{"id":2266461,"date":"2024-06-12T20:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T00:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-really-is-their-god-sen-warnock-compares-trump-supporters-to-segregationists-slavery-advocates\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T20:50:32","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T00:50:32","slug":"who-really-is-their-god-sen-warnock-compares-trump-supporters-to-segregationists-slavery-advocates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/who-really-is-their-god-sen-warnock-compares-trump-supporters-to-segregationists-slavery-advocates\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Warnock Likens Trump Supporters to Segregationists, Slavery Backers in &#8216;Who Really Is Their God?&#8217; Query"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fwho-really-is-their-god-sen-warnock-compares-trump-supporters-to-segregationists-slavery-advocates%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=2266461&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>Senator Raphael Warnick, in an interview with David Remnick\u2064 on &#8220;The New Yorker Radio Hour,&#8221;\u2062 likened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beverly-hills-goes-maga-as-thousands-of-trump-supporters-rally\/\" title=\"Beverly Hills Goes MAGA as Thousands of Trump Supporters Rally\">supporters<\/a> of \u2063former President Donald\u200d Trump, particularly evangelical\u200b Christians, to historical advocates of segregation and slavery. He suggested that\u2063 these supporters appear to\u200b be guided by \u2062a different concept of\u200c God than \u200dhis own. During their discussion, Warnock described the political opposition to Trump \u2062as a &#8220;moral\u200d and \u2063spiritual&#8221;\u2062 fight, emphasizing the profound \u200dethical dimensions of this struggle. This debate\u2062 arises amid calls from some pro-Trump evangelicals for America to \u200btransform into a &#8220;Christian \u200bNation&#8221; governed by laws rooted in\u2064 their interpretation of Christianity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) compared former President Donald Trump\u2019s supporters \u2014 particularly evangelical Christians \u2014 to segregationists and slavery advocates during a recent interview, suggesting that they must be answering to a different God.<\/p>\n<p>Warnock joined host David Remnick for a lengthy conversation that aired over the weekend on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/podcast\/the-new-yorker-radio-hour\/senator-raphael-warnock-on-americas-moral-and-spiritual-battle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker Radio Hour<\/a>,\u201d and Warnock insisted that the political fight against Trump was also a \u201cmoral and spiritual\u201d battle.<\/p>\n<p>It was Remnick who raised the question about pro-Trump evangelicals and what he called a \u201cmovement\u201d among them to call for becoming a \u201cChristian Nation with laws instituting Christian principles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe enormous number of people of earnest faith, who look at someone who lives the way he does, who\u2019s now been convicted of multiple felonies, how do you analyze that?\u201d Remnick asked.<\/p>\n<p>Warnock responded by suggesting that evangelical Trump supporters were no different from the Christians who had at one time supported either slavery or segregation.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, there were a number of Christians, a whole lot of Christians, who were pro-slavery. And, there are a whole lot of Christians who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/archbishop-slams-catholics-biden-pelosi-for-condemning-texas-abortion-law\/\" title=\"Archbishop Slams Catholics Biden, Pelosi For Condemning Texas Abortion Law\">pro-segregation<\/a>,\u201d Warnock explained, adding, \u201cThere\u2019s a recurring line by Martin Luther King Jr in his letter from the Birmingham jail. He says it a few times, and in his speeches \u2014 he says, \u2018I am so disappointed in the American church. What kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-racist-homophobe-murderer-the-real-che-guevara\/\" title=\"WATCH: Racist, Homophobe, Murderer: The Real Che Guevara\">people worship<\/a> there? Who really is their God?\u2019 That\u2019s the question for this moment. \u2018Who really is their God?\u2019 Particularly when we\u2019ve been told by a lot of folks on the far right for years that their focus is family values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Warnock went on to attack evangelicals for their position on \u201cmatters of private morality,\u201d such as sex and gender issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd those same people now are lined up behind Donald Trump,\u201d Warnock kept hammering the point. \u201cA man who has, had several marriages who found himself caught up in the crosshairs of, his decision to having an affair with a porn star, and these same folks who raised these issues around family values and private morality are the ones who are speaking as if he is the Messiah of God. I think the question that Doctor King asked all those years ago is especially relevant at this moment: \u2018Who really is their God?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) likened Donald Trump\u2019s supporters, especially evangelical Christians, to segregationists and slavery proponents in a recent interview. He implied they worship a different God. 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