Donald Trump is the "antithesis of Christian values," according to three students at Liberty University who wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post.
The university's president Jerry Falwell Jr., has endorsed Trump, which drew criticism from some of the school's students.
"We watched as the leader of our school loudly and proudly advocated for a man many of us felt compelled to oppose. Trump's flagrant dishonesty, consistent misogyny and boastful unrepentance made many of us feel the need to publicly express disagreement with President Falwell's endorsement," wrote Dustin Wahl, Paige Cutler, and Alexander Forbes.
The students felt they needed to speak out and "want the world to know that Liberty University is a great place to go to school and that many in the student body find Trump's character and values objectionable."
For a Christian, supporting Trump delivers a questionable message to the rest of the world, the students said, because "Trump is the antithesis of our values… Most non-Christians recognize Trump as amoral and self-centered. If we ignore this fact and buy in to his promise of strength, what will it tell the world about how seriously we Christians esteem our values?"
The Christian message of salvation remains valid, and the students called on voters to keep that in mind. "Fear should never decide elections; as Christians, we believe that values should."
Falwell Jr. is not the only evangelical leader who supports Trump and opposes the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
The students wrote that, "many of them believe that Christianity is under attack in the United States and that our nation's moral fiber is weakening by the day. Additionally, many believe that a Hillary Clinton presidency would result in a liberal Supreme Court that could take away religious liberties."
The students are not expressing support for Clinton by rejecting Trump. "Like many people, we who are writing believe Clinton has proved herself untrustworthy with political power. We do not trust her judgment in choosing Supreme Court justices, and we understand why so many Christians are afraid," they said.
However, "if Clinton has proved to be dishonest, Trump has given dishonesty new meaning. Evangelical conservatives who vote for Trump to get a favorable Supreme Court must realize that doing so requires trusting the words of the most untruthful presidential candidate in modern history."
Christians have faced worse threats than they do today, according to the students and "we feel that many in the church have been bitten by election-year hysteria. First-century Christians faced coliseums filled with lions; today, American Christians face the possibility of a liberal Supreme Court.
"The Christian message of salvation through faith in Christ has prevailed despite actual threats, from actual tyrants, and it will continue to thrive no matter who is elected president in 2016."
The students pointed out that Mark DeMoss, the chairman of the school's executive committee, was asked to resign after criticizing Trump. DeMoss wrote in the Post that Trump does not reflect "Christ-like behavior that Liberty has spent 40 years promoting with its students."
Other students at Liberty University have come into conflict over opposition to Trump According to The Daily Beast a student wrote a story criticizing Trump and Falwell Jr. cut it from the school's newspaper.
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