Thursday, November 10, 2016

"I think the evangelical turnout for Mr. Trump signals several fatal weaknesses in the movement.

First, the movement has surrendered any claims to the moral high ground in electoral politics....

Second, the movement has abandoned public solidarity with groups who considered Mr. Trump an existential threat to them. I’m speaking here of the many groups who expressed reservation regarding Mr. Trump’s racism, religious bigotry, misogyny, isolationism, and nativism....

Third, the movement failed to escape its partisan bias in favor of more principled and biblical stands....

Finally, the movement has made its evangelistic mission more difficult with many it wants to reach....

And all of this was wrought by the bulk of evangelicalism itself. No one forced this on the movement. An 81 percent return will not allow us to discard these voters as 'not truly evangelical.' At the moment, that’s exactly who evangelicalism is....  I’m not alone in seeing serious problems with evangelicalism’s witness at the moment. I fear the fate of the movement may have been in some measure sealed with this vote."

4 Problems Associated with White Evangelical Support of Donald Trump - Thabiti Anyabwile, Pastor, Anacostia River Church, Washington, DC, council member of The Gospel Coalition


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