“I know hardly anyone, let alone any evangelical Christian who voted for
Trump. I describe evangelicals like me as ‘elite’ evangelicals … and
this class of evangelicals has discovered that we have family members so
different they seem like aliens in our midst. These other evangelicals
often haven’t finished college, and if they have jobs (and apparently a
lot of them don’t), they are blue-collar jobs or entry-level work. They
don’t write books or give speeches; they don’t attend conferences of
evangelicals for social justice or evangelicals for immigration reform.
They are deeply suspicious of mainstream media. A lot of them voted for
Donald Trump.”
Contrast the above elitiest comment/attitude with this statement:
This attitude is distinctly unbiblical. In Philippians, the Apostle Paul
describes Jesus —the only one who rightly deserves elite status — as
one who, “though in the form of God, did not count equality with God as a
thing to be grasped, but humbled himself.” Instead, Jesus washed His
disciples’ feet, fellowshipped with sinners, tax collectors and the
racially “unclean,” and was the first to champion equality for women,
slaves, and even lepers.
And wityh these two statements, we have perfectly framed the cultural aspect of the national debate.
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