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2019-12-21 Home Front: Culture Wars
Billy Graham-Founded ‘Christianity Today' Calls for Removal of Trump from Office
[Breibart] Mark Galli writes that, while "Democrats have had it out" for Trump "from day one," a reality that places his impeachment "under a cloud of partisan suspicion," nevertheless:
So the Billy Graham foundation has been infiltrated by marxists. No surprise there. The more organized a religion gets, the more wolves and corruptions.
The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president's political opponents. That is not only a violation of the Constitution; more importantly, it is profoundly immoral.

Galli states Americans are actually not "shocked" by this behavior because Trump "has dumbed down the idea of morality in his administration." He writes:

He has hired and fired a number of people who are now convicted criminals. He himself has admitted to immoral actions in business and his relationship with women, about which he remains proud. His Twitter feed alone - with its habitual string of mischaracterizations, lies, and slanders‐is a near perfect example of a human being who is morally lost and confused.

Galli parts ways with Trump's many evangelical supporters whom, he says, boast of the president's Supreme Court and other federal court nominees, as well as his steady defense of religious freedom, and his efforts to bring unemployment to all-time lows.

Nothing positive Trump has done or accomplished, however, he says, is of any consequence given what he claims is the president's "grossly immoral character":

We believe the impeachment hearings have made it absolutely clear, in a way the Mueller investigation did not, that President Trump has abused his authority for personal gain and betrayed his constitutional oath. The impeachment hearings have illuminated the president's moral deficiencies for all to see. This damages the institution of the presidency, damages the reputation of our country, and damages both the spirit and the future of our people. None of the president's positives can balance the moral and political danger we face under a leader of such grossly immoral character.

Galli likens his condemnation of Trump to statements Christianity Today made about former President Bill Clinton in 1998:

Unfortunately, the words that we applied to Mr. Clinton 20 years ago apply almost perfectly to our current president. Whether Mr. Trump should be removed from office by the Senate or by popular vote next election‐that is a matter of prudential judgment. That he should be removed, we believe, is not a matter of partisan loyalties but loyalty to the Creator of the Ten Commandments.

Galli next takes to task his fellow evangelicals:

To the many evangelicals who continue to support Mr. Trump in spite of his blackened moral record, we might say this: Remember who you are and whom you serve. Consider how your justification of Mr. Trump influences your witness to your Lord and Savior. Consider what an unbelieving world will say if you continue to brush off Mr. Trump's immoral words and behavior in the cause of political expediency. If we don't reverse course now, will anyone take anything we say about justice and righteousness with any seriousness for decades to come? Can we say with a straight face that abortion is a great evil that cannot be tolerated and, with the same straight face, say that the bent and broken character of our nation's leader doesn't really matter in the end?

Though claiming Christianity Today has "reserved judgment" on Trump and exercised "patient charity," the editor ultimately asserts, "[I]t's time to call a spade a spade, to say that no matter how many hands we win in this political poker game, we are playing with a stacked deck of gross immorality and ethical incompetence."
It would pay great dividends to investigate Galli's private finances, if only the feebs weren't compromised themselves now. He'll turn out to be a regular Gehazi.

Also, Franklin Graham lashes out.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-21 03:18|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 the president's "grossly immoral character"

As if any of that has f-all to do with how faithful the president is to the Constitution.

Or to how much he knows about the economy, or how wise his foreign policy is or how effective he is at advancing our interests and ensuring peace and prosperity for Americans.

Zero and W were what these idiots would consider "moral" White House occupants. And these morally-superior clowns trashed our Constitution, botched our foreign policy, and presided over a shitty and stagnant economy that destroyed millions of Americans' finances and hopes of a decent life for them and their kids.

Under these two "moral" presidents, Americans' longevity for the first time in our history actually DECLINED. Americans were literally dying off in huge numbers: deaths caused, ultimately, by despair. Stuff your morality up your arse, preacher.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 04:07||   2019-12-21 04:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Graham would have quietly fired this fellow Galli.
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-21 04:16||   2019-12-21 04:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Breitbart - Franklin Graham Slams Christianity Today: My Father Billy Graham ‘Voted for Donald Trump’
Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-21 04:24||   2019-12-21 04:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Isn't Mark Galli a known pedophile?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-21 05:43||   2019-12-21 05:43|| Front Page Top

#5 OH Ok, didn't know that. He even looks like one now.

Excommunicate Galli !
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-21 05:46||   2019-12-21 05:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Could find no reference to that, G. He is an Anglican convert from Presbyterianism
Posted by Frank G 2019-12-21 06:24||   2019-12-21 06:24|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Of course not. Did you see any evidence that "The president of the United States attempted to use his political power to coerce a foreign leader to harass and discredit one of the president's political opponents."?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-21 06:27||   2019-12-21 06:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Down with 'im ! Aaargh ! I can't stand his face ! Raper of children ! Satan !
Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-21 06:29||   2019-12-21 06:29|| Front Page Top

#9 "harass"

? You mean the President of Ukraine - literally a comedian by trade, presiding over the most shambolic state in Europe - is going to bother, worry, trouble in any way one of our most powerful politicians, the man who brags about shooting down prosecutors with bully boy tactics?

"discredit"

.... how could anyone further discredit the man whose son pocketed millions from one of Ukraine's most corrupt firms and millions more from Chinese "investment fund"? Whose brother grabbed a $1.5 BILLION Iraq reconstruction contract?

Do these people even gave any inkling of how absurd they are?
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 07:15||   2019-12-21 07:15|| Front Page Top

#10 I am an evangelical Christian, and most of us stopped reading Christianity Today some time ago. In our view, it has long strayed from the original vision Billy Graham had for it, as Franklin Graham's response makes clear.

No one should think that CT speaks for evangelical Christians today. This guy is using what was once a respected name to advance a viewpoint far removed from the main message of the Bible.

Hint: How many Roman emperors did Jesus call on to be removed from office?
Posted by Tom 2019-12-21 10:17||   2019-12-21 10:17|| Front Page Top

#11 Render unto Caesar
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 11:01||   2019-12-21 11:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Ah, lefty reasoning. For the last 3 years we have been brow beaten with the most preposterous allegations about 'Russian collusion'. All based on the notion that even the very suggestion that the president was somehow 'compromised' by the Russians was enough to remove him from office.

But now when questions arise about the top polling dem...chiefly from his own loud mouth and congenital braggadoccio, that's all different because, uh, REASONS!
Posted by Cesare 2019-12-21 11:07||   2019-12-21 11:07|| Front Page Top

#13 So the Billy Graham foundation has been infiltrated by marxists.

Dulis: Christianity Today Editor Champions Theologian Who Excused Stalin’s Mass Murder
However, Galli has no moral authority to make this judgment on political preferences. Just a few years before this missive, Galli authored a lionizing biography of Karl Barth (pictured, inset) — a neo-orthodox theologian (e.g., believed that Christ did rise from the dead but the eyewitnesses did not record it accurately) and avowed socialist who excused Josef Stalin’s “totalitarian atrocities” due to the “positive intention” of the Marxist world view. He wrote:
Posted by Angating the Wide5629 2019-12-21 13:49||   2019-12-21 13:49|| Front Page Top

#14 SOROS.

When Soros gave Taylor Swift a bunch of money recently she went anti-Trump as a condition, too. The mag most likely has NO circulation or ad income.
Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2019-12-21 15:31||   2019-12-21 15:31|| Front Page Top

#15 Soros gave Taylor Swift a bunch of money

Why? Not like she needs it.
Did the Old Lizard make MeToo hush money payoff?
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 16:48||   2019-12-21 16:48|| Front Page Top

#16 From now on, every single Taylor Swift song purchased on iTunes or elsewhere will now be funding the Soros machine, and the Leftists’ agenda. How many others have gone through the same thing! What are we really buying into!? Mag Media

She now claims she is not happy about it. Whatever...
Posted by Goober Tingle7365 2019-12-21 17:02||   2019-12-21 17:02|| Front Page Top

#17 Taylor Swift + Soros?

Whiskey tango...?

good lord. Does EVERYTHING have to be politicized now? Idiot washed-up quarterbacks, dumb late-night hucksters: whatever.

But a gorgeous blonde girl from Tennessee singing bubblegum pop songs? Woke-ism is destroying everything.
Posted by Lex 2019-12-21 19:18||   2019-12-21 19:18|| Front Page Top

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