'We need to keep our shield up, and we need to keep our spear sharp,' televangelist Frank Amedia said.
last week to order a military strike that killed military commander Qassem Soleimani, Amedia said this was in line with what God wanted."God is a man of war," he maintained.
Evangelical Christians have remained a key base of support for Trump since his 2016 campaign. In the last election, just over 80 percent of white evangelical Christians voted for Trump, according to polls. Support from the community has remained high since then, with highly religious white evangelicals giving the president a 69 percent approval rating in 2018 and the first quarter of 2019, according to Gallup. In October, the Public Religion Research Institute found that 99 percent of Republican evangelicals were opposed to the House impeachment inquiry against Trump, somewhat higher than Republicans in general.
President Donald Trump talks to his spiritual adviser, Paula White, after an event to celebrate a national day of prayer in the White House's Rose Garden on May 2.The president's spiritual adviser, Paula White, a wealthy televangelist from Florida, was appointed late last year to spearhead the president's Faith and Opportunity Initiative. Shortly after she took on the official White House role,a prayer initiative for the president along with other evangelical leaders.
Other Christian Trump supporters have argued that Trump's critics are possessed by the devil and use dark magic."They're trying to place hexes and curses on President Trump," evangelical pastor Perry Stone"I have never, in any nation of the world...seen people raised up with demons in them [like] in Washington," Stone added."They have demons in them. You can look at their eyes when they almost start foaming at the mouth.
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