Hear Evangelical Leaders Explain Why They Have Repented of their Support for Trump
Evangelical Christians have been among Donald Trump’s most reliable supporters. But that support has been eroding as the contrast between Trump’s words and behavior and Christian teachings and values has become harder to ignore. Several prominent preachers who once supported him have had a change of heart — in some cases, a true repentance — […]
An Answer to Evangelicals: If God Put Trump in Power, What Lessons Does He Want Us to Learn?
Neither reason nor faith can reach neo-Nazis, white supremacists, anti-Semites, conspiracy theorists, and other loathsome Trump followers. They have found their leader and he has found them. But those who are committed to following the teachings of Jesus—as they understand them—are in a different category. We undertook our effort to change their minds because we […]
Trump Says Catching Covid-19 ‘Was a Blessing from God.’ What Was it for the 210,000 Dead?
After his premature return to the White House from Walter Reed hospital, a suspiciously bronzed Donald Trump stood on the lawn to try to make political capital from his infection with COVID-19. He declared, “I think it was a blessing from God that I caught it. This was a blessing in disguise.” This clip from […]
Debate Among Evangelicals Suggest Softening of Their Support for Trump
Florida Evangelicals Explain Why They Can No Longer Vote For President Trump On August 15, a small group called Fed Up New Yorkers—based in Donald Trump’s home state, where people know him best—used ads on Facebook to post a memorandum to Evangelical voters. The message was blunt. We challenged these people of faith to compare […]
Anti-abortion Zealotry: Trump’s Greatest Con Was Nixon’s Legacy
HOW THE ABORTION CONTROVERSY SERVES CONSERVATISM AND RACISM For some Evangelical voters, as hundreds of recent social-media comments demonstrate, abortion is the moral and religious imperative that overrides all other issues. Because in many cases this blinds them to Donald Trump’s clearly visible sins, it’s important to understand how this came to be. A hint: […]
An Anti-Abortion Christian Asks: Is This the Only Thing That Matters to Jesus? NO!
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg forces us to confront one of the favorite excuses some voters use for ignoring Donald Trump’s egregiously inhumane and anti-Christian words and deeds. They can turn a blind eye to Trump’s endless sins as long as he appoints judges who will outlaw abortion. That raises […]
If You Believe Trump was Appointed by God, Ask Yourself: Why is God so Angry with America?
Fed Up New Yorkers have been reading many of your comments and we’re gratified to see that not all Florida evangelicals support Donald Trump. Not by a longshot. But we feel obliged to respond to some of the comments we’ve received from others. Many Trump supporters claim that God has chosen him as our president. […]
Is Evangelicals’ Devotion to Armageddon and the Rapture Increasing the Danger of Mideast War?
Some time ago I began writing the third in a series of profiles of so-called “faith leaders” who make up an indispensable part of the Trump base—this one about Jerry Falwell Jr. I was puzzled: how could so many millions of people be taken in by the many fraudsters who Trump has assembled around him? […]
You Don’t Have to Be Evangelical to Love Trump: You Just Have to Believe the Unbelievable
‘YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE JEWISH . . . TO LOVE LEVY’S REAL JEWISH RYE’ New Yorkers of a certain age will remember this famous advertising campaign that playfully used models of various ethnicities to help sell Levy’s “real Jewish Rye” bread to non-Jews. The point was that there were plenty of reasons for consumers […]
An Appeal to Evangelicals: Remember Your Values, Protect Your Influence, Think About the Children
MEMO TO: EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS WHO STILL SUPPORT DONALD TRUMP FROM: NEIL FABRICANT, FED UP NEW YORKERS SUBJECT: FOR THE CHILDREN’S SAKE, PLEASE HEAR ME OUT I’m not so presumptuous to think I fully understand why so many white evangelicals continue to support Donald Trump. But I understand more than I did only a few […]