Last night, David Barton spoke at an event hosted by the Dallas Eagle Forum, where he told the conservative Christians who had gathered to hear him speak that they had a biblical responsibility to vote for Donald Trump in November.
Barton, who has previously declared that Trump is “God’s guy” in this election and warned that Christians will have to answer to God for failing to support him, told the audience that those who say they cannot vote for Trump don’t understand that they are required by the Bible to do so.
“Let’s take and apply biblical thinking to the election that we’ve got right now,” Barton said. “We have a lot of Christians and I see them all of the time saying, ‘There is no way I can vote for Donald Trump with the kind of lifestyle he’s got and what he’s been involved with.’ Okay, I understand that. But, by the way, I’ve got to point out what the Bible says in Proverbs 14:34, the measurement you use for a nation at any point in time is ‘righteousness exalts a nation, sin is a reproach to any people.’ So, Donald Trump doesn’t have the righteousness? No, no, God blesses a nation based on the policies in the nation.”
Barton then spent the next ten minutes making his standard arguments about the necessity of supporting Trump because the GOP platform is the most biblical it has ever been, as well as highlighting the importance of electing a leader who will appoint good judges and enact policies that reflect the Ten Commandments in order to make the case that Christians have a biblical obligation to vote for Trump.
Citing his favorite right-wing Jewish source, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Barton declared that there is no word in the Hebrew language for “coincidence” or “retirement” or “fair” because these are all things that have no place in the world that God created. There is also no Hebrew word for “right,” Barton stated, because people don’t have “rights,” they have “responsibilities.”
“This generation has become the entitlement generation,” Barton said. “They think they’re entitled to all sorts of stuff. One of that is we have a right to vote, that is my right and I’m not going to exercise it because I don’t like [the candidates]. No, you don’t have a right, you have a responsibility. God put a vote in your hand and He’s going to ask you what you did with that vote when you came back and if you say, ‘I didn’t do anything with it,’ look up what happened in Matthew 25 and Luke 19; it didn’t turn out good for the guy who had been given a trust and didn’t do anything with it. See, we don’t have a choice of whether we vote in this election. We will vote in this election. That’s what Christians ought to understand. They don’t have a right to vote, they have a responsibility to vote.”
