By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A large survey conducted by a prominent Christian ministry has found widespread distrust among evangelicals toward President Barack Obama and the federal government.
OneNewsNow is reporting that Coral Ridge Ministries, the Florida-based ministry founded by the late Dr. D. James Kennedy, conducted an informal write-in survey that revealed a “staggering mistrust” of the president. Of the 7,500 respondents, 85 percent said they did not trust the current president of the United States.
“Just one percent of those responding to this poll – and it’s admittedly not a sample of the United States; these are pro-family, evangelicals for the most part who are responding – but just one percent said that they trusted President Obama. Some 85 percent said they do not,” said John Aman, a spokesman for the ministry.
Another 91 percent said they don’t want to see the U.S. back away from supporting the nation of Israel in the face of Islamic terrorism.
“I think that this president’s decision to try to get Israel to go back to its 1967 borders would be opposed almost universally by the people who responded to the survey, given the fact that they simply do not want the United States to back away from its traditional support for Israel,” Aman said.
On the subject of national security as a whole, only a dismal 11 percent of respondents said they trusted the government to keep America safe.
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