This morning I unfollowed the Twitter account of Christianity Today.
The reason? Their piece on removing Trump was nothing less than hypocritical on their part: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/trump-should-be-removed-from-office.html
Why do I think CT magazine is hypocritical and a bit insincere in their proposition that Trump needs to step down? Even if they are right about Trump's presidency being compromised, the magazine has reached a new, low level of hypocrisy.
Time and again the CT piece points to the moral problems they see with Trump. Why are they suddenly the moral police for politicians, and why have they remained silent in regards to so many other politicians, especially the previous administration?
I cannot recall the magazine ever recommending the Obama administration remove themselves. For example: #1, Joe Biden under the Obama administration certainly went further than Trump ever did with the Ukrainians in Biden's threats to withhold American dollars unless Biden got his way: https://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-joe-biden-forced-ukraine-to-fire-prosecutor-for-aid-money/C1C51BB8-3988-4070-869F-CAD3CA0E81D8.html
#2, Have we ever had a more pro-LGBT, pro-Abortion, pro-Planned Parenthood president than Obama? If Trump's character/morals disqualifies him from office, what about the stances Obama took?
I do not like a lot of what Trump's past holds. Yet, since taking office, he has done quite a bit for Christianity and people of faith. I cannot say how sincere he is in his faith or what his position with God is, that's not for me to judge. I also do not feel I need to defend Trump. That's not what this is about. This is about a "Christian" magazine that is not about politics but is supposedly about faith, misspeaking in complete error (Technically Trump is not impeached until the House delivers the articles of impeachment to the Senate, which they so far have not delivered) and hypocrisy.
CT magazine has the right to whatever stance they think is correct, but for me, I think they have lost their way. My guess is they are attempting to be hip and relevant, and perhaps reach a new audience to boost their sales? I'm no longer interested in their perspectives, and I'd say they will lose more of whatever influence they had due to this blunder of theirs.
2 comments:
Good take on this, nephew, you nailed it. And the strangest thing is that Joe Biden video bragging that he was able to get the prosecutor fired, even bragging he had Obama behind him! And you are right, they pick on Trump...(?) It will be a colossal failure, Trump will win by a landslide next year, I predict he will take 48 states!
Want to place bets?
I fail to see the hypocrisy in CT. The magazine never had a need to offer a critique of Obama because the majority of the CT readers likely never voted for or supported President Obama in the first place. There isn’t any need to question people for the support of someone they never were supporting to begin with.
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