Trump and toxic Christianity

Disapproval of Donald Trump is hard to find on the campus of Liberty University.

The Christian university which dominates the town of Lynchburg, Virginia, has become almost synonymous with Trump. It sits at the heart of the alliance between the president and conservative evangelical Christians – an alliance forged in part by Jerry Falwell Jr, Liberty’s president, Lynchburg’s most prominent citizen and Trump’s close associate.
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In Liberty’s coffee bars, random conversations with a dozen or so students found they all backed Falwell’s full-throated support for Trump. But not everyone in the town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains is happy. A minority at the university, along with a few churches in town, are deeply concerned. Some speak of a “toxic Christianity”.

Nobody acquainted with Southern Baptists will be surprised to learn this; it is an ignorant and malicious denomination that is united and animated chiefly by hostility to modernity, not theology, and which has degenerated into, nearly, a cult.

Prime Trump country, in other words.

It’s a lengthy piece, but well worth your time.

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