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“We are evangelical Christians, pleading with other Christians, especially evangelicals, to allow biblical principles to shape all our political activity.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“many attribute their turning away from Christianity to what they consider immoral, fundamentally wrong, political engagement by Christians, especially evangelical Christians.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“In many ways, we live in a society that breathes the polluted air of contempt.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“But we can rightly expect that our leaders use language that treats others with respect, and even honors them when they do good things for our land—even if we disagree with their politics.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“boldly summed up in a 1998 Southern Baptist resolution. “We implore our government leaders to live by the highest standards of morality both in their private actions and in their public duties,” it read, “and thereby serve as models of moral excellence and character.”5”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“their conclusion that politics was the way to stay relevant is today recognized as a mistake, a leading cause of both a decline in membership and, ironically, in loss of relevance.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“It is a sure sign of a church’s internal decay when the sum and substance of its religious activity becomes entwined with political partisanship, especially when loyalty to a political figure is equated with loyalty to God.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“We fail to recall that the one gift we have to offer the nation is not a partisan vote, but a consistent moral voice grounded in the perfect love and perfect righteousness of God.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“While every president lies, not every president is a pathological liar. Donald Trump is a pathological liar.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Trump’s former lawyer, John Dowd, said to him “You can’t tell the truth. You just make things up.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Look, alternative facts aren’t facts, they’re falsehoods,”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“First, he lies to prop himself up, to make himself look better in other people’s eyes than he is in reality. Second, Trump lies to be mean, to sadistically tear other people down and make them feel small.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“The truth of the matter is it rained throughout Trump’s inauguration speech, the sun never broke through, and it didn’t “pour” after he left.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“This is the greatest economy in the HISTORY of America.”29 Trump has told this lie over 250 times. Our economy was better under a number of other presidents, including Eisenhower, Johnson, and Clinton.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“We have the biggest tax cut in history.”30 Nope, Reagan passed one that was three times larger. Trump has told this lie over 180 times.31”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“The truth is the government has been repairing and replacing fencing that has been there all along and very little new wall has been built. Trump has told this lie over 240 times.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“worldwide views of the US have become more negative since Trump took office.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“You can’t trust a pathological liar. Trump is a pathological liar. You can’t trust Trump.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Being elected president only emboldened his proclivity for cutting moral corners, being lazy when it comes to doing his job, using others to gratify his ego, attacking those who oppose him, obstructing justice, and lying at every turn.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“If, as Christians, we continue to enable a pathological liar to remain president, we are going to see greater damage inflicted on the cause of Christ and our God-given authority as Christians to speak out against immorality and injustice.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Whoever we cast our vote for in the next presidential election or in the elections to come, we must vote for someone who is committed to both believing the truth and telling the truth no matter what the cost might be to them personally or to their administration. To do otherwise is to waste our vote on someone who is not worthy of the office of President of the United States.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Regardless of whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent, never-Trumper, or apolitical, surely we can unite on that front and agree that the objectification and sexualization of girls and women is never acceptable on any level.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Look at that face. Would anybody vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president? I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not supposed to say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?” (Referring to Carly Fiorina.)46”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“You never get to the face because the body’s so good.” (Referring to Steffi Graf)49”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“To a contestant on Trump’s show, The Apprentice: “It must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees.”55”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“But you have to like freckles. I’ve seen a close-up of her chest. And a lot of freckles. Are you into freckles? . . . She’s probably deeply troubled, and therefore great in bed. How come the deeply troubled women—deeply, deeply troubled—they’re always the best in bed?” (Referring to Lindsey Lohan—she was eighteen years old at the time)56”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Now, somebody who a lot of people don’t give credit to but in actuality is really beautiful is Paris Hilton. I’ve known Paris Hilton from the time she’s twelve, her parents are friends of mine, and the first time I saw her she walked into the room and I said, ‘Who the hell is that?”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“When asked in 2006 by the ladies of The View how he would react if his then twenty-four-year-old daughter Ivanka posed for Playboy: “I don’t think Ivanka would do that, although she does have a very nice figure. I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“When asked in a Howard Stern interview in 2005, if he’d stay with Melania if she was in a disfiguring car accident: “How do the breasts look?”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“You know who’s one of the great beauties of the world—according to everybody—and I helped create her? Ivanka. My daughter, Ivanka. She’s six feet tall, she’s got the best body.” (Ivanka was twenty-one at the time.)”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity