Though the Epstein files haven't been completely released, they are full of redactions which the Justice department inserted to make sure there is no transparency, and we are just beginning to discover the scope of what they reveal, the current sitting President has not only not been exonerated, he has been implicated as one of the worst participants in a crime of unfathomable immorality, something most Americans consider to be a sign of the worst possible corruption of the human spirit, and that is the sexual violation and molestation of children.
Oh, yes, I understand innocent until proven guilty and all of that. This President is already under indictment for causing an insurrection, and for stealing classified documents. He's an adjudicated rapist. He admitted to some of his worst immorality, short of what's been uncovered in the Epstein files, long before he descended the golden escalator and ran for President in 2016. So the only explanation, really, for the support he has received from conservative Evangelicals is that they are a cult, in the truest sense of the term, which has completely abandoned the core principles of the Christian gospel they claim to proclaim.
They are pseudo-Christian, using familiar terms and practices, but they are empty of conviction, as the Apostle Paul wrote to Timothy, "holding to the outward form of godliness but denying it's power." [2 Timothy 3:5.] What is preached from their pulpits is hypocritical, for the most part, especially if they can continue to separate their own conscience from their support for Trump and claim that they are two different and separate things. But, they're not.
I was raised in an Evangelical church, and I can tell you that the methods of indoctrination into a particular political perspective are much more refined and developed than their methods of teaching the children and youth in Biblical principles. These churches are now finding it next to impossible to keep the youth raised in them faithful by the time they graduate from college, or reach a level of adulthood where they are able to identify the blatant inconsistencies between the political support they provide, and their faithfulness to the Christian gospel which their actions indicate that they despise.
Evangelicals, as a matter of principal, avoided politics altogetther, even as late as the 1960's, while their Mainline Protestant counterparts considered political involvement as a way to be a Christian influence. But that all changed when the megachurch began to develop, and megachurch leaders became intoxicated by the political power that they received as politicians saw them as a way to deliver votes. Not all Evangelicals believe their pastors and church leaders speak directly for God, but there are some who are convinced that they do, and they don't have the discernment or the education to know they are being duped.
Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, among others, have made political power the engine behind obtaining what they are after, which was never the gospel of Jesus. They've found that they can make and preserve their fortunes with political power, since spiritual power didn't really provide the worldly influence they wanted. And most of the rest of Evangelicalism followed their example.
And while everyone they criticize and claim to be faithless condemns everything and everyone involved with Jeffrey Epstein, including Donald Trump, they are silent. And that lets us see them for exactly who they are, and it has nothing to do with Jesus, the Christian gospel or the Christian faith.
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