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The “War” on “Christianity”

May 23, 2019 Sacred Liberty

Evangelical Christians go from “moral majority” to persecuted minority. Adapted from Sacred Liberty “Christianity is under tremendous siege,” said Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. “The Christians are being treated horribly because we have nobody to represent the Christians.” Trump pledged that with his election, “the Christians” would at long last have a champion. “As long as I am your president no one is ever going to stop you from practicing your faith or from preaching what’s in your…

What the Religious Right Gets Right

May 18, 2019 Sacred Liberty

Their cries of persecution are exaggerated and mischievous — but they also have some legitimate concerns In Sacred Liberty, I offer loads of examples for how the modern claims of persecution by religious conservatives are exaggerated — and how Donald Trump has weaponized religious freedom concerns to sew division and beat up opponents. But it’s also important to understand that traditional American Christians are not hallucinating when they express concerns about their own religious status and rights. Look at it…