Underseer
Contributor
Holy sweet fucking shit, but I had to stop watching this video after 50 fucking seconds.
Has Reza Aslan never read the Bible or talked to a Christian?
Aslan seems to be shocked that Christians overwhelmingly voted for Trump despite the many "un-Christian" characteristics of Trump.
What in the actual fuck is un-Christian about Trump?
Racism
Christians are statistically more likely to be racist. That doesn't mean all Christians are overtly racist nor does it mean no atheists are (we even know which web sites and Internet communities are preferred by racist atheists), but Christians are more likely to be racist than atheists.
In fact, the original animating issue that launched the modern conservative Christian political movement was school busing. Abortion was arbitrarily selected as an issue simply because Christian leaders realized that the busing issue made them look like a bunch of racists and so they needed a different issue to get the base worked up. Abortion was chosen almost at random. Racism is the cause of the modern political incarnation of Christianity, and America history is full of Christians using Christianity to make excuses for slavery and later for racism.
Corruption
Trump is using the office of the president to enrich himself in ways that are probably illegal? So do many religious leaders that theists are taught to blindly follow. Pat Robertson didn't lose very many followers after news of the blood diamonds thing came out, and Pope sits on a golden throne built from wealth collected from human misery. Countless megachurch and televangelist leaders collect money from the poor to buy themselves private jets and mansions.
Support for leaders interested only in their own wealth and earthly power is hardly anything new in Christendom. It's been going on for as long as Christianity has been a thing.
Xenophobia
Trump hates foreigners? What's not Christian about that? Have you read the Old Testament? What about Luke 19:27?
Misogyny
Anyone who thinks Trump's treatment of women should be a problem for Christians has been living under a rock for the last 2000 years or so.
For example, Christian missionaries had trouble getting native Americans to accept Christianity until they made fundamental changes to native American society and got them to start treating their women worse. After that, Christianity spread quickly through native American communities. It does make one wonder what European cultures were like before Christianity, doesn't it?
It should surprise no one that modern Christians oppose the equal treatment of women at every possible opportunity. Every feminist advance in the past had to be made over the opposition of Christians. The fact that Muslims are on average worse when it comes to women's issues doesn't make Christians good on women's issues.
While some Christians might have a problem with his multiple divorces, the fact that he treats women like shit more than makes up for that in the eyes of a devout Christian.
Treason
Jesus instructed his followers to turn on and hate their own family members. In Jesus' name! Amen!
Christians are statistically more likely to be racist. That doesn't mean all Christians are overtly racist nor does it mean no atheists are (we even know which web sites and Internet communities are preferred by racist atheists), but Christians are more likely to be racist than atheists.
In fact, the original animating issue that launched the modern conservative Christian political movement was school busing. Abortion was arbitrarily selected as an issue simply because Christian leaders realized that the busing issue made them look like a bunch of racists and so they needed a different issue to get the base worked up. Abortion was chosen almost at random. Racism is the cause of the modern political incarnation of Christianity, and America history is full of Christians using Christianity to make excuses for slavery and later for racism.
Corruption
Trump is using the office of the president to enrich himself in ways that are probably illegal? So do many religious leaders that theists are taught to blindly follow. Pat Robertson didn't lose very many followers after news of the blood diamonds thing came out, and Pope sits on a golden throne built from wealth collected from human misery. Countless megachurch and televangelist leaders collect money from the poor to buy themselves private jets and mansions.
Support for leaders interested only in their own wealth and earthly power is hardly anything new in Christendom. It's been going on for as long as Christianity has been a thing.
Xenophobia
Trump hates foreigners? What's not Christian about that? Have you read the Old Testament? What about Luke 19:27?
Misogyny
Anyone who thinks Trump's treatment of women should be a problem for Christians has been living under a rock for the last 2000 years or so.
For example, Christian missionaries had trouble getting native Americans to accept Christianity until they made fundamental changes to native American society and got them to start treating their women worse. After that, Christianity spread quickly through native American communities. It does make one wonder what European cultures were like before Christianity, doesn't it?
It should surprise no one that modern Christians oppose the equal treatment of women at every possible opportunity. Every feminist advance in the past had to be made over the opposition of Christians. The fact that Muslims are on average worse when it comes to women's issues doesn't make Christians good on women's issues.
While some Christians might have a problem with his multiple divorces, the fact that he treats women like shit more than makes up for that in the eyes of a devout Christian.
Treason
Jesus instructed his followers to turn on and hate their own family members. In Jesus' name! Amen!
In fact the only genuinely un-Christian thing about Trump I can think of is that he has not (to my knowledge) ever advocated for slavery.
I can think of lots of things that would cause liberal/moderate Christians to oppose Trump, but I honestly can't think of anything that would cause most American Christians to abandon him. He sounds like everything the average Christian voter could ever have hoped for.
