Trump's Meeting With Prosperity Preachers Is Outreach to Heretics, Russell Moore Says
Moore, who has been an outspoken critic of Trump, argued that most of the so-called "Evangelicals" Trump is reaching out to would be considered heretics by most Evangelicals.
"The people that Trump has so far identified as his evangelical outreach are mostly prosperity gospel types, which are considered by mainstream evangelicals to be heretics," he told Politico.
"Trump seems to be positioning himself as a secular version of the health-and-wealth televangelists … What Donald Trump is doing in terms of promises for the future is very similar to what's going on among these prosperity gospel hawkers," he said.
Moore also wrote a Sept. 17 op-ed for The New York Times arguing that Evangelicals who support Trump are betraying their values....