Some less religious people are confused by the enthusiasm Evangelicals have for people well known to be "sinners" in every biblical sense. When you accuse an Evangelical of hypocrisy for praising the faith of a known sinner this only fills them with more glee... (to them) it shows you don't really understand the magnitude that gift from Jesus--
BUT.
But-- it is not that these men are sinners that showboat their faith that upsets me. It is that they are unrepentant sinners.
I'm mentioning "Jesus" explicity since I'm very sick and disgusted with the fig leaf of pretending any of this nonsense is "Judeo-Christian" or even anything other than a particular kind of very American Christian Protestant Evangelicalism.
It's exclusionary and many many many Americans are not invited or included.
@futurebird So true. There's a lot that non-evangelicals don't know about American protestant Christianity. But instead of providing some kind of education, most media elect to portray them as some kind of pious but misguided souls, instead of the dangerous, authoritarian force that they are.
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They also rationalize their idolatry by comparing Trump to Cyrus, the Persian emperor who ultimately repatriated the Jews and helped them rebuild their temple. Though he was pagan (this being a long time before Islam) he achieved God's purpose.
@futurebird I would love to see this get asked at a press conference. Unfortunately it would require that the person asking it have some evangelical literacy, which is lacking in the press corps.