{"id":1170607,"date":"2021-12-29T19:49:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T00:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1170607"},"modified":"2021-12-29T19:49:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T00:49:47","slug":"we-have-evangelicals-who-practice-the-most-un-christian-ways-msnbc-contributor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-have-evangelicals-who-practice-the-most-un-christian-ways-msnbc-contributor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Have\u2019 Evangelicals \u2018Who Practice The Most Un-Christian Ways\u2019: MSNBC Contributor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-have-evangelicals-who-practice-the-most-un-christian-ways-msnbc-contributor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1170607&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Although it is the Christmas season, MSNBC doesn\u2019t seem to have much \u201cgoodwill toward men,\u201d as the network spent an entire segment denouncing white evangelical Christians as \u201cthe most un-Christian\u201d segment of American society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have \u2026 evangelical[s], who are supposedly \u2018the most&nbsp;Christian people in the country,\u2019 who practice the most&nbsp;un-Christian ways,\u201d said MSNBC contributor and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dallas-democrat-mayor-rips-matthew-dowd-over-remarks-on-ending-campaign-democrats-have-racism-problem\">short-lived candidate for lieutenant governor of Texas<\/a> Matthew Dowd. He claimed that conservative Christians \u201cdon\u2019t&nbsp;believe in common decency, don\u2019t believe in the common good,\u201d and&nbsp;have embraced \u201cthe exact opposite of what&nbsp;Jesus preached in the gospels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually think we\u2019re in a&nbsp;spiritual-soul crisis in this&nbsp;country,\u201d and evangelical support for President Donald Trump \u201cis the most&nbsp;direct evidence of it,\u201d said Dowd. \u201cWe have a fundamental soul&nbsp;problem when we have an entire&nbsp;segment of our society who no&nbsp;longer believes in the&nbsp;fundamental message of Jesus Christ about loving one another&nbsp;and respecting one another, and&nbsp;treating everybody as you want&nbsp;to be treated.&nbsp;They don\u2019t believe that anymore.\u201d Dowd did not use the same standard to evaluate MSNBC personalities who said \u201cthere\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/msnbc-idiot-percentage-of-this-population-that-just-needs-to-be-told-what-to-do\">an idiot percentage of this population<\/a> that just needs to be told what to do\u201d and compared Trump voters to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/prager-donny-deutsch-michael-hayden-and-moral-dennis-prager\">Nazis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dowd went on to say that \u201cevery&nbsp;single spiritual faith in the&nbsp;history of the world\u201d has taught&nbsp;the same ethic of selfless love, \u201cwhether it\u2019s a&nbsp;Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jewish&nbsp;person\u201d; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.djameskennedy.org\/devotional-detail\/20200527-the-uniqueness-of-christ\">all religions<\/a> have \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2016\/08\/islamic-state-jesus-is-a-slave-to-allah-who-will-wage-jihad-once-he-returns-to-earth\">taught the same fundamental thing<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Evangelical leaders said Dowd\u2019s criticism rang a familiar bell.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s not forget that almost every time Jesus taught, some hated Him so fiercely they wanted to kill Him. Jesus warned that same baseless hatred would be hurled at His followers, to which Mr. Dowd is a case in point,\u201d Tony Perkins,&nbsp;president of the Family Research Council, told me in an exclusive statement.<\/p>\n<p>Dowd\u2019s comments came during a segment of Tuesday\u2019s \u201cDeadline: White House\u201d in which the host, Nicolle Wallace, made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/msnbc-host-repeats-3-discredited-claims-2-in-less-than-a-minute\">three factual errors \u2014 two within one minute<\/a>. She offered no retraction on Wednesday\u2019s program.<\/p>\n<p>In the segment, Wallace highlighted an article from Peter Wehner, who also joined her.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace, a former advisor to George W. Bush and John McCain, lamented that evangelical Christians now support Donald Trump when, she claims, they used to support such issues as \u201cclimate&nbsp;change,\u201d fighting poverty and&nbsp;malaria, and pushing the U.S. \u201ctoward more aggressive&nbsp;action globally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people who describe themselves as evangelicals have subordinated faith to politics and to partisan passions \u2026 and decided that they want to use the Bible to defend things that I think ultimately are indefensible,\u201d said Wehner. White evangelicals\u2019 political sensibilities are driven by an \u201coverblown\u201d sense of \u201cgrievances and&nbsp;resentments over decades of being&nbsp;\u2026 mocked and&nbsp;ridiculed by the elite [and] the&nbsp;Establishment,\u201d he said without proof.<\/p>\n<p>Christian scholars said it is Dowd and Wehner who have conflated their politics with the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suggestion that American evangelicals don\u2019t believe in \u2018common decency\u2019 or \u2018the common good\u2019 reflects a fundamental misunderstanding about the concept of \u2018the common good\u2019 and of Christianity,\u201d said Trey Dimsdale, J.D., executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/crcd.net\/\">Center for Religion, Culture, and Democracy<\/a>, a think tank that focuses on religion\u2019s positive contribution to society. \u201cFrom the very earliest days of the American republic, American Christians have strived to make our culture one that is open, free, and one of mutual support and affection in which non-Christians and non-Americans can flourish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Christians reject sweeping, top-down, government-centered policies precisely <em>because <\/em>they believe those policies do not contribute to the common good, which is better served by private philanthropy. The fact that conservative evangelicals hold \u201ca different vision based on different conceptions of \u2018the good\u2019 is not something that should be surprising or even scandalous, but a byproduct of a plural society and should be welcomed,\u201d Dimsdale, who is an evangelical Christian, told The Daily Wire exclusively. \u201cChristians of different persuasions and those of other religious commitments are welcomed to participate in our common civic life and pursue the good that is common to all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dowd seemingly misquoted Jesus during the interview, claiming that Jesus told people to \u201cforget about the kingdom of God,&nbsp;and forget about Heaven, just&nbsp;love one another.\u201d In reality, Jesus told people to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew%206%3A33&amp;version=NKJV\">seek first the kingdom of God<\/a>.\u201d The Bible mentions the terms \u201ckingdom of God\u201d or \u201ckingdom of Heaven\u201d 101 times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we talk about Jesus, let\u2019s make sure it\u2019s the Jesus of the Bible, who said, \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=John+14%3A15-21&amp;version=NKJV\">If you love Me, keep My commandments<\/a>,\u2019\u201d said Perkins. \u201cAmerica\u2019s soul problem results from its truth problem: a denial of God, His Word, and its application to our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it is the Christmas season, MSNBC doesn\u2019t seem to have much \u201cgoodwill toward men,\u201d as the network spent an entire segment denouncing white evangelical Christians as \u201cthe most un-Christian\u201d segment of American society. \u201cWe have \u2026 evangelical[s], who are supposedly \u2018the most\u00a0Christian people in the country,\u2019 who practice the most\u00a0un-Christian ways,\u201d said MSNBC contributor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}