Responding to the “Opinion Author” of the PJ article of Aug 10 entitled “Evangelicals Who’ve Been Deceived”.

I am truly amazed that anyone would criticize Evangelicals for supporting Trump, and thus empower the political left which is as anti-evangelical as one can get. I find it even more amazing that any true evangelical would fall for such nonsense. Have we forgotten how perverse the “morals” of the post-modernist left are with respect to the values and virtues of Western Civilization that came about through Christianity?

The left formally supports the most immoral and destructive policies we can imagine: Child mutilation, child pornography in public school libraries, males in female sports and locker rooms, ideological gender confusion, abortion paid by 3rd parties as a matter of lifestyle convenience, allowing the Government to inject itself between parents and children, and a self-destructive welfare system that rewards people for exhibiting the most irresponsible behaviors, all while enslaving working people to pay the bill.

And we did not even mention aiding and abetting of millions of unknown foreigners crossing our borders illegally, which allows the all-out assault on our safety (see crime statistics) and our finances (taxes and debt to support illegals), as well as suppressing wages and making it harder for low-skilled Americans to compete in the job market.

If the opinion author wants to quote scripture, then let’s start here: 2 Thessalonians 3:10 says “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.” Can the opinion author, who apparently pushes Christian scripture, tell us how he can support our current welfare system that pays people to not work, yet criticize evangelicals who call for an end to the immorality of promoting government dependency and forcing working people to subsidize the welfare lifestyle for others? If he is going to criticize Trump based on the laundry list in the referenced article, is the opinion author also willing to condemn King David? After all, King David’s list of moral failings reads exactly as the opinion author imagines Trump’s failings. Yet (as the Bible says) King David was a “man after God’s own heart” (1st Samuel 13-14), and David was clearly forgiven and rewarded for coming back to God, in spite of all of his failings. Isn’t redemption and returning to God the entire basis of evangelical Christianity? It would seem that the story of David is a rather “inconvenient truth” if the opinion author is trying to “shame” evangelicals for supporting Trump.

Perhaps the opinion author can also explain to the evangelicals, whom he hopes to “shame”, how the act of voting for Trump is immoral, given the gross immorality prescribed by the alternative choice (Harris/Walz). This is a binary election, so we will get one or the other. So who is more dangerous? The one with perceived moral failings, or the leftist ticket that actively promotes moral failings as part of public policy? Failing to vote against the leftist agenda would seem to be a major moral failing, from the evangelical perspective. The opinion author finished by quoting from Revelation: “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him…” Yes: The pale horse came as the Neo Marxist deceiver, cloaked as “an angel of light”, and as the false accuser of evangelicals.

Scott Axelson

Jamestown