of racial riots and ideological monkey poo flinging. We should be above that and provide 'the light' in this current darkness.

My take from reading my own OP thread is there are few who really want to address the OP article and just used this thread to continue arguments from other more hostile threads.

I think Stonestreet (and his quote of Johnnie Moore) got it right in the piece I posted.

And still, these events make it painfully obvious that, while we need deft and courageous political leadership, it’s the Church that’s most needed now. Politics will not save us from ourselves. As one evangelical adviser to President Trump, Johnnie Moore, told CNN, “The right remains too passive and the left remains too political when it comes to ethnic divisions in this country. One side underestimates the issue and the other side provokes further conflict. Both sides distrust each other. This must end if we are to find national healing.”​

 

[tulc]

I was addressing your dangling modifier issue.

Dude! I was wondering if that was wrong! It looked like I needed something on the end but I wasn't sure. Thanks!

These comments are a start for Trump or Evangelicals?

Well, not President Trump, he hasn't started yet, but some of those evangelical leaders seem to be trying to do what they should have been doing since the beginning (snip).
tulc(thanks again!)

 

[redleghunter]

but some of those evangelical leaders seem to be trying to do what they should have been doing since the beginning: addressing things about their candidate, not just embracing them.

Which ones? There are a lot of Evangelical pastors and leaders out there. You just pasted them all.

 

[tulc]

Which ones? There are a lot of Evangelical pastors and leaders out there. You just pasted them all.

I would probably be talking about the ones in the OP, don't you think?
tulc(just a thought)

 

[redleghunter]

I would probably be talking about the ones in the OP, don't you think?
tulc(just a thought)

Good that's a start.

Now what makes you think these leaders did not already hold the views they expressed?

 

[tulc]

Good that's a start.

Now what makes you think these leaders did not already hold the views they expressed?

I didn't say they changed their views, I complimented them for expressing them. Which seemed (to me any way) a good thing. Although...looking at post #9 I can see how it could easily be taken that way, the whole "address/embrace" sentence isn't really as clear as I think it could have been. huh...think I'll take it out until I can come up with a better way of expressing it.
tulc(done!)