Christians aren’t signing up for the Trump administration’s unholy war

It has been a strange month for American Christians whose religious identity is not bound up with the adoration of President Trump.  

We watched a president who postures as a defender of the faith pollute the holiest days of the Christian calendar by invoking God while making profane threats to commit war crimes and annihilate an entire civilization.  

The same president offended Christians of all stripes by sharing an AI-generated image of himself appearing as a Christ-like figure, surrounded by prayerful and adoring supporters and carrying out a miraculous healing. Oh, yeah, and he responded to the pope’s calls for peace by rudely insulting the spiritual leader of the world’s Catholics. 

We also had Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, our self-proclaimed “secretary of war” and bloodthirsty crusader wannabe, treating the U.S. attack on the Iranian regime as a holy war to be waged without mercy and with “overwhelming violence.” Meanwhile, he urged Americans to pray for American victory “in the name of Christ” — or was it in the name of Quentin Tarantino? 

Hegseth, who clearly sees himself as a holy warrior, is not the only Cabinet member using taxpayer funds to proselytize a MAGA-fied Christianity. Wired Magazine wrote about the Trump team’s use of government resources to inundate civil servants with religious messaging, leading one employee to say that the administration “is not so much proudly Christian as it is belligerently so.”

“There exists a clear throughline of transgressive delight in violating the separation of church and state,” said a Health and Human Service employee, “of a similar corruptive mindset as the joy they take in forcing our agency........

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