Good Riddance, Evangelicalism Incorporated

American Thinker.com ^ | December 22, 2017 | Robert Oscar Roberts

[Kaslin]

Trump's base in 2016 was defined not by race or class, but by belief in God. Evangelical Christians and Catholics came together and pushed Trump to the win, in defiance of the media, academia, Hollywood, the professional class, elite Republicans, the Democrat masses, libertarians, and self-professed moralists.

Both the pope and many prominent Protestant leaders expressed antagonism toward Trump, so this mass of religious voters defied their church elders as well.

This was nothing less than stunning. It was perhaps one of the great revolutions in America's religious history. Rather than a serious study of this event, we have had a spasmic flood of pedantry from the very people whose authority these Christian voters rejected in the first place.

I count myself among evangelical Trump voters. As I am sure this issue is for almost everyone in America, the historical questions feel very personal.

I resent being mocked and reviled by secular liberals who I know hate all religion.

My patience has worn thin with people claiming to embrace a new liberal Christianity that I recognize as a warmed over version of the liberation theology my radical leftist family held in the 1970s and 1980s.

Conservative Christians who position themselves as valiant defenders of the Bible and Trump opponents have been exposed in brutal ways as the "Evangelical Deep State."

Many so-called conservative Christians pulled a fast one on Alabama by handing a Senate seat to Doug Jones to banish Roy Moore for sins he probably never committed. But my prediction is that in upcoming months, Doug Jones's radical sexual agenda will terrify many Christians in Alabama. Black Christians will realize the Democrats will do nothing for them, while the national anti-Moore Christian voices will be remembered as detestable traitors.

[Nifster]

The author is Robert Oscar Lopes (per the web site)

Here’s some info on him

According to The Daily Caller, “He is — or was — bisexual. He is now married to a woman. “[2] According to Inside Higher Ed, he “identifies as bisexual.”[7] He is member of the Southern Baptist Convention.[4]

[daniel1212]

As the Pope hardly represents Christianity anymore, it should probably be clarified that Catholics voted in line with the Church’s official teachings instead of the political opinions (with no foundation in scripture) of the Pope du jour.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/23/u-s-religious-groups-and-their-political-leanings/

[RegulatorCountry]

The problem in Alabama was more specific but people don’t like focusing in on it for some odd reason. Maybe they’re cowed by PC and are afraid to speak the truth, yet again. It was women. They were manipulated by the Democrats, who know putatively conservative women can be manipulated thusly.

[kearnyirish2]

An understandable (and growing) sentiment...

[kearnyirish2]

Those charts show why the whole American Catholic hierarchy needs to be replaced; abortion will never be outlawed as long as Catholic voters are OK with it. Many years ago when I attended the March for Life I was stung by how much more heavily Protestant denominations were represented than Catholics. It helped me understand how Dems win Catholic population centers, and how Republicans carry the Bible Belt.

[Luircin]

Oh, so my synod is defined as ‘evangelical’ now? How the heck do they define ‘evangelical’ anyways?

I mean, it’s not like it makes TOO much difference, but the ‘mainline’ label there as opposed to ‘evangelical’ annoys me because of the implication.

Even so, yes, I note that Catholics tend to vote very liberal.

[Luircin]

It’s really sad, yes.

No idea what to do about it unless there’s a way to either kick the heirarchy out or just find a way to take the money and set up a non-sinful Catholic church in competition with the corrupt leadership.

Or something. It would take a more charismatic theologian than me. Or maybe direct divine intervention.

[kearnyirish2]

Some of the groups that arose from the ashes of the gay sex crisis talked a good game at first (especially about controlling the financial aspects of the Church), but then they devolved into goofy stuff like female priests and such (”structural changes”)...