After Trump, conservatives must return to core values
by Peter Franklin, Unherd:
It was one of the weirdest moments of the last four years: President Trump, stood before a church, holding a Bible like he’d never seen one before.
Presumably, the point of the stunt last summer was to reassure godly Republicans that he was on their side, during the depths of the BLM protests and riots. But that, of course, is precisely their problem — American Christians chose a man like him to lead them, a man whose behaviour is completely contrary to everything the holy book stands for. As Psalm 141 warns: “Do not let my heart incline to any evil, to busy myself with wicked deeds in company with men who work iniquity, and let me not eat of their delicacies!”
Or, to state the matter more bluntly, as St Paul does in 1 Corinthians 15: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
Having eaten of Donald Trump’s delicacies, the Republican Party is in deep trouble. Its current path leads into the wilderness, while the alternative — a painful process of detrumpification — would tear the movement apart. But then there are no easy choices when your morals are ruined.
Read also: Catholic press braces for Biden presidency: How it will further polarization on doctrine, Get Religion
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