After reading The Nightmare Stage of Trump's Rule is here, by Michelle Goldberg, I read some of the responses & thought you'd find this one interesting, as I did.
Corrie
Alabama1h ago
Times Pick
@Jeffrey I live in Alabama, arguably the most evangelical state in the union besides Mississippi. We’re also in a perpetual tug-of-war with Mississippi to see who can be crowned dead last in public education. What I’m watching is something very intriguing within evangelical circles, it’s a realization that it’s either the survival of Trump or their denomination. One is not going to survive the other because reality is crashing down hard. And in the South, religion goes a whole lot deeper than Donald Trump. These churches are having trouble filling pews, and if they can’t fill pews, they can’t operate. Millennials like me refuse to attend these churches that we grew up in now that they’re fawning over Trump. Nearly half of all the people my age who attended Southern Baptist churches as youth no longer do. Where does that leave them? Gasping for air. When you have fraudsters like Jim Bakker coming out and saying crazy stuff like that, it just makes it harder to fill those pews. I may be wrong about this, but I think they will cut him loose to save themselves. I think that’s what the Christianity Today was hinting at. It was basically written for people like me who have become disillusioned by the hypocrisy of these churches being married to far right politics. We are way more important to their survival than Donald Trump, and they know it. It’s going to be interesting to see which denominations stick with him and which ones drift away.
http://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/opinion/trump-iran.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage#commentsContainer
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