I’m not sure that Donald Trump understands redemption. I’m even less sure that he understands how to win Evangelicals. But I’m certain that his mockery of Ben Carson’s redemption story shows a lack of understanding of the Christian faith. Speaking yesterday at a rally in Iowa, Trump launched what is best described as an extended rant against Carson, attacking the core of his redemption story (that Carson sought God’s grace and forgiveness after attacking a family member with a knife) as both impossible and implausible: Impossible because if Carson had truly had a “pathological temper” he could...
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