{"id":384,"date":"2016-10-01T22:59:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T04:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/?p=384"},"modified":"2020-11-15T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T15:11:20","slug":"unfortunately-trump-is-our-best-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunately, Trump Is Our Best Option"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Norman Geisler, a major Christian scholar and intellectual (now retired), recently came out for Trump, as did Ted Cruz.  They join an impressive list of people<\/a> who, for various reasons, want Trump to win the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is my opinion that we conservatives\/Christians need to drop our opposition to electing Trump.  We have stood bravely, but our position is collapsing on all sides.  It\u2019s time to sound the retreat so that we may live to fight another day, enduring a President Trump rather than a President Clinton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds of articles and posts have argued against voting for Trump.  The objections amount to (1) he\u2019s a bad man, (2) he doesn\u2019t know much, (3) some of his positions aren\u2019t conservative, and (4) his latest spouse, a model, has posed for some sexually improper photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I would reply, \u201cAnd, using that list, what objections against Clinton and her spouse can you mention?\u201d  Even with the magnitude of Trump\u2019s reprehensibilities, I think the comparison is laughable, myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite his outlandish claims, Trump is well aware that he doesn\u2019t know much.  As president, he would hire knowledgeable people and delegate\u2013as all businessmen do<\/em>.  Look at his friends.  Look at the people he surrounds himself with and goes to for advice.  Now look at Clinton and her crowd.  Which crowd do you prefer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And by the way, this \u201cnuclear codes\u201d business really,\u00a0really<\/strong>\u00a0needs to be put to rest.\u00a0 The anti-Trumpers are trying to dupe people into picturing Trump practicing golf putts in the Oval Office, noticing a big red button on his desk, and muttering, \u201cI wonder what this does?\u201d\u00a0 And\u00a0whoosh,<\/em> World War Three is underway!\u00a0 It is mere scaremongering horse dung.\u00a0 No president has the power to launch any attack without the concurrence of the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is sometimes alleged that evangelical Christianity will be besmirched unless we loudly disavow Trump.  I deny this; I think that it is an expression of the never-ending technique of guilt manipulation.  I certainly think that Christians would make a grave mistake if they should tout any candidate as \u201cthe Christian candidate\u201d or \u201cGod\u2019s choice,\u201d but merely choosing Trump over Clinton does not tell anyone what we think about his character.  Understand this: for the rest of your life, you are going to encounter people who say, in essence, \u201cDo as I say or I will call you a bad Christian.\u201d  You cannot satisfy a guilt manipulator; ignore him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Millions of people today are gung-ho on Trump.  If he wins, I\u2019m afraid that many of them are going to be somewhat disappointed.  I don\u2019t trust Trump to deliver on his promises.  He might; he might not.  Either way, I\u2019d prefer him over Clinton (and he and she are the only real options).  Wayne Grudem was certainly right when he wrote<\/a> \u201cthere is nothing morally wrong with voting for a flawed<\/em> candidate if you think he will do more good for the nation than his opponent.\u201d  In our situation, we might substitute the words \u201cless damage\u201d for \u201cmore good.\u201d  The principle remains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norman Geisler, a major Christian scholar and intellectual (now retired), recently came out for Trump, as did Ted Cruz.  They join an impressive list of people who, for various reasons, want Trump to win the election. It is my opinion that we conservatives\/Christians need to drop our opposition to electing Trump.  We have stood bravely, but our … Continue reading “Unfortunately, Trump Is Our Best Option”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45dxY-6c","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}