Christians opposed to infidelity and immorality have embraced a thrice-married man who can’t name a single Bible verse
and says he has never asked God for forgiveness was always an unlikely hero for the most conservative Christians in the US.resoundingly won the vote of white evangelicals. Now, with Trump having almost certainly secured the Republican nomination for 2024 and eyeing a return to the White House, his campaign is doubling down on religious imagery, securing the evangelical base and signaling sympathies with Christian nationalism.
But the pairing has had benefits for both parties: Trump got elected in 2016, and evangelicals got a conservative supreme court that has already overturned the Roe v Wade ruling, which enshrined a constitutional right to abortion. The “God made Trump” video is not the only example of Trump seeing himself as a deity. On 25 March, Trump“It’s ironic that Christ walked through His greatest persecution the very week they are trying to steal your property from you.”
“It only reinforces the scripts that they’ve been handed, which is that the left is out to get you and they are mocking and they have no respect for your faith,” Du Mez said., this is the first election cycle in which he has been confident enough to compare himself to Jesus Christ.
As Trump won primary elections in state after state, the respectable evangelicals were able to overcome their moral objections to him being the Republican candidate. “These aren’t the kind of people who are policy wonks, but there are Christian nationalists who have very clear agenda items, especially on topics like abortion, on topics like support for Israel, on topics like religious freedom, on topics such as LGBTQ +rights.
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