White Evangelicals can’t hide from what they did to America giving us Trump. He doesn’t hide his pettiness, bury his petulance, and distract us from his vulgarity and bigotry. He’s too needy an exhibitionist to wear a mask. The Evangelical’s favorite man-child leaves nowhere for his supporters to hide.
It’s not merely that this emperor has no clothes. This emperor has no soul, that is, if proof of having a soul is empathy for others.
After One Year, Trump stands before us naked. His daily lies, his fake hair, teeth, smile, “genius” can’t hide the truth: America is in the grip of a phony monster, too petty to even be efficiently evil…
Trump’s truths are found in his lies. No voters may claim ignorance. White Evangelicals knew! Ethics? Character? Before the 2016 “win” these were on stark display: the fraud of Trump University, the denigration of John McCain, the “Access Hollywood” tape.
White evangelicals sold us to the Devil with their eyes wide open. They are still selling us.
Between covering up past corruption, working to enrich himself and his family from the presidency, lying, tweeting insults and watching TV, Trump was just too engaged being TRUMP to even govern. Result? Our government is literally shut down on the very day marking One Year of having this fool as our “president.”
Many of Trump’s most influential evangelical supporters have stood by Trump even after the “shithole” remarks indirectly led to shut down:
Pastor Robert Jeffress, who is a member of the president’s evangelical advisory board, said the comments were “right on target,” while Pastor Mark Burns invoked the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda, saying “black people in America are suffering.” Franklin Graham said the president was being “beaten up for saying something that he says he didn’t say.”
Mavis Staples, please call your office! We need a reformation and revival! Come to think of it one is underway: It is (of course) led by a black minister William J. Barber II. He writes:
First, we must recognize the need for indigenously led, state-based, state-government focused, deeply moral, deeply constitutional, anti-racist, anti-poverty, pro-justice, pro-labor, and transformative movement building. There’s no shortcut around this. We must build a movement from the bottom up. We must build relationships at the state level because that’s where most of the extremism of the current-day deconstructionists are happening.
White Evangelicals may no longer care, but for most Americans, character still matters. At some point, those on the white Christian right will pay the price for denying Jesus.
Have fun in the trash heap of history, White Evangelicals. After 2018-2020 elections you’ll just be a bad memory just like your delusional mentor Trump. Fortunately for America – and Christianity’s historic reputation – we have black leaders like Barber, black women voters, and Hispanics ready to lead us out of Trump’s swamp… and possibly even back to sanity, maybe even to Jesus.
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Pops Staples .. Mavis Staples … Martin Luther King Jr … etc al….. amen Frank .. and again I say amen !
Dear Frank:
White evangelicals may support Trump, but Trump is no evangelical in any traditional sense. Trump is emblematic of the utter degeneracy of the 1%, and that having no solution to any ongoing political crises, it surrenders all life to building up to WW III. As the newly released strategic defense paper makes clear, this is the direction of things to come.
Since you can’t avoid it, you may as well address it and begin DEMANDING that WW III NOT be fought. Unless that language is used vociferously, I expect that it will be criminalized soon enough.
Epiphany blessings!
1) Gee .. for being such a self proclaimed pseudo intellectual … how is it you’ve managed to post a comment completely irrelevant to the article and topic on offer ?
Hang on … I get it .. for you its not about honest discussion or the articles .. its about promoting your immature communist posing as liberation theology agenda .. hmmm … Trolldom exemplified
2) Seriously child … what substance and/or social media addled alternative reality do you live in ?
Do I dare send a link of this to my Evangelical pastor ?
Went to the local evangelical mega church tonight and his sermon was an admonition to the church through Peter and Jesus command to love one another..as this is so lacking in America today and what a scathing rebuke delivered by Francis Shaeffer’s son Frank as I am ashamed to be an evangelical.
Have they reached bottom yet as I think not till I fear another war will come from this idiot we have in the whitehouse.
Nine
Has the evangelical / ecumenical / fundamentalist / catholic churches having been consumed by the quest for power .. addled by the Gospel of Ayn Rand .. and entrenched in a political system they in fact should not be a participant in … reached rock bottom yet ?
No … but they are damn close ! How close ? Suffice it to say they’d have to look up just to see where the bottom … albeit not rock bottom … is
Lets talk politics,
Is politics Republican or Democrat or is it right and wrong.
Oh, we know whats wrong is like America’s endless war in Afghanistan our longest American war?
Many Evangelicals do not know this fact. Why is that?
reality is questionality
Frank is only here because he loves his Church
Or, here is a good one…lets cut Social Security for our old and disabled?
Right or wrong?
According to many experts our dear President Trump is disabled and would be entitled to Social Security disability payments as a working class person in our dear government.
Whats that? Can’t live on that? has not been raised in years to reflect reality?
My favorite bible character of the bible Pontius Pilate…..
What is truth…..
I firmly believe as he said love is truth
demonstrated by his death on the cross
only evangel I could be
poetry deniability
lov
Nine
In answer to your question about evangelicals not knowing Afghanistan is now our longest running war . Fact is … sorry to be the bearer of bad news … but they do ! Just like they know that 9,000 + military personnel have died in our endless middle east conflicts whilst some 100,000 + have committed suicide upon returning home
Fact is Nine …
A) Major Evangelical leaders ( and churches .. all bets are the mega church you occasionally attend is among them ) are financially supporting those endless wars …. with their parishioners money I might add
B) Because ……………they to a number are heavily invested in the arms industry … and war guarantees their investments will increase .
C) And therefor they do not give a damn !
And thats the view from the inside … not conspiracy theory or social media bs !!!!
Suffice it to say Nine … there’s a whole lot of financial rigamarole going on beneath the surface in todays evangelical / ecumenical and fundamentalist churches … that you and the majority of those attending have no clue about … all while they pay ZERO taxes
Love your take. Couldn’t wait to read your comments after seeing what Franklin Graham had to say about Donnie yesterday. I check Malcolm Nance, Rick Wilson, and your twitter feeds a few times each week. I find I require your insight during this amoral, dysfunctional political and social era in which we live. Keep up the good work.
No, they were NOT “Black Evangelicals”. They were Holiness if anything, much like the Winans.