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Why Are White Evangelicals So Mean?

If somebody asked me to describe white evangelicals with one word, I wouldn’t choose, pious, spiritual, kind, compassionate, friendly or any other word that could be used to describe the founder of their religion, Jesus Christ.

I could choose many of the adjectives used to describe their new Orange Messiah, Donald Trump: vindictive, cruel, arrogant, petty, malicious and hateful. But the word that stands out is mean, they are just mean to the core.

Their favorite ministers don’t preach the values of the New Testament, a humility, love and compassion that’s made manifest by ministering to the poor, friendless and outcasts of society. They prefer to listen to flat out assholes like Greg Locke who thunder homophobia, misogyny and xenophobia from the pulpit.

White evangelicals had a mean streak well before Trump entered politics, but now that he is the de facto leader of their religion it’s bubbled to the surface.

The meanness of evangelicals is evidenced by their hatred of immigrants, demonizing of gays and lesbians, and lack of concern for their neighbors reflected by their refusal to get vaccinated.

Their meanness also comes across in every day interactions with them, if your hairstyle, tattoos, dress or vernacular leads them to conclude that you don’t belong to their tribe, they give you a wide berth.

White evangelicals will be mean to the die they die, because they won’t be happy until turn our democracy into a White Christian Nationalist regime, led by their god, Donald Trump. That’s never going to happen.

Marco Rubio is Hated Because He’s a Follower of Donald Trump, Not Because He’s a Follower of Jesus Christ

Marco Rubio

“Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.”

Luke 6:22

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For a United States senator to quote from a holy book, is unseemly at best an undemocratic at worst. I don’t care if an elected official considers the Bible, the Koran or the Vedas the word of God, I care only that they consider the Constitution the supreme law of humans.

I consider any scripture uttered by a politician in his official role execrable rubbish, unworthy of being praised.

The voters don’t hate Marco Rubio on account of his spiritual devotion to the Son of Man, but on account of his slavish devotion to Donald Trump.

Rubio, like most evangelicals, care only about members of their own religion expressing nothing but contempt for immigrants, minorities, gays and lesbians, progressives and liberals and anyone else who doesn’t subscribe to their Neanderthal beliefs, and then they have the gall to complain that people hate them on account of their faith.

If Rubio distanced himself from Trump and his racist, undemocratic, misogynist and homophobic views, he wouldn’t be so reviled regardless if he was a follower of Jesus, Buddha or the Prophet Muhammad.