Bible-believing Christians were key to Trump's victory, says American faith leader

President-elect Donald J. Trump's triumph is much than a decisive triumph for Republicans. It's a referendum connected the value of the spiritual voter. 

The way to the White House inactive runs done America's pews, arsenic 1 writer intimated precocious successful Christianity Today. 

Trump accrued his stock of Catholic, evangelical and adjacent Jewish voters. The Catholic ballot particularly saw a marked summation successful enactment of Trump implicit 2020. 

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The predetermination was besides astir competing worldviews.

Dr. Alex McFarland, a North Carolina-based religion and civilization expert, spoke connected the "Lighthouse Faith" podcast precocious and laid retired the difference: It was "a law worldview that presupposes nonsubjective morality, which has been benignant of the glue that held our federation unneurotic for 248 years, versus a globalist woke worldview that assumes morals are fluid, adjacent assumes sex is fluid," helium said. 

"Truth is revealed by God," a religion and civilization person said to Fox News. "The motivation guardrails that clasp our nine unneurotic are not thing contrived by humans, but fixed by God." (iStock)

As Democrats ponder what the enactment whitethorn oregon whitethorn person done incorrect successful 2024 — including connected the economy, the borderline crisis, termination — McFarland said determination was the hum of a much blimpish biblical worldview moving its mode done America's pews that recovered its mode to the ballot box.

McFarland said, "We judge that information is not thing that we marque up for ourselves. Truth is revealed by God. The motivation guardrails that clasp our nine unneurotic are not thing contrived by humans, but given by God."

Religious state is simply a bedrock rule of the United States, enshrined successful the Constitution. 

In different words, it's the classical Enlightenment-era struggle implicit whether Man is the measurement of each things — oregon is God?

He added, "Like opinions, everybody's got a worldview, adjacent if it's lone implied. The dictionary explanation of a worldview is that it's ‘a postulation of attitudes, values, stories and expectations astir the satellite astir us, which pass our each thought and action. Worldview is expressed successful ethics, religion, philosophy, technological beliefs and truthful on.'"  

Also, it's "a broad conception oregon doctrine of the beingness and of humanity's narration to it."

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Religious state is simply a bedrock rule of the United States, enshrined successful the Constitution. Religion (or content systems) informs and fuels worldviews. 

But McFarland, expressing a idiosyncratic view, said the Harris run seemed to him to trample oregon disregard biblical worldviews. The dictionary explanation of a worldview is that it's ‘a postulation of attitudes, values, stories and expectations astir the satellite astir us, which pass our each thought and action. Worldview is expressed successful ethics, religion, philosophy, technological beliefs and truthful on.'" 

"The dictionary explanation of a worldview is that it's ‘a postulation of attitudes, values, stories and expectations astir the satellite astir us, which pass our each thought and action. Worldview is expressed successful ethics, religion, philosophy, technological beliefs and truthful on.'"  (Ildar Abulkhanov)

As 1 example, erstwhile immoderate attendees of a Wisconsin rally shouted, "Jesus is King," she replied, "You're astatine the incorrect rally" — and laughed. 

Yet erstwhile Trump's moving mate, Vice president-elect JD Vance, encountered the aforesaid shouts astatine an event, helium answered, "That's right, Jesus is King."

Also, Harris declined the invitation fixed to some statesmanlike candidates to be the 79th yearly Al Smith Dinner, which raises millions for Catholic charities. Trump was there. 

The Catholic League's Bill Donohue viewed it arsenic a snub to Catholics connected a planetary scale.

McFarland quoted Trump arsenic saying, "Let's speech astir the things that past forever. The things that unite us. God. Family. Freedom."

In addition, Harris targeted faith-based gestation centers and promoted utmost views connected abortion, adjacent saying successful an interrogation that arsenic president she would not marque immoderate concessions for spiritual objections to abortion.

Even so, a week earlier Election Day, much than 1,000 spiritual leaders that Sunday endorsed her arsenic portion of the "Souls for the Polls." It was seen arsenic a determination to amusement however religion was contiguous successful her run and to antagonistic the mounting attacks from conservatives saying she was anti-Catholic and anti-Christian. 

Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump pumps his fist arsenic helium arrives to talk astatine a run lawsuit astatine Nassau Coliseum, Wednesday, Sept.18, 2024, successful Uniondale, N.Y.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

One of the endorsees, her longtime spiritual mentor, the Rev. Amos C. Brown III of San Francisco's Third Baptist Church, said Harris would reason the "dangerous politics" that Trump and "the MAGA question person unleashed ... and this imaginable for American fasicsm."

William Wolf, successful an op-ed successful The Christian Post, wrote, "We’re witnessing a governmental parallel, with the incessant cries of ‘fascism’ coming from the near and their echo chambers successful the mainstream media."

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Wolfe served arsenic a elder authoritative successful the Trump administration. He said, "Fascism, existent fascism, is characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of governmental absorption and beardown regimentation of nine and the economy."

He besides pointed out, "When universities, erstwhile the bastions of escaped thought, go echo chambers wherever lone 1 acceptable of ideas tin beryllium safely expressed, we’re not conscionable flirting with incipient fascism — we’re mounting the array for it."

The word "Christian nationalism" besides made its mode into the mainstream media arsenic a mode to onslaught fearfulness successful liberals. 

The way to the White House inactive runs done America's pews, arsenic 1 writer wrote recently.  (Pascal Deloche/Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Historian William Federer said, "Christian nationalism utilized to beryllium called Christian patriotism ... The existent usage of the word Christian nationalism started successful 2006. It was a governmental slur. Prior to that," Federer added, "the references [were to] Christian patriotism and each president favored it."  

Federer said that Abraham Lincoln, successful his inaugural address, said that "intelligence, patriotism, Christianity are inactive competent to set successful the champion mode [to] each our contiguous difficulty." 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, for his part, passed retired Gideon's New Testament and the Book of Psalms to each the soldiers in World War II. Said Federer, "I wonderment if the mainstream media would telephone Franklin Roosevelt the Christian nationalist?"

‘Something truly important happened’

Regarding Trump and religion, McFarland said helium could lone talk for himself. 

Back successful the outpouring of 2016, McFarland was invited with astir 100 different salient clergy to Trump's bureau successful Manhattan, the aforesaid gathering wherever Trump descended the elevator to denote his candidacy successful 2015, helium said. 

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Said McFarland, "I'm successful this country and there's Mike Huckabee and Rev. Franklin Graham and Tim Wildmon [of the American Family Association] … Every large evangelical entity you tin deliberation of was successful this room. Trump said, 'Look, if I go president … don't you interest astir the IRS coming aft you. Forget the Johnson Amendment. You guys are expected to archer our federation astir close from wrong.' And everybody was like, ‘Wow, this feline gets it.'"

Trump proceeded to "read from scripture ... past asked Rev. Franklin Graham to pray," said Alex McFarland, relating the details of an earlier meeting.  (Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The Johnson Amendment is simply a proviso successful the taxation code, since 1954, that fundamentally prohibits clergy from talking authorities successful the pews — oregon hazard their non-profit presumption with the IRS. It's nether occurrence today, arsenic galore spiritual leaders spot it arsenic an infringement connected escaped speech.

After Trump won the predetermination successful 2016, helium had play telephone calls with clergy leaders.  

In the outpouring of 2020, McFarland joined the telephone connected Good Friday. 

McFarland related, "He goes, 'Look, nary authorities today. It's Good Friday.' He besides says, 'You guys are the theologians. I don't request to archer you, but 2,000 years ago, thing truly important happened. Christ died for our sins.'"

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McFarland said Trump proceeded to "read from scripture, from Isaiah the prophet ... past asked Rev. Franklin Graham to pray."

McFarland added that Trump past said, "Let's speech astir the things that past forever. The things that unite us. God. Family. Freedom. And let's conscionable let's conscionable admit however blessed we are."  

"A idiosyncratic to beryllium loved is ever much important than an statement to beryllium won."

Historian and bestselling writer Oz Guiness saw the proverbial penning connected the partition years agone successful his publication "The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and The Future of Freedom" — that America is astatine a crossroads successful however it defines freedom, whether it's from the position of the American Revolution oregon from the heirs of the French Revolution.

"Americans don't realize," helium wrote, "that the chiseled dependable of the American Revolution mostly comes from the Bible and the Book of Exodus and Deuteronomy."

"Do radical deliberation of God oregon religion arsenic thing that they service — oregon thing that serves them?" (iStock)

On an occurrence of the "Lighthouse Faith" podcast, Guiness said, "Ideas similar postmodernism, extremist multiculturalism, the intersexual revolution, cancel culture, captious contention theory, each that worldly — each of those travel down from the French Revolution, not the American Revolution. And truthful you've got a heavy part astir what the state stands for ... And it indispensable beryllium resolved."

Guinness said the informing came years agone from President Abraham Lincoln conscionable earlier the Civil War. In 1858, helium quoted Jesus arsenic saying, "A location divided against itself cannot stand" — meaning America couldn't beryllium fractional enslaved and fractional free.

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"And what I'm arguing, successful effect, is America cannot beryllium fractional 1776 and fractional 1789. The 2 revolutions spell successful antithetic directions."

It boils down to this, said McFarland: "Do radical deliberation of God oregon religion arsenic thing that they service — oregon thing that serves them? In governmental terms, does a biblical worldview pass your authorities — oregon bash your authorities pass your biblical worldview?"

There are millions of Americans who are convinced Donald Trump is the incorrect prime for the White House — but that doesn't alteration his presumption arsenic the president-elect. 

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He won some the electoral and fashionable ballot and volition service arsenic America's 47th president.

As the holidays approach, these are the 2 competing worldviews that volition beryllium the proverbial elephant successful the country arsenic radical gather for Thanksgiving, Christmas and peculiar vacation events.  

McFarland shared words of contented up of what could beryllium a contentious play for galore people.

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"Politics [is] transient and temporary," helium said. "Family, loved ones, my next-door neighbor, relationships — those things are lasting."   

He added, "Remember this: A idiosyncratic to beryllium loved is ever much important than an statement to beryllium won."