Trump is White Jesus

Just read a fascinating article that explains why over eighty percent of white Evangelical Christians support Trump even though he doesn’t remotely measure up to the standards they claim to preach.

The author states, “White Jesus is not a person, but a tool, a tool that has been used by the religious and secular white alike to justify voting for Trump.”

It’s a fascinating read. Go check it out here.

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7 comments on “Trump is White Jesus

  1. What’s weird to me is that so much of this seems to have happened in my lifetime. I remember when evangelist Christians were a tiny minority. I remember before anyone ever heard of Dominionists. It’s horrifying to me that such an extreme group has such outsize power.

    1. You didn’t grow up in the semi-rural South, within twenty miles of Bob Jones University.
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      I’ve been watching this building up since the mid-Fifties.

      1. Or growing up in Virginia in the 1980s. We were ground zero for any number of the nutbag televangelists and are still the home for the scam operations of several of them.
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        We could see this garbage coming from a long way away.

  2. That was a lot of words to say something that could be said in a much simpler way.
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    Conservative Evangelical “Christians” and Republican voters don’t actually have any true core beliefs outside of voting for someone who they think will get give them the ability to have their way. That’s their one and only core belief. They say a lot of things that they claim matter to them, but it never has. Every single Republican who voted for Trump and almost every single person who supports him now proved that on election day and continue to prove it with every passing day of support for Trump.

  3. It’s depressing, is what it is. This is why I eschew religion altogether. All too often it’s turned into a weapon, an excuse to lash out at those one disagrees with.

    Looking forward to the next Freaked Out Friday after the last couple weeks. Just today we learned that Trump tried and failed to fire Mueller last year, was offered a gold toilet instead of a Van Gogh to display in the WH, and that Melania preferred to visit a war memorial rather than go with her husband to DAVOS.

    Oy flipping vey…

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