I have come to believe that in years to come, Evangelical Protestants will rue the day that their leadership became raptured by Donald Trump’s John Trump.

Not only members in good standing but possible converts will look at the embracure between the guy in the White House and Evangelical Leadership and ask themselves”THIS is what you consider an upright, Godley, and decent man?” and turn away.

And for damn good reason.

in what I call a "closed system". They define themselves by their religion and reject everyone and everything else as "secular".

Trump is simply a conman. He learned a long time ago that embracing the Christian religion could be used as a means of pushing "Christian Nationalism" and thereby securing a loyal, highly motivated voting base in exchange for advancing their religious and cultural agenda.

"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"
There are two kinds of Christians, political Christians and Christians of faith.
Trump's Political Christians are the public face of Christianity in America today.

Church membership is also dropping in several denominations, fed by disillusionment be long-time and younger membership. The word about President What’s-his-name may not be coming from the pulpits, but it still seeps in from the internet and other sources.

It won't happen overnight, but eventually they will have a problem and have to start closing church's, scaling back, etc. Problem is, the current leaders in my view have the attitude of "I got mine". Let the next group of leaders deal with the problem, only, there isn't that much in the horizon. I honestly think at some point there will be a reckoning.

His First Baptist Church of Texas retaliates against families who report sexual assault, coincidentally.