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The Daily Article

The impeachment trial as a Rorschach test: Three rules of engagement for Christians

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

Christianity, News, Daily News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JANUARY 21, 2020

As the impeachment trial of President Trump begins, Christians will do well to follow three biblical principles. Today's podcast discusses these priorities as ways to use this chapter of American history to advance the kingdom of God.

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians.

0:07.8

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0:14.7

Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

0:19.5

President Trump is speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos this morning.

0:23.6

Meanwhile, the Senate is preparing to launch only the third impeachment trial of a president in history.

0:29.6

According to a recent Gallup poll, 51% of Americans would like the Senate to vote against conviction,

0:36.6

while 46% want the Senate to convict

0:39.1

the President and remove him from office. Unsurprisingly, 93% of Republicans are opposed

0:46.0

to convicting the President, while 84% of Democrats are in favor of doing so. These positions

0:52.3

reflect the President's overall popularity. Eighty-eight percent of

0:56.3

Republicans approve of the job he is doing, while only 10 percent of Democrats agree.

1:04.2

Herman Rorschach developed the instrument that bears his name in 1921, after noting that

1:10.3

schizophrenia patients often interpreted the things they saw

1:13.9

in unusual ways, the participant has shown a series of ten inkblot cards and asked to describe what they see.

1:21.6

However, there are no objectively correct answers. What we see says more about us than about the inkblots we are interpreting.

1:29.9

Impeachment functions in much the same way in our culture today. It would be difficult to live

1:35.2

in America without having an opinion about President Trump. A statistical analysis found that the media

1:41.2

has given three times as much airtime to his presidency as to President

1:46.0

Obama's. Our culture seems to be consumed daily with who he is and what he does.

1:51.9

Predictably, those who support the president believe the evidence supports his acquittal.

1:57.3

Those who oppose him believe the evidence supports his conviction.

2:01.1

We can discuss this issue as long as we wish, but few seem open to changing their minds about President Trump.

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