In fact, he tried to end a few smaller wars, but was obstructed by a lying and insubordinate military, abetted by a Washington uni-party that rakes in hundreds of millions in graft from otherwise pointless foreign wars. It was, rather, the culmination of evangelicals' embrace of militant masculinity, an ideology that enshrines patriarchal authority and condones the callous display of power, at home and abroad.”Īpropos of this quote and the previous one, we note that President Trump started no wars, preemptive or otherwise. “But evangelical support for Trump was no aberration, nor was it merely a pragmatic choice. After that failed experiment, God instituted the death penalty for murder: “Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed for in the image of God has God made mankind.” (Gen. But the result of that experiment was a human society so bent on perpetual wickedness that God had to destroy it utterly with a cataclysmic global Flood (Gen.
Interestingly, Scripture tells of how God did not want the death penalty at first, placing a mark on the first murderer, Cain, to insure that no one would touch him (Gen. You’ll be hard-pressed to find any book more pro-death penalty than the Bible, not that Kristin Du Mez would know that. “More than any other religious demographic in America, white evangelical Protestants support preemptive war, condone the use of torture, and favor the death penalty.” But the flyleaf material is enough Amazon supplies some frequently highlighted quotations from the book: Conservative Christians easily see through this laughable hypocrisy and know that people like Kristin Du Mez are just trying to get them to vote for an ideology and a party that is continually devising stratagems to destroy Christians and weaken Christianity.įor the details of this particular, “how dare you vote for Trump” screed, you’d have to read book, and I’m not giving her or her publisher one red cent of my money, much less the $11.49 for the Kindle version. Kennedy (still a Democratic Party icon) and Bill Clinton while in office was far more revolting than anything Donald Trump did in his younger years as a private citizen. This literature typically argues that Christians should not vote for Trump because he lived the life of a billionaire playboy and is “deeply morally flawed.” But this critique is ludicrously hypocritical the sexual misconduct of John F. Conservative Christians understand that the Democratic Party has been overtaken by atheistic Utopianism, and is unalterably and bitterly hostile to conservative Christians-those who still heed what the Bible teaches about human sexuality-and biblical Christianity, whereas the Republican Party is at least tolerant of conservative Christians, if disdainfully so. There is so much of this “how can Christians vote for Trump?” literature that it constitutes its own genre.īut it fails in its intended purpose. The book is yet another angry screed against white evangelicals for having supported Donald Trump in 2016 (about 80% of them did) and-since it was published in the summer of 2020-an attempt to talk them out of supporting him in the forthcoming election, which they overwhelmingly did again, Kristin’s efforts notwithstanding. The book accuses white evangelicals of corrupting Christianity and splintering the United States of America into warring factions. You can tell from the title that she has little use for evangelical Christians, and especially white, male evangelical Christians. So I looked it up and, sure enough, she is the author of “ Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. That name rang a bell, and I recalled seeing her book on the Amazon website.