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Al Mohler Admitted to Hospital for Blood Clots in His Lungs

(Christian Headlines) President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Al Mohler, was recently hospitalized and is undergoing treatment for blood clots in both lungs.

According to a statement from the seminary on Saturday, Mohler, who hosts The Briefing, was diagnosed with bilateral pulmonary emboli. Later in the evening, his website announced that his health made “a marked improvement” after receiving treatment despite still being hospitalized at Baptist East Hospital in Louisville.

“Over the past 24 hours, the Lord has been pleased to answer the prayers of His people and Dr. Mohler’s health has made a marked improvement,” his physicians said in a statement…to continue reading ,click here.

Editor’s Note. This article was written by Milton Quintanilla and published at Christian Headlines.

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Veggie Tales Creator Phil Vischer Compares Christians who Oppose Legal Same-Sex Marriage to ‘Confederate Theologians’

Veggie Tales creator Phil Vischer, the man who swears he’s not progressive despite knocking creationists as a bunch of dummies, crediting his white privilege for the success of his show, claiming he didn’t know there were such things black Christians until he was an adult, thumbing his nose at “Cracker Barrel Christians,” getting upset at Christians for opposing LGBTQ, and coming out as pro-choice, has a burr in his saddle.

On episode 537 of the Holy Post podcast, Vischer is set off by Al Mohler’s column critiquing David French for his endorsement of the “Respect For Marriage Act.” In particular, this paragraph by Mohler really got him going:

One of the most perplexing marks of our time is the defection of so many “conservatives” from the cause of conserving what Russell Kirk called “the permanent things.” If marriage is not conserved—if civil marriage is not conserved as a man-woman union—then nothing genuinely conservative can last, at least for long. Support for the Respect for Marriage Act is bad enough. The way David French frames his argument is worse. This is how conservatism dies, and this is how marriage is surrendered.

In response, Vischer begins sniping that Mohler is “not defending the faith in this. He’s defending conservatism. Conservatism has become the thing that we are supposed to fight for. Not Jesus. Not the faith. Not the church.” 

Then, in what may be the clearest indication yet that Vischer has become pro-LBGTQ, he criticizes people who say that heterosexual marriage is a foundational belief that must never be compromised, saying that confederate soldiers said the same thing about slavery, making a 1-to-1 comparison.

And I’m just trying to like- even the notion that nothing genuinely conservative can last, at least not for long. How do we know if that’s not a good thing? How do we know what isn’t good to conserve if our only value is conservation of what Russell Kirk called “the permanent things.”

And now who gets to decide what are the permanent things? Where does that come from? Because for 100 years, what conservatives fought to conserve in America was racial hierarchy. That was the number one thing conservatives were fighting to conserve, because that was a permanent thing, because that was God established because that was in the Bible, because the one thing that all Confederate theologians agreed on in 1865, was that the Bible was on their side. It was clear the Bible does not have any problem with slavery.

So we’re trying to conserve the permanent things. Slavery has always been a permanent thing in history. These northern Yankees who don’t know how to read the Bible, are trying to take away our way of life, and we must conserve it. So now we say “oh, yeah, yeah, but they were wrong. Oh, yeah. That wasn’t that wasn’t one of the permanent things. Now we know what the permanent things are. And the permanent things are the nuclear family as came into existence in 1952. That’s a permanent thing. And heterosexual marriage.”

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Defamation?! Man At Center of Massive SBC Sex Scandal Sues Denomination, Along with 11 Prominent Southern Baptists For Lying About Him

Former Southern Baptist Theological Seminary professor David Sills has filed suit against the SBC and 11 other high-profile personalities, including current SBC President Bart Barber, former president Ed Litton, Albert Mohler, Jennifer Lyell (the woman who accused him of sexual abuse) and others. Sills is requesting a trial by jury, claiming that he’s been repeatedly and unfairly maligned for years, and is seeking monetary damages and compensation for having his reputation destroyed by his denomination. Baptist Global news, citing the brief, quote from the lawsuit:

“Rather than seek the truth, defendants repeated and circulated false statements about Dr. Sills, causing him to be cast as a toxic pariah. After various mischaracterizations, misstatements, and a contrived ‘investigation’ by defendants, the plaintiffs, David Sills and Mary Sills, have been wrongfully and untruthfully labeled as criminals and shunned by the SBC.” 

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(The defendants) understood the value of making an example out of SBC member and employee David Sills who, without controversy, had admitted to an affair with Lyell and willingly accepted the SBC requirement that he depart from his position at the seminary. In essence, defendants saw an opportunity to improve the appearance and reputation of SBC’s handling of abuse cases, long under fire, even though there had not been any legitimate and proper investigation into the allegations, nor was Dr. Sills adequately informed of the specific nature and extent of accusations made by Lyell.

Several years ago, Lyell, then a Vice-President at Lifeway Christian Resources, admitted to being involved in a sexual relationship with David Sills for over a decade. She claimed that it resulted from him ‘grooming’ her while enrolled in a missions class at the seminary in 2004 when she was 26 years old, ending 12 years later when she was 38 and having long moved on. She says that he “sexually acted” against her but never provided details or offered what the grooming looked like throughout their relationship, particularly when they were away from each other for months at a time. Once their affair was revealed, however, it resulted in his swift termination and public disgrace.

A year later, she would seemingly walk back any suggestion that she was guilty of any sin for the relationship, explaining in an update that just because she was ‘compliant’, it did not mean their relationship was ‘consensual.’ As her understanding of her role in the whole affair continued to evolve, she also appeared to dispel the notion that there was any sin on her part for which she ought to apologize, supposing that she was and remains a complete, guiltless victim in every sense of the word, sharing the same culpability of a 4-year-old being, molested by her step-father.

Everyone agreed with her. The SBC Committee ultimately defended her victimhood the Sexual Abuse Task Force dedicated approximately 35 of its 288 pages to Lyell’s story and the circumstances surrounding it, repeatedly castigating Sills not as an “alleged abuser” but a definite, for sure, unequivocal “abuser” while framing the 12 years together as one long incident of “nonconsensual sexual abuse” between adults.

The SBC Executive Committee, in a rare move, also issued a personal apology to Lyell for failing to “adequately listen, protect and care” for her after she came forward with allegations of sexual abuse by her professor, as well as acknowledged the “unintentional harm” they caused her by not correctly reporting her case and framing what happened to her in a blameworthy and distressing manner, resulting in a confidential monetary settlement to Lyell of $1,500,000. The Baptist press writes further:

Sills has not denied engaging in an inappropriate relationship with Lyell, and he resigned his post at Southern Seminary after being confronted about it. However, in the new court filing he insists he did not sexually abuse Lyell, force himself upon Lyell, use violence against Lyell, threaten to use violence against Lyell or “engage in sexual intercourse” with Lyell “at any time whatsoever.”

The filing says Sills acknowledges “a personal and emotionally intimate relationship” between the two but claims it was initiated by Lyell, who was “well above the age of consent.”

Further:

The court filing further claims Lyell maintained the relationship by driving several hundred miles — from Nashville, Tenn., to Louisville, Ky. — to see Sills. It also claims Sills “ended the relationship with Defendant Lyell who nevertheless persisted her pursuit of Sills and undertook efforts to reach Dr. Sills through his family.”

David and Mary Sills also contend that Lyell, “relying on her expertise as an accomplished writer and executive in the fields of advertising and publishing within the SBC, a lucrative and powerful position, constructed a false narrative against Dr. Sills and Mrs. Sills, at the height of awareness of SBC scandals.”

“Thereafter, Ms. Lyell engaged in an effort to restore her reputation and preserve her powerful position of doling out lucrative book deals, while affirmatively and skillfully dismantling the reputations, careers, and family life of David Sills and Mary Sills,” the court filing states.

Sills has apparently taken umbrage with everyone who decried him as a sexual abuser and engaged in both slander and libel against him, including:

None have publicly responded to the suit.

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Al Mohler Says Overturning Roe v. Wade Was Worth Losing the Senate

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Al Mohler has weighed in over the poor showing of Republicans during last week’s midterms, acknowledging them as an “an unmitigated disaster for the cause of the sanctity of human life” which say many states either reject pro-life candidates or policies, while arguing the harsh electoral losses was worth it in the end.

Exit polls by CNN and other mainstream media show that, in many instances, codifying the right to kill babies via abortion was the most important issue to Democrats, compared to one of the least important for Republicans. As a result, they were punished at the polls.

During Monday’s Briefing opines on the disappointing aftermath, writing…

...we’re looking at the fact that several states voted directly on abortion, and every one of them was a disaster for the cause of human life, well, what are we talking about here?… the constitutional amendments concerning abortion, the passage of radical pro-abortion amendments in California and Vermont and Michigan, the failure of pro-life amendments or pro-life measures in the states of Montana and Kentucky. Yes, absolute disaster. 

Mohler quotes from columnist Ross Douthat and says that his ultimate conclusion that “Republicans traded the election of 2022 for a generational goal; the reversal of Roe v. Wade” is a fair one, and a trade he’d make again,

A very key insight in Douthat’s argument is this, “If you were to go back to say January or February of 2022, and you could say to pro-life voters, “Look, here’s the deal. You could have a disappointing election in November, but you can see the end of Roe v. Wade, or you can see a more successful election in November, but you have to give up hope of ever reversing Roe v. Wade.”

I’ll be honest, I would take the reversal of Roe v. Wade over the electoral win.”

As would we.

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Al Mohler Rebukes Doug Wilson for Publishing His Content Without Permission: Wilson Responds

SBTS President Albert Mohler got a little testy over the weekend, complaining that Canon Press, the publishing arm of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, has released some of his older material without his permission and blessing. His intent; distance himself from Wilson and the Church as much as possible.

Evidently a media platform has announced the release of some of my material. No communication with me or my staff. No permission from me. Material is taken from my addresses to Evangelical Theological Society. Take an aspirin, I’m not moving to Russia. Now or ever. #NYET

The books in question?

After this release was announced, some folk tweeted out their displeasure at Wilson platforming Mohler, bringing up Mohler’s flirtations with Critical Race Theory and his overall spiritual sponginess.

With a miffed Mohler’s grumbling about the betrayal, his sourness was quickly taken advantage of by the rowdy boys at Canon Press, grabbing his rebuke and running with it by offering a promo code in honor of Al’s lack of endorsement:

Plus a (well-deserved) potshot for good measure:


Responding to the brouhaha, Wilson weighed in, offering that the work Mohler produced prior to his new reality is useful and worthy of being shared, and that there was nothing untoward about the way they received and published his work.

A day or two ago, Canon+ added some of Al Mohler’s content from a number of years ago, from back before the woke virus days. A firestorm of sorts broke out on Twitter, with one gentleman commenting on how much the times have changed. Al Mohler and Douglas Wilson doing something together, and Wilson is the one who got into trouble. This was taken by some as a sign that Canon was going woke, or something like that, which is not the case at all. Al’s stuff back then was really good, and we stand behind it. Unlike Al, apparently.

But others in the comment thread following Al’s tweet were questioning whether or not it was an ethics issue. I can assure everyone that it is not an ethics issue. Everything published on the Canon+ app was acquired on the up-and-up, fair-and-square, and all-legal-like. Whoever was advising Al to put some distance between himself and Canon was a bit hasty, and ought to have done some spade work before telling Al to pull his skirts away.

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Mohler Breaks Silence on Ed Litton Scandal “This is a Crisis’ + ‘(He’s) Not What We are Trying Hold up as an Example Here’

Dr. Albert Mohler has broken the silence on the Ed Litton plagiarism scandal, addressing it by way of a student’s question at SBTS’s President’s Forum earlier this morning, who asked him how students, pastors, and churches should think about the reproachful topic.

Mohler, long believed to be the presumptive winner of the SBC Presidency on account of being the worlds most well know Southern Baptist, famously lost to Ed Litton just a few short months ago after being crushed in a rank ballot at the 2021 Southern Baptist Convention. While Mohler has so far been silent about Litton, his comments here are telling:

Plagiarism is Real Bad

Mohler comes out hard against plagiarism, explaining the seriousness he and the faculty of SBTS take it, expelling students who engage it in while noting:

“We at Southern seminary take plagiarism of first-rank priority. …..and in the academic community or the artistic community, plagiarism is mostly about theft. It’s mostly about taking someone else’s material in a way that is attributed uncredited and thus it’s a form of theft….

…Plagiarisms (is) a very serious thing. It’s a very serious thing….even if you had preachers who said, ‘I’m fine with you using my sermon’…then that’s not the theft issue in plagiarism as the most graphic issue, it’s the presentation to the congregation issue the congregation thinking this is and having the right to think this is coming from the preacher when it’s it’s actually not except in the voice….

My alarm is about the state of preaching in the Southern Baptist Convention in the larger evangelical world, how much of this is happening, how, how many congregations are not hearing, biblical exposition, faithful exposition coming not only in the voice of their preacher…that’s that’s a crisis, I think we face that, that this new story is now brought to us.

The Crisis is Real, so Is Docent

While many have sought to gaslight us and claim it is not a problem, that our major expose on Docent was mere nitpicking and making a mountain out of a molehill, even Al Mohler, whom we have been pathologically critical of, has backed our assessment, warning:

“Many evangelical churches, some especially big evangelical congregations appear to be receiving, when I can only describe as manufactured sermons. It’s like there’s now a process of manufacturing a sermon in which the person delivering the sermon is not even at the centre of that activity, or is only at the end, as if someone else does the engagement with the text, someone else does the basic, thoughtful structure of the sermon, someone else provides the outlines, someone else provides the summary of the text, someone else provides even the illustrations.

And in some cases, someone else provides basically the sermon. And now we have firms in engaged in the activity of at least parts of that, if not the whole. And I think there are huge problems with that. I don’t think that is the biblical model of preaching.

Looking at this crisis of manufactured sermons, it doesn’t appear at all to be consonant with the model of preaching in the New Testament and with the church’s humble understanding of preaching throughout the Christian centuries…This particular news story has revealed the fact that it is evidently increasingly common in many circles for manufactured sermons be pretty much Sunday by Sunday the norm. I think that is something that should alarm us.”

Litton is at the Center of the Controversey

…I have to say that there simply is no doubt that this conversation we’re having right now is occasioned by the fact that the President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Dr. Ed Litton, has been involved to some degree in preaching someone else’s sermon. And beyond that, we can see the whole issue of the kind of manufacturer of sermons that is now widespread. I would simply have to say that that is precisely not what we are trying to teach or to hold up as an example here.

We were in an election together, and he won. The Southern Baptist Convention he elected Dr. Litton as president. And no doubt because of his many gifts. And this is an issue that I have to leave between the Southern Baptist Convention and its president. The Southern Baptist Convention alone decides who its President shall be, and the Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Nashville decided that Dr. Litton would be its president. From this point onward, about that role, that has to be between Dr. Litton and the Southern Baptist Convention and I of all people should not imply that I know the answer to that question.

In short: Ed Litton is at the center of this and isn’t a model for SBTS students to follow, Docent is real, and the manufacturing of sermons is a widespread problem.

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SBTS Prof. Jarvis Williams Says ‘You can have racism operating in a context where there are no individual racists’

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary’s ‘outtess yet in’ Critical Race Theory (CRT) supporter Professor Jarvis Williams gave a message back in 2018 at Bethlehem College and Seminary, where John Piper holds sway at the chancellor. Speaking on PasCon panel on the subject of “Ethnic Harmony and the Holy Spirit, Jarvis joined SBTS Provost and notorious self-described ‘racist’ Matthew Hall, Mt. Vernon Pastor Aaron Menikoff, Arrabon founder David Bailey, and John Onwuchekwa, who took a bunch of NAMB money and then left the SBC.

Williams, one of the professors hooping CRT into the SBC’s flagship university, (see here and here), was last seen in a segment sharing how he intentionally chose to pass over white congregants when choosing people to be a part of his small group, instead picking minorities and ‘multi-ethnic’ persons of color, in order to serve as a ‘model’ for the church. He kicks it off by explaining that because of Adam’s sin, we have deep and abiding sin everywhere. He notes:

“Sin is the ultimate enemy of reconciliation and Christian unity. So then as we move into our context today, I think racial hostility or ethnic hostility shows up in racial hierarchy, and white supremacy, and white privilege, and white power. We must remember this… because of sin, racial hostility shows itself up violently but also ideologically.”

Backing up the notion racism is in everything we do, and to provide a bit of context of what white supremacy, Matthew Hall explains that the Idea of ‘race’ was birthed in the United States and that on account of 400 years of slavery:

“Christians, those who have a biblical worldview, an understanding of these, severity of the fall, and the cancerous nature of sin and the way in which sin corrupts everything not just the human heart and conscience but the mind and even social structures, we shouldn’t be surprised that sin, the sin and the wickedness of white supremacy remains with us and it still is reverberating throughout our culture four centuries later 

At this point Jarvis tags in again:

When we think about white supremacy, it’s not only the overt, violent expressions that you see on the television. In Charlottesville, for example. But white supremacy is an ideological construct that believes that whiteness is superior to non-whiteness.

So then, how this shows up, in part, is it shows up in curriculum. Right? I’m a seminary professor, and in theological education, you’re hard-pressed to find many evangelical institutions that have a regular requirement of black and brown authors. And often what happens is whiteness becomes the standard by which all good theology is judged.

You understand what I’m saying? So that if it’s right theology, it’s written by a white scholar who is contextualizing that theology for white audiences. And so one of the things we see is, and hear this very, very carefully. There’s racism by intent and there’s racism by consequence.

You can have racism operating in a context where is [sic] there are no individual racists. And that, in part, is the way in which white supremacy works, in a socially sophisticated way.

Ie, even if there is no evidence of racism, in the midst of individuals who are not racists, in a context where there’s no reason to assume racism is occurring- there is, by default, racism and white supremacy – just done in a sophisticated, secretive way.

It’s nonsensical. Pick anything else. “You can have basketball operating in a context where are there are no individual basketball players. And that, in part, is the way in which basketball works, in a socially sophisticated way.

When you have whiteness as the priority, and when folks work and operate in such a way with curriculum, with economics, or with policies to maintain and to posture and to privilege that whiteness, and then to require those who are non-white to culturally colonize to whiteness. So then we think about reconciliation and ethnic hostility, the solution is not more black and brown faces in white spaces who colonize to whiteness.

The solution is fundamentally, yes, the gospel, the cross, the resurrection, right? The blood of Jesus. But also dethroning white supremacy in all of the forms in which it shows up in Christian spaces, folks. Because when Jesus died to disarm those principalities and powers, one of those principalities and powers, I would argue, is white supremacy and all that it entails. So feel that tonight. White supremacy’s not just violence or KKK or lynchings. It is also the belief, directly or indirectly, that whiteness is rightness, and everything has to be judged by that.

Ie, white supremacy exists because of the fall, and white folks are all white supremacists who believe that whites are superior to non-whites, as even a lack of racism on their part is evidence of a socially sophisticated secret racism and supremacy.

There is nothing Holy Spirit-filled about that claim, and you can thank Al Mohler at SBTS for keeping these men employed.

h/t to WokePreacherTV

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Al Mohler Responds to Sermongate Controversy; ‘One of the Most Despicable Practices I can Imagine’

Albert Mohler has come out against pastors who plagiarize their sermons, describing it as “one of the most despicable practices I (can) imagine” and ripping any pastor who attempts to do that. Further, he described them as ‘lazy’ and suggests that if they’re going to pull that stunt, that they ought not to even be considered pastors.

He addressed this on The Briefing, in conversation with the dean of Southern Seminary’s School of Theology, Hershael York.

The word plagiarism is the stuff of lawyers, litigation, courtrooms, and academic seminar rooms, doctoral work, and dissertations and faculty committees. But now, it’s a word that a lot of church members are learning too. Why? Because in this day of instant access to 1000s of sermons over the internet. In the day when so many sermons are available in printed and in audio form in various ways. It turns out that there are a good number of preachers who simply aren’t going into the study and spending hours and hours each week preparing sermons.

After a brief discussion with York about how these pastors don’t even apologize anymore, Mohler continues:

Yeah, I just find that absolutely shocking. I can’t imagine doing that. I can’t imagine. You know, words are our business and I can’t imagine preaching someone else’s words or copying someone else’s words and claiming those my own

Mohler points to an article by Steven Sjogren where he explains he tells people to stop spending so much time each week on the sermon, as all the best guys “get 70% of their material for someone else. Remember, Solomon wrote that there’s nothing new under the sun” and then responds in harsh measure:

“What’s not new under the sun is theft. And what’s not new under the sun is laziness. And what’s not new under the sun is falling short of your ministry to preach the word I’m sorry, but this is just one of the most despicable practices I can’t imagine. I cannot imagine sitting in the congregation, knowing that this guy is simply parroting what he has read, borrowed or stolen from someone else. I can read it better than he can.”

Lastly, in the Q & A part of the program, he declares that pastors who just copy others sermons aren’t even preachers.

Jeff: Hi, Dr. Mohler. My comment today is I don’t understand what the big deal is about this, to be honest. As I was telling your screener I’m not a preacher, however, I do go to church every Sunday that I can. As long as we’re hearing God’s word and hearing it correctly, then what does it matter if a preacher uses somebody else’s sermon? I mean, some preachers have full-time ministry jobs, others have part-time because they have full-time jobs. And as long as he’s telling me correctly, what I need to hear, I don’t understand you mentioned the word pride. And what does it matter if you’re using somebody else’s sermon? Sure. It’s not his work, but it’s God’s word.

Mohler: Why don’t you get up and read it, Jeff? I mean, what makes what makes him in any way the pastor of this church? What makes him in any way, the preacher? Why don’t you just get up and read it yourself?

Jeff: Well, I’m not a preacher, though. I didn’t know…

Mohler: But he’s not either if he’ preaches someone else’s stuff. That’s my point. I mean, if he’s reading someone else’s sermon, you could do it. You’re no less a preacher than he is.”


Fortunately for Southern Baptist Presiden Ed Litton, This interaction took place in 2006, and revolved around a different sermon plagiarism scandal, at the time with Ed Young Jr.

Mohler of 2006 is a far different man than Mohler of 2021. Mohler has yet to address this, despite it first coming to light over a week ago, and while we’re not prophets to sons of prophets, something tells us he won’t be quite so harsh.

Editor’s Note, transcript provided by us, and there may be slight variances.

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Al Mohler Loses SBC Presidency. Pastor who Lets his Wife Preach is the Victor

In a dark day for Southern Baptists, Pastor Ed Litton has won the SBC presidency, defeating Al Mohler, Mike Stone, and Randy Adams to take the helm of the floundering denomination.

In a stunning upset, the first round of ballots knocked off Mohler, who only received 26.32% of the vote, as well as Adams, who got 4.71%. It was Mohler’s race to lose, being seen as the heir apparent and elder statesman of the SBC, and he was crushed. This left Stone with 36.48% and 32.38% for Litton, heading into a runoff.

Demonstrating that the conservatives were right to reject Mohler, his contingency broke left and voted for the most progressive candidate in the race, giving Litton the win, 52%-48; vindicating those who have been sounding the clarion call about Mohler for years and those who support them.

One of the intangible variables that we’ll likely never know is what impact the fake-controversy of Hannah Kate’s meeting with Mike Stone had on voters. This encounter resulted in a story of Stone causing a sex-abuse victim to burst into tears as he insensitively told her that she was bad for the SBC, causing her to retreat into the protection of her advocates and defenders, including one of J.D. Greear’s Worship Pastors, Michael Georges Jr, who was at her side and who we have discussed here.

If there is one upside, Litton will likely prove to be more open and transparent about his beliefs than Mohler has been (though lying about his wife preaching isn’t a good start).

His victory has also brought some stark clarity to the Southern Baptist Convention about what drift the show runners are oriented towards, and we fully expect a mass exodus by conservative congregations from the denomination over the next few years.

Ed Litton won the SBC Presidency.

Time to reap the whirlwind.

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Mohler Doubles Down on Trump Blame ‘He Encouraged Insurrection’

Dr. Al Mohler doubled down on his criticism and blame on Donald Trump for the raucous events at the Capitol building yesterday, with the Southern Baptist President-elect accusing Trump of inciting rioters to attempt insurrection.

Mohler took to the Briefing to address his role in light of voting for him in November, saying that he did not regret voting for the President at the time, and yet had no idea how bad he would be in his waning days.


“What we saw yesterday was the fact that President Trump had incited demonstrators to come to Washington DC for what was advertised as a Save America March, which we are told was organized in order to support President Trump’s assertions that he had actually won the election, and thus that the Congress meeting in joint session presided over by the vice president, as president of the Senate, should declare that he, rather than Joe Biden, had actually won the election.”

and

I’ll speak bluntly. I voted for Donald Trump for president of the United States. I encouraged others to vote for him too.

Based upon the binary choice we faced on November the third, I believe then that that was the right action to take, and going back to November the third, I would do the same thing again.

And that’s because I do not follow a cult of personality. I am committed as a Christian to certain moral principles, to certain political principles that I believe are derived from biblical Christianity, and faced with the same decision, and knowing what I knew, then I would have to take the same actions in support of those policies, principles, indeed, even the platform of the respective parties. In this case support for the Republican platform rather than the Democratic platform.

But what we saw in Washington, what we heard from the president, the United States, not just yesterday, but in recent days is an attempt to subvert the very constitutional order that he took an oath of office to defend. 

In an interview with Robert Downen of the Houston Chronicles, Mohler was pressed on some of the particulars of his points, saying that if he could do it differently, he would. When asked what sort of role he and other #BigEva leaders (our word) had in endorsing Trump, Mohler was contemplative but defensive.

I fully expect the question, but I’ve tried to be extremely clear from the beginning of the Trump phenomenon in terms of my judgment.

And I stand by the comments that I’ve made at every point. If I could rewind history, and know then what I know now, we’d be talking about a different kind of judgment.

But we have to live life in a temporal line and seek to be faithful in those moments. And for most evangelical Christians, voting for Donald Trump was seen as a necessity in a binary system.

Now, there have been some who have just openly celebrated Trump. But I think there will be a great deal of embarrassment for that now.

and

But what we have seen is the is the true character of Donald Trump come out in a way that I do find not — that I don’t accept was merely inevitable.

He bears full responsibility for his actions and his words. And he bears full responsibility for encouraging what amounted to an attempted insurrection against the United States government.

Mohler finishes off with words of regret, it seems. You can picture him looking past the interviewer, with an unresponsive and unfocused gaze and a far off look of horror in his eyes, seeing what only he can, as he hoarsely whispers:

I don’t believe that there is any inevitability to Donald Trump’s actions, for which he is responsible, over the last several weeks. I did not believe that he was going to go quietly into any potential defeat. But what we have seen is something beyond what, frankly, I would have imagined in an American nightmare.