We welcome the crumbs that fall from Trump’s table
Comment from Dr Moss Nthla, General Secretary of TEASA, the Evangelical Alliance of South Africa.
I am a devout evangelical and have sympathy with fellow evangelicals who see Trump’s affirmation of some evangelical values as progress in what might be the direction of American public policy under his watch. As evangelicals we are probably used to a marginal existence at the periphery of power and public policy influence. So we welcome the crumbs that fall from Trump’s table.
Leave aside the fact that he may not even mean what he said, given the personal improprieties in his own life as exposed during the campaign. But, the thing with the rather personal values that Trump promises to uphold, re abortion etc, being a black South African, I have seen how values of personal piety can be co-opted in the service of social injustice and foreign policy cruelty. So I lament our readiness to be satisfied with Trumps concessions to a limited selection of Christian values while we surrender the broad sweep of prophetic critique of his social vision both in the US and around the world.
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