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Some of the worst people in the country. I was raised evangelical, even the folks I know who were decent on an interpersonal level would never consider voting for anyone other than Republicans.
The country is still underestimating the damage fundamentalist White Supremacist christian extremism can and will do.
The terrorism will be ongoing for years, even decades.
Well I guess the American tradition of Televangelism set the stage for a grifter, pedo, rapist president.
those faces have seen a LOT of cocaine
Kinda an awful graph
Cults work like that.
If only Evangelicals were really Christians.
The god of the Bible is vengeful and narcissistic. An authoritarian asshole, much like Trump.
I hear there's a sequel to the Old Testament.
In which not one jot or tittle of the [old testament] is invalid before the Earth is destroyed.
In other words, everything horrible in Yahweism 1.0 carries on into 2.0 and 2.5 (though 3.0 disavows 2.0). Or you can ignore the plain language there, but then there's no reason for anyone to listen to (or not interpret away) any fraction in particular at all if the answer is just "the bits I find convenient are correct".
The Old Testament that is used today has not yet been decided upon until quite some time after the probable span of time in which Matthew was written, we actually do not know for certain what texts are referred to here.
It is true that the Bible does not have a single message, and contradicts itself often, so Christians necessarily pick and choose, even if they don't want to admit it.
Yeah, that's the one they apply to themselves, while lashing out at everything around them while screaming from the first one.
What about jewish contributors? Sheldon adelson was one of the main donors.
I guarantee that if they fucking ban fox news from playing on US military bases then there would be a major shift on veterans.
It's wild to me that those suckers and losers continue to support Trump.
Guess he just "tells it like it is"
Not all of us do.
Of course.
They're in an apocalyptical death cult.
When threatened, they get more insane.
The change in men under 30 is impressive.The question is whether that's a lasting change.
That group is voting on the fact that their economic horizons have become so limited (job market sucks, housing prices are way too high, etc). If Democrats can address those concerns, it could be lasting. If they don’t I imagine they could whipsaw back to Republicans.
The reason that former US allies are still not going to trust the US after this vote is that after the absolute shit-show that is a Trump presidency with a GOP house and GOP senate, 50% of American men are STILL voting Republican.
And, that's the vote. That's not the people who couldn't bring themselves to vote for the GOP this time, but stayed home rather than vote Democratic.
It's just a matter of time before the US swings back to MAGA again. If that happens the US might once again renege on its treaties, threaten allies, start wars, and break international laws.
Wow they managed to stick their heads even deeper in the sand. Impressive.
Willing to die in the foxholes they dug right up Trump's ass.
Jesus continues to weep
Bob Dylan, Masters of War:
How much do I know
To talk out of turn
You might say that I'm young
You might say I'm unlearned
But there's one thing I know
Though I'm younger than you
That even Jesus would never
Forgive what you do
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul
Would you believe that the US used to have solid contingent of Christian Socialists?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism
But that probably wasn't covered much in most US schools' history classes, as many of the school textbooks for the entirety of the US are subject to an editorial pass from the Texas State Board of Education.
https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/revisionaries/
Which has been under (evangelical) Republican control since 1994... untill now.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/11/04/texas-state-board-education-elections-2026/
Why do I feel like Dr. Seuss should have illustrated those words?
He and Santa both 😭
Christian's supporting a devil, Christ would be very disappointed. Shame on them for supporting an orange faced demon that initiates unjustified wars, orders his own innocent people to be killed, strips the rights of the people, encourages poisoning of the people, televises executions, and does it all for profit, notoriety, and fear mongering.
Shame on them.
Their plan is to knowingly be evil here, then pretend that they're sorry at the pearly gates.
So they just have to fool God, and they're in.
Deathbed confessional, ask forgiveness and you're in
You say the people in the cult became even more cult-y? wow, go figure.
I s'pose this is also a great way of showing all future democratic candidates, there is literally no point in trying to appeal to these hateful ignorant pricks. Stop trying to go right to appease these nutjobs, you'll never be right enough for them. Go left instead, and find the majority of the American people waiting for you.
That seems to show a shift of one point, and it's based on exit polls, which will probably have a bigger margin of error than that. The bottom text even says "subject to final weighting".
What makes evangelicals different from other Christians? I don't understand.
Evangelicals believe HARD in an end time prophecy and think jesus will personally hoover them up to heaven before bringing suffering to earth to punish the rest of us for our wicked ways. Evangelical think they are special. More special then everyone else. More important then anyone else. That's why they "know" jesus will personally rapture them to heaven and they are willing to kill humanity for the privilege. They really think they are god's favored and actively try to make certain events happen to move the prophecy along. They don't give a fuck about the future, or climate change, or preventing WWIII because in their minds the world ending is a good thing because it means jesus will come back - they want armageddon.
I grew up in an evangelical household. I was taught all the jews have to return to Isreal where they will die, the "good" christians will get raptured, and the rest of us heathens will earn hell on earth before dying horribly. They spend a large amount of time ruminating on this future they want to bring about. All religious sects have issues, but only one has a world ending death wish and has infested the US government which happens to have the biggest military on earth. That's a problem.
There's a lot of debate on that, if you want to get into the academic side. I think the best definition for it (when I was studying it in college) was based on four primary 'focuses' of evangelism. The wikipedia article on the scholar that laid them out explains them in brief: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_W._Bebbington
I've seen them cheekily laid out with the '-centrism' part in every one, as in 'biblicentric,' 'crucicentric,' 'conversioncentric,' and 'activity-centric.' The wikipedia page on evangelicalism itself is a pretty big slog, but talks more in depth about them.
What those four things mean in practice is very interesting, again in an academic manner, in how neatly they lay the groundwork for MAGA/this shit we're seeing. The biblicentric primes them to reject the authority of more 'traditional' sects when there exists conflict between beliefs (even between different evangelical churches), because the bible is 'always right' and you can always find something in the bible to contradict something someone is saying, and is a major part of why evangelicals that move will church shop for a while (so they can find one that fits with their beliefs, highlighting, of course, that their beliefs are not necessarily based on much more than vibes). Crucicentrism isn't as big, but it's a part of their 'us vs. them' mentality that pops up. The emphasis on conversions and activism is part and parcel of why so many of them want to force their beliefs on others (think abortion bans and such).
Now take those religious aspects, and throw them at politics (where politicians specifically target them). They're already primed to reject logic, even christian logic, so republican (well, fox news style propaganda even more so) calls to reject what the other side says finds fertile ground. Use their desire to spread their beliefs in controlling, political manners, and you've roped in every one of them that wants to 'do christianity' with all the guilt they have built in about not improving anything suddenly being assuaged.
Watch the movie Bible Camp
Edit: it's actually called Jesus Camp
Jesus Camp, right?
Yes sorry
cultists feel at home with MAGA…
Shitty pedos gotta band together, I guess. 🤢