What Fundamentalist Christians See in Trump
For fundamentalist Christians in America, what matters is not the factual truth of Donald Trump’s sinful, un-Christian character, but rather the belief that divine forces are acting through him. If Republicans no longer seem committed to democracy, that is because they are now concerned with something bigger: the Rapture.
NEW YORK – Now that Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, it seems fitting to address a source of perplexity that has persisted ever since he arrived on the political scene: How can America’s fundamentalist Christians be so enthusiastic about so thoroughly un-Christian a politician?