Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
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evangelical support for Trump was no aberration, nor was it merely a pragmatic choice. It was, rather, the culmination of evangelicals’ embrace of militant masculinity, an ideology that enshrines patriarchal authority and condones the callous display of power, at home and abroad.
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Evangelical militancy cannot be seen simply as a response to fearful times; for conservative white evangelicals, a militant faith required an ever-present sense of threat.
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Yes, Jesus might have instructed his followers to love their enemies, but not His enemies.
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“Christian, if you cannot say definitively, no matter what, that adults creeping on teenage girls is wrong, do not tell me how you stand against moral relativism.”
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More than any other religious demographic, white evangelicals see immigrants in a negative light.