Jesus wept: How can you call yourself a Christian if you voted for Donald Trump?

[meow2u3]

One of the hallmarks of Christian faith is charity, which is unfortunate for me, because, as a cradle Christian (and, lately, a recovering agnostic), I’ve been feeling less than charitable since Donald Trump won the presidential election. I don’t mean that I’m not in the spirit of giving to charities — I’ll be writing out a whopper of a check to the American Civil Liberties Union presently.

I am, however, having trouble giving the gift of slack to Christians who voted for Trump. According to a preliminary study of exit poll data by Pew Research Group, Trump won 52 percent of the Catholic vote, 58 percent of the Protestant vote, and, broken down further by race, a whopping 81 percent of the white evangelical Christian vote.

If you’re a Christian who voted for Trump, I understand your concerns — jobs, the economy, health care, national security, frustration with the political status quo. What I don’t understand is your heart. All factors considered, were Trump’s calls for massive deportation of immigrants, along with his anti-Semitic dog whistling, racist commentary, documented history of misogyny and his mocking of the vulnerable, worth overlooking in favor of his shaky promises to make things better in your world? If, as Christians, we’re supposed to love our neighbor, a vote for Trump seems a little suspect. Am I wrong? If so, tell me how.

When asked whether he thought his incendiary campaign rhetoric had gone too far, Trump responded, “No. I won.” What a guy. Now he’s staffing up with his own (unqualified) family and a website publisher who’s been accused of beating his wife and channeling white-supremacist ideology. In the space of two weeks, it feels as if we’ve shifted from a democracy to a triage center. Jesus wept.

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/19/jesus-wept-how-can-you-call-yourself-a-christian-if-you-voted-for-donald-trump/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

[Ilsa]

1. The morons think Hillary is a

Lesbian, satan-worshipping, baby-killer murderer. That's how they justify it, by believing fake news and lies.

[meow2u3]

2. This alone proves her point

The so-called Christians have made a mockery out of the teachings of Christ and have passed off their incendiary, hateful, highly politicized rhetoric as if that were Christian doctrine.

[Ilsa]

3. They are beyond disgusting with their lies and hatefulness. NT

[Ken Burch]

5. They are well described by this lyric from the Martin Simpson song "Lilith":

And who are these men, who would style you a demon?
Theirs is a vision of pain and of woe.
They accuse you of murder and they weep for "the unborn"-
but they're blind to starvation and they're hungry for war.

(Martin is English, so the "woe/war" thing works as a sort of rhyme in his accent).

[Ken Burch]

4. They think being Christian means obsessing about same-sex marriage and abortion.

And a lot of them believe Trump was "chosen by God".

It's an essentially medieval viewpoint that lashes together rigid doctrine and state power-it's the form of Christianity Christopher Hitchens(before he went right-wing and militarist) labeled "Christism-Paulism".

[meow2u3]

6. I call those hypocrites modern-day Pharisees

If Jesus came back down to Earth and saw those fundies preaching such vile hatred in his name, he'd treat them like he did the 1st Century Jewish authorities of his time, the Pharisees, who also looked down their noses at the "sinners" of that era, only the "sinners" the fundies look down on are women who seek or have had abortions--or even have sex without male permission, and LGBT individuals, whom they think they have license to torture, especially when they're children.