The Last Temptation

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The Last Temptation

How evangelicals, once culturally confident, became an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living memory

www.theatlantic.com

Democracy is not merely a set of procedures. It has a moral structure. The values we celebrate or stigmatize eventually influence the character of our people and polity. Democracy does not insist on perfect virtue from its leaders. But there is a set of values that lends authority to power: empathy, honesty, integrity, and self-restraint. And the legitimation of cruelty, prejudice, falsehood, and corruption is the kind of thing, one would think, that religious people were born to oppose, not bless

 

[Victoria33]

I applaud Trump’s track record on Christianity, Christianity became endangered in areas it had been since the New Testament, that being Syria and Iraq under the last 2 presidents. ISIS rose to power especially under Obama. Those Christians are Catholics. America with our very valuable allies, Kurds and Christians have beaten ISIS back. Christianity still will have a difficult time coming back in that area but there is hope.

Assyrians Ask Obama, Biden to Save Iraq's Christians

An international body of Assyrians has written letters to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden asking them to support the creation of an autonomous region for Assyrian Christians

www.christianpost.com

I salute Trump, I pray for him and for the Christians, indeed, Catholics in that region daily. I’m grateful for what this administration has done in aiding Christians against genocide.

 

[DENNYINMI]

I salute Trump, I pray for him and for the Christians, indeed, Catholics in that region daily. I’m grateful for what this administration has done in aiding Christians against genocide.

That is a beautiful interpretation. Would you be willing to accept some of them as refugees in our country escaping the evils of ISIS ?

We should pray also for those of any race or creed brought to subjugation under ISIS.

 

[Victoria33]

That is a beautiful interpretation. Would you be willing to accept some of them as refugees in our country escaping the evils of ISIS ?

We should pray also for those of any race or creed brought to subjugation under ISIS.

I will prioritize stopping bloody violent genocide over a simple statement such as “accepting refugees”. We accept refugees, we have 260,000 Venezuelans living in this country who are refugees.

And nobody is ignoring other groups subjected to persecution by ISIS, this is by the way, a Catholic forum and the original topic is addressing Christians.

All of this is easily researched in the news, the Assyrian News Agency is a good place to start: aina.org

**Trump claims he saved Syrian Kurds from being wiped out by Erdoğan**
By TM -  June 30, 2019

US President Donald Trump said at a press conference in Osaka on Saturday that he saved Syrian Kurds from being wiped out by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, with whom he has a personal relationship.

“He had a 65,000-man army at the border, and he was going to wipe out the Kurds, who helped us with [the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)],” Trump told reporters on Saturday at the G-20 summit in Japan.

“And I called him and I asked him not to do it. They are, I guess, natural enemies of his or Turkey’s. And he hasn’t done it.”

Read more at:  https://www.turkishminute.com/2019/06/30/trump-claims-he-saved-syrian-kurds-from-being-wiped-out-by-erdogan/

In my book, it goes without saying, the Kurds have made the greatest sacrifice of them all over there. We are eternally grateful to them and I hope the peoples will continue to have a strong relationship. We can not expect things to be perfect but we can hope we move forward in peace. There will continue to be some downs and disagreements in all of this.

BTW, SDF, Syrian Defense Forces, the Kurds, Christians, some Arab groups, was founded under the Obama administration. We must be straightforward and truthful in all of this, towards the end of his administration and they were make progress definitely towards the end of his administration. Credit where credit is due.

 

[Rockoh22]

The way you frame the question seems highly suspicious and subtle.Like the snake in the garden.

Is president Trump against immigration?

 

[DENNYINMI]

In my book, it goes without saying, the Kurds have made the greatest sacrifice of them all over there.

I’ll address your “book” here and not your newspaper article from The Turkish Minute…I couldn’t even find that sensational story on Fox…hahaha

Back to the book. The story you are presenting of the Kurds is beautiful as well. But they turned to Assad to help save them from Turkey.

Why not Trump? ouch