• 'I’m not anti-Trump, I’m just pro-Jesus': the evangelicals stumping for the Dems
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https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/31/trump-democrats-evangelicals-pro-jesus-republicans For two weeks this group of musicians, poets and pastors from both sides of the political divide has been driving across the country proclaiming the good news – or, to most Americans these days, what is simply news news: that to be Christian, you don’t have to vote Republican. The Vote Common Good tour – the name is emblazoned across the tour bus and RV that follows behind – is a rolling revival-cum-hootenanny performed in churches, city parks, pubs and parking lots, replete with klieg lights, backdrop banners and a portable stage pulled from a pickup truck. A list of who’s who in progressive Christianity participate or pop in: activist Shane Claiborne, writer and theologian Diana Butler Bass, hip-hop artist Genesis Be. The tour, funded by nearly $1m in private donations, started in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on 2 October, and will conclude in Los Angeles just before the midterm elections.
This is probably the best way to beat the fundamentals of Trump's voter base. Attempt to convince the rest of the moderate Christians and other non-fanatics that whoever supports Trump is basically against Christianity.
If Trump was in Seven, the killer would have only had to kill one guy.
In awe at the size of that lad
At least two of the Christians I'm friends with vote full democratic. Probably more, but they're the only two I have absolute confirmation on regarding their political stance, cause the small group I used to go to when I was still a practicing Christian stayed the fuck away from politics unless it specifically pertained to what we were reading about in the Bible or praying about. It was all young people, so no surprise that they were fairly progressive. (When I told them a full two years before I stopped believing entirely that I had already come to accept the scientific consensus on the origin of the universe and life on earth, they had no issues whatsoever.)
Main difference is that Trump's head wouldn't even need a box to fit in because it's substantively so incredibly small. In Britain, our left-wing party actually has more religious people than the right-wing party, a statistic that surprised me, but we're much more measured on the religion subject.
This is a vital message to spread. I'm Lutheran but I have trouble even attending the church I grew up in because many of its attendees blindly vote Republican, without sparing so much as a thought about how much harm their policies cause. The more religious folk we can convince that the Democrats' message of equality and social support is better than the Republicans' message of hate and fear, the better.
Religion had a big role in American liberalism in the early 1900s with the social gospel, applying Christian morals to issues like income inequality, it was a big inspiration to Lyndon Johnson and why he was so much for social justice and his Great Society.
I'll say it again, if you vote for a right-leaning party you're a shit Christian in the first place.
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