So I had a very interesting lunch with highly educated, politically white conservative Christians.

in white •  9 months ago 

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They, like I, feel that as of today Trump is likely to win the election next year. And like I, they are not happy with that.

Yes, they are quite politically conservative but they see the incredible damage Trump is doing to our country and our faith. There is a trend now to throw white Christians under the bus and blame them for all of our country's ills. That trend is stupid for a number of reasons but this is one of them.

There are plenty of white Christians, who are politically and theologically conservative, who do not like Trump and see the harm he brings to our faith as well as our politics. This propensity to throw all white conservative Christians into a single bucket lacks nuance and is dehumanizing. White evangelicals do not fall into a simplistic stereotype and treating them as such inhibits the sort of discussions across political and religious lines we need to deal with our current social polarization.

The tendency of some to make anything a white evangelical does to be seen as "Christian nationalism" exacerbates this problem. We can choose to further the polarization in our society or we can choose to reduce that polarization and seek community. I fear that too many prefer the former to the latter and believe it or not, not all who prefer polarization are white evangelicals.

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