OPINION | Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker invoked his born-again Christianity to excuse his past sins—but he hasn’t confessed or repented.
“Who are we to judge?”
“If you waited for the perfect candidate, you would never vote again,” another Bible study attendee said....Christian conservatives are advocating what German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer called ‘cheap grace’: ‘the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance…absolution without personal confession.’he would vote for Walker because his positions “more aligned with God’s values.
Regardless, relying on policy positions as your sole method of gauging a candidate’s fitness is a tacit admission that a candidate’s personal life is off-limits—and that what matters is what WalkerStill, the pastor’s standards for a candidate are reasonable, even if it also goes against everything Christian conservatives said aboutAs you might recall, the Christian conservative consensus of the 1990s was that Clinton’s poor character mattered a great deal—and to many, it even disqualified him...
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