Now, suddenly, Joe Biden says he wants to "Make America Moral Again"—meaning a return to the "morals" of the above mentioned Obama era. And of Pete Buttigieg, Peter Wehner in an Atlantic article noted: "Most of the Democrats who are drawn to him are embracing him not because of his faith but because of his liberalism. They're willing to indulge the former so long as it advances the latter. For many Democrats, faith is an instrumentality."

The problem is, neither Buttigieg nor Biden get mainstream evangelical Christianity or, if they do, they're willfully rebelling against it. How else to explain the dismissal of thousands of years of the Church supporting the sanctity of life and marriage between a man and a woman—two institutions forever changed by the stroke of a progressive pen?

President Trump gets it. It's why he's given a platform to speakers like Duck Commander Phil Robertson, Alveda King, Mike Huckabee and Samuel Rodriguez to represent him. The President, in his rather bumbling, new Christian-like manner, would never presume to be an expert on faith, much less a serious spokesperson for a faith community. Uncanny innovator though he is, he is still a traditionalist through-and-through. To him, "Make America Great Again" means maintaining and respecting our Judeo-Christian heritage. He's not the messenger. He's just the facilitator.

Not so, Biden and Buttigieg.

I'm not passing judgement on Joe or Mayor Pete's personal religious beliefs. That's between them and God, as is President Trump's relationship with his Creator. But when they moralize in the public domain, it's open game. And because the press is so solidly behind these Democrat front leaders, it's crucial for thinking Americans to be aware of the fallacies buried in their cleverly-crafted spiels.

For example, in Charlottesville recently, Joe Biden said, "We are in a battle for America's soul. I really believe that, and I want to restore it." The false presumptions in this statement are that 1) America's "soul" belongs to either one party or another (it doesn't); 2) that it's been hijacked by Republicans (it hasn't); and 3) Joe Biden will "restore" it (to what?).

Such rhetoric not only goes unchallenged in the media, it's a polarizing political dog-whistle. Mainstream Christians in the last election voted for a "Cyrus" not a Messiah. Someone who, by outward appearances, wasn't "one of them" but would fight for their values in a downward spiraling culture. Joe Biden, on the other hand, speaks as though he's speaking for every American, as though he is the Messiah. His message is loud and clear: "It's us or them. Vote for me and I'll save you from the conservative horde."

Think long and hard about Biden's statement. The party of live-birth abortion wants to "restore our nation's soul?" No thank you. And yet, clearly, that's exactly what his supporters want.

As for Buttigieg, although it may be hard to imagine world leaders like Vladimir Putin and Iran's President Rouhani taking the boyish-looking mayor of South Bend seriously, there are plenty of voters to whom an imposing world-stage presence isn't important. What really matters to them is appearance and social acceptance. For Dems, Pete Buttigieg is the whole package; a liberal media's dream. He's young, earnest, good-looking, educated, and a smooth speaker. With his disarming charm, LGBT storyline, and veteran credentials, suddenly he's a veritable sensation.

The problem is, his Christian appropriated language doesn't sit well with his secular base and the abortion, gay marriage, transgender, separation of church and state platform of the Democrat Party doesn't jive with traditional Christian morals. So, what must a liberal politician like Buttigieg do in that case? Liberalize religious doctrine to line up with liberal social doctrine. Cherry-pick Scripture, humble-ize the delivery, and couch it all in fuzzy politically correct terms.

For example, Mayor Pete said: "That's the thing I wish the Mike Pence's of the world would understand. That if you got a problem with who I am, your problem is not with me—your quarrel, sir, is with my Creator. The condition of my soul is in the hands of God." He also stated that "God does not have a political party," adding, "to me, the core of faith is regard for one another."

First of all, Buttigieg made a false and highly offensive assumption about our Vice-President. He presumed Mike Pence had a "quarrel" with the Mayor's chosen identity. Pence has been on record as being nothing but loving toward Mayor Pete. Secondly, the condition of our souls, gifted to us by God, is in OUR hands. We choose our eternal future. Third, though he can claim anything he wants for himself, the CORE of faith is actually to love God Almighty; the first commandment.

Lastly, the largest blunder and most egregious error both Biden and Buttigieg make in their political/spiritual pontifications is this: instead of unifying, which they claim they want, they're, ironically, dividing.

How so? By claiming the moral "high-ground." By—as Mayor Pete said in a CNN town hall where he preached that "Scripture is about protecting the stranger, the prisoner, the poor person"—insinuating that it's modern-day liberal Christians who love and care for the poor. Traditional mainstream Christians, therefore, must not.

The truth is, since Christ's death and resurrection the Church has cared for the poor, the sick, the widowed, the orphaned, and the aliens in Western societies. It was Christians who started the Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and the Abolition Movement to end slavery. Indeed, the most giving area in our country today is—wait for it—the Bible Belt! So, for politicians to assign exclusive ownership of agape love to a political party is just downright shameful.

Patheos writer Timothy Dalrymple said it perfectly: "What's astonishing is how long the myth of the compassionate liberal and the heartless conservative has endured in the absence of supporting evidence—and, indeed, in the presence of evidence to the contrary. This is a bitter pill for liberals to swallow, since they cherish this image of themselves and get a lot of political mileage out of this caricature of conservatives."

So, in addition to prayer, what can Christians do in the face of so many double standards, attacks and innuendoes permeating current stump speeches?

Defend the faith. Take it personally when innocent Christians like Vice-President Pence are attacked for their beliefs. Fire back. Expose the lies, deception and hypocrisy. Then, take the high-road and extend love and forgiveness to the persecutors. It's what Jesus would do. (Image: Teresa Neumann-author, reporter-writer for Breaking Christian News)

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Role of Christianity in civilization

Orphanages in the Medieval and Early Modern Period

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