...to
be an American. Nearly every item of news that people in other countries (for
example, France) hear about us is bad. And true.
They
constantly hear about how many evangelical Christians there are in America.
Many millions. Evangelical Christians are the ones who say that all other Christians
are going to hell. At the same time, there are always numerous news reports,
only some of which make it over to France, about immoral things that
evangelical Christians do. America stands out in the world as a place thick
with evangelical hypocrites.
They
also repeatedly hear about how evangelical Christians by and large practically
worship Donald Trump. Many of them are quite open in their idolatry and
admiration of Him. As far as I can determine, no evangelical groups have criticized Trump about anything. There
are individual evangelicals who have,
and they had, at least before the election, an online petition they can sign.
But these anti-Trump evangelicals are individuals
scattered among the predominantly Trump-worshiping evangelical churches.
And
then they also hear about utterly heinous crimes committed in Bible-belt
states. This does not mean that the criminals are Christians, but the
evangelicals claim that their Christianity creates a moral culture around them.
The utter stupidity of this statement is illustrated by a news item that was
scarcely reported in American news but was featured prominently in the French
online news.
In
North Carolina, Katie Pladl, age 20, looked for the biological father who had
abandoned his family at the time of her birth. She found Steven Pladl, 42
years old. She married him and, a year later, had a baby by him. Here is the French news report with the American news photo below that appeared on
French news. Incest is the one action that is considered sinful in every
cultural group in the world, except that it is apparently thinkable in the
Bible belt.
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