After former President Donald Trump gave his victory speech early Wednesday, at the Palm Beach Convention Center, dozens of his supporters gathered in a lobby to sing “How Great Thou Art,” reciting from memory the words and harmonies of a classic hymn, popular among evangelical Christians.

It was a fitting coda to an election in which Trump once again won the support of about 8 in 10 white evangelical Christian voters, according to AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of more than 120,000 voters. That margin — among a group that represented about 20% of the total electorate — repeats similarly staggering margins of evangelical support that T rump received in 2020.

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    It’s really disappointing that so many “Christians” are blind to the fact that Trump fits many of the descriptors for the Antichrist. He may not be the definitive article (he doesn’t quite match everything), but is definitely one of those false prophets the Bible specifically warns Christians to look out for. They are ignorant of what the Bible says and the values it actually stands for.

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    13 hours ago

    Can we start putting quotes around the word christians when they so clearly don’t give the slightest bit of a fuck about the teachings of christ?

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      I was an agnostic when I was 12-years-old. “Christians” have made me an atheist.

      Maybe that’s their goal. Playing 5-D checkers there.

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    Makes sense to me. If you lack the critical thinking skills to see the contradictions in the fairy tales the Bible serves up, you’re likely to miss the fact that the guy paying lip service to ‘Christian values’ is the antithesis to said values.