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I'm Patrick Miller.

It's a little over a week since the last election, which reminds

me of a conversation I once had, and honestly this might sound extreme and bizarre, but I

promise you this is true.

It was after the 2020 election.

Someone reached out to me,

and they were really deeply disturbed

by the presidential results.

He believed that the election had been stolen, and he believed that a great injustice was happening.

But what he said next honestly Floyd me. He told me that he was losing his faith because he didn't understand

how a good God could allow Donald Trump to lose the

Oval Office.

I kind of assumed he was exaggerating, but he wasn't really.

He was struggling with disappointment, and in his his mind at least the problem of evil and the loss of his

favored candidate was enough to shake his lifelong faith.

Again I know this is an extreme example but I also know that he's probably not alone.

And the reality is that lots of people, even if they don't take it that hard, might think and

feel similar things.

And that conversation, it forced me to reflect,

how have we got into a place in American Christianity

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