The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump Quotes

“White evangelicals will be known as the people who defended the guy who defended the neo-Nazis.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Sadly, the lack humility and expansive presence of pride in the words and deeds of Donald Trump make him unqualified to be president of the United States of America. He should not be given four more years to hold the highest political office in our land. Christians who ignore this not only undermine the present and future good of the nation, but also their witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
― 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

“The sins of corruption, infidelity, abuse, hatred, xenophobia, and dishonesty must all be called out clearly, or believers show themselves to be more beholden to political access than to the God of truth and grace.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“The foundation that makes fascism possible is fear that is stoked into grievances that undermine institutions and norms holding society together.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Though we fall short, however, we do have a job to do. With respect to government, the Christian’s job is to seek justice as described by Old Testament prophets and to care for the sick, the weak and the poor as described by Jesus throughout the early New Testament.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“The hypocrisy of slaveholders who revolted against Britain’s oppression of them but kept slaves in America was condemned in both England and America”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Hope implies a deep-seated trust in life that appears absurd to most who lack it.”277”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“honestly don’t know what makes me more sick. Listening to Trump brag about groping women or listening to my fellow evangelicals defend him,” wrote evangelical journalist and radio talk show host Julie Roys.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“A team of sociologists used survey results to argue that Christian nationalism was the foundation of Trump’s religious support. Opposition to Islam and keeping the United States a “Christian nation” was found to be more significant than biblical convictions.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“I don’t mind a brother or sister in Christ calling me or any other believer a coward, moron, blind, immoral, demonic, and lacking in grace if it’s true and motivated by love.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don’t want it.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Trump has stated he has never asked for God’s forgiveness for anything ever in his life and shows no signs of changing his behavior.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Hymn for the 81% By Daniel Deitrich I grew up in your churches Sunday morning and evening service Knelt in tears at the foot of the rugged cross  You taught me every life is sacred Feed the hungry, clothe the naked I learned from you the highest law is Love  I believed you when you said That I should trust the words in red To guide my steps through a wicked world I assumed you’d do the same So imagine my dismay When I watched you lead the sheep to the wolves  You said to love the lost  So I’m loving you now You said to speak the truth  So I’m calling you out  Why don’t you live the words That you put in my mouth May love overcome and justice roll down They started putting kids in cages Ripping mothers from their babies And I looked to you to speak on their behalf  But all I heard was silence Or worse you justified it Singing glory hallelujah raise the flag  Your fear had turned to hatred But you baptized it with language torn from the pages of the good book You weaponized religion And you wonder why I’m leaving To find Jesus on the wrong side of your walls  You said to love the lost  So I’m loving you now You said to speak the truth  So I’m calling you out  Why don’t you live the words That you put in my mouth May love overcome and justice roll down Come home, come home  You’re better than this You taught me better than this  Come home, come home  You’re better than this You taught me better than this You said to love the lost  I’m trying to love you now You said to speak the truth  So I’m calling you out  Why don’t you live the words That you put in my mouth May love overcome and justice roll down May love overcome and justice roll down May love overcome and justice roll down”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“In the midst of . . . despair, came November the 8th, 2016. It was on that day . . . that God declared that the people, not the pollsters, were gonna choose the next president of the United States. And they chose Donald Trump”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“While in 2011 only 30 percent of American evangelicals believed “an elected official who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life,” by October 2016 the number was 70 percent.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“In this sense, the thing that most concerned Bonhoeffer was not Nazism per se, but his fellow Christians’ determination to bring the church into “alignment” with it.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Trump’s slogan to “make America great again” sounds so hollow and laughable!”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Furthermore, as evangelical pastor and Republican candidate for Congress in 2018 Robb Ryerse says: “To vote for him because he sees the political expediency of supporting restrictions on abortion [Trump supported abortion before he ran for president] is a Faustian deal with the devil that is ultimately more likely to exact greater cost than reward.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Peter Wehner cites studies in his book, The Death of Politics, that show that a major factor in the vote in 2016 of white, male, Christians was their anxiety about losing their cultural dominance in this country.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“In the richest nation on earth, good healthcare for everyone should be a basic demand of all Christians who respect the sanctity of every human life.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Healthcare for all is a central part of any biblically informed pro-life agenda.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“The richest 1 percent of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 80 percent.177”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Even famous evangelical author Max Lucado (who had never spoken publicly about presidential candidates) warned against Donald Trump.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist’s official public policy organization (the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission) said in The New York Times (September 17, 2015) that “to back Mr. Trump, these voters must repudiate everything they believe.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Such reclamation would be an arduous process, one that would entail reconnecting with the Bible itself, which evangelicals claim as the basis for their authority. There they will find sobering words about care for the needy, clothing the poor, visiting the prisoners, and welcoming the foreigner as one of their own.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Evangelicals considered abortion a “Catholic issue” in the 1970s; the Southern Baptist Convention called for the legalization of abortion in 1971, and evangelical leaders, including W. A. Criswell of First Baptist Church in Dallas, applauded the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Evangelical support for Prohibition and worries about “godless communism” during the Cold War pushed evangelicals toward the political right during the twentieth century. Opposition on the part of some to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal led to attenuated suspicions of capitalism and eventually to an embrace of commerce.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“Advocates of the Social Gospel worked hand in hand with political progressives on behalf of child-labor laws, housing reform, and the six-day work week. They battled against alcohol abuse and corrupt political machines.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity

“The vision of society articulated by Charles Finney and other evangelicals took special notice of those on the margins of society—women, slaves, the victims of war and abuse, prisoners, the poor—those Jesus called “the least of these.”
― Ronald J. Sider, The Spiritual Danger of Donald Trump: 30 Evangelical Christians on Justice, Truth, and Moral Integrity