What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since yesterday’s update?
Trump wonder-boy Charlie Kirk, a political pundit and co-founder of the Liberty University Falkirk Center, is upset with the Supreme Court after it ruled Trump could not end the DACA program:
Illegals should be deported from the country, not given special treatment by our “leaders.”
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 18, 2020
John Roberts is a disgrace.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 18, 2020
Jenetzen Franklin’s new book, Acres of Diamonds: Discovering God’s Best Right Where You Are, shares a title with Russell Conwell‘s famous prosperity gospel lecture. Here is a quote from Conwell’s sermon: “I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich.”
Jack Graham wants his followers to stay away from current events so they can clear their minds and “focus our thoughts on God’s Word and doing His will.” He implies that focusing one’s life on God’s word and “doing his will” is something different than bringing Christian truth to bear on current events. I am not sure this is the time for Christians to retreat to the prayer closet.
There’s so much negativity around us which is toxic to the soul. Let’s clear our minds and focus our thoughts on God’s Word and doing His will everyday. Take a break from news and endless opining. Get some exercise. Pray and obey God.
— Jack Graham (@jackngraham) June 19, 2020
Tony Perkins is retweeting a clip from a speech by Missouri Senator Josh Hawley. His comment on the speech is a convoluted mash-up of God and politics that fuses American values with Kingdom values all in service of making America Christian “again.”
When men and women try to rewrite God’s truth, it’s up to His people to stand up and speak out. Could we still lose our freedom? We might. But as Christians, we’re not called to win in the earthly realm. We’re called to stand. pic.twitter.com/AgORPJWEQI
— Tony Perkins (@tperkins) June 18, 2020
If you read through Perkins’s twitter feed you will find him quoting a lot of scripture. But all the verses he cites are meant to be read through the lens of his Christian nationalist political agenda.
Perkins said we should support Trump because he will deliver on conservative Supreme Court justices. His article today at Family Research Council reveals the sense of betrayal he feels after Neil Gorsuch’s opinion in the recent LGBTQ civil rights decision. He blasts the court for being too political. Interesting. For many court evangelicals, the Supreme Court is only “too political” when it makes decisions that the Christian Right does not like.
Eric Metaxas had Pat Boone on his radio show and tried to get Boone to say that he is not in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame because he is an outspoken Christian. Boone thinks he belongs in the Hall of Fame because of his music, but he won’t bite on Metaxas’s suggestion that he faces discrimination because of his faith.
The Eric Metaxas Show is Trumpism disguised as Christian radio.
Until next time.