{"id":95912,"date":"2016-06-21T15:12:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T22:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=95912"},"modified":"2016-06-21T15:19:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T22:19:03","slug":"and-he-led-evangelicals-up-an-exceeding-high-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2016\/06\/and-he-led-evangelicals-up-an-exceeding-high-mountain.html","title":{"rendered":"And he led Evangelicals up an exceeding high mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2016\/06\/watch-trump-panders-to-evangelical-leaders-by-promising-to-force-store-clerks-to-say-merry-christmas\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">and showed them all the kingdoms of the earth, saying, \u201cAll this will I give you if you will bow down and worship me.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trump launched a broadside in the so-called \u201cwar on Christmas\u201d Tuesday afternoon at the event organized by the anti-LGBT groups Family Research Council, Vision America and AFA Action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a tremendous believer, and we\u2019re going to straighten it out,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou know, oftentimes at some of my rallies I\u2019ll have 25,000 (or) 35,000 people more, and I say in a joking fashion \u2014 but boy, do I mean it, we\u2019re going to be saying \u2018Merry Christmas\u2019 again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The small crowd applauded appreciatively when he greeted one woman by name, and he continued talking about Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you go to Macy\u2019s, you go to these department stores today, you don\u2019t see any Christmas ads,\u201d Trump continued.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Conservative Christians are the cheapest dates in town and Trump knows they can be bought with such shallow culture war beads and trinkets.  Happily, not everybody is drinking the Koolaid.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">evangelical in meeting with Trump says he talks to Christians like a person who just bought Rosetta stone and is practicing for first time<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Ward (@jonward11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonward11\/status\/745288263817134080\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Though not for lack of effort by the Leadership to get the sheep to buy the Lie:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">evangelical in meeting with Trump says he talks to Christians like a person who just bought Rosetta stone and is practicing for first time<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Ward (@jonward11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonward11\/status\/745288263817134080\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">June 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So a guy who has never asked God for forgiveness is a \u201ctremendous believer\u201d and we are supposed to support him because he might have a conversion in the future.  But under no circumstances can it be morally legitimate to support a Democrat who is a baptized and professing Christian, because the Holy Spirit hates Democrats and refuses to convert them out of spite.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026and showed them all the kingdoms of the earth, saying, \u201cAll this will I give you if you will bow down and worship me.\u201d Trump launched a broadside in the so-called \u201cwar on Christmas\u201d Tuesday afternoon at the event organized by the anti-LGBT groups Family Research Council, Vision America and AFA Action. \u201cI\u2019m a tremendous 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