It seems no one is immune to safe spaces and trigger warnings, not even conservative Christians who cannot stand the thought of supporting a candidate like Donald Trump.
Russell Moore, president of the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post about how he can no longer stand referring to himself as an ‘evangelical’ because the word has been co-opted and politicized by Donald Trump supporters.
Moore riffed on how secular people only view evangelicals as voting blocs during election years and that they’re widely misunderstood because literally anyone can claim to be an “evangelical.”
“Many of those who tell pollsters they are ‘evangelical’ may well be drunk right now, and haven’t been into a church since someone invited them to Vacation Bible School sometime back when Seinfeld was in first-run episodes,” Moore writes.
Yet, the point of Moore’s op-ed was to rip into evangelical leaders for supporting a candidate like Trump, who rail against the Clinton’s over their “character,” but minimize Trump’s use of profanity in his campaign speeches, race-baiting, courting white supremacists, bragging about adultery, and “debauching public morality and justice through the casino and pornography industries.”
Moore continued, “I watched one evangelical leader pronounce a candidate a Christian, though he explicitly states that he has never repented of sin, because he displays the fruit of the Spirit in job creation. That’s not a political problem; it’s a gospel problem.”
The conservative Christian continued to lay out the etymology of “evangelical” and believes Christians everywhere can reclaim the word if they remembered the true essence of what it means to be an evangelical.
And Christians want you to go out and vote, but they’re really not sure who they want you to vote for. A group called “Faith Trumps Fear” is calling for followers of Christ everywhere to just neglect Trump and Hillary altogether, because God still reigns supreme.
“No matter who sits in the White House,” one Christian explains. “No matter who rules in the courthouse. A higher king should rule in our hearts.”
The Faith Trumps Fear website lists nine presidential candidates who are on the ballot in many states, including Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, and Evan McMullin.
The 2016 election, in many people’s minds, has been a race to the bottom, yet for conservative Christians, this race is entering the seventh circle of hell.
Watch how confused some conservative Christians are in this video below:
