President Trump recently hosted evangelical leaders at the White House for what turned out to be nothing more than a political pep rally.
The president, according to reporting by The New York Times, urged clergy to use their pulpits to turn out voters for GOP candidates in the midterm elections. Otherwise, Donald Trump warned, Democrats “will overturn everything that we've done and they'll do it quickly and violently.”
The rhetoric is striking and dangerous. For those who attended the dinner — including some of the president's staunchest supporters in the evangelical community — anything but a full-throated condemnation of the president's remarks is theological malpractice.
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