Christians Are Having a Trump-sized Reckoning

Saturday, April 18, 2026

Across the country, Evangelicals are facing a moral dilemma -- is supporting government actions in line with their religious beliefs?

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... To parse through these questions of God and country, Brittany is joined by NPR Religion correspondent Jason DeRose, and Reverend Dr. Gabriel Salguero, president and founder of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition and pastor of the Gathering Place in Orlando, Florida.

(00:00) The Evangelical Dilemma: do the Trump Administration's actions line up with the Bible?
(06:29) How the Trump Administration uses the Bible for political messaging. Is it Christian, though?
(15:29) What is the line between church and state? And who decides?
(20:06) The Evangelical belief that American Christians are under siege ,,,

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-17 08:23 PM | Reply

... Evangelicals are facing a moral dilemma -- is supporting government actions in line with their religious beliefs? ...

How Christian Nationalism Affects Views on Immigration
prri.org

... According to PRRI's 2025 American Values Atlas, one-third of Americans qualify as Christian nationalism Adherents (12%) or Sympathizers (21%), compared with two-thirds who qualify as Skeptics (36%) or Rejecters (27%).[1]

Previous PRRI research on Christian nationalism also finds that support for Christian nationalist ideology correlates with holding more extreme views about immigrants and immigration policy.

However, among those who qualify as Christian nationalists, these views differ drastically by race. ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-17 11:29 PM | Reply

@#2 ... However, among those who qualify as Christian nationalists, these views differ drastically by race. ...

Wait, what???

How does one's race affect one's Christian views?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-17 11:30 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Whaa?

Are Christians having a come to Trumpy Jesus moment?

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-04-18 10:46 AM | Reply

Trump has been an amoral money-grubbing heathen with a potty mouth forever. The fact that some American-style Kreestians' are just starting to notice now is bizarre.

#5 | Posted by anton at 2026-04-18 11:41 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

I guess none of the Trumpers here are Christians.

There is no Reckoning among the DR Trumpers.

There will never be a Reckoning among the DR Trumpers.

There is nothing Trump could do to lose their support.

#6 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-18 12:18 PM | Reply

Junior Graham's check must have cleared.
www.politico.com

#7 | Posted by morris at 2026-04-18 05:38 PM | Reply

He's always been a living, breathing scam any child could see from a mile away

#8 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-04-19 01:36 AM | Reply

"Evangelicals" are the same idiots who buy jewelry on the TV at 3am.

In other words, suckers.

#9 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-04-19 02:02 AM | Reply

Christians Are Having a Trump-sized Reckoning

Despite his moral failures, Christians justified their support of Trump by comparing him to King Cyrus and/or King David. Supposedly, Trump, imperfect as he was, God was using him as the "vessel" to achieve divine goals.

He's still the imperfect, lying POS that he always was. What happened?

#10 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2026-04-20 06:24 AM | Reply

And once again I am quite grateful for my embracing...atheism. We all live in the same reality, and it isn't fundamentalist anything but physics.

#11 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-04-20 06:59 AM | Reply

Millions of American Christians never bought into Trump or MAGA or the right-wing agenda. Some American Evangelicals and Pentecostals are having this reckoning. Younger people in those communities have been detaching themselves from the right-wing for a decade or so. These are good signs. May it continue and accelerate.

#12 | Posted by anton at 2026-04-20 07:48 AM | Reply