“Christofascist.” “Hateful.” “Violent.”
Leftists have ominously warned for a decade one group of people represent a unique threat to the American experiment: conservative evangelicals.
Progressive elites published book after book, with titles such as “The Violent Take It by Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy,” “Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation” and “Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith.”
One commentator sums up this narrative: Everyday churchgoing Christians who vote Republican and speak their minds are dangerous, “homegrown radicals who prioritize White Christian supremacy over multiracial democracy.”
Antagonism toward politically active Christians has been slowly rising ever since the media freaked out over George W. Bush’s 2000 primary declaration that Christ is his favorite philosopher.
But in the Trump era, this went into overdrive, with left-wing academics, politicians and even some Christian leaders conflating Jan. 6’s worst behavior with Trump-supporting church ladies whose primary concern is finding enough staff for kids’ Sunday school.
The problem, critics might argue, is when Christians get into politics. That’s when their fascism comes out.
Yet the shocking assassination of Christian political activist Charlie Kirk should cause some introspection among those whose hatred for conservatives blinds them to the hate on their own side.
In a tragic irony, the one targeted for death was the supposedly dangerous, conservative, churchgoing Christian who purposely planted himself among a crowd of people he knew disagreed with him.
And the one who killed him was catechized in the language of the left.
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Daniel is the director of the Land Center for Cultural Engagement at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books, including The Dignity Revolution, Agents of Grace, and his forthcoming book, In Defense of Christian Patriotism. Dan is a graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He and his wife, Angela, have four children.
