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(37) S2E14 Consequentialism: The Moral Conundrum of Voting for an Evil

Season 2 Episode 14 Published 6 years, 1 month ago
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"But as far as his worldview, Trump's world view, I was debating an evangelical professor on NPR and this professor said, "Pastor, don’t you want a candidate who embodies the teaching of Jesus and would govern this country according to the principles found in the Sermon on the Mount?" I said, "Heck no." I would run from that candidate as far as possible because the Sermon on the Mount was not given as a governing principle for this nation. Nowhere is government told to forgive those who wrong it, nowhere is government commanded to turn the other cheek. Government is to be a strongman to protect its citizens against evildoers. When I’m looking for somebody who’s going to deal with ISIS and exterminate ISIS, I don’t care about that candidate’s tone or vocabulary, I want the meanest, toughest, son of a you-know-what I can find, and I believe that’s Biblical."


Psalm 2: https://www.biblestudytools.com/psalms/2.html

1 Why do the nations conspireand the peoples plot in vain? 


2 The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the LORD and against his anointed, saying, 


3 “Let us break their chains and throw off their shackles.” 


4 The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them. 


5 He rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying, 


6 “I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.” 


7 I will proclaim the LORD’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father. 


8 Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends

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