Russell Moore: 'If I were a member of Congress, I would vote to impeach' President Trump

Aaron, if it were only “onesie twosie” protests by the Occupy/Antifa crowd, I would agree. However, what we have here is a 20 year pattern of protesting at political conventions, diplomatic summits, and sometimes it seems “just for the heck of it.” It’s had a certain impact in the very chambers that were invaded on January 6, and I would argue that the previous Occupy/Antifa protests, and the failure of the police to intervene along with the failure of prosecutors to prosecute, set the stage for the Capitol protest.

Put another way, if some of the trust fund kids (e.g. Tim Kaine’s son, who was arrested for assault in one such protest in 2017, by the way in the MN State Capitol building) participating in Antifa/Occupy protests actually got the felony convictions for their behavior they so richly deserve, we might have put the kibosh on this sort of thing….back during George W. Bush’s first term. And along those lines, it appears that at least one Antifa demonstrator was among those encouraging the woman to go through the door/window when she was shot.

If justice doesn’t work for the left the same way it does for the right, it doesn’t work.

And along those lines, it appears that at least one Antifa demonstrator was among those encouraging the woman to go through the door/window when she was shot.

If justice doesn’t work for the left the same way it does for the right, it doesn’t work.

More and more evidence of BLM and Antifa involvement at the capital on Jan. 6 is coming to light. Some may not like the source I am linking here, but look at the screen shots that are in the article if you do not like the source. These are source documents not propaganda. These are statements from the people involved that show where they are aligned and what they were thinking as they invaded the capital.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2021/01/25/315965-n315965

Aaron, your decision to not vote for Trump has not hurt your credibility at all. I will defend you for that decision. Not only do I support that decision, I made the same choice in 2016. Where you have lost so much credibility is your refusal to apply equal justice under the law. You have also confused whataboutism with precedent. If a precedent for acceptable behavior has been established by one party, but is not allowed for another party, that is not whataboutism. It is valid to question the original precedent set by either party, but that is not what you have been doing.

Ex 23:3 nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his suit.

Le 19:15 Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Pr 24:23 These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

Jas 2:9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

Like the hagiographic “lost cause” of the post-bellum South, we are likely seeing the dawn of a new “lost cause” … that of Trumpism, aided and abetted by the same kind of hagiography and spin that produced the first lost cause. And, like that first one, no amount of argumentation will likely sway its adherents from defending this new “lost cause.”

Sociologists will have a field day with this for quite a long time. Only in the last decade or more have historians begun to examine how culture and politics have warped evangelical Christianity into a caricature of its real essence. See, for example, Kevin Kruse’s One Nation Under God, John Fea’s Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump, and Kristen Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. On a secular front, Rick Perlstein’s now four-volume history of the conservative movement from the 1960s through Reagan is astounding. Tara Burton’s discussions of the alternative religions of hyper-masculinity and (on the other side) social justice in her Strange Rites is also eye-opening. Andrew Marantz’s Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation is quite frightening because it depicts a movement some Christians are drawn to … some of the”bro culture” Reformed guys (including, sadly, James White, perhaps due to his association with Jeff Durbin) are drifting quickly towards the fringes of this madness.

Trumpism fueled some of this soul-searching, and for that I’m grateful.

James White preached a sermon yesterday in which he declared the Church owes no allegiance to the Biden administration because of its moral stance. I am uncertain what the Apostle Peter would have thought about this. However, White is an excellent exegete and I am sure he dealt with it. Whether he dealt with it fairly is another question.

Another Reformed character, Tom Buck (PhD, Southern Seminary), posts incessently about politics, CRT and the Biden administration. To this outsider, the man appears to have gone insane. That may not be the case, but his public posts paint a picture of an angry man.

Things are not good in this country, or in the American Church. However, as I listen to Perlstein’s third volume oin his series, I suspect the 1970s were worse.

Tyler, I have no problem with you pointing out how some were unwilling to hold Trump to the same standards that they are now holding Biden to. It is wrong when either side uses an unjust balance. The problem I have is when all of evangelicalism is lumped into that simply because they chose to vote for someone.

JD wrote:

I have no problem with you pointing out how some were unwilling to hold Trump to the same standards that they are now holding Biden to

I never wrote that and I never thought it. I don’t know what you’re referring to.

Sorry Tyler, I made a mistake. I came to the conclusion on my own about the examples that you gave. I was referring to those who were critical of President Biden and assuming they were not applying an equal standard to Trump. It bothers me when an equal standard is not applied regardless of where it is coming from. I should have stated that differently instead of attributing it to you and I should look further into what White and Buck are actually saying before suggesting that they are doing that. Thanks for holding me accountable.

Even the Washington Post has conceded that Trump’s comments are not a clear incitement to riot, let alone to invade the Capitol, and the Capitol police have admitted they knew what was up before it happened. Don’t change the channel, this one will get even more interesting.