The Guardian:
‘Brought to Jesus’: the evangelical grip on the Trump administration

In setting out the Trump administration’s Middle East policy, one of the first things Mike Pompeo made clear to his audience in Cairo is that he had come to the region as “as an evangelical Christian”.

In his speech at the American University, Pompeo said that in his state department office: “I keep a Bible open on my desk to remind me of God and his word, and the truth.”

Among other things, Pompeo believes in the Rapture. Like the boiling frog, we here in the States have been exposed to this gradually, and perhaps no longer realize just how strange and dangerous it is to inject this superstition into real world policy.