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  • 2021-12-27 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Donald Trump Jr. Tell Conservatives Following the Bible Had 'Gotten Us Nothing'? (en)
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  • In December 2021, a controversy emerged over remarks supposedly made by Donald Trump Jr. — son of, and adviser to, former President Donald Trump — at a conservative convention in Arizona. On Dec. 21, for example, Relevant magazine published an article with the headline Biblical Scholar Donald Trump Jr. Tells Young Conservatives That Following the Bible Has 'Gotten Us Nothing': On Dec. 26, Atlantic magazine published an opinion column by Peter Wehner, a former speechwriter for Republican former President George W. Bush. The headline and sub-headline read The Gospel of Donald Trump Jr. and The former president’s son told a crowd that the teachings of Jesus have 'gotten us nothing.' Linking to that column, U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an anti-Trump, Republican Congressman from Illinois, wrote on Twitter 'The teachings of Jesus has gotten us nothing.' Wow. There was an element of truth to these characterizations of what Trump Jr. said, but he did not say that any and all biblical teaching or any and all teachings of Jesus had failed American conservatives — an important distinction. We are therefore issuing a rating of Mixture. Trump Jr. made the remarks in question on Dec. 19, during his speech at the AmericaFest conference, hosted by the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, in Phoenix, Arizona. The relevant comments can be watched further below, and the following is an excerpted transcript: https://youtu.be/uayxt4rFLG8?t=532It's clear from viewing Trump Jr.'s remarks in their full context that he was making the broader claim that American conservatives ought to be more pragmatic and ruthless in pursuing their political aims. To that end, he opined that the principle of turning the other cheek had proven to be of no benefit to that movement. Turn the other cheek, taken from the Sermon on the Mount, is an important maxim in Christian moral philosophy, but it is far from the only one. In rejecting its usefulness to American conservatives, Trump Jr. was not rejecting the value of any and all Christian and biblical principles. (en)
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