Fox Priest: A President Who Doesn’t Fear ‘Eternal Consequences’ Is Hard To Trust

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Fox News contributor Rev. Jonathan Morris said on Sunday, during an appearance on “Fox & Friends,” that an atheist President would be hard to trust because he doesn’t fear “eternal consequences.”

Morris’ comments were made during a conversation about the “Faith and Freedom Coalition” event, which was held in Iowa on Saturday and which featured several 2016 presidential candidates.

“Faith is a set of beliefs, right?” Morris said. “It’s a belief in God. It’s a belief that there are eternal consequences for your actions. And I think a leader that doesn’t have that — a set of core beliefs that help him to make justice an important part of his life and his decisions because he knows that there are eternal consequences, well, it’s somebody that it’s hard to trust.”

He said that in terms of faith, “if it doesn’t inform your life, then it’s not faith.”

Morris also stressed the importance of “not making stuff up in order to get votes.”

“One thing that is very certain, is you can’t fake religion,” Morris said. “Sometimes politicians fall into that, I think. What matters most, I think, to us Americans — those who will be voting — is what these guys said before they were running for President, the way in which they lived before they started running for President.”

“I think they have to be very clear about the values that they believe in, not making stuff up in order to get votes,” he continued. “And then people will say, ‘You know what, I like him even if I disagree with some of his beliefs, I like the fact ‘cause I can trust him to be who he says he is.’”

Fox News host Peter Johnson Jr. asked Morris whether voters should elect a President by judging people for their faith.

“For example, if someone running for President is an atheist,” Johnson said, “are they qualified to be the President?”

“You know, I would say faith is not the most important thing, but wisdom in terms of a leader,” Morris said. “But yes, I think it certainly makes a difference who that person is.”

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