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Blackvegetable » Today, 5:57 am » wrote: ↑

Today, 5:57 am

Institutions take on the character of their leaders, and political evangelicalism can look much more like Paul Pressler than Jesus Christ. Political evangelicalism is a system that is deeply influenced by depraved men, and it has exactly the features that depraved men will demand of an institution they control.

The stark reality of this depravity is hidden from millions of evangelicals, including millions of Southern Baptists. They love God and their neighbors and live lives far removed from politics. You would want them next door. You would find much to admire in the way they raise their children and serve their communities. They almost all vote Republican, but for many, it’s as much a matter of habit as it is a matter of deeply held conviction. It’s what you do when you go to an evangelical church. It’s part of how you fit into the community you love.

The modern history of political evangelicalism is riddled with the same kind of story: A powerful man gains a following by casting himself as the heroic warrior against the heretical and the godless. When he uses his power and fame to indulge his basest desires, he treats exposure as an attack and justice as persecution.

Against this backdrop, President Trump wasn’t an aberration; he was an inevitability. When he asked evangelicals for their political support, little did he know that he was walking into the house that Paul Pressler built.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/opin ... ssler.html

So who is Paul Pressler?

Hint: Texas Megachurch, naked boys.

Thank you for the copy-paste of your "research."

It's important that the people who tell you what to think have the opportunity to tell us what to think.

If you ever have a thought of your own, you ******, come and express it in my thread about the proxy war the west is waging against Russia, given that you are a Russian Literature major and ought to have some pretty strong PERSONAL, ORIGINAL opinions in the matter, had you the balls to stand on them.