Here is what all Christians and non-Christians alike should consider:
9. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10. Nor thieves, not covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 1 Corinthians 6.
Yet, you support Trump, who is a "fornicator", adulterer, thief and extorter.
What is remarkable is that conservatives are still placing blame for all our social ills on the decline of religiosity and its supposed destruction of traditional family values, despite decades of evidence that this whole line of argument was and is totally wrong.
In October, William Barr’s made a speech denouncing “militant secularists” for destroying American society. There were several striking things about this speech. It was much more partisan than we used to expect from the attorney general, who is after all supposed to serve the nation, not just the president and his party. It also seemed well over the line in violating the separation between church and state.
What really struck me, however, was that Barr seems to be stuck in a time warp, repeating claims about family values and social order that were standard right-wing fare a generation ago but have since been utterly refuted by experience.
Back in the mid-1990s, conservatives pointed to two trends -- the decline of traditional families and rising crime -- and insisted that the first had caused the second. For example, The Heritage Foundation put out a report titled “The Real Root Causes of Violent Crime: The Breakdown of Marriage, Family, and Community.” The report ridiculed claims that rising crime and social breakdown had something to do with declining economic opportunity, and suggested among other things that the reduced influence of organized religion was one of the causes of declining family values.
Some people on the right went even further, arguing, for example, that mass shootings were happening because we were teaching children the theory of evolution -- a claim you still see sometimes. Pat Robertson even blamed 9/11 on lowered levels of religiousness.
Since then, however, a few things have happened. Traditional families have continued to decline in relative importance: fewer than half of American children now live with two parents in their first marriage. What has happened to violent crime? It has plunged.
And while new social problems have emerged, above all the surge in deaths of despair, opioids, etc. they have mainly manifested not among inner-city blacks but among rural and small-town whites -- and are heavily concentrated in places that have suffered, yes, a decline in economic opportunity. Where are some of the worst-hit states? They happen to be among the states where an unusually large number of people say that they are “highly religious.”
We might also note that other advanced countries are, without exception, less religious than America, and some places have gone even further than we have in moving away from traditional family structure -- but crime is far lower, and there’s nothing like our surge in deaths of despair.
Overall, experience since the 1990s has completely refuted the God-and-family-values theory of American social problems.