The religious right and the Republican right are really the same thing. It's hard to find a distinction between the seditious Republican office holders, who are trampling the Constitution and the Cristo-fascist fundamentalists, who have anointed Trump as God's instrument. Or, perhaps to them, Trump is God in the flesh.
This is a grievous and dangerous time for American Christianity. The frenzy and the fury of the post-election period has laid bare the sheer idolatry and fanaticism of Christian Trumpism.
A significant segment of the Christian public has fallen for conspiracy theories, has mixed nationalism with the Christian gospel, has substituted a bizarre mysticism for reason and evidence, and rages in fear and anger against their political opponents—all in the name of preserving Donald Trump’s power.
Christians have turned a blind eye to almost every teaching of Jesus Christ. Instead of faith in God, they are pledging their faith to Trump. It's a perversion of Christianity and a direct threat to our Constitutional form of government.
It’s clear now that when many of those people declared Trump to be “God’s anointed” they did not mean that his presidency was “instituted by God” in the same manner as other governing authorities, as described in Romans 13. (By conventional Christian reasoning, Joe Biden’s upcoming presidency is also instituted by God.)
No, they believe that Trump had a special purpose and a special calling, and that this election defeat is nothing less than a manifestation of a Satanic effort to disrupt God’s plan for this nation. They were not “holding their nose” to support him. They were deeply, spiritually, and personally invested in his political success.
How quickly Christians abandon the tenets of their faith to follow after a golden (orange) idol. Apparently, the first commandment doesn't apply. “You Shall Have No Other Gods before Me,” is God's word not Trumps.
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