Preface to this post from October 11th: Hillary Clinton was honored last night at 'Hillary's Feast'. Mr Bannon....Donald Trump's paltry 'God bless America' at the end of his comic routine was unnerving to even me.
If someone in some way has the ear of Donald Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon would you please forward this post to him because even the better Republican strategists have a very incomplete concept of that part of the electorate who are Christian, and I'm going to attempt to fill in some of what is missing in this post.
I heard it as recently as last week how Mitt Romney lost because millions of Christians just didn't care enough to vote. Early in 2008, as the Republican establishment was turning the screws on one good conservative candidate after another, from Gingrich to Santorum, in order to secure the nomination for Mitt Romney, I sent emails out to radio talk show hosts, legislators, and a few Republican strategists warning them that if the Republican Party nominated a Mormon for the office of president...a very significant number of Christians would not cast their vote ....not because they were irresponsible or bigoted....for they are not... but because they could not in good conscience put a picture of the President of the United States...the leader of the free world...into the knapsack or purse of 50,000 Mormon missionaries (at that time) around the world. We are Americans and our patriotic credentials can hardly be questioned, but neither the exigencies of our nation, nor any nation, will ever trump the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Senator Mike Lee? Fine...he's a very able leader and fine man...but a President Mike Lee would fall under the same aforementioned disqualification. Can you not at least understand this our reasoning even if you do not understand the...absolute and unbridgeable...chasm on this issue...or have you reverted on this to abnegating inconvenient truths as do those Progressives that you so ably dissect on other matters?
A great number of Christians did not watch the debate the other night because it took place on the Lord's Day. I read the transcripts Monday morning. Mr. Bannon...The majority of the electorate who are Christian may be best described as 'evangelical' but a significant percentage cannot be pigeon-holed with a label, for there are many differences amongst themselves. If you are not aware of the difference and treat the entire religious base as evangelicals then on November 9th of this year you may wind up using the same complaint on no-shows that has been voiced since November of 2008...and that should the Lord even permit us to get to November 8th...or hold an honest election in this chaotic and corrupt whirlwind encompassing us
Donald Trump will rally millions of passionate and dedicated Christians with his claim to make America great again, but to many others he will need to at least regretfully admit that he has never given due reverence to the God who had blessed this nation from before it was even a nation, nor has he done what our forefathers and Founding Fathers had done in acknowledging the providence of Almighty God in our welfare. Mr. Trump, should he become our president, and in the tumultuous days ahead, and with dangers that even he cannot fathom at this time, would then be forced to confront the effects of his negligence towards God who is not concerned with our economic hegemony but with our acknowledgement of where our blessings have come from and upon whom our very existence is dependent!
If someone in some way has the ear of Donald Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon would you please forward this post to him because even the better Republican strategists have a very incomplete concept of that part of the electorate who are Christian, and I'm going to attempt to fill in some of what is missing in this post.
I heard it as recently as last week how Mitt Romney lost because millions of Christians just didn't care enough to vote. Early in 2008, as the Republican establishment was turning the screws on one good conservative candidate after another, from Gingrich to Santorum, in order to secure the nomination for Mitt Romney, I sent emails out to radio talk show hosts, legislators, and a few Republican strategists warning them that if the Republican Party nominated a Mormon for the office of president...a very significant number of Christians would not cast their vote ....not because they were irresponsible or bigoted....for they are not... but because they could not in good conscience put a picture of the President of the United States...the leader of the free world...into the knapsack or purse of 50,000 Mormon missionaries (at that time) around the world. We are Americans and our patriotic credentials can hardly be questioned, but neither the exigencies of our nation, nor any nation, will ever trump the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Senator Mike Lee? Fine...he's a very able leader and fine man...but a President Mike Lee would fall under the same aforementioned disqualification. Can you not at least understand this our reasoning even if you do not understand the...absolute and unbridgeable...chasm on this issue...or have you reverted on this to abnegating inconvenient truths as do those Progressives that you so ably dissect on other matters?
A great number of Christians did not watch the debate the other night because it took place on the Lord's Day. I read the transcripts Monday morning. Mr. Bannon...The majority of the electorate who are Christian may be best described as 'evangelical' but a significant percentage cannot be pigeon-holed with a label, for there are many differences amongst themselves. If you are not aware of the difference and treat the entire religious base as evangelicals then on November 9th of this year you may wind up using the same complaint on no-shows that has been voiced since November of 2008...and that should the Lord even permit us to get to November 8th...or hold an honest election in this chaotic and corrupt whirlwind encompassing us
Donald Trump will rally millions of passionate and dedicated Christians with his claim to make America great again, but to many others he will need to at least regretfully admit that he has never given due reverence to the God who had blessed this nation from before it was even a nation, nor has he done what our forefathers and Founding Fathers had done in acknowledging the providence of Almighty God in our welfare. Mr. Trump, should he become our president, and in the tumultuous days ahead, and with dangers that even he cannot fathom at this time, would then be forced to confront the effects of his negligence towards God who is not concerned with our economic hegemony but with our acknowledgement of where our blessings have come from and upon whom our very existence is dependent!
