A Faith on the Fringe update, Oct. 16, 2024
An Election Prediction
Here in the United States, election day is Nov. 5.
I’ve been writing a lot about Donald Trump, trying to help Trump Christians understand the sad mistake they are making by supporting him.
Trump is the most profane, godless man to run for national office, and Trump Christians support him because he’s not a democrat. Christianity has been co-opted by ungodly people on the radical right.
I created Faith on the Fringe to help nonbelievers see God in their lives. A reason they can’t see God is because political operatives have co-opted Christianity. They took over the Southern Baptist Convention and colleges, they’ve taken over a significant segment of Christianity, and they are working very hard to take over the country.
It’s a type of nationalism, fascism and authoritarianism ensconced in a false, unbiblical pseudo-Christianity.
Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance only converted to Catholicism five years ago, to make it easier to foster fascism on the rest of us. Like Trump, Vance conveniently found religion when he found politics.
Election day Nov. 5 is the only thing protecting freedom in the U.S.
That’s the bad news. Now the good news.
Since the Trump-stacked, U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, abortion has been on the ballot in seven states. In each of those elections the majority of voters supported the right of women to control their own bodies. Seven for seven.
According to Pew Research: “About six-in-ten Americans (63%) say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. This share has grown 4 percentage points since 2021 – the year prior to the 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe.”
The number of pro-choice voters are increasing while the number of forced birth proponents are decreasing. (I suspect a lack of vaccinations is hastening their demise.)
How many new voters has Taylor Swift helped register? Half a million? A million? Do you think most Swifties want control of their own bodies?
In Missouri, a slim majority of those polled oppose women’s freedom, so the “Show Me State” may be the first to break the national streak.
In Florida, 56% of adults support the reproductive freedom of women. The Constitutional amendment there must pass by 60%. Republican lawmakers don’t think it will. I think it will pass. Trump will lose. Sen. Rick Scott will lose, and I’ll go to bed, because it will portent how the rest of the night will go.
I could be wrong. But I don’t think so. Do you know of many pro-choice Trump supporters?
Trump lost his first presidential race by 3 million votes and his second by 7 million. It’s possible he’ll lose this time by 10 million votes.
I intend to write much more about the unbiblical pseudo-Christians in the future, because they’re wrong.
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Today, 100 year-old President Jimmy Carter cast his ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris. May this good, Christian man live long enough to see her sworn in a second term. Follow this link to read the conversation Carter and I had in his church restroom.
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Pastor Jim Meisner, Jr. earned his M.Div. from the oldest HBCU seminary in the United States. He’s the author of the novel Faith, Hope, and Baseball, available on Amazon, or follow this link to order an autographed copy. He created and manages the Facebook page Faith on the Fringe.
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