“In my upcoming book, Hell Bent, I describe how the evangelical belief in eternal punishment distorts their spirituality. Evangelical politics rest on the same punitive, exclusionary foundation—a politics of division and domination, fixated on the end of the world rather than the flourishing of the Earth. Their politics are ‘hell bent.’”

Brian Recker

I am looking forward to reading Recker’s upcoming book, he is spot-on that evangelicals have a hellish orientation.

They aren’t heavenly minded, and have no desire to make Earth resemble paradise, on the contrary, they are on a crusade to make society chaotic and violent in a selfish and twisted effort to hasten the Rapture of the Church.

Evangelicals’ belief in eternal punishment distorts their spirituality and behavior. They reason that if God eternally punish sinners, then He will not look askance at them rejoicing at the inhumane treatment of “criminal aliens” and celebrating the passage of the abominable “One Big Beautiful Bill” which codifies Trump’s fascist, inhumane and patently cruel fantasies.

Most secular Americans are horrified by Israel deliberately and systematically killing Palestinians and reducing Gaza to rubble. Israel treats Palestinians as a subhuman species unworthy of human rights and dignity, and the apartheid states criticizes anybody who expresses any empathy for their plight.

But evangelicals delight at the slaughter of the Palestinians, because they believe that the Holy Land belongs to the Jews, and Arabs are infidels who must be removed by any means necessary.

It has often been said of the Trump administration that “cruelty is the point,” the same can be said of evangelicals. They aren’t interested in spreading the Good News, they are obsessed with the deterioration of society which they believe are signs of the End Times.

I hope that at least some evangelicals will join me in reading Recker’s debut book, “Hell Bent.”