Trump is a Problem — But What About Evangelicalism?

By now, everyone has seen the disastrous American presidential debates between Donald Trump and Joe Biden.

We all know that Trump has garnered the evangelical vote. According to some estimates up to 81% of evangelical support in 2016. Although, there is some dispute over this statistic but the source over this dispute is The Gospel Coalition. As with any statistic, we should take it with a grain of salt. The connection between the evangelical party (that is, the Christian right) in America is not only correlated but deeply intertwined.

Let’s look at the problem of separation of church and state in America.

NOTE: Most of the topics I am discussing here are directly discussed in my book, Up in the Air: Christianity, Atheism & the Global Problems of the 21st Century. If you want to look into this topic further, I discuss it at length there in my chapter on The Human Rights of the Christian.

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Secular thinkers will claim that church and state should be separated in a democratic society that accepts each individual based on their distinct human rights. Indeed, Susan Jacoby explains in Strange Gods:

“It took 150 years, the Enlightenment, and more instruction in the horror of theocracies in the Old World before the United States of America became the first nation…