After Trump’s recent victory, there were many stories we are telling ourselves about the election. For some, it was the story of a revolt against the establishment. For others, Trump’s victory is the ultimate referendum on immigration, or the final death-blow to the woke-industrial complex. For those on the opposite end of the political spectrum, this is the beginning stages in the story of how fascism will eventually engulf our nation.
But there is another story, quiet and beneath the surface that is going virtually unnoticed. It is the story of thousands of people, many of them millennials, who are leaving the faith because of their perception that being a Christian is associated with being a Trump supporter. This is, of course, an accentuation of a trend that has been in place since the Bush years. In a substack article earlier today, Kyle King observed how he “noticed that many of my millennial friends were leaving the faith, because they found American-Evangelical-Cultural-Christianity to be a bit nauseating or at least, spiritually unhealthy. I nearly did the same thing late in high school as I considered embracing atheism.”
The flood of social media announcements in the last 24 hours along the lines of “God gave us Trump,” will only add to this ongoing exodus from the church. Ask yourself what political outcome is worth such a price!