Evangelical leaders endorsed Trump. Now his fanatics are destroying the Evangelical Church.

[DetlefK]

For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and omens, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
— Matthew 24:24 and Mark 13:22 NRSV (1989)

When the evangelical wing of the Republican Party saw that a lying, cheating, thieving philanderer who couldn't even quote a single line from the Bible was the rising new star of the Republican Party, what did they do?

Did they object?

Did they oppose this godless man of selfishness, sin and greed?

No.

They latched themselves onto him like parasites. They endorsed the false prophet because they wanted to profit off his influence to increase their political power.

And now they realize that abandoning their religious ideals for the sake of political power leads to bad consequences for their religion.

NOBODY COULD HAVE FORESEEN THAT!!!

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/evangelical-trump-christians-politics/620469/

The election of the elders of an evangelical church is usually an uncontroversial, even unifying event. But this summer, at an influential megachurch in Northern Virginia, something went badly wrong. A trio of elders didn’t receive 75 percent of the vote, the threshold necessary to be installed.

“A small group of people, inside and outside this church, coordinated a divisive effort to use disinformation in order to persuade others to vote these men down as part of a broader effort to take control of this church,” David Platt, a 43-year-old minister at McLean Bible Church and a best-selling author, charged in a July 4 sermon.

Platt said church members had been misled, having been told, among other things, that the three individuals nominated to be elders would advocate selling the church building to Muslims, who would convert it into a mosque.

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What happened at McLean Bible Church is happening all over the evangelical world. Influential figures such as the theologian Russell Moore and the Bible teacher Beth Moore felt compelled to leave the Southern Baptist Convention; both were targeted by right-wing elements within the SBC.

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“Nearly everyone tells me there is at the very least a small group in nearly every evangelical church complaining and agitating against teaching or policies that aren’t sufficiently conservative or anti-woke,” a pastor and prominent figure within the evangelical world told me. (Like others with whom I spoke about this topic, he requested anonymity in order to speak candidly.) “It’s everywhere.”

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The root of the discord lies in the fact that many Christians have embraced the worst aspects of our culture and our politics. When the Christian faith is politicized, churches become repositories not of grace but of grievances, places where tribal identities are reinforced, where fears are nurtured, and where aggression and nastiness are sacralized. The result is not only wounding the nation; it’s having a devastating impact on the Christian faith.

It gets even funnier down in the article when Evangelicals lament that evangelical believers are prone to political extremism because the evangelical Church did not spend enough time and effort to properly indoctrinate their believers into the core beliefs.



NO, YOU DUMB FUCKS!!!

YOU SUPPORTED AND ENDORSED A MAN WHO REPRESENTS EVERYTHING YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO OPPOSE!!!

YOU SOLD THIS FALSE PROPHET TO YOUR CONGREGATIONS AS A RIGHTEOUS MAN!!!

IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT YOUR CONGEGRATIONS HAVE ABANDONED GOD AND WORSHIP TRUMP AND HIS FOUL CREED OF HATRED!!!