"This Advent season, while watching Donald Trump in front of a garishly green-and-red banner which proclaims 'Make America Great Again,' take the opportunity to reflect on the Faustian bargain which allowed conservative evangelical Christians to 'Keep Christ in Christmas' while seemingly divorcing Christianity from Christ. That Republican supply-side economics, exemplified by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell’s cruel tax 'reform,' contradicts Matthew 5:3 is clear. That Trump’s draconian immigration policy, which new reports indicate could now involve splitting families apart, violates the essence of Exodus 22:21 is obvious. And it shouldn’t have to be said that the new nationalism, this new fascism, with its 'blood and soil' metaphysic, stands in opposition to the sublime universalism of Galatians 3:28.
"For that 81 % of white evangelicals who voted for Trump, and more troublingly for the profoundly inhumane, greedy, wrathful ideology that he embodies, and who have seemingly forgotten their scripture, I have another passage to remind them of Matthew 4:10. Following the dark Adversary who took Christ up 'an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt falls down and worship me.' And Christ, choosing to follow the small, humble, yet sacred path rejected the temptations of worldly power declaring, 'Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.' America’s conservative evangelicals, however, have taken up that diabolical offer."
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