Trump aide mum on Dobson's assertion Trump is a 'baby Christian'
By Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 12:31 PM ET, Sun June 26, 2016
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/26/politi...ian/index.html
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump is now a born-again Christian, an evangelical leader says, but a top campaign aide declined to comment on that revelation on Sunday.
"He did accept a relationship with Christ," James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, said in a radio interview with on Pennsylvania pastor Michael Anthony's "Godfactor" taped Tuesday. "I know the person who led him to Christ, and that's fairly recent."
Trump does not speak publicly about his faith often, but last week he met with a group of high-profile evangelical leaders in New York.
Dobson told Anthony Trump is a "baby Christian."
"I don't know when it was, but it has not been long," Dobson said. "And I believe he really made a commitment. He's a baby Christian, if you will -- (Christians) need to be praying for him." ...
...Dobson said in the radio interview Trump isn't fluent in the terminology common to evangelicals -- but deserves "some slack."
"He doesn't know our language. You know, we had 40 Christians together with him. He used the word hell four or five times. He doesn't know our language, he really doesn't. And he refers a lot to religion and not much to faith and belief," Dobson said. "You got to cut him some slack, he didn't grow up like we did. I think there's hope for him."
After the meeting with Trump on Tuesday, another evangelical leader, Ralph Reed, said Trump "talked about personal faith, importance of faith."
"But he made it abundantly clear, 'I don't know the Bible as well as you do, I'm not a theologian, but I'm a Christian,'" Reed said. "He talked about his children and how he raised his children, moral values, don't smoke, don't drink, don't do drugs."
Reed added: "It's not really our job to judge other peoples' spiritual journey. Just because they're not in the same place we are, we accept him for who he is now." ...