I’m very curious about a phenomenon practically inexplicable to me.
“Christians” who hate Trump.
I’m not referring to people who don’t approve of President Donald J. Trump. I’m taking about all-out hatred that finds him “morally depraved” and insists his supporters must repent after “turning a blind eye to his evil.”
I will use as Exhibit A one Martin Griffith, a contributor to the Sacramento Bee, a retired journalist and founding member of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.
He begins his Jan. 31 treatise: “Like many Americans, I’m mystified by how so many evangelical Christians turned a blind eye to former President Donald Trump’s moral depravity and constant attacks on civility and democracy over the last four years.
[…]It seems that Martin Griffith has lived a somewhat sheltered life, far removed from the stories of biblical heroes like King David, a man after God’s own heart. What was David? He was, at various times, an adulterer, a murderer and the greatest king in the history of Israel.
What God knew was that all men are inclined toward evil but capable of repentance.
That’s what counts. It’s always what counts. Isn’t that wonderful?
Griffith apparently forgets the mercy of God. It’s in every book of the Bible.
Even more to the point, Trump is a great man. Joe Biden is not.
[…]You said: “As Christians, we should be the light of the world, not part of its darkness.
I agree. Trump was light, Biden was darkness. Trump was optimistic. Biden saw only the approaching long dark night.Why do you hate Donald Trump? Where is your love and tender mercies? Why are you incapable of believing Trump and yet over the moon when it comes to Biden?
Why are you more concerned with “political civility” than the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution?
It’s weird when people lecture us on “light” and “darkness” when there is no light in them.
That’s why they hate Trump.
— Joseph Farah, Feb. 2 column