Post #2829117
2026-04-19 21:42 UTC
"The truth is that this hypocrisy was always cover for a larger game. Rather than having the Christian faith guide these churches and their members, the service the grifters, and later Trump, were offering was something else. Something much more valuable.
Permission. Or, more specifically, permission to gain wealth and power over others. It was, at its root, a perversion of the Christian faith by the wealthy and the powerful."
#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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@wdlindsy@toad.social 2026-04-19 21:43
"Trump and MAGA’s appeal has always been an appeal to people who want to behave worse and more selfishly but also need to be told repeatedly that they’re actually doing what is right and what is good. Evangelicalism in America has always worked on this principle. The message is that believers are backed by a God who wants them to succeed financially and personally and politically" (continued in /19) #Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism /18