Donald Trumps Theology

[Gregory Matthews]

See:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/march-web-only/theology-of-donald-trump.html?utm_source=ctweekly-html&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_term=16245031&utm_content=423988790&utm_campaign=email

This is not an Adventist view of his theology.   It is an examination of his theology and it relation to evangelical thought.  In short, it suggests that evangelical theology today has shifted in its focus from what it had in an earlier time.

 

[CoAspen]

Most interesting.

[joeb]

I don't see a single thing I disagree with in that article.  While Trump has been correct on some issues and some of his statements for which he has been castigated in the press his overall campaign is one that is scary in a poltical sense.  He has tapped into the anger many conservatives have at being lied to consistently by the Republican party and politicians and he is using their anger over all of that to manipulate his followers.  He is a demagogue.  There is no doubt about it.  He will become a strongman and throw the Constitution out if given half a chance.  His stance on eminent domain is absolutely frightening as he believes a business has the right to commander private property simply because they will generate tax revenue, or at least promise to.  The founders of our nation believed that private property was sacrosanct to a free society and thus only allowed it be purchased by the government when the public good was very clearly at stake.  They would never have agreed that "tax revenue" was an acceptable reason for taking someone's property.   It would have horrified them as they fought a revolution in which this was a major issue.

[CoAspen]

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.....only allowed it be purchased by the government when the public good was very clearly at stake. They would never have agreed that "tax revenue" was an acceptable reason for taking someone's property.

Actually it was all about 'just compensation'.

And there in, will/can produce tax revenues. Housing project to replace slums, a project of that magnitude does and will produce revenues as a by product of development. ED used for acquiring public lands can also produce revenues. Tax revenue may not be the original reason for ED, but it does produce such. Did the original framers have that in mind, I don't know but I doubt they were unaware of such an outcome.

http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment5/annotation14.html

http://www.americanbar.org/groups/young_lawyers/publications/the_101_201_practice_series/primer_eminent_domain_takings_law_under_us_constitution.html