It didn’t take long for Christianity Today to endorse Kamala Harris as a suitable candidate for Christians, but this is not surprising since the outlet is led by Russell Moore. Christianity Today has a long history of celebrating the faith of homosexual politicians, like Pete Buttigieg, so Kamala Harris is perhaps less of a stretch for them.
In an article titled, Black Christian Leaders Find Hope with Kamala Harris, Christianity Today highlights Kamala Harris’s “faith.”
Harris hasn’t shied away from talking about her deep roots in the Black church tradition. In a 2022 speech at the Annual Session of the National Baptist Convention, USA, the largest traditionally Black denomination in the country, Harris connected her faith and politics, crediting her childhood church experiences for giving her a framework for action.
“I was raised to live my faith,” Harris said. “Marching for civil rights, my parents pushed me in a stroller. That was faith in action.”
How fascinating they didn’t have an autobiographical quote about her current practices.
Some Black pastors who are known as theological conservatives have come out in support of Harris too. Dwight McKissic, senior pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, and an influential Black leader in the Southern Baptist Convention until he left in 2021, praised Harris’s “superior qualifications” on social media.
“I believe the energy, synergy, fundraising, volunteerism, and momentum driving and characterizing her campaign … is unprecedented in American political history,” McKissic wrote. “Kamala Harris represents those who’ve been rejected among us. The support she’s galvanized is amazing to me.”
He said that while he doesn’t agree with Harris on everything, he will personally vote for her.
McKissic specifically disagrees with Harris’s positions on abortion. She is believed to be the first vice president to visit an abortion clinic, and has said she supports legislation protecting nationwide abortion access.
In a stunning display of fake news, Christianity Today calls open egalitarian Dwight McKissic a theological conservative.
Harris has also established relationships with some Black churches in the greater DC area. She has occasionally attended Kingdom Fellowship, the AME church in Maryland where Matthew Watley serves as pastor. He told CT her most recent visit was a surprise. Watley got a phone call on Sunday morning from the vice president’s staff.
“She woke up and she wanted to come worship with us,” Watley recalled.
Harris may not be in a church pew every Sunday, but it is clear she “was formed by the church and still has the principles of Christian living,” Watley said. “I think any honest pastor would say that many of our parishioners move that way these days.”
It’s clear from the article that at most Kamala Harris views the church as a Social Justice organization with no real religiosity of her own. Yet for Christianity Today to disingenuously tout her faith is Democrat propaganda.
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Their worldview must be filtered through secularism in order to justify supporting someone whose views are polar opposite from the Word of God