Donald Trump’s election in 2016 would not have been possible without the overwhelming support of white evangelical Christians. He has rewarded our backing by supporting many of the positions we hold dear, but at what cost? In the minds of unbelievers, evangelical support of Trump has associated the church with cruelty, racism, sexism, corruption, lawlessness, neo-Nazism, name-calling, and mocking the disabled. We used to claim the high moral ground. Today, in many minds, the evangelical is synonymous with hypocrite.
While Trump was still seeking the GOP nomination, 25 high profile Christians, many of them pentecostal, all of them evangelical, came together to form Trump’s Faith Advisory Committee. They helped Trump form policies and develop a message that would resonate with us. In effect, they provided the candidate with religious cover for a life of immoral decadence. They ignored Trump’s disregard for 2,000 years of Christian values. They traded in basic moral and ethical standards for access to power.
The apostle Paul warned us that in “the last days people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive… unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God… Have nothing to do with them.” Far from having nothing to do with such people, the Faith Advisory Committee helped elect one of them President of the United States. Many of my evangelical friends consider Donald Trump God’s gift to Christianity. He is not. He is the antithesis of everything Jesus taught.
Trump: Evangelical Plague gives a biblical perspective on Donald J. Trump. The intent is to persuade evangelicals to reconsider our support of the man in light of Christian values. Moreover, it is a plea to the unsaved not to discard 2,000 years of positive Christian influence because of a 21st century hypocritical aberration.
Dr. Robert Mamrak is a retired Southern Baptist minister with over 30 years in evangelical ministry who resides in Weir. This is his third book.
