From Vanity Fair: How Donald Trump’s Lack of Faith Attracts Conservative Christians
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🗓️ 27 December 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Inside The Hive host Brian Stelter explores the fracturing of the evangelical church with Tim Alberta, an Atlantic staff writer and author of “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory.” Alberta, the son of an evangelical pastor, charts the church’s rightward trajectory and embrace of Donald Trump, who is seen as a champion in an Us vs. Them political showdown. Stelter and Alberta also discuss how a steady diet of outrage on cable news, talk radio, and social media has helped radicalize the flock.
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| 1:11.7 | evangelical church's embrace of Donald Trump and the fractures that are emerging in certain congregations |
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| 1:29.5 | Tim, when we're talking about evangelicals in the United States, who are we talking about? |
| 1:35.4 | So we're talking about tens of millions of people who self-identify as evangelical, and more |
| 1:41.1 | specifically as white conservative evangelical Christians. |
| 1:45.0 | And they're plotted across a pretty vast spectrum here. |
| 1:48.0 | At the one end, you do have the sort of almost bloodthirsty, militant MAGA faction that is kind of bent on cultural and political domination. |
| 2:00.0 | On the other end, you have people who pretty much |
| 2:04.9 | want nothing to do with politics at all and who view themselves as almost separatists in that |
| 2:10.8 | they are wholly in service of a kingdom that is not of this world, and they might not even vote |
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