GOP Voters Abandon the Faithful
The Republican Party is no longer a party faithful can be comfortable with
If you want to see how far the Republican Party has drifted away from being the party of the faithful, I present you with this:
More than half of Republicans see former President Donald Trump as a person of faith, putting him ahead of more vocally religious figures like his former vice president, Mike Pence, according to a new national poll conducted by HarrisX for the Deseret News.
Registered voters were asked whether they considered a list of political figures people of faith. Trump rose to the top of the list for Republicans, while President Joe Biden topped the list for Democrats. Among independents, Sen. Mitt Romney was most likely to be chosen as a person of faith.
Among Republicans, 53% said Trump was a person of faith, ahead of every other person on the list — although he was statistically tied with Pence, who came in at 52%.
More than half of the Republicans think of Donald Trump has a person of faith.
The only thing that Donald Trump has ever shown faith in is the almighty dollar.
How, exactly, has Donald Trump shown anybody that he is a man of faith in the traditional sense? Donald Trump used the Holy Bible as a political prop. Donald Trump has committed adultery on each of his three wives. A civil jury ruled that Donald Trump has committed sexual assault. A judge has ruled that Donald Trump has a "propensity to engage in persistent fraud."
If 53 percent of the Republican Party finds Donald Trump to be a person of faith, they are celebrating a faith that no theologian recognizes.
Trump being recognized as a man of faith goes back to the entire premise of how Trump got here in the first place; by pretending to be something that he is not. He has pretended to care about evangelical issues, like abortion for example, by using them as political ideals instead of guiding principles. Trump never goes to Church. Trump doesn’t believe in forgiveness. He just worries about how he can use people. Trump’s act of being a man of faith was his way of using GOP voters and they have bought it to the point the GOP is basically at this point mostly a Trump Cult.
Trump is what he always has been: a carny. And the GOP voters, they’re the marks. That the electorate thinks Trump is more a man of faith than men like Mike Pence or Mitt Romney, who actually practice their faith and attend church regularly shows us how much voters have bought the gimmick.
The Republican Party is no longer a party faithful can be comfortable with. If people are putting their stock more in Donald Trump than in Jesus Christ and His Church, it is a party that Christians should distance themselves from. And it reminds us, once again that the GOP Needs an Enema.