God, Aliens, and Other Stuff

We’ve all heard the question. What are they thinking? How can so-called Christians support a president who has lived the life of a crime boss, with all the classic deceit, corruption, and damage?  How to politically seduce an Evangelical First, we need some context. Going back a few years, there are several influential movements that came together like streams in a watershed, resulting in a political-spiritual swamp just waiting for the right creature to thrive there. Like the dinosaurs in the La Brea Tar Pits, today’s Evangelicals are caught in the ooze of that swamp, a snare that was decades in the making. Make no mistake, it’s a Republican swamp. That is not to say that Democrats are always innocent, but todays miasma has a Republican stink. The first was the Koch movement to set up think tanks, foundations, and institutions to spread, not just conservative policy, but winner take all libertarian ideocracy. They played the long game over decades, and they succeeded in changing t