{"id":21051,"date":"2017-02-02T06:43:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T06:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=21051"},"modified":"2017-02-02T06:43:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T06:43:51","slug":"donald-trump-christians-now-powerful-champion-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/donald-trump-christians-now-powerful-champion-white-house.html","title":{"rendered":"In Donald Trump, Christians now have a powerful champion in the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In Donald Trump, Christians now have a powerful champion in the White House<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

In Donald Trump, Christians now have a powerful champion in the White House:-<\/strong> Donald Trump \u2013 expected to attend Thursday\u2019s National Prayer Breakfast \u2013 is clearly not your archetypal Christian. Yet after years of feeling marginalized, millions of America\u2019s faithful are optimistic his presidency signals a renaissance of renewed respect and influence for Christianity in U.S. governance and culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

They have a right to expect it. Strong majorities of them defeated the Democrats and put Trump into the Oval Office \u2013 Protestants (58%), white and Hispanic Catholics (52%), Evangelicals (81%), and even Mormons (61%). Hillary Clinton was strongly backed by non-religious Americans: \u201cnones\u201d (the religiously unaffiliated, 68%); people who never attend services (62%); and atheists and agnostics (61%).<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump was enthusiastically endorsed by a broad spectrum of Christian leaders, as evidenced in the inauguration ceremony. Clinton was roundly championed by worldly celebrities.<\/span><\/p>\n

The striking contrasts not only help explain why Trump won; going forward, they hold great promise for Christians beyond politics. Brooke Barnes, reporter for The New York Times, noted recently, \u201cUltraliberal movie executives, shocked to see a celebrity-encircled Hillary Clinton lose the presidential election to Donald J. Trump, have realized the degree to which they are out of touch with a vast pool of Americans.\u201d Perhaps now the clueless execs will engage more attentively and knowledgeably with Christian audiences and filmmakers.<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s also reason to hope the great awakening will open the eyes and minds of iconic reportorial corporations on both coasts; it\u2019s sorely needed. The New York Times\u2019 executive editor Dean Baquet himself recently confessed: \u201cI think that the New York-based and Washington-based \u2026 media powerhouses don\u2019t quite get religion. We have a fabulous religion writer, but she\u2019s all alone. We don\u2019t get religion. We don\u2019t get the role of religion in people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At the very least, Christians now have a powerful, if unlikely, champion in the White House \u2013 a welcome departure from the past eight years. Michael Wear, a former Obama White House staffer, says, \u201cthere\u2019s a religious illiteracy problem in the Democratic Party.\u201d Wear recalls a fellow staffer questioning the title of a fact sheet titled Economic Fairness and the Least of These. The staffer didn\u2019t get the meaning of \u201cleast of these,\u201d a well-known Biblical phrase. \u201cIs this a typo?\u201d he reportedly queried. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make any sense to me. Who\/what are \u2018these\u2019?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Historians will surely debate why Christians selected Trump over candidates more overtly religious than he, such as Ted Cruz. But it\u2019s evident they \u2013 like Jesus selecting his disciples \u2013 looked past Trump’s glaring defects and saw a faithful ally.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a Christian, I too expect he will make good on his promise to respect and protect religion in America, and not just Christianity. He\u2019s an improbable, imperfect Defender of the Faith, to be sure, but I believe a sincere one.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/2017\/02\/02\/in-donald-trump-christians-now-have-powerful-if-unlikely-champion-in-white-house.html<\/span><\/div>\n

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