People trust religious leaders to be honest and moral, and when that is gone little influence remains. Evangelicals don’t know it yet but their complicity with Trump just killed them.
Where did Trump’s evangelicals come from?: Children born into households that isolate them in homeschooling and church schools then send them to institutions like Bob Jones or Liberty U or Wheaton so identity is cemented and they carry forward the fundamentalist religious supremacy crusade.
The Bible Trump’s evangelicals quote sanctifies humanity’s moral infancy idolizing the worldview of the Iron Age, leaving believers susceptible to justifying all manner of Trump’s evil in the name of God.
Face it: American Evangelicals are the Number 1 threat to democracy.
When one treats the Bible as the literally perfect word of God it isn’t hard to find support for the ugly list racist, Christian-Zionist, xenophobic magical thinking that now darkens the Trumped evangelical brand. It’s time to say it: Evangelicals are a threat to the USA.
Evangelical religion has made evangelical leaders and ordinary Bible-believers susceptible to courtship by Trump’s authoritarian, bigoted, sexist, tribal, anti-intellectual greed-mongers who dangle the carrot of theocracy. It is time to define evangelical voters as a hate group.
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Thank you so much, Mr. Schaeffer, I really thank God for people like you who keep the moral dignity and spiritual principles in the midst of these horrible times of chaos and uncertainty.
Jesus is just an eternal life insurance policy to them. Get out of Hell free card.
Dear Mr. Schaeffer,
I think my view of God, the bible, and spirituality is in your neighborhood. I was once part of a non-denominational, evangelical, break-away from the United Methodist Church group called Shekinah, in Blountville, TN. We studied your father’s book “How Shall We Now Live” and were active in establishing what we thought was “God’s kingdom on earth.” It turned out that our leaders were human and the church could not maintain its hold on its members. After leaving my wife and I were “church hurt” and tried going back to the Methodist Church. We identified there, but soon let work push church to the side. After a dozen or so years I began attending my hometown UMC with my now deceased mother and reconnected spiritually. My wife mostly followed. We moved to be close to some of our other family and transferred our membership to another UMC in the middle of Trump country. With evangelical Trump supporters seemingly in the majority of the church, that has been a constant test of loving my enemies. 🙂 I think the UMC is changing, as it should with the times, but it is spiritually challenging, maybe as it should be. I suppose what I want to encourage you with is that there is still “a thousand that have not bowed the knee.” This is probably why you continue with the message you have been given. God’s kingdom is within us (if we will and not of this world.) Christ’s peace to you!
The war has come home Frank as war abroad always lowers the morals of the home society.
However, demographics will rule America’s future and they rally around the strange orange man because they have nothing else as reality collapses their world view.
Look at the mid terms? And look at the Evangelical churches and how the young have left in droves as they are sanctuarys for boomer wingnuts.
Yes, I am rallying the troops to redouble their efforts as victory is ours long term!
Nine
Well can you tell? As I am so very hopeful for America’s future?
Just call me the spirit of this blog
The optimist in me
Said this love is demonstrated
Went to the cross
Alone and disgraced
Died and rose again in his kingdom
Said this follow me
Nine
The time has come, as well, to call out those who misuse the term Evangelical. Fundamentalists, who misappropriated the term; the so-called liberal media; repentant pundits like Mr Schaeffer, who perpetuates this travesty. I knew your father when I was an Evangelical young man; I defended you against my fellow fundamentalist students when you offended them at Liberty University all those years ago. The oversimplification of the politics of evangelicalism is a travesty and plays into the hands of those who would approach with any complexity the politics of Christians in America.