Trigger warning. This podcast contains descriptions of various abusive situations. Listener discretion is

advised. My name is Eric Skritsky. As a former religious fundamentalist, I'm shedding light on the

dark side of the church, from the pulpit to the pews. But I'm not doing it alone. Each week,

I'm sitting down with survivors, advocates,

authors, and more to uncover the inner workings of these abusive religious groups, to give

tactical tips on how to escape and to find out what we can do to take them down. You're listening

to the Preach Boys podcast. Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Preacher

Boys podcast. On today's episode, I want to examine the relationship between Donald Trump

and evangelicals. Now, there's been no shortage of conversation surrounding Trump and

the evangelical voter base, but what's one more video? I want to talk about this because we are post-election,

and a lot of mainstream political pundits are still trying to understand the relationship

between conservative evangelicals and Donald Trump. And as a former fundamentalist myself and as the host of

this podcast, which seeks to understand, you know, religious influence on the culture and

specifically the darker aspects of religious fundamentalism, I think this is something that's

worth talking about. And it's something that personally fascinates me. This show in many ways is to highlight the voices of others, but it's also been a diary of sorts for my own journey in trying to understand all the ways in which my religious fundamentalist upbringing has influenced my perspective and others like mine

when it comes to politics and other aspects of one's worldview.

And the reason I thought about doing this episode is because the Public Religion Research Institute

recently released their post-election survey a couple weeks ago.

And in the wake of the survey,

the president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, Robert P. Jones,

who's also a leading scholar and commentator on religion and politics, released an analysis for

Baptist News Global, saying that the survey dispelled what he called two zombie myths about white evangelical support for Trump.

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