{"id":12077,"date":"2020-04-17T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12077"},"modified":"2020-04-17T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:16:51","slug":"albert-the-pious-now-a-trump-supporter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12077","title":{"rendered":"Albert the Pious: Now a Trump supporter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">You Will Know Them by Their Fruits.<br \/>Matthew 7:16<\/i><\/p>\n<p>You may have found yourself wondering recently, &#8220;What&#8217;s with ol&#8217; Albert Mohler?  Does he still go around saying painfully stupid things all the time?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yes.  In 2016, Mohler rightly recognized that Donald Trump is a thoroughly repellent human being and refused to support him.  What do you know? After &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Family separations<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>The failed pandemic response<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Thousands of lies<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>The utter destruction of American credibility<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Cozying-up to dictators and weakening the NATO alliance<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Uninterrupted hostility to the First Amendment, especially freedom of the press<\/p>\n<li>\n<p>Grotesque ignorance of the Constitution and the operation of the American government<\/uL><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Mohler has decided ol&#8217; Donald is his kind of guy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not making this up: One of America&#8217;s most prominent Holy Men just announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2020\/04\/16\/souther-baptist-albert-mohler-to-vote-trump\/?utm_campaign=a82263b575-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_04_17_01_49&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=Pew%20Research%20Center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he&#8217;s cool with Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But in a lengthy video recorded on Monday, Mohler, who is president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, said <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">he plans to vote for Trump in 2020 and for the Republican presidential candidates for the rest of his life<\/span>, unless the party changes its platform.<\/p>\n<div style='width: 160px; text-align: right; border: 0px; padding: 5px; background: #ffffff; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #000000; line-height: 18px;' class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right;margin:10px;\" >\n<hr>\n<p><b>&#8220;Whoever has theologians&#8217; blood in his veins, sees all things in a distorted and dishonest perspective to begin with.&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, &#167;9<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mohler argued in the video that conservative Christians should vote based on a party\u2019s view on abortion, Supreme Court nominees and protecting religious liberty. He said former vice president Joe <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, had character issues<\/span> for reversing his position on the Hyde Amendment, a provision barring the use of federal funds for abortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Character issues!  The jokes write themselves &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Never forget this: The incandescent hypocrisy of Albert Mohler <i>et. al.<\/i> is the truth about the Evangelical Right; this hypocrisy and dishonesty is who they really are.  They are hostile to American ideals, they are malicious, they hate science &#8212; and Donald Trump is their hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have found yourself wondering recently, &#8220;What&#8217;s with ol&#8217; Albert Mohler?  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