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Southern Baptist leadership deeply worried about approaching election

albertmohler.com

WASHINGTON (AP/WMOT) — The man Time magazine called “the reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S.” says the 2016 presidential election may decide the fate of American democracy.

Dr. Albert Mohler is president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. In a recent edition of his daily podcast, Mohler also says that populist uprisings in both the Republican and Democratic parties are making this election cycle challenging for evangelical Christians.

Mohler says that Bernie Sanders’ campaign success is pushing the Democratic Party closer to a socialist view of government, and that liberal trends are also pushing evangelicals out of the Republican Party.

“Many of us are going to be facing the reality that if Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic Nominee, and Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, we will not be able to vote in good conscience for either of the candidates. And furthermore, we’ll have to take responsibility for how our vote will matter and what it will say in terms of how we actually vote in the 2016 election.”

Mohler isn’t the only Southern Baptist leader expressing alarm. The SBC’s policy chief, the Rev. Russell Moore, said on the CBS program Face the Nation this past weekend that either a Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton presidency who would reflect the "moral sewage" evangelicals believe is polluting the culture.

Moore says many conservative Christians are likely to stay home in November or vote for a third party candidate.

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