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Judgment Days

posted on July 23, 2018

The Washington Post’s Stephanie McCrummen reports that even some Christians in Trump’s most supportive areas of the country have a difficult time reconciling religious and political priorities. Southern Baptists in Luverne, Alabama, share their thoughts on what has conflicted them. Brett Green, a congregant at First Baptist Church, took issue with Trump’s remark regarding “shithole” countries. “Jesus Christ was born in Nazareth, and Nazareth was a shithole at that time,” Green said. “Someone might say, ‘How could anything good come out of a place like that?’ Well, Jesus came out of a place like that.”

Read at The Washington Post