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Trump's rejection of DEI is a rejection of core values of Christian faith and practice. What does that make him?
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/04/undermining-and-opposing-diversity.htmlThose who remain committed to a true Christianity, for whom that is a priority, not for the personal gain it can bring their way, but for the way it makes life in this world a better experience for everyone, are allies with all human beings who are opposed to what can only be described as a fascist tyranny. We need to find ways to neutralize the effects of the disaster that is being perpetrated on this country now, while we organize and try to get back the momentum for winning an election that is still a long way off. We've seen enough damage.
This is primarily being written to those who claim to be Christian, but are buried in denial over the fact that Trump, and virtually everyone around him in the GOP leadership in Washington, including Mike Johnson, Vice President Vance, and the entire Trump cabinet are completely incompetent, blinded to reality and unable to effectively lead anything. The fact that these people have control over the nuclear codes is horrifying. These people exhibit absolutely no values or virtues that tell the rest of us that their faith is anything more than a political influence they plan to use for their own enrichment and benefit.
The values of diversity, equity and inclusion have broad definitions and are found at the core of the Christian gospel. The fact that they are also found in American idealism, and have been included as core values of our Constitutional democracy are an indication of their influence. It is difficult to understand how Christians who claim to believe that the Bible is the inerrant, infallible written word of God can miss these points so easily, or be so easily led to interpret them in a way as to miss the fact that they are core values of the United States of America, and of Christianity.
Values are characteristics which identify the true theology, doctrine and practice of the religion that values them. So the rejection of these values by Trump means that those conservative Evangelicals who think he's the guy picked by God to lead this country would mean that Trump, and the sycophants he owns, are clearly not Christian. It is not possible to reject core values of Christian faith and practice and also lay claim to Christian redemption. Whatever religion it is that leads people to reject core Christian values, it is certainly not Christian.
This is primarily being written to those who claim to be Christian, but are buried in denial over the fact that Trump, and virtually everyone around him in the GOP leadership in Washington, including Mike Johnson, Vice President Vance, and the entire Trump cabinet are completely incompetent, blinded to reality and unable to effectively lead anything. The fact that these people have control over the nuclear codes is horrifying. These people exhibit absolutely no values or virtues that tell the rest of us that their faith is anything more than a political influence they plan to use for their own enrichment and benefit.
The values of diversity, equity and inclusion have broad definitions and are found at the core of the Christian gospel. The fact that they are also found in American idealism, and have been included as core values of our Constitutional democracy are an indication of their influence. It is difficult to understand how Christians who claim to believe that the Bible is the inerrant, infallible written word of God can miss these points so easily, or be so easily led to interpret them in a way as to miss the fact that they are core values of the United States of America, and of Christianity.
Values are characteristics which identify the true theology, doctrine and practice of the religion that values them. So the rejection of these values by Trump means that those conservative Evangelicals who think he's the guy picked by God to lead this country would mean that Trump, and the sycophants he owns, are clearly not Christian. It is not possible to reject core values of Christian faith and practice and also lay claim to Christian redemption. Whatever religion it is that leads people to reject core Christian values, it is certainly not Christian.
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