The Hypocritical Duplicity of ‘Evangelicals for Harris’

 By Darrell B. Harrison - Posted at Just Thinking...for Myself:

“Evangelicals don’t have to change who they are, they just need to reaffirm who they are by voting for someone who better reflects Christian values.”— From the home page of the “Evangelicals for Harris” website (under the heading “Upholding Christian Values”)
Two Incompatible Worldviews

In his classic work, Christianity and Liberalism, originally published in 1923, theologian and founder of Westminster Theological Seminary, Dr. J. Gresham Machen, said something that one would think would be unequivocally and univocally affirmed by the vast majority of, if not all, professing Christians today, that, “The Christian gospel consists in an account of how God saved man, and before that gospel can be understood something must be known (1) about God and (2) about man. The doctrine of God and the doctrine of man are the two great presuppositions of the gospel. With regard to these presuppositions, as with regard to the gospel itself, modern liberalism is diametrically opposed to Christianity.”[1]

I cite Machen’s words against the backdrop of the upcoming presidential election in America, on November 5, 2024, when Republican Donald John Trump faces off against Democrat, and sitting Vice President of the United States, Kamala Devi Harris, arguably two of the most controversial if not factious presidential candidates in recent United States electoral history. Speak with almost any individual who is likely to vote in November and you’ll invariably discover how deeply entrenched is their support of, or opposition to, depending on who you talk to, each candidate. In other words, when it comes to both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, there appear to be no gray areas in terms of the loyalty or disdain voters harbor toward them.

An example of such rigid and unyielding allyship is a group of Kamala Harris supporters who refer to themselves as “Evangelicals for Harris.”[2] Notwithstanding that such a group of self-described “evangelicals” exists to begin with, despite the fact that Harris’s stance on such issues as abortion is unarguably antithetical to the gospel[3], such a philosophical disconnect confronts professing believers in Christ with the crucial question: What is an ‘evangelical’ to begin with?





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