In his latest blasphemy, Jeffress explained to Fox News host Ed Henry that Evangelicals aren't concerned with Trump's personal iniquities because, Hey! Reagan was bad too!
"This is not an unusual thing. We’ve been here before. Back in 1980, evangelicals chose to support a twice-married Hollywood actor who was a known womanizer in Hollywood. His name was Ronald Reagan. They chose to support him over Jimmy Carter, with a born-again Baptist Sunday school teacher who had been faithfully married to one woman. The reason we supported President Reagan was not because we supporting womanizing or divorce. We supported his policies. And that’s true here, Ed. We are choosing to support his policies. We’re not under any illusion that we were voting for an altar boy when we voted for President Trump. We knew about his past. And by the way, none of us has a perfect past. We voted for him because of his policies.”Michael Reagan wasted no time in reacting:
All I can say is go F yourself.Pastor Robert Jeffress Defends Trump’s Evangelical Support By Citing ‘Womanizer’ Reagan - SplinterSoltis asks what orifice Jeffress pulled that from:
I don't know where Jeffress gets off calling Reagan a womanizer. Yes, he was divorced. Because his first wife Jane Wyman (mother of Michael) left him. President Reagan never wanted a divorce, but like many of us found himself on the receiving end of one. There is also no evidence that the late president was ever a "womanizer" by any definition of the word. Nobody ever accused him of groping or philandering, not even when he was a Hollywood actor.
But the main point is that Jeffress has chosen to be an agent of Christian faith's marginalization in post-America:
. . . worse than the insult to Reagan is the damage to Christianity. Last week, The New York Times published an editorial by Michele Margolis highlighting the findings in her study on religion and politics. (https://www.michelemargolis.com/uploads/2/0/2/0/20207607/170928_-_lifecycle.pdf) In America today, people determine their political identity before their religious identity. This is driving Evangelicals to substitute the Republican Party for their church and causing Democrats to leave the church altogether. This is bad for our country. It's even worse for our church.But, as always, the proper response to those who would use this unseemly alliance to taunt believers is to assert that the Word stands regardless of how many of its supposed proponents turn to false deities.
Fundies actually divorce at higher rates than the general population.
ReplyDeleteSomething else to pray about.
ReplyDeleteOr just look to your own soul rather than judging others, but that's only human.
ReplyDeleteI said pray, not judge.
ReplyDeleteThat you did. I was generally referring to guys like Jeffress and others fundies I've met and failed to admire much, I guess.
ReplyDeleteMany of the most difficult people I have crossed paths with in my life and career have been evangelicals. Ask any insurance claims adjuster what "All I want is what the Lord wants for me" means. Church boards are held to deal with on property claims. They even drive the pastor nuts.
ReplyDeleteChurch boards are not held they're hell to deal with.
ReplyDeleteBasically we're mostly pots calling kettles black. Rigorous self-examination is as rare these days as when our Lord ran his mote and beam lecture. And though on first glance it seems simple to forgive as we are forgiven (strangely akin to karma), implementing this strategy of strategies in our lives is quite the massive effort. But what a pay-off to be forgiven in what measure we forgive!
ReplyDeleteThis is why we are told we should not desire to be prominent in the Church, because we are held to a higher standard. And this man will be also.
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