I have always been curious on the reasons why evangelicals support Trump. Du Mez's book sounds like she's spot on. The John Wayne issues, e.g., individualism, promotion of guns, and xenophobia are definitely a part of evangelical culture. But did she discuss the elephant-in-the-room, the banning of abortion? That, I think more than anything else is the reason why evangelicals voted for him in 2020. If it weren't for the primacy of this issue, I think the evangelical vote would have been spread out among many Republican candidates. But Trump gave them exactly what they wanted, three Supreme Court justices that eventually led to the Dobbs decision.
She does touch on that, briefly. The interesting thing with abortion is that it's a (relatively) recent political stance by evangelicals. I might write more about this in a later post...
It will be interesting hear your take on this. Abortion is something that is not based on "John Wayne" patriarch culture, yet evangelicals make a big deal out of it. And yes, their current views opposing abortion is relatively recent. I remember being taught in high school that only Catholics believed that life began at conception while Protestants believed that life began after conception but probably before birth, the timing being undefined. Now evangelicals are completely in line with Catholic dogma.
Ugh! I’m already having election anxiety. The 2020 election (and subsequent insurrection) is what sent me hard into deconstruction. I couldn’t believe that having the chance to do this again, evangelicals were choosing him again. And that my mom believed the election lies and supported him. Heck I got bullied by a missionary we supported at the time telling me Trump was the only possibly biblical candidate because he supported Israel. And my mom asked me if I was really going to vote for a baby killer. It was a doozy of a year, and I fluctuate between thinking it’s all going to be fine...and rushing to buy passports just in case things get worse after the election. How’s that for an answer? 😂😭
I have always been curious on the reasons why evangelicals support Trump. Du Mez's book sounds like she's spot on. The John Wayne issues, e.g., individualism, promotion of guns, and xenophobia are definitely a part of evangelical culture. But did she discuss the elephant-in-the-room, the banning of abortion? That, I think more than anything else is the reason why evangelicals voted for him in 2020. If it weren't for the primacy of this issue, I think the evangelical vote would have been spread out among many Republican candidates. But Trump gave them exactly what they wanted, three Supreme Court justices that eventually led to the Dobbs decision.
She does touch on that, briefly. The interesting thing with abortion is that it's a (relatively) recent political stance by evangelicals. I might write more about this in a later post...
It will be interesting hear your take on this. Abortion is something that is not based on "John Wayne" patriarch culture, yet evangelicals make a big deal out of it. And yes, their current views opposing abortion is relatively recent. I remember being taught in high school that only Catholics believed that life began at conception while Protestants believed that life began after conception but probably before birth, the timing being undefined. Now evangelicals are completely in line with Catholic dogma.
Ugh! I’m already having election anxiety. The 2020 election (and subsequent insurrection) is what sent me hard into deconstruction. I couldn’t believe that having the chance to do this again, evangelicals were choosing him again. And that my mom believed the election lies and supported him. Heck I got bullied by a missionary we supported at the time telling me Trump was the only possibly biblical candidate because he supported Israel. And my mom asked me if I was really going to vote for a baby killer. It was a doozy of a year, and I fluctuate between thinking it’s all going to be fine...and rushing to buy passports just in case things get worse after the election. How’s that for an answer? 😂😭
I hope enough evangelicals like me woke up in the past four years - and in the right states bc of our stupid electoral college.
I hope so, too. The only things that got me through the last election were stress cleaning my carpets and some CBD