Some of you know I ministered for a long time. What keeps me awake at night as I watch Trump pour gasoline on the fires of violence & distrust is that he's being propped up by millions of American Christians. Without them his movement would wither and die. (Cont).

The core tenet of Christianity as a faith is that power is an upside down thing, enacted less in might than in love. Power according to Christ is not in the exercise of force or wealth, but in humility, grace, understanding, and love. (Cont).

These are all attributes Trump mocks, or at the least seems incapable of experiencing or understanding. He feeds his insecurity not through acknowledging a need for sharing love others, but rather by a desire to be venerated by and have power over others (Cont).

In the Christianity of Trumpism, Sauron is God, the One Ring is the weapon the libs are too weak willed to use, and law and order are defined as the imposed will of the chosen leader. The analogy of friendship & humility overcoming raw force is laughable in Trumpian eyes (Cont).

The Christology of Trumpism is neither kind nor strong. It is a fascist, bullying perversion, where Jesus is little more than a sacrificial pawn thrown on a meathook to forgive & justify the chosen while everything he ever said about how we act gets thrown aside & trampled (Cont)

It's a gross American take on the historic tendency to warp Christianity into whatever a group of people want to make it to keep power.

And it breaks my heart.

It murders my heart.

Because I still believe. I believe in love & hope & grace. And this shit is killing me.

I'm sorry for the constant downers y'all. I know I am always ranting about something or another with this horror.

I've long known this was in us as a nation. What's tearing me up is the more overt & clead it gets, it seems the less we learn from it. We keep doubling down on evil

And I just, I'm so tired of watching us collectively march toward self-destruction under a banner of hypocrisy. I really do hate seeing faith in Jesus, which has changed my life, become an ever-greater institutional bedrock for fascism with no institutional moment of reflection.

Ok, thread over. Pray for me if you will. I could use it.