Evangelicals and the GOP — An Unholy Alliance

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To those with even a cursory knowledge of the teachings of Jesus Christ as described in the New Testament, the so-called Christian Right’s support of Donald Trump, the GOP and their policies must seem as strange as the North American Meat Institute endorsing a vegan diet or Greenpeace applying for a drilling license in Alaska.

While the latter two would never happen, white evangelical “Christians” actually are Trump’s most loyal voting bloc. This seems paradoxical — both with regard to the president’s persona as well as many of the policies he and his fellow Republicans are pursuing. It only makes sense when realizing that there is very little that is Christian about the current evangelical movement and its leaders.

“You cannot serve both God and money,” the Bible says. Well, the televangelists supporting Trump apparently have made their choice between the two and it isn’t God. Just ask Pat Robertson, who has called the president “God’s man for this job” and recently got to interview him in the White House. The chairman of the “Christian Broadcasting Network” is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.