![]() Instead, he tweeted, “the US needs street fighters like Donald Trump at every level of government”. “The Bible says it is appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment,” he said, on Facebook.Īnother famous scion, the now disgraced Jerry Falwell Jr, admonished his flock to stop electing “nice guys”. American evangelism had evolved into caffeinated American nationalism, white identity close to the surface.įranklin Graham, the late Billy Graham’s son, threatened Americans with God’s wrath if they had the temerity to criticize Trump. Then again, he was Black and liberal and his personal beliefs could be discounted. Or Caesar.įunny how Obama never held such a place of honor. ![]() The spirit of Protestant dissent, which once fueled rebellion against the crown, had given way to declaring Trump a divine emissary, a modern-day Cyrus. Barack Obama had occupied the White House. The letter embodied a shift that was decades in the making. The unidentified elder simply repeated sentiments that had taken root in evangelical America since Trump’s election in 2016. “What the hell is wrong with these people?” she cried.Īs many congregants would see it, probably nothing. My criticisms of President Trump were tantamount to treason – against both God and country – and I should be ashamed of myself.” “I was part of an evil plot, the man wrote, to undermine God’s ordained leader of the United States. Yes, the same guy who made “ Two Corinthians” a punchline. Regardless, a church elder delivered to Alberta a one-page screed expressing his disapproval of the author for not embracing Donald Trump as God’s anointed. The Rev Richard Alberta died suddenly, of a heart attack. In his prologue, Alberta takes us back to summer 2019, and his father’s funeral. “All nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.” Isaiah’s teaching stands nearly forgotten. The son of an evangelical Presbyterian minister who came to religion from finance, Alberta lays bare his hurt over how the cross has grown ever more synonymous with those who most fervently wave the Stars and Stripes, on the right of the political spectrum. “I have endeavored to honor God with this book,” he writes.
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