Evangelicals in ignominy

Like all thinking, decent-minded people, I’m loving the disappearance of the Pious’ good name; it’s long overdue. The latest comes from Michael Gerson, in The Atlantic.

For a package of political benefits, these evangelical leaders have associated the Christian faith with racism and nativism. They have associated the Christian faith with misogyny and the mocking of the disabled. They have associated the Christian faith with lawlessness, corruption, and routine deception. They have associated the Christian faith with moral confusion about the surpassing evils of white supremacy and neo-Nazism. The world is full of tragic choices and compromises. But for this man? For this cause?


“Christianity is a rebellion of everything that crawls on the ground against everything that soars: the gospel of the “lowly” lowers …”

Nietzsche, The Antichrist, §43


There is no understanding it without an understanding of Christian history, until you grasp that the 1st-century Jesus Movement was a reaction of the underclass against its betters. Christianity is nihilistic and doesn’t want to build anything; it wants to destroy the good life that’s beyond its reach. It’s a religion grounded on resentment.

If you think I overstate, just (try to) count-up all the times you’ve heard that the Apocalypse is sure to be starting any moment, and … YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!

This is why evangelicals can make common cause with nativists, neo-Nazis, misogynists, mockers of the disabled, white supremacists, the corrupt, serial liars, wife beaters — and The Donald, whose inferiority complex and insecurities are always on blinking-neon display. No matter how he tries, he will always be an outsider and a buffoon … just like those nitwits who believe that all the problems in the world can be traced back to that time a serpent tricked a foolish woman into stealing a bad piece of fruit and sweet-talked her husband into taking a bite.

They, like the Buffoon-in-Chief, like William Jennings Bryan a century ago, are left-behind figures of ridicule — and know it, and want vengeance, and think that Donald Trump is its instrument.

The job before Democracy is to get rid of such canaille; if it fails, they will devour it.

H.L. Mencken

They’re tucking their napkins into their shirt collars right now.

As I’ve said countless times through the years, most people have too much sense and decency to be good Christians; it’s the ones who don’t that you have to watch. I’ve no doubt that the sane people of the country will turn back these relentless assaults on common decency, but it ain’t over yet.

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