Jane Coaston: How evangelical Christians went from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump

Many white evangelical Christians love Donald Trump — a fact of American politics that has shaped the makeup and rulings of the Supreme Court, the culture and morality wars waged by the Republican Party and the political evolution and power of evangelicals themselves. At the same time, some forms of evangelical Christianity are becoming less Christian, with believers less likely to attend church and less likely to embrace some of the faith’s most bedrock beliefs.

How did this happen? How did millions of Americans go from “I Kissed Dating Goodbye” to Mr. Trump, who appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine? It was never ordained that he would become a man compared to biblical figures.

As Jon Ward sees it, truly understanding American politics right now requires us to have a much more nuanced and informed perspective on evangelical culture and history.

3 yrs of lockdowns, masks, and shots, many would not take. I’m 1. Never had any, never had Covid. 1 message, nightly false death count, Censorship. MSM. Antifa, BLM, Defund the Police, Homos, and TRANIES are shoved in your face 24/7. Rampant crime in Blue states, counties, open borders,

AMERICANS LAST! Wait till the new gas shortages, and prices hit, and store shelves empty again. Getting arrested for not knowing a person’s gender. Trump Witch Hunts from day 1. Veterans sleep on the streets because they can’t pay rent. Families sleeping in out-of-gas cars, begging for food. MEDICARE/TRICARE CUTS.

ILLEGALS GET SNAP, PHONES, MOTELS, CLOTHES, AND MONEY. Americans who are sick and can’t work can’t get DSSI or SNAP.

Eldest had a TIA in Oct. Took months to get a Cath, from the Charity Church, Cardio pulls out when he sees FOUR 85% left side blockages. 2 weeks later Quad Bypass, and he’s getting a Defibulator today. 9 months no case worker assigned. NO SNAP, Has a special SOY BOY Cardio diet to follow. When he had the TIA the meds shot his BS to 600+ and his Eye Pressure which they don’t monitor to Glaucoma severe range dropped double Cataracts, that surgery has been postponed now.

PASSPORT BACKLOG? NWO, GREAT RESET, LAB MEAT, Plant meat in food banks. Not all of us can or would eat.

Set wildfires, that kill off wildlife, lies about Chicken Birdflu, I raise 9 hens, DE Earth stops it along with a clean run and coop. I garden, I’ll be 75 in 16 days.

BIDEN GREAT DEPRESSION!

More MSM ignorance. Evangelicals have overwhelmingly voted for the most conservative Pres. candidate, and would vote for a Pharisee today, sine this is not about electing a pastor, but it is more like choosing to a ship with a captain and crew that are intent on sailing in the direction you want to go. You are at a port along with many other people, trying to continue on a long journey to get to your preferred destination, and you have a choice between two companies, ships, captains and crews.

The ship on the Left insists on engaging in some non-traditional social engineering, and has a destination quite different than where you want to go live. The captain of this ship, owned by Soros and company enterprises, is (in his own words) a peace-loving, fair-minded, Kerry-for-President, former pot-smoking hippie (but who did not inhale), who is ever conscious of his/her racial color and supports guilt and discrimination based on this.

He (or “she” or “they” as the entity may choose to I.D. as), is as member in good standing of NWIMBY (no windmills in my backyard), and abhors those “deplorables” who “cling to guns and religion“ as anti-life, and supports a women's right to kill the unborn, and for self-identified men to use a bathroom with your wife or daughter, while seeking to increasingly control industry and the politically incorrect speech of others more. In short, the captain, reflecting company policy, is ever striving to fundamentally transform the society which produced the U.S. Constitution and reminds him of Biblical values.

In that interest, the captain informs you that on this ship there are many polices to be followed, which have been adopted from practices, principals or proposals of many elite liberal institutions of “higher” education. Which means:

• This ship plans to fly the flag of Sodom, and anything but support for the nation for which it stands (such as kneeling in prayer when its anthem is played) will be considered evidence of homophobia, which is profoundly intolerable. Those found guilty of such can face severe economic sanctions.

• The choice of which bathrooms one uses is to be determined by whatever gender one feels comfortable with (at least at the moment). Objections to this will be penalized in accordance with the scale explained below.

• Any babies that may happen to be born during this journey can be disposed off if unwanted by the mother, rather than her having to share her accommodations with this unwanted tissue.

• This ship will be escorted by Greenpeace activists to warn whales of our approach, while representatives of PETA will be onboard to ensure a vegetarian diet is followed (no eggs!). However, feeding sharks with any manner of flesh will be sanctioned.

• This ship is a gun free zone, including toys and mere replicas, and our policy in case of encounters with those whom conservatives sees as enemies, such as pirates or communist “guerrillas,” will be to assure them we have no intent or means to harm them, and thus we expect they will reciprocate in kind. We can then smoke organic weed together, educate them on how to receive government benefits in California, and explain to them how they became “radicalized” because of George Bush.

• Consistent with this, corporal discipline of children (and only an average of 1.6 are allowed) is forbidden, as are all contact sports, but indoctrination by watching MSNBC or listening to NPR 5 hours a day will be required, after first reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to the (future) United States of Sodom. Students will be tested on such issues as how many problems can be blamed on Climate Change, and why conservatives are dangerous racist homophobes, and how liberals are objective/fair-minded and should be in control as being the elite minds. And how to engage in intimidation against those who disagree.

Among the types of speech that are to be progressively censored is that which expresses any doubt of past or present warnings regarding Climate Change, any conclusions of evolutionary science, or liberal polices in general. And of course (as if we have to say it), any speech, oral or written, including songs, promoting Judaeo-Christian morality, or celebrating Christian beliefs, especially if conveying any official sanction. This is critical in order to foster our desired diversity.

• The crew has been hired based upon racial quotas (with sexual orientation qualifying as race). Although this means that the best qualified person may not be hired if he or she is of the wrong race or self-identified gender, this is necessary in order to avoid discrimination.

• Likewise, penalties for infractions by crew or passenger will be determined by a scale based on racial status, with those of a majority race being penalized the most, at least by writing an essay confessing to their guilt as the favored historical race, and their need to atone for it. This is only proper, for those of minority race are not to suffer due to what they had no control over.

• Consistent with this, those who purchased first-class accommodations and benefits, regardless of how many years they labored to attain them, are to be compelled to share what they acquired with all others, regardless of whether they be stowaways, those engaged in the street-level pharmaceutical trade, or students in the elite art of protesting.

• Sharing wealth as being an expression of mercy and grace is not condoned: instead, obtaining what others earned is to be considered a Right as Victims of those who labored for greater benefits, and the latter are to be increasingly penalized for gaining wealth, and for presuming to share such as acts of mercy and grace.

• This divestiture will first be for and through the captain and administration, who uniquely may enjoy without guilt greater benefits they attained as elite saviors of the perpetually oppressed. This is necessary in order to maintain a class-less society in which the goal is for all to share an equal level of prosperity [poverty] (except for their elite leadership comrades). At the ships final destination of Venezuela this goal will hopefully be realized.

• Cultural appropriations by certain races are prohibited, such as Europeans wearing Hawaiian shirts or cooking General Tso’s chicken (even if virtually unheard of in China). However, everything from wearing Western clothing to eating pizza or a sandwich (at least calling it that) is permitted regardless of where one is from.

• Freedom of speech is also not to be tolerated for anyone who has ever been banned by Facebook, or supports any organization promoting traditional moral values, and or has been censored by the $outhern Poverty Law Center, or voted Republican. The Terms of Service on your boarding pass provides more specific details of what may be judged offensive (note “otherwise objectionable” and “violative of any law”) by politically correct police at their discretion.

• If you have any doubt as to what may be considered offensive behavior, the general rule is that the alternatives to traditional Judaeo-Christian morals and principals are to be followed. For instance, expressing that unmarried consensual (though a formal consent form my be required) sexual relationships are sin will not be tolerated. However, failing to recycle is considered to be the equivalent of a mortal sin.

• Although extensive efforts have been made to prohibit intolerance, in case of violations, real or perceived, there are assigned Safe Places on every deck for those who feel offended by politically incorrect speech, or suspected microaggressions.

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