Trump and Christianity

One of our family members gets regular anonymous hate mail from a leftist.

This arrived yesterday, with a Ruth Bader Ginsburg stamp on it:

"Trump has said that he has NEVER asked God for forgiveness.  Please explain to everyone how that is Christian."

1. I believe I remember Trump saying that.  I don't dispute the veracity of it.

2. It is not Christian.  Trump is a misguided or sub-Christian, at best, in his personal spirituality, in my estimation.

3. The writer assumes the Right's nominee needs to be Christian to be a valid candidate, and that conservative Christian voters will only vote for a Christian.  It's true pointing this out may make some Christian voters less motivated to vote for Trump.  But I think that would be a mistake.  Christians can vote for a politician who they don't think is a true Christian.

4. Thanks to the media, the Left now thinks most of the right are Christian Nationalists, who insist Christian doctrine be made law.  They project their own intolerance onto the Right.  The Left today is far less tolerant than the Right.  We just want to restrict people's freedom to kill others, whether that's a mother her baby, an illegal who just arrived, or a gang member in the inner city.  A DA is not free to not prosecute crimes, because he thinks the system is racist.  A president is not free to not enforce border laws, because he wants more votes for his party in the future.  A mother is not free to kill her baby, because she can't envision a good future if she doesn't.

5. Even with Trump's recent abortion statement, pre-born people in utero will be safer in a Trump presidency than they have been with Biden.  Trump will do more to preserve pre-born life than Biden will.  Even if he won't do enough, that's not a good enough reason to stay home and not vote against Biden.

6. On other issues more in the headlines, Trump is obviously better:
a. Better border policy
b. Not pressuring Israel to back off from Hamas.

7. It's pretty clear to me that both Biden and Trump are willing to use religion for their political purposes.  Neither seems very sincere on that front.  Trump is reading the political weather well on the abortion issue.  All the energy is on the pro-choice side, right now, and he's trying to blunt that.  I think he's being smart, politically, but it's disappointing.  We can expect more from our church leaders, but maybe not from our politicians in such a divided landscape.

8. Turnout decides elections in this climate.  Those who are angrier turn out more.  So our thought leaders are tempted to stoke anger in us, on both sides.  Instead decide to vote on principle, not emotion.