"So how can you be Christian and vote for Democrats? [View all]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-answer-to-question-how-can-you-be.html

My initial response to this question is, "How can you be a Christian and vote for someone who is the opposite of everything you claim to believe, like Trump?" That rarely gets a response or an answer. The most common response is, "He's the lesser of two evils." And that's an excuse, not a reason, since, in conservative Evangelical doctrine, there is no such thing. Evil is what it is, and there are no greater or lesser degrees of it. And there is no political party that is exempt from the label by virtue of its political platform.

Character is a qualification for the Presidency, in my personal opinion, and Trump's total lack of it, from any perspective, disqualifies him, especially when compared to the Democrats against whom he's run. He cannot be trusted, and that undermines his ability to serve, regardless of the issues. From a Christian perspective, a man who has mistreated and cheated and broken promises to the women he claimed to love, and married, is total disqualification. Once was enough. Three times is proof he is evil.

Clearly, there is no expectation on the part of conservative, Evangelical Christians who support Trump that character is a qualification required for their vote. And even though most of them are Christian nationalists in some form or another, being a convert to Christianity is also not a qualification they apply to Trump. In fact, he has openly stated that he has never done anything in his life which requires God's forgiveness, which is a denial of the Evangelical interpretation of the Christian doctrine of conversion. Denial is the only explanation coming from Evangelical leaders for following someone as a political leader whose character is a total disqualification based on their own standards for leadership.

Frankly, their willingness to support an evil man like Trump relieves me of any obligation to justify or explain my votes for Democrats. That gives me the moral high ground when it comes to political choices, and because character is at the top of the list of my own consideration of qualifications when it comes to casting my ballot, that's my justification for voting for Democrats on the ballot. It's been very clear, for the past eight years, which party's candidates have the character necessary for leadership and which party's candidates don't have any character. All we get from Republicans is caving in on this issue when it comes to Trump.