Goodwill to All Men, unless they call themselves Evangelicals.

[weydowner]

A senior Church of England bishop has lambasted conservative evangelical Christians in the US for their “uncritical support” of Donald Trump, urging them to reflect on how their endorsement of the president relates to their faith.

Paul Bayes, the bishop of Liverpool, said “self-styled evangelicals” risked bringing the word evangelical into disrepute, and added there was no justification for Christians contradicting God’s teaching to protect the poor and the weak.

Bayes told the Guardian: “Some of the things that have been said by religious leaders seem to collude with a system that marginalises the poor, a system which builds walls instead of bridges, a system which says people on the margins of society should be excluded, a system which says we’re not welcoming people any more into our country.




https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/28/evangelical-christians-uncritical-in-support-for-donald-trump-says-paul-bayes-bishop-liverpool

This is pretty strong, especially coming from a Senior Bishop.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

1. "risked bringing the word evangelical into disrepute"

I have news for the good Bishop.

The evangelicals have been disreputable for decades.

[JI7]

2. white evangelicals in the US are actually white supremacists

they have been hiding behind religion, morals , family values etc for years. but their support for trump exposed what they really are about.

[Thekaspervote]

3. Evilgelicals

It fits

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[weydowner]

4. The Isis of the West

At least in the past, new Christian movements were billed as an improvement or enhancement of what went before; these people, in their adulation of Trump and Roy Moore, are perverting and denying the very concept of Christianity similar to what the Taliban or even ISIS have done to Islam.
Is there not a leader or equivalent of the Archbishop of Canterbury - I certainly don't mean the Grahams or Bakkers of this world. The situation now is as though one branch of Macdonalds were found to use Rats and Roadkill instead of beef, and - when discovered - doubled down on their menu. It demeans and cheapens not only their religion but the hundreds of other branches of Christianity.

Oh well, it is very good for the causes of Atheism; much much better than Dawkins and Hitchens.