Quotes from Ronald J. Sider

Women, you have to treat them like shit," Trump said in a 1992 New York magazine interview. Evidence suggests he has maintained that philosophy.

Trump treats women the way Roman culture treated them at the time of Jesus—as property, objectified and ridiculed. We see in Gospel stories Jesus' radical approach to treating women with honor and respect.

The richest 1 percent of Americans own more wealth than the bottom 80 percent.177

Trump's slogan to "make America great again" sounds so hollow and laughable!

Healthcare for all is a central part of any biblically informed pro-life agenda.

In the richest nation on earth, good healthcare for everyone should be a basic demand of all Christians who respect the sanctity of every human life.

Our argument is simple: A Christian who supports Trump either does not understand this person and his positions, or supports him in spite of their Christian convictions.

In the same way that a person cannot love the Yankees and the Red Sox or follow veganism and frequently devour a steak, one cannot really love Jesus and wish to follow him and also vote for a person who so clearly embodies the opposite of everything Christ taught, died for, and demands of us.

Peter Wehner cites studies in his book, The Death of Politics, that show that a major factor in the vote in 2016 of white, male, Christians was their anxiety about losing their cultural dominance in this country.

I don't mind a brother or sister in Christ calling me or any other believer a coward, moron, blind, immoral, demonic, and lacking in grace if it's true and motivated by love.

Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest —and you all know it! Please don't feel so stupid or insecure, it's not your fault

I know that God's new world of justice and joy, of hope for the whole earth, was launched when Jesus came out of the tomb on Easter morning, and I know that he calls his followers to live in him and by the power of his Spirit and so to be new-creation people here and now. . . . The resurrection of Jesus and the gifts of the Spirit mean that we are called to bring real and effective signs of God's renewed creation to birth even in the midst of the present age.

Two things we know about Trump is that he boasts about himself often and he doesn't seek the counsel of others. Trump is the very biblical definition of a fool.

Trump doesn't read.

Furthermore, as evangelical pastor and Republican candidate for Congress in 2018 Robb Ryerse says: "To vote for him because he sees the political expediency of supporting restrictions on abortion [Trump supported abortion before he ran for president] is a Faustian deal with the devil that is ultimately more likely to exact greater cost than reward.

The hypocrisy of slaveholders who revolted against Britain's oppression of them but kept slaves in America was condemned in both England and America

His endorsement by the white supremacist American Freedom Party is the fruit of this rhetoric.

Technology—nobody knows more about technology than me.

While in 2011 only 30 percent of American evangelicals believed "an elected official who commits an immoral act in their personal life can still behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life," by October 2016 the number was 70 percent.

In the midst of . . . despair, came November the 8th, 2016. It was on that day . . . that God declared that the people, not the pollsters, were gonna choose the next president of the United States. And they chose Donald Trump

As an American, I want every president to succeed. As a Christian, I want all people to know and experience the love of God in its fullness, and be transformed by his grace.

Hope implies a deep-seated trust in life that appears absurd to most who lack it."277

It is very doubtful that one can implement Jesus's command to love one's enemies and kill them at the same time.

He however fails dismally to live by basic Christian values, and, sadly, his actions are antithetical to the tenets of the faith, if not an outright mockery.