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William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;Let me say again to the pundit/journalist class: This present crisis is fundamentally a religious one. We would not be here without the collective action of white evangelicals. If you aren’t analyzing this aspect of things, if you aren’t trying to understand why, if you aren’t going deep on American religion, you aren’t covering the story.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/polls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>polls</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PRRI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PRRI</span></a> <br />/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;As Kristin Du Mez neatly summarized, new PRRI data shows almost all groups of Trump voters souring on him. Except for one.</p><p>Yep, his old faithful friends, white evangelicals, 76% of whom are still lockstep with him. Most of them are even fine with him putting undocumented immigrants in concentration camps. Seriously.&quot;</p><p>~ Holly Berkley Fletcher</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/polls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>polls</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PRRI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PRRI</span></a> <br />/3</p><p><a href="https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/the-hardest-departures-of-all" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.</span><span class="invisible">com/p/the-hardest-departures-of-all</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;White evangelicals (56%) are also &#39;the only religious group with majority support for militarized encampments for undocumented immigrants.&#39; Let that sink in.&quot;</p><p>The most ardent &quot;pro-life&quot; Christians in the US want militarized encampments for immigrants. Let that sink in.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/polls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>polls</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PRRI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PRRI</span></a> <br />/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>PRRI has a report out re: how the electorate views Trump. It will be released later today. As with every recent poll, it finds his approval rating seriously underwater, with 52% agreeing he&#39;s a &quot;dangerous dictator.&quot;</p><p>But not white evangelicals: Kristin Du Mez reports,</p><p>&quot;3 in 4 white evangelicals (76%) approve of the job Trump is doing as president.</p><p>This is exactly what they voted for.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/polls" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>polls</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/PRRI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PRRI</span></a> <br />/1</p><p><a href="https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/democracy-at-a-crossroads" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kristindumez.substack.com/p/de</span><span class="invisible">mocracy-at-a-crossroads</span></a></p>
Georgiann Baldino<p>The example set by Pope Francis contrasted with the excesses of Joel Osteen.<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>“&#39;It’s not even representative of Christianity in the United States,&#39; said Du Mez, who authored the book ​​Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation.</p><p>&#39;It’s a pretty narrow slice of rightwing, predominantly, but not exclusively, white conservative Protestantism. But that is the Christianity that Trump thinks of when he thinks of Christianity.&#39;”</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteCatholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteCatholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/churches" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>churches</span></a> <br />/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;The makeup of Trump’s faith office is so far &#39;not at all&#39; representative of the various religions practiced in the US, said Kristin Kobes Du Mez, a professor at Calvin University and research fellow at the center for philosophy of religion at the University of Notre Dame.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteCatholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteCatholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/churches" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>churches</span></a> <br />/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;The Trump administration’s promotion of white Christian nationalists and prosperity gospel preachers to key government roles will lead to the &#39;further dismantling of government institutions&#39; and the chilling of free speech, experts have warned.&quot;</p><p>~ Adam Gabbatt</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteCatholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteCatholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/churches" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>churches</span></a> <br />/1</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/16/christian-nationalists-trump-administration" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/16/christian-nationalists-trump-administration</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;[Anthea Butler] lamented that as a result of the embrace of White Christian Nationalism, &#39;Christianity has destroyed democracy in America.&#39;</p><p>&#39;You need to understand that this brand of Christian Nationalism does not want a Christian world, nor does it want democracy. It wants power,&#39; Butler added.&quot;</p><p>~ Brian Kaylor</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <br />/4</p><p><a href="https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/notre-dame-conference-addresses-pressing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">publicwitness.wordandway.org/p</span><span class="invisible">/notre-dame-conference-addresses-pressing</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;The question for Christians, especially white evangelicals, becomes: Why should anyone think you guys are on the level? I mean, just explain that to me. You preach one thing and practice another. That’s weakening Christianity and because Christianity is a load-bearing wall in our democracy, it’s creating a political crisis as well.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <br />/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;You know that famous observation Trump made that his supporters are so loyal that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and they wouldn’t mind? That was at a speech in January of 2016 at Dordt College in Iowa, an evangelical school. He says that in the same speech where a few paragraphs earlier, he says, &#39;If you vote for me, you will have power.&#39;&quot;</p><p>~ Jonathan Rauch</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <br />/3</p><p><a href="https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-revival-of-true-christianity-would" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theunpopulist.net/p/a-revival-</span><span class="invisible">of-true-christianity-would</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;Rather than tell themselves a story in which Trump may be a sinner but his goals are those of Jesus, they’ll just alter their value system to align with his; forced to choose between Trump and their lord and savior, they choose Trump.&quot;</p><p>This is why some members of the Black church in the US say that much of white Christianity in the US is heretical.</p><p>It has departed fundamentally from Jesus and the gospels.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <br />/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;[Elon Musk&#39;s statement that &#39;the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy&#39;] echo[es] what is apparently a growing movement among evangelical Christians to explicitly reject empathy, because caring about the suffering of others might distract you from the more urgent task of accumulating power.&quot;</p><p>~ Paul Waldman</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/evangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>evangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <br />/1</p><p><a href="https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/conservatives-declare-war-on-empathy" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">paulwaldman.substack.com/p/con</span><span class="invisible">servatives-declare-war-on-empathy</span></a></p>
John Refior<p>"Ethiopia with its over 125 million people had been the biggest beneficiary of U.S. aid in sub-Saharan Africa, receiving $1.8 billion in the 2023 financial year. In addition to life-saving food, the funds were spent on HIV medications, vaccines, literacy programs and jobs creation, as well as services for 1 million refugees hosted by Ethiopia.</p><p>"Most of these programs have been stopped. The USAID staffers who oversaw them have been placed on administrative leave and told not to work, as they face the threat of termination. The U.S. Embassy didn’t respond to questions.</p><p>"More than two years after the war killed hundreds of thousands, full-scale recovery efforts are yet to start. The region’s health system is in ruins and hundreds of schools remain closed.</p><p>"Now the Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, has again halted food deliveries to a sprawling camp of over 20,000 people outside Tigray’s regional capital, Mekele.</p><p>"'We will just die in silence,' said Tsege, one of the 2.4 million people in Tigray who depend on humanitarian grain, most of it provided by the U.S."<br><a href="https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-tigray-usaid-mekele-hunger-b50fce94e1a96346c8de8d1dd06421d7" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/ethiopia-ti</span><span class="invisible">gray-usaid-mekele-hunger-b50fce94e1a96346c8de8d1dd06421d7</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/usaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usaid</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>christianity</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;Having loyally argued for low taxes and small government for more than a generation, having deconstructed the separation of church and state laid out in the First Amendment, they now find themselves on the short end of their bargain with the GOP.&quot;</p><p>&quot;He who sups with the devil should have a long spoon&quot;: trample the church-state dividing line, feed unabashedly at the government trough while claiming special privileges, and invite karmic retribution.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Catholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br />/2</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Marci Hamilton sheds no tears that white evangelicals and right-wing Catholics are now seeing federal funding ripped from their charitable organizations, because:</p><p>&quot;White evangelicals are learning to be careful what you wish for. When religious groups obtain the right to receive taxpayer dollars for their missions, they also insert themselves into a pipeline that can be turned on and off at will.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Catholics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Catholics</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <br />/1</p><p><a href="https://religionnews.com/2025/03/10/defunded-evangelical-aid-groups-are-reaping-what-the-religious-right-sowed/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">religionnews.com/2025/03/10/de</span><span class="invisible">funded-evangelical-aid-groups-are-reaping-what-the-religious-right-sowed/</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>At a point in history at which more than half of white Christians have voted for Trump three times, this last time setting off an orgy of chaos, destruction, and cruelty through which we&#39;re now beginning to live, the church itself offers the most glaring counterwitness imaginable to the gospel it prodlaims. </p><p>One can keep believing only by leaving the church behind.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristians" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristians</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <br />/5</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;So the church took the offer, and didn&#39;t even get a golden fiddle in exchange for its soul. And here, at last, we were. ...</p><p>Think of what made me leave my church. It wasn&#39;t somebody welcoming me into the new thing. It was the fact that I actually believed the truths I had learned and couldn&#39;t handle the lies any more.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristians" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristians</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <br />/4</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>&quot;Also, the Republican Party had already been a hate group for many years prior to that, and the church had been the enthusiastic, sustaining, energizing force behind that organization, as part of its overall capture by authoritarian state power, which had offered it relevance and influence in the form of enforced cultural domination over others.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristians" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristians</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <br />/3</p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>Moxon writes,</p><p>&quot;The fact that the church collectively went for their deep-fried golden calf didn&#39;t surprise me in 2016—I was more naive than I am today (which suggests that in ten year I will be less naive than I am now) but I wasn&#39;t totally snowed, and I had been watching over the preceding years in a state of slowly dawning awareness.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteEvangelicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteEvangelicals</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristians" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristians</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/WhiteChristianNationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WhiteChristianNationalism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>chaos</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/destruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>destruction</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <br />/2</p>