It’s not my intention to argue why I don’t think trump is moral enough to deserve support. I just want to understand why so many religious people think he is. What has he done for the religious community to deserve such overwhelming support? I could start a confrontational name calling thread another time. This isn't the place for that. Keep it civil
I'm late to this thread, but I'll bite. haha. I think there are a few reasons. There might be many Christians who really do like him a lot, and truly think he's going to save the US. But I think there are also many Christians who simply felt like they had no choice, because - as always - people feel they have to vote for whoever ends up being the candidate, simply to keep out the bigger evil (the other side) from winning. I've said this many times before, but I don't play that game. But I don't want to explain all the reasons why and get off track here.
But also, the bible says that in the latter days, there's going to be a lot of deception. I believe that the closer we get to the end of this age, the more deception there's going to be. I think this would apply to the Christians in that first category I mentioned at the beginning of this post. I don't want to ruffle feathers here and offend anyone... but I part ways with most of my fellow Christians on this site as someone who is not a Trump supporter and never was. I explained some of my reasons in
this post on another thread a little while ago, if you want to read it.
Another reason might be that many people (Christians and non-Christians alike) are just so busy these days, they have don't have the time to dig deeper when it comes to politics, and do more in-depth research that could end up changing their mind about certain politicians. So when someone comes along who is likeable, says the right things, and portrays themself as someone who genuinely cares about the US, that candidate sure is a better choice in people's minds than someone is for things like abortion, transgenderism and other things that Christians don't agree with... So, if that voter didn't have the time to dig deeper, they'll vote for who they feel is the better choice. I think the whole thing is a scam, I think it's by design that every four years we have to choose between two candidates who (in my view) are both bad choices. But when people feel like they have no choice, they do what they feel they have to do. Again, I don't agree with that, but I don't want to keep rambling here and make this post too long, so I'll leave it at that.