A 2023 Pew Research survey found 32% of nonevangelicals had negative views of evangelicals, compared with 18% of nonevangelicals who viewed evangelicals favorably.

I come from an evangelical background, and I share the disdain many nonevangelicals feel for evangelicals. Even some evangelicals have a negative view of evangelicals, which is why there are so many exvangelicals who become disillusioned with its fascist politics and fundamentalist social stances and have left that narrow-minded religious tradition.

Evangelicalism, as practiced by white Americans, is a narrow road that leads to divisiveness, discord, and damnation.

I urge evangelicals to come to their senses, leave their cult, and become exvangelicals. That doesn’t mean you have to embrace atheism; there are many mainline Protestant, Reformed s and Black Bible churches that practice real Christianity.

It is okay to hate evangelicals, just as it is okay to hate Nazis, Al Qaida, conspiracy theorists and fascists. Evangelicals incorporate many elements of Nazism, fascism, and Islamic fundamentalism. In fact, it is our patriotic duty to hate on evangelicals. I believe I have the Lord’s blessing when I say, Fuck evangelicals. Can I get an Amen?

“An Indiana church is urging the Trump administration to ‘execute’ members of the LGBTQ community because ‘the Bible teaches that those people are worthy of death.’

In a sermon titled, ‘Pray the Gay Away,’ Stephen Falco, an evangelical preacher with the Sure Foundation Baptist Church, yelled from the pulpit, ‘They’re all a bunch of fa**.”

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The tribal God of the Old Testament demanded death, by stoning, for myriad offenses including working on the sabbath, adultery, false prophecy, consulting a witch, divination…

Mainline Protestants and most evangelicals have evolved theologically, morally, and ethically and do not expect this draconian penalty for these “sins” to be enacted by a civilized society.

However, evangelical Christians hate the LGBTQ community, and a few even believe they should be put to death.

If all false prophets (think Trump prophets), adulterers, horoscope aficionados, people who work on Sundays and gay people in evangelical congregations were put to death, the pews would be empty.

Evangelicals deflect and distract from their many transgressions by focusing all their rage on gay men. They hurl epithets at them, dehumanizing them and treating them like people with leprosy.

Extremists like Stephen Falco who call for the execution of members of the LGBTQ community are in the minority, but they allow ordinary evangelicals to rationalize that their homophobia is not so bad, after all they are not calling for them to be murdered.

Pray the Gay away? How about embracing, affirming, blessing and welcoming them to the fold?

The better Americans know evangelical Christians, the less they like them, according to a recent study from the Pew Research Center. In the era of Trump white evangelicals have gravitated to the toxic gospel of their orange messiah, and we have become familiar with their racism, homophobia and misogyny. Indeed, they are the most hated religious sect in America.

In our diverse secular democracy, their brand of white Christian nationalism is anathema. Under Trump they long to make America great again, they’re on a mission from God to return our nation to the 1950’s when everyone knew their place: women in the kitchen and bedroom, Hispanics toiling in the fields, gays and lesbians in the closet and blacks slaving away in menial jobs.

In a technological scientific world, their world view gleaned from scripture written thousands of years ago is untenable. Climate change and evolution denying evangelicals are incompatible with a society where artificial intelligence, social media and post modernism rule the day.

In a religiously diverse society, their tribal faith that regards anyone who doesn’t subscribe to their Neanderthal beliefs as heretics and hell-bound sinners is toxic and divisive.

There is nothing wrong with admitting that you hate evangelicals, just as there is nothing wrong with admitting you hate Nazis and Muslim radicals. In fact if you love democracy, it’s only natural that you hate the group that is the biggest existential threat to our way of life.

“In a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday, 27 percent of Americans expressed an unfavorable view of evangelicals, compared to 10 percent who have a negative view of mainline Protestants or 18 percent who have a negative view of Catholics.

About as many have a favorable approach to evangelicals—28 percent—but that’s mostly due to positive sentiment from American evangelicals themselves, about a quarter of the population.”

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Americans have always had an unfavorable view of evangelicals, their attempt to impose their literal interpretation of the Bible on every one clashes with the “live and let live” ethos that made America the greatest secular democracy in the world.

But now that evangelicalism is synonymous with Trumpism, the evangelical movement is as toxic as the worst ideologies you can imagine like Nazism and white Nationalism.

Evangelicals are too evangelical; they are on a mission from God to share their religious experience regardless of propriety. There is a time and a place for everything and proselytizing at the checkout register at the supermarket, while flying on a plane or talking about Jesus at work is improper, rude and counterproductive.

Mainline Protestants and Catholics don’t wear their religion on their sleeve, therefore they aren’t perceived as obnoxious by society at large.

Religion is like masturbation, almost everybody belongs to a religion and almost everybody masturbates, but no one wants to hear why your God is the real deal and no one wants to hear how you masturbate.

It’s no surprise that evangelicals love each other, while at the same time they hate anyone who doesn’t share their religious beliefs. Evangelicals are so besotted with love for each other than they are oblivious to how much the world hates them.