As my regular readers know, I don’t do politics on my blog. To be honest, I don’t do politics at all; my status is yes, a UK citizen, but I am first and foremost a Child of God; a Citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven. I have written on this before, and I still hold that position.

What I do do, though, is to write about the Problems of Evangelicalism – not from a political angle, but from the angle of like here are these people (those calling themselves Evangelical Christians) who say they believe in, and follow, Jesus of Nazareth. And they also believe in, and follow the Rules in, the Bible. That’s what they would claim.

However, their actions; their way of life, their attitudes, all that sort of thing, deny that claim. In this series, we have considered many real-life examples of spiritual abuse, harmful doctrines and practices, co-opting of Jesus into a false cause and indeed piracy of the term ‘Christian’, fake religion, and all manner of other things that denigrate Jesus to the people ‘of the world’.

I have to say, though, that American Evangelical Christianity, with its apparent marriage to the dreadful concept of Christian Nationalism, is far and away the worst witness of all. You can combine all the other horrible things I have described in this series, and that sum total of horror and abuse comes nowhere near what American Evangelical Christianity has done.

Again, without being political – if the current incumbent of the Oval Office was a Democrat rather than the Republican that he is, I would still make these comments – how the actual can American Evangelicalism get behind the reprehensible character that now presides over the United States? Just, like, how?? I mean, I know he’s not entirely bad; he has done some good things, and I know I’ll get flak from some of my friends and family just for writing that. And I know there are stories (whether true or not, I don’t know) about his compassion and kindness towards his employees and other people. That, and his policies and politics is not what I am talking about here.

But the fact of the matter is that this man has criminal convictions, and even just on the strength of comments he himself has made; things he himself has said, should in and of themselves mean that Evangelicals should not approve of him in any way, especially if they think of him as ‘God’s Chosen One’, which indeed some of them do. All the Biblical lists of qualifications for leadership, which sum up basically as being a person of good character, should be the standard to which these people compare him.

But they don’t; they ignore the very passages that they claim are ‘God’s Word’ and therefore inviolable – except when it suits them. They try to justify that acceptance by saying things like ‘No-one’s perfect’, or ‘King David did bad things too but God used him, didn’t He?’, or even claim that those passages refer to qualifications for Christian leadership, not national leadership. But shouldn’t the standard be even higher for a bloke who has his finger on The Button? A man who is the President of the most powerful nation on Earth? Should there not be some sort of minimum standard of character, at least in the eyes of Christians, that should apply to such a man?

I tell you, I despair for these people. Their hypocrisy is beyond staggering. And it is also completely unsurprising. If they do not apply their claimed high moral standards to themselves – always to others, so they can judge them, but not to themselves; not ever – then how much more will they not apply those standards to their Leader^[1] who has become the figurehead of a real cult following? These Evangelicals are the ultimate in Bad Witness, against which all my other claims of such a Bad Witness pale into nothingness.

But hey, I’m a Brit. I’m not involved in either American politics or Religion, except insofar as it affects me. Especially the Religion part, because Evangelicals here in the UK copy American Evangelicals shamelessly in their doctrines and ideas^[2]. But of course I see it, because my sensors are finely tuned to spotting hypocrisy and terrible logic: I see the badness, the rot, that has infested American Evangelicalism even more than it has infested British Evangelicalism. Like all types of rot, it is caused by a ‘microorganism’ (in this case a metaphorical one!) called the Yeast of the Sadducees. Related to the Yeast of the Pharisees, which attempts to influence believers into currying favour with God by following Religious rules, the Yeast of the Sadducees allows unclean human attitudes, policies and methods to infect believers with the belief that somehow the Kingdom of God can actually be influenced by the kingdom of this world. However, Jesus explicitly said that His Kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36), and He meant it – especially as He sealed that claim, amongst others, by being executed in disgrace on the Cross not long afterwards. And so all attempts to affect the Kingdom of God by influencing things in this world are ultimately vain and pointless.

I think it’s time I let a real American make a comment. Here’s the SubStack blog from Holy Heretics, posted on 30th September 2026. Read the whole thing (if you can manage it after having read my extended diatribe!) and you’ll find it incisive, generally accurate^[3] and leaving you wondering just why the (literal) hell these people are doing what they are doing while still claiming to be Christians. It boggles my mind, that’s for sure:

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New PRRI^[4] research reports up to 85% of white evangelicals voted for Trump in 2024, with 69% of white evangelicals currently approving of Trump’s presidency leading into the mid-terms.

But the research reveals something far more sinister:

• White evangelicals continue to stand out as Trump’s strongest religious demographic support base.

• Regular churchgoers within the evangelical community display higher approval metrics than sporadic attendees.

That last line should make you weep.

“Regular evangelical churchgoers” display higher approval metrics for an adjudicated rapist, a serial predator, a man accused by over 30 women of SA, a man who bragged about “grabbing women by the pu$$y,” a man who said he’d like to date his daughter, a man who committed adultery on his porn star wife with another porn star, and a man mentioned over 1 million times in the largest global pedophilia ring in human history.

I don’t have room to mention all his other crimes, including unleashing masked thugs to murder American citizens, the illegal capture and deportation of our Hispanic neighbors, his unmitigated corruption, his daily lies, his hatred of women. The list could fill libraries.

So, my question to my evangelical friends and family isn’t why you voted for a serial predator and rapist, most of us understand that evangelicalism is nothing more than the Republican Party platform in religious drag. My questions are more simple:

What is wrong with you?

What is wrong with your religious community?

Why wasn’t rape the deal-breaker for you?

Why didn’t you turn your back on this man when he admitted to SA?

Why didn’t you call for his impeachment when he paid hush money to a porn star?

Why are you still silent?

What is wrong with you?

How have you been so malformed by hatred, lies, propaganda, white nationalism, and a deep-seated hatred of women?

Is it your theology, your pastors, your patriarchy, your willful ignorance?

Why do you support a man who is the very antithesis of Jesus?

I will ask again, what is wrong with your theology, your spirituality, your formation, your education, your family structures, and your communities that allow you to joyfully support a man as vile and wicked as Donald Trump? And why you alone?

What in particular, is wrong with evangelical Christianity that makes you among everyone else, the MOST SUSCEPTIBLE to one of the most malignant, satanic public figures in human history?

Historians will ask these questions for centuries.

Nobody is asking you to become a Democrat. We are asking you to become Christ-like, for once.

Before you scroll past, let me offer something to you as someone who used to be you.

One of the hardest things about changing your mind isn’t discovering that you were wrong, or that you believed so many lies. It’s discovering what being wrong might cost you in terms of identity, community, belonging, and your life’s story.

Sometimes changing your mind means admitting that someone you trusted was wrong. Sometimes it means admitting that the community that taught you what was true got some things deeply wrong. Sometimes it means questioning the people you love, the church you grew up in, the political identity you’ve carried for decades, your family of origin, or the story you’ve built your life around.

And sometimes the price of changing your mind is belonging itself.

Because what you realize when you finally have the courage to ask hard questions is that most of your “friends” aren’t actually friends at all, because the minute you start asking questions about your group is the minute you are kicked out of the group. The very minute friends start distancing themselves, family stops calling, and the side-texts about you start flowing.

That’s where something like identity-protective cognition becomes so powerful.

The question quietly shifts from: “Is this true? ”to “What happens to me if I admit this is true?”

Because if changing your mind means becoming the person who no longer fits comfortably at the dinner table, in the church, in the family, in the friend group, or in the political tribe, admitting you’re wrong can feel less like intellectual honesty and more like losing your entire belonging.

I know. Many of you have done that to me over the last ten years, and it really, really hurts.

But there is freedom and honesty and truth and recovery on the other side of this.

I’m afraid most will never have the courage to take that first step. But you won’t be alone. Millions of us have done it and are doing it.

The real test of intellectual and spiritual maturity may not be whether we are willing to defend what we were once taught. It may be whether we are willing to count the cost for choosing truth, beauty, love and compassion over lies, banality, hatred, and fear.

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Wow. Like I said, this isn’t about politics, it’s about the Evangelicals not applying the same standards to their President that they do to anyone else who they choose to. That’s what this is about; the hypocrisy of Evangelicals – just the same as the hypocrisy of the chief priests in John 19:15:

“We have no king but Caesar!”

Think about it.

Here is the link to the original article

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