Do any of these people actually READ the Bible?
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Sure enough, a group of 177 evangelical leaders — led by Liberty University's head Jerry Falwell Jr., recently in the news for "accidentally" emailing revealing photos of his wife to multiple people and being photographed drinking and dancing in a nightclub, behavior forbidden to his students — released a letter denouncing Galli and complaining that he "questioned the spiritual integrity and Christian witness of tens-of-millions of believers."
Well, yeah. Because it's blatantly obvious that anyone who defends Trump's criminality at this point is not acting out of spiritual integrity, but the opposite — they're people who have abandoned any semblance of morality or decency in their lust for power.
Not that the Christian right had much morality to abandon in the first place, as anyone who lived through the George W. Bush years can attest. Trump has simply revealed the large majority of white evangelical Christians for who they are: Not people motivated by sincere faith, but people who see "Christian" primarily as an identity marker that accompanies being white, a disdain for urban or metropolitan areas, and their self-identification as "conservative." All of which is used to justify their belief they and members of their tribe are the only legitimate Americans, and deserve to hold and wield a vastly disproportionate share of political power.
For Trump and his followers, being "Christian" is now almost totally divorced from any belief in or understanding of actual Christian theology. It's about defining the in-group vs. the out-group. Jesus Christ himself could return from the dead and Trumpian "Christians" like Falwell would denounce him as a "nonbeliever" in short order. It's not about believing in Jesus. It's about believing in Donald Trump — and in the white nationalist identity politics he represents.LINK
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