👉For awhile now I have been looking at a never ending supply of conspiracy theories and trying to figure out how and why it seemed like almost every Maga was entrenched in them. For a longer time I pondered why Trump evangelicals even exist and support such a corrupt individual.
👉I read a recent article by Ben Sasse in The Atlantic and it started to click with me. ▶️Sasse wrote: "For generations, most Americans understood themselves as children of a loving God, and all had a role to play in loving their neighbors. But today, many Americans have no role in any common story. Conspiracy theories are a substitute. Support Donald Trump and you are not merely participating in a mundane political process—that’s boring. Rather, you are waging war on a global sex-trafficking conspiracy! No one should be surprised that QAnon has found a partner in the empty, hypocritical, made-for-TV deviant strain of evangelicalism that runs on dopey apocalypse-mongering."◀️ 👉I believe its a fruit of spiritual warfare....but not good fruit: People who claim Jesus is Lord while peddling conspiracies and winking at the morally bankrupt actions of a leader with no moral compass. Christians have a foundation that is found in two important pieces:#️⃣1) To love the Lord they God with they heart, mind and soul and 2) to love your neighbor as your self. #️⃣
Step away from that foundation and, in essence, a vacuum is created in the heart and soul of a Christian which is allowed to be filled by lies, since God is truth (John 14:6) and also the way and the life.
👉Hence, TrumpVangelicals arent really searching for truth...but are searching for an answer. Searching for "an answer" is easy. "Answers" can be a dime a dozen. If you aim at nothing you will never miss. Searching for "the truth" requires knowledge of what truth is or wisdom. Proverbs 9:10 states ▶️"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding."◀️
👉They hang on to their "religious" trappings because they have believed they are important and use them to justify the lies they are accepting. They create a sense of security.
👉As Rev 23:11 declares as the world moves closer to the end of time ▶️"Let the one who is doing harm continue to do harm; let the one who is vile continue to be vile; let the one who is righteous continue to live righteously; let the one who is holy continue to be holy.” ◀️The bad thing about that is that if we are in this place in the worlds timeline that it will not get better but worse. So now is the time to seek Gods grace for ourselves and our nation. Granted it has always been that time to seek Gods grace for America..but it may be getting even more important than before.
