Donald Trump Praised For Not “Using” Evangelicals as Pawns

[DonViejo]

By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Sunday, August, 16th, 2015, 7:44 am

You might remember that Donald Trump got off to a bit of a rough start with Evangelicals, when he took a laissez faire appraoch to religion: “I’m a religious person. I go to church. Do I do things that are wrong? I guess so.” When asked by Frank Lutz if he ever asked for forgiveness, Trump answered,

I’m not sure I have. I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so. I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.

We I take, when we go, and church and when I drink my little wine – which is about the only wine I drink – and have my little cracker, I guess that’s a form of asking for forgiveness, and I do that as often as possible because I feel cleansed, OK? But, you know, to me that’s important, I do that, but in terms of officially, I could say, ‘Absolutely!’ and everybody, I don’t think in terms of that. I think in terms of, let’s go on and let’s make it right.

These words caused some consternation among Evangelicals. It was not just his reference to the Eucharist – and here you have to remember that some Evangelicals believe they are literally drinking Christ’s blood and eating his flesh – as “my little wine…and my little cracker” – that threw them, but the fact that he says he doesn’t ask for forgiveness, or even bring God into the picture.

These are people, many of them, for whom God is never out of the picture. Yet here we have David Brody, of CBN’s The Brody File, tweeting that,

David Brody
@TheBrodyFile

@realDonaldTrump attracts evangelicals because he's honest with them. They can work with that rather than being used as GOP political pawn

12:10 PM - 15 Aug 2015
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It is not all Evangelicals, as The Washington Post makes clear when it discusses the tepid response of Southern Baptists, but something is happening. What gives?

The Washington Post revealed on August 6,

According to a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted July 16-19, 20 percent of Republican-leaning voters who are white evangelicals support Donald Trump, compared to 24 percent of GOP voters overall and 25 percent of other white Christians (non-evangelicals and Catholics) who support him.

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