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Quote:Christian Allegiance to Trump Has Wrecked My Faith
On Jan. 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building was attacked by a mob of violent insurrectionists led by then President Donald Trump. Fueled by conspiracies of massive voter fraud, and urged on by Trump, rioters proceeded to invade the building, erecting gallows on the National Mall’s lawn and rallying to chants of “Hang Mike Pence!” All this in an attempt to subvert the results of the 2020 election. Though ultimately unsuccessful in overturning the election, the attack would leave several dead, countless injured, and result in millions of dollars in damage.
At the time, I’d hoped this ugly assault signaled an end to Trump’s influence over the American people — particularly those professing to be Christian. Trump had consistently demonstrated that he was both a bad leader and a bad person. In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack, evangelicals had to see that securing culture war victories wasn’t worth the cost of empowering a vengeful authoritarian and known sexual predator.
Sadly, this was not the case.
This January, Trump was once again sworn in as president of the United States, propelled to office by the unwavering support of countless evangelical Christians.
For me, the results of the 2024 presidential election felt like the punchline to an incredibly cruel joke. I grew up in the church and still remember the lessons taught to me by my old mentors. I was told that following Jesus meant that truth mattered, justice mattered, how I treated women mattered, and how I treated my neighbor mattered. Later, when I came out as a gay man, my Christian peers insisted that I put aside my personal feelings and desires in the name of biblical fidelity. I spent years of my life making painful and irreversible sacrifices in order to do what I thought was right at the time. Then Trump came along, and suddenly the narrative changed — truth was pliable, character was irrelevant, and justice was getting in the way of “winning.”
That the majority of Christians would choose to vote for Trump not once, not twice, but three times felt like confirmation of all my worst doubts and fears: Namely, that Christianity had never truly been about God or goodness; it had always been about power.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
