President-elect Donald J. Trump’s victory is more than a decisive victory for Republicans. This is a referendum on the importance of the religious voter.
The road to the White House still leads through America’s pews, as a reporter recently pointed out in Christianity Today.
Trump increased his share among Catholic, evangelical and even Jewish voters. The Catholic vote saw a particularly significant gain in support for Trump in 2020.
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The election was also about competing worldviews.
Dr. Alex McFarland, an expert on religion and culture based in North Carolina, spoke. “Lighthouse Faith” Podcast recently and described the difference: It was “a constitutional worldview that posits objective morality, which has been the glue that has held our nation together for 248 years, versus a universalist worldview that believes “That morality is fluid, even assumes that gender is fluid,” he said.
“Truth is revealed by God,” one faith and culture leader told Fox News. “The moral bonds that attach to our society are not man-made, but God-given.” (iStock)
As Democrats ponder what the party has done wrong or what might happen in 2024 — including the economy, the border crisis, abortion — McFarland said a more conservative biblical worldview is on America’s pews. Working through that found its way. ballot box.
McFarland said, “We believe that truth is not something we create for ourselves. Truth is revealed by God. The moral compass that holds our society together is not something man-made. is, but is given by God.”
Religious freedom is a fundamental principle of the United States, enshrined in the Constitution.
In other words, it’s the classic Enlightenment controversy over whether man is the measure of all things—or is God?
He added, “Like an opinion, everyone has a worldview, even if it is only implicit. The dictionary definition of a worldview is that it is ‘attitudes, values about the world around us.’ , is a collection of stories and expectations, which informs our every thought and concern. Action is expressed in ethics, religion, philosophy, scientific beliefs, etc.
Also, it is “a comprehensive concept or philosophy of the universe and humanity’s relationship to it.”
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Religious freedom is a fundamental principle of the United States, enshrined in the Constitution. Religion (or belief system) informs and fuels worldviews.
But McFarland expressed a personal opinion, saying that Harris’s campaign undermines or rejects biblical worldviews. The dictionary definition of worldview is that it is ‘the set of attitudes, values, stories and expectations about the world around us, which inform our every thought and action. A worldview is manifested in ethics, religion, philosophy, scientific beliefs, etc.
“The dictionary definition of worldview is that it is ‘a set of attitudes, values, stories and expectations about the world around us, which informs our every thought and action. A worldview is expressed in ethics, religion, Occurs in philosophy, scientific beliefs, etc.’ (Aldar Abul Khanov)
For one example, when some Wisconsin rally attendees shouted, “Jesus is King,” he responded, “You’re at the wrong rally” — and laughed.
Yet when Trump’s running mate, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, faced similar chants at an event, he responded, “That’s right, Jesus is king.”
Also, Harris declined invitations to both presidential candidates to attend the 79th annual Alsmith Dinner, which raises millions for Catholic Charities. Trump was there.
Bill Donohue of the Catholic League saw it as a humiliation for Catholics worldwide.
“Let’s talk about the things that last forever. The things that unite us. God, family, freedom,” McFarland said of Trump.
In addition, Harris has targeted faith-based pregnancy centers and promoted extreme views on abortion, even saying in an interview that as president she would make no concessions to religious objections to abortion. .
Nevertheless, more than 1,000 religious leaders endorsed it as part of “Souls for the Polls” on Sunday, a week before Election Day. It was seen as a move to show how faith is present in his campaign and to counter growing attacks from conservatives that he is anti-Catholic and anti-Christian.
Republican presidential candidate Former President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he arrives to speak at a campaign event at the Nassau Coliseum, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024, in Yondale, New York. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
One of the supporters, her longtime spiritual mentor, the Reverend Amos C. Brown III of San Francisco’s Third Baptist Church, said Harris would oppose the “dangerous politics” that Trump and the “MAGA movement” have launched. .. and this possibly American fascism.”
“We are witnessing a political parallel, with constant cries of ‘fascism’ from the left and their echo chambers in the mainstream media,” William Wolff wrote in an op-ed in The Christian Post.
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Wolff served as a senior official in the Trump administration. “Fatalism, the original fascism, is characterized by dictatorial power, coercive suppression of political opposition, and strong organization of society and economy,” he said.
He also pointed out, “When universities, once bastions of free thought, become echo chambers where only one set of ideas can be safely expressed, we’re not just flirting with early fascism.” – We’re setting the table for that.”
The term “Christian nationalism” also made its way into the mainstream media as a way to instill fear among liberals.
As one journalist recently wrote, the road to the White House still leads through America’s pews. (Pascal DeLoach/Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Historian William Federer said, “Christian nationalism used to be called Christian patriotism… The current use of the term Christian nationalism began in 2006. It was a political slur. Before that, Federer added,” References [were to] Christian patriotism and every president supported it.
Federer said that Abraham Lincoln said in his inaugural address that “intelligence, patriotism, Christianity are still the most adaptable. [to] All our present difficulty.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on his behalf, sent Gideon’s New Testament and Psalms to all the soldiers of World War II. Federer said, “I wonder if the mainstream media would call Franklin Roosevelt a Christian nationalist?”
‘Something really important happened’
On Trump and religion, McFarland said he could only speak for himself.
In the spring of 2016, McFarland was invited along with about 100 other prominent pastors to Trump’s office in Manhattan, the same building where Trump stepped off the elevator to announce his candidacy in 2015, he said.
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“I’m in this room and there’s Mike Huckabee and Reverend Franklin Graham and Tim Wildmon,” McFarland said. [of the American Family Association] … Every major evangelical figure you can think of was in that room. Trump said, ‘Look, if I become president … you don’t have to worry about the IRS coming after you. Forget the Johnson Amendment. You people have to tell our nation about right and wrong.’ And everybody was like, ‘Wow, this guy got it.’
Trump “began reading from scripture … then asked the Reverend Franklin Graham to pray,” Alex McFarland said, detailing an earlier meeting. (Gudong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The Johnson Amendment is a provision in the tax code from 1954, which essentially prohibits pastors from engaging in politics in the pews — or risking their nonprofit status with the IRS. Today it is under fire, as many religious leaders see it as a violation of free speech.
After Trump won the election in 2016, he had weekly phone calls with clergy leaders.
In the spring of 2020, McFarland joined the call on Good Friday.
Related to McFarland, “He goes, ‘Look, there’s no politics today. It’s Good Friday.’ He also says, ‘You people, I don’t need to tell you, but 2,000 years ago, Christ died for our sins.’
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McFarland said Trump “started reading from the scriptures, from the prophet Isaiah … then asked the Reverend Franklin Graham to pray.”
McFarland added that Trump then said, “Let’s talk about the things that last forever. The things that unite us, God, family, freedom. And let’s just appreciate how much we are.” Congratulations.”
“The person to be loved is always more important than the argument to win.”
Historian and best-selling author Oz Gaines saw the proverbial writing on the wall years ago in his book “The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai’s Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom” — that America stands at a crossroads. How he defines freedom, whether he defines freedom. From the point of view of the American Revolution or the heirs of the French Revolution.
“Americans do not realize,” he wrote, “that the distinctive voice of the American Revolution comes largely from the Bible and the books of Exodus and Exodus.”
“Do people think of God or religion as something they serve—or as something that serves them?” (iStock)
On an episode of the “Lighthouse Faith” podcast, Guinness said, “Postmodernism, radical multiculturalism, the sexual revolution, abolitionist culture, critical theory of race, all that stuff — it all came from the French Revolution. Not an American revolution, and so you’ve got a deep division about what the country is … and that should be resolved.”
Guinness said the warning came years ago from President Abraham Lincoln just before the Civil War. In 1858, he quoted Jesus as saying, “A house divided against itself cannot stand”—that is, America cannot be half slave and half free.
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“And what I’m arguing is, really, America can’t be half 1776 and half 1789. The two revolutions go in different directions.”
McFarland said: “Do people think of God or religion as something they serve—or something that serves them? Politically, does a biblical worldview inform your politics?” — or do your politics inform your biblical worldview?
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He won both the electoral and popular vote and would serve as the 47th President of the United States.
As the holidays approach, it’s those two competing worldviews that will be the proverbial elephant in the room as people gather for Thanksgiving, Christmas and special holiday celebrations.
McFarland shared words of wisdom ahead of what could be a controversial season for many.
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“Politics [is] Temporary and fleeting,” he said. “Family, loved ones, my closest neighbors, relationships — these things last.”
“Remember this: being loved by a person is always more important than winning an argument,” he added.
