President Trump’s support among evangelical Christians deserves attention. I used to attend the Clark County Prayer Breakfast. By 2014, the last year we attended, it had become a bizarre display of chest-thumping by right-wing fundamentalist Christians, and we opted to never return.
The main speaker that year, Gen. Jerry Boykin, is today an ardent Trump supporter, as are an estimated 75 percent of Boykin’s co-religionists. Our congresswoman attends a church supporting this event and is clearly a committed Trump apologist if not a covert supporter.
Some evangelical Christians compare Trump to Persian King Cyrus II, who is credited with ending the Jewish Babylonian captivity. A better biblical figure to compare Trump to is Alexander Jannaeus. Jannaeus, High Priest of Israel (103 – 75 BCE), was a sexually corrupt leader who made his own rules rather than comply with those of his priesthood and constantly threatened his fellow Jewish priests to get his way, eventually instigating a civil war to stay in power.
Josh Harris, an ex-evangelical Christian pastor, recently stated that the evangelical Christian community has completely lost its way supporting Trump. I’m not an evangelical Christian, but can only ask: Why aren’t more like Josh Harris waking up?
