White, conservative Evangelicals were key to electing the most morally bankrupt President in history. Can they survive?

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/can-white-american-christianity-be.html

In recent decades," says retired United Methodist, former Southern Baptist pastor Martin Thielen, "the sins of white Christian American have been fully ecumenical." These include

the poisonous political partisanship of the conservative, Evangelical church
the subservience of women
the denomization of the LGBTQ community
the scourge of white, Christian nationalism
the depraved, pedophile priest scandal of the Roman Catholic Church, with almost no accountability for abusive priests or the bishops who covered it up
endless and ruthless battles over human sexuality
"Of course, these sins (and many others) in the American church didn't form in a vacuum," he says.
"From the earliest centuries of Christianity, the church has engaged in horrific behaviors, including the Inqisition, the Crusades, witch burnings, bloody religious wars, child abuse at indigenous boarding schools, indifference during the Holocaust, and a steady stream of intolerance, racism and sexism, just to name a few," he says.

As an institutional expression of the Christian gospel, found in the New Testament, preached and taught by Jesus, that's a terrible record. Defined by a set of virtues known as the Beatitudes, found in both Matthew's and Luke's record of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which include, among other virtues, the blessedness of humility, mercy and peacemaking, labelled as the "salt of the earth" and "the light of the world," and placing the highest value of faith practice on loving God with all of one's being and existence, and loving our neighbor as we love ourselves, it is a testimony to the strength of the gospel itself that Christianity became the predominant faith of Europe, and by extension the Americas, in spite of its record as an institution.