Why Evangelicals Are Still Voting For Donald Trump

[In It to Win It]

I thought this was an interesting clip.

[vlyons]

1. Why do they still believe in a virgin birth?

or that Jesus ascended into heaven (wherever that is) by escaping earth's gravity without a rocket or an oxygen supply? Or how a 3-day corpse reanimated and came back to life?

[onecaliberal]

2. If they really believed any of that, they'd never support dump.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

3. Raised to believe in it.

From early childhood
So they also learned to trust the wrong people because in belief systems lies manipulative people and books.

Born to be exploited,sadly and they are too afraid of thier god and want a theocracy.

Jesus didn't want to rule the world,he was offered the world and said no.
He let Satan have it.

So tell me again why theocracy isn't anything but trying to make Satan's world that Jesus let him have Christian?

Btw I escaped being stuck in a evangelical church.

Assemblies of god is a rwnj church a very manipulative church.

[Alacritous Crier]

5. Yep.

[vlyons]

9. They are practicing spiritual materialism

which is when people use religion to enhance and glorify their egos.

[Mike Nelson]

4. Yes...

... enlightening. Not touched upon, tho, are the group of evangelicals believing Crooked Donald is somehow "divine" or "guided by Jesus."

[Buckeyeblue]

6. Because among everything else they are deplorable

Christian evangelicals use the idea of a god to justify their bigotry and their overall life's failings. And they love to claim that they are being persecuted.

We have some in our family. I refuse to interact with them. Life is too short to put yourself through listening to their bullshit.

[Klaralven]

7. A lot seem to be anti-abortion single-issue voters

They will never vote for a candidate that supports a woman's right to choose.

[RazzleCat]

8. exactly, its all about abortion

single issue voters, who will always vote.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Which is a big part of why they won't vote for a woman...

or at least not for the "wrong" woman candidate. And since all of us Dems are evil baby killers...

[Trumpocalypse]

13. Very true

And saw a great response on Facebook they other day:

If by my vote for Biden I am supporting abortion, than by that logic, I will also I hold you accountable for children being taken from parents (many have not yet been reunited), for a pandemic that was horrifically mismanaged, resulting in millions out of work and 170,000 dead. I'll hold you accountable then, for global warming, for the deterioration of our democracy, government overreach, voters thrown off the voter rolls, foreign meddling in our elections, discrediting of media, constant lying and general incompetence. You can also be responsible for our uniquely American gun violence issue. You are accountable then, for a kid killing protesters and another kid shooting you a Walmart, because the POTUS actually says things like that. And strangely, people listen to you when you are POTUS.

My Catholic faith is not what tells me abortion is wrong. science tells me that. My faith tells me that killing is wrong, that allowing people to live in poverty and among violence is wrong. my faith tells me to protect the not-yet-born, but that is not my only obligation. I cannot ignore all the other people suffering and vote for Trump (or any other Republican this year) because of that one issue. It sounds like you are correct about people trying to find a way to justify their support of a candidate...it's not me though.

When I choose a candidate, I carefully consider who will be impacted and how, prioritizing g the needs of the vulnerable and marginalized. In the case of the not-yet-born, I vote for Democrats despite their positioning on abortion. I do so in good conscience knowing that it is the best choice that I have and that their policies are more likely than those of Republicans to lessen the "need" for abortion. I also know that far more lives will be saved than the number which will be lost to abortion. In this situation I just choose between lives, I do not have a perfect option. if you want one arbitrary pro life issue to base all you’re voting on then make it gun violence. Why not? we lose 100 people every day and 200 people are injured.

I act with integrity according to my faith (all elements of my faith, not a select few)

[SamKnause]

10. Abortion, judges, and racism.

[Trumpocalypse]

12. They are idiots?

[Gothmog]

14. From Cohen's book

Link to tweet

[rownesheck]

15. On the abortion "issue",

I follow the words of Bill Hicks. Something to the effect of, "A fetus is not a person. It's just a bunch of coagulated cells. They're not a person until they're in my phone book."