"I think the last thing it does is it puts those who buy into this story on the side of God. That may sound trite, but when you have an understanding of yourself as playing a special role in history, as outlined by the Creator, your political life takes on a supercharged dimension. I think we saw that on Jan. 6."

Yep, that's the scary part. The merger of politics and religion:

My son and I couldn't be more excited to see Kevin Sorbo's new Left Behind in theaters! Who needs 3D when we have the Lord salting our popcorn.

Excellent article, Corky. Thanks for posting it.

This article helps me understand why so many Evangelicals support Trump:

Onishi: A lot of folks are now very familiar with the phrase "white privilege," but the writer Chrissy Stroop has helped me understand "Christian privilege" in the United States. The idea is that if you are a Christian person " especially a white Christian person " you are given a kind of benefit of the doubt in the public square. When you use rhetoric that can only be classified as extreme, it's often written off, and it doesn't set off the alarm bells that would be set off if you were a Muslim person or if you were someone who was neither Christian nor white.

Many people imagine the white Christian still to be Ned Flanders from The Simpsons " the kind of pesky, moralist neighbor up the street who doesn't want people to use bad language or drink too much beer at the barbecue. But we really should envision him as Mr. Burns, the person who wants absolute control over the public square and who will use any means necessary to get it.