Evangelical leaders endorsed Trump. Now his fanatics are destroying the Evangelical Church.

[Ocelot II]

10. "There have always been mean people who cloak their unkindness in religious devotion."

Yup. But Trump and Trumpism have weaponized meanness, and evangelical Christians have given meanness the imprimatur of godliness.

Anybody who's been around churches at all knows that they are infested with holier-than-thou busybodies who insist that they're doing God's will when they complain that Mrs. Nelson has never done her fair share of work at the bake sale and she should be kicked off the committee and that we should be using the old blue hymnals and not the new red ones because they aren't scriptural; and people get crazy mad about such things. But the fundies have gone completely hateful, like rabid wolverines, to the point where they are gutting their own congregations - which is fine with me.