Christianity as cover

I appreciate Michael Gerson’s column, “Graham betrays the Gospel” (June 5), because he articulately expresses what I feel. Like Mr. Gerson, I am baffled by the support evangelicals give to Trump and I feel considerable stress as I watch fellow evangelicals praise and revere a leader who demonstrates qualities that are the very antithesis of the Christ I follow.

Franklin Graham’s quote, “…Trump’s many accomplishments ‘make him unpopular with the Devil and the kingdom of darkness’” is beyond comprehension for me when I consider the traits of the person being described. I agree with Gerson, this is Christian theology as a cover for partisanship and can only be called blasphemy.

Now is one of those times in our history when we desperately need the grace of God to heal our partisan rancor, and for Christians to live out the ethic of Jesus. That ethic includes integrity, humility, compassion and an embrace of the stranger and the disenfranchised who live among us.

As Michael Gerson so eloquently stated, an embrace of an ideology of either the left or the right will not lead us to that ethic.

John Frankhauser

Spokane