The more I learned, the more I realized that my Christian beliefs didn’t line up with this so-called Christian nation – and the more I tried to share what I’d learned with friends and family, the more they wrote me off as a lost cause
The more I tried to share what I’d learned with my friends and family, the more they wrote me off as a lost cause. My parents joked that I had “turned liberal”, and couldn’t wait for me to leave my conservative Christian college so things could go back to normal.
After finishing my degree and moving to the UK to pursue a master’s degree in history, I realized I couldn’t keep the US on the pedestal I’d placed it. Life in England solidified my changing perspectives. Not only were the people wildly different than the ones I’d grown up with – my friend group included both socialists and blue bloods running in the same circles – even the Christians I met surprised me.
One woman, Marie*, reached out to me after reading a lengthy conversation I had with another Republican on Facebook. A pastor’s wife in a moderately sized congregation in a conservative state and a lifelong Republican, she felt shocked by the growing support for“I feel like Trump is using Evangelical Christians,” she wrote in her initial message. “[But] I don’t understand how a human can think these things are ok.
In the end, she found herself asking many of the same questions I had, especially as she watched those closest to her, including her siblings and daughter, begin to espouse radically different ideas. It was heartbreaking to watch, she told me, and while she tried to remain optimistic, she said it felt as if the whole world was changing around her, and nothing made sense.
For casual observers like Marie and myself, it can be mind-boggling to watch someone disregard what you perceive as concrete evidence. Unfortunately, logic has little to do with it.
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