re: Evangelical Leaders Close Ranks With Trump After Scathing Editorial (December 21, 2019)
Sadly, the Christian right in the US epitomizes all that is worst in every despotic ideology, from Mammonism to communism, from nationalistic Hinduism to communism.
The dictatorial Old Testament of the Bible sets the standard with its infamous Ten Commandments, openly calling them commands from a vengeful dictator god. As everyone who has read Exodus knows, the first of the Ten Commandments dictate absolute intolerance of other beliefs, opinions, attitudes or ways of living. This core principle commanding intolerance has since characterized all three of the great Abrahamic faiths from the Middle East: Judaism, whose leaders coerced Rome to kill Jesus; Christianity, whose record of pogroms, inquisitions, blasphemy trials, torture and burnings of heretics, and vicious holy wars against infidels is well-known throughout Western history ever since the Christian bishops gained political power and set about destroying the core principles of Western civilization; and more recently in Islam, whose brutish violence against freedom-loving people is well known and easily seen in nations where it still holds sway.
We might have thought that US Christians would have learned moral decency from the example Christ, but clearly not. That they support Trump precisely because he embodies the Old Testament precept of absolute intolerance based on faith that is willfully blind to reason, to facts and to good morals is a compelling indictment of the moral poverty of American Christianity.
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The above comment was submitted by Felix Qui to the The New York Times article.
It is published there at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/politics/christianity-today-trump-evangelicals.html#commentsContainer&permid=104260713:104260713
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