The agony of Wehner, Gerson, former Southern Baptist leader Russell Moore, and others over the intense loyalty most of their fellow conservative Evangelicals have displayed to Donald Trump, even as his record and rhetoric have grown more heathenish, is understandable. But they shouldn’t be all that surprised. In the mid-20th century’s great battles over fascist and quasi-fascist threats to parliamentary democracy, support for authoritarian and totalitarian leaders of the political right was generally concentrated among religious Christians who had incorporated secular conservative cultural views (especially nationalism and in many cases antisemitism) into their faith.
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I guess it kinda makes sense… If you’re willing to rally around a petty and vindictive yet voiceless invisible sky-man once a week to talk about how awesome your imaginary friend was before you met him, blindly following sometime who is actually willing to be petty and vindictive on a biblical scale while claiming your neurosis-buddy likes them the most really isn’t that much of a leap.
Cf. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Also Behind the Bastards’ John Wayne podcast
IMO xtians want Strong Daddy Figures they can prostrate in front of like they do the Strong Sky Daddy.
I can vouch for the book. The end is a Sanderlanch of awfulness. I found it enlightening.
