Evangelical Christianity was hijacked in the 1960’s by Jerry Falwell in response to desegregation, creating a Neo-Confederate, white supremacist cult that merged with Reaganism and worships power, money, and now Donald Trump.
They are apocalyptic and willing to sacrifice us all.
They are apocalyptic and willing to sacrifice us all.
People need to know about this. So many people who didn’t grow up in this cult like I did and so many other Americans don’t understand what white identity evangelicalism is, why it worships Trump, or how incredibly dangerous it is.
The history is bizarre but true.
The history is bizarre but true.
I had no idea growing up that my religion was a descendant of Confederate theology, or that evangelical leaders had perverted the teachings of Christ to promote white supremacy and the idolatry of wealth and power.
TELL PEOPLE, because this hidden history protects that cult.
TELL PEOPLE, because this hidden history protects that cult.
And people need to know because the apocalyptic white-identity Christianity, what I’ve come to call the Cult of the Shining City, is completely in Trump’s thrall and sees this pandemic as a holy plague on sinful and wicked Americans. They’ll happily let it spread and kill.
This all sounds wild, but it’s true. The roots of the evangelical cult that worships Trump is a history of America that seldom gets told. It’s a weird, tangled web of Confederate theology, Civil Rights-Era white supremacy, and bizarre nationalist occultism.
You need to know this
You need to know this
I trace the full history of the Cult of the Shining City - including Falwell’s Confederate beliefs, Reagan’s occultism, and the construction of white identity, capitalistic, nationalistic idolatry, and GOP capitulation - in my new book AMERICAN RULE.
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