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New Study: Evangelicals Continue Supporting Trump Because of Christian Nationalism

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Dangerman3/26/2018 12:38:09 pm PDT

re: #63 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.


The worst part about all of that diatribe is, it’s literally the last thing Jesus would want.

a coupla comments from this same study posted at political-wire.com

support of Trump by evangelicals is going to kill their movement for decades. No younger person will ever support an organization that is so obviously hypocritical.

I think what’s most striking about this — and shouldn’t have been shocking in retrospect, based on the data we already had … is that in America now politics drives religion, not the other way around.

Put less charitably, these believers don’t behave as if their faith was really important to them, or even particularly real. What *is* real to them is raw temporal power - and the feeling that it is slipping away.

And yes, the fact that they are driving away even their own children isn’t dissuading them — and I am convinced that many of them realize it. It’s as if they feel they’ve already lost the battle for the next generation and the future. All they know how to do is to try to force people back in their direction, because persuasion is no longer an option.

I’ve got a much simpler answer: Evangelicals are just as big of hypocrites as Liberals and Democrats have been saying they are for 40+ years

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