Glad to have found this. I've been looking...

[LAS14]

... around for forums that are not so obsessed with Trump and found this. Not that he doesn't deserve our attention, but watching people spend energy on citing his every stupidity is making me tired. I see this isn't a very active forum, but I've subscribed here so I can see when stuff pops up.

[nyrnyr1994]

1. I've recently come back to DU as well

I think this forum has potential to be more active. I've been thinking about my faith over the past year with everything that has happened (what a peculiar phrase...thinking about faith).

[LAS14]

3. Did you happen to see the date I posted this?? Not too much traffic. :-) nt

[notawinger]

2. I have been looking as well

It seems every person of faith I know supports Trump.

[LAS14]

4. See my response #3

[notawinger]

5. I did see the date

You are correct not much traffic here

[bekkilyn]

6. It's something we need to change

(I know I'm necro-ing this post a bit, but it's still on the first page at least! )

I think since that the right-wing has vocally co-opted Christianity as theirs, the rest of us have either remained too silent or have unfortunately given up on their faith altogether, possibly due to believing the right-wing versions of hate and hypocrisy. Those of us who believe in the biblical Jesus, the one who commands us “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” The Jesus who is a CHAMPION for the poor and the sick.

We need to speak up and be vocal too! To speak up and speak out AS CHRISTIANS that we do not partake in heresies of hatred and oppression in the name of Jesus. That Jesus isn't about "boot straps, earning and being deserving, U.S.A., America first, capitalism, guns, abortion, homosexuality, Ayn Rand, Objectivism, Republican, conservative, etc."

God doesn't give us his grace and salvation because we've earned it or because we deserve it, so we do not need to require such things from others before we give them our help. We were created in God's image, and a part of following Jesus is being like Jesus and following in his footsteps.

But if people only witness the right-wing perversions, then that's what they will come to believe is the truth of all Christianity when it couldn't be further from the truth.

As Reverend Barber has stated in a speech I heard not too long ago, we need a moral revolution in this country.

"No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house." Matthew 5:15

Let's stop hiding under the bushel basket.

[The Bunny]

7. Canadian perspective

There are very few Christians in Canada who support Trump. I personally have not met any.

Just goes to show you that this is much more of a political issue and not a religious one. It has nothing to do with Christianity.