The Data is In: Trump is A Unifying Force in the Church

The left would have you believe churches are divided. Do not believe them. They lie.

Wednesday, the messaging from evangelical leftists was clear. They were not happy about Trump’s victory, but now the church must come together to heal deep wounds and bridge a deep divide between those who supported and those who did not support Donald J. Trump as next president of the United States.

Do not listen to those voices.

These are the same voices that told pastors not to publicly support Donald Trump because it would offend “half their congregation.” This, of course, could only be true if half their congregation was lost. But to be fair, in their churches, that’s likely the case. It turns out - as we all knew - American evangelical churches are not divided over Donald Trump except, perhaps, for the ones who are no more evangelical “than chalk is cheese” (as Spurgeon would say).

For example, consider this tweet from Samuel James, who no one had ever heard of until he did a blog about me in 2014 defending Russell Moore, and Moore compensated him by immediately hiring him at the ERLC.

When I accused Russell Moore of being a progressive back in 2014, everybody guffawed at an accusation so “unhinged” and “crazy” that they found it fanciful, and James penned his blog, writing lines like, “J.D. Hall’s latest hit piece on Russell Moore might be one of the dumber things you will have read in 2014. It’s petty and silly, proves exactly nothing and is unintentionally hilarious in its false dichotimies [sic] and needless presumptions.”

And apparently, Russell Moore was like, “Get that guy on the line. I’ll make a spot for him.”

Anyway, he’s still out there in liberal land, and still chortling at the notion nobody is buying what Russell Moore is still selling, at least on this side of the Christian-Pagan divide. These gayjacent liberals can’t seem to let go of their rouse, like a tyrrangender dude still thinking he looks good in a dress.

He went on in that article, “Calling Moore a liberal is a cheap, baseless tactic, particularly when accompanied with zero effort at persuasion. If Hall and his cohorts believe that conservative talk radio is vanguard of traditional principles, that’s on them.”

That tweet didn’t age so well.

But it turns out, elitist evangelicals know literally nothing about what is and is not the vanguard of traditional principles. How do I know that? Tuesday, we put it to a vote.

Check out this graph on the breakdown of the evangelical vote a few days ago.

Before leftists get their whities more tighties, don’t fall for the Critical Theory undertones of the stats, dividing black and white evangelicals. This is a common tactic. For example, I screamed “nobody cares!” at the CBS election coverage so many times my wife gave me the “take it down a notch” look. My outbursts came each time the news desk announced how Kamala was “doing better among women aged 56 to 65 who were gay and drove Subarus” or “doing better among college age girls raised in suburbs and played soccer.”

Nobody cares. Each time a needlessly fractured stat was hurled out, the lefties at the news desk would breathe a sigh of relief, apparently unaware that electoral votes are not assigned by demographics like they are to states. It was an absolutely pointless exercise in determining who would become president, but they couldn’t see it because of the Identity Politics brainwashing that would lead to their surprise on election night and Kamala’s incredible loss.

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The point is, even when you factor in the black evangelical vote (which largely is not evangelical, because the black church was carried away into Liberation Theology in the 1960s), the overwhelming majority of evangelicals supported Donald Trump to the extent that support for our new POTUS is - statistically - the greatest unifying cultural issue in the Christian church. But that’s not the impression you would have gotten from leftists before Tuesday.

Yeah, not so much.

The stats couldn’t be any clearer; evangelicals soundly rejected the evangelical elite’s admonishment to not vote for Trump, or to stay home and not vote at all. And then, they crawled through broken glass, a sea of purple-haired obese women screaming at them, and waded waist deep through accusations of bigotry in order to vote for Donald Trump.

I’m not sure if we can back this up with hard data, but I would guess that evangelicals were more eager to show up to the polls than attend the church Super Bowl party.

This is not the impression you would have gotten from evangelical elitists prior to Tuesday. They tried to have you convinced that prayer rooms were dedicated on Sunday to crying crowds of church attendees trying to pray down voting guidance on flaming tongues sent down directly by the Holy Ghost. They tried to convince all of us that families would be holding hands, weeping on Monday night, still unsure the best way to honor God with their vote. These are, they told us “excruciating decisions” and “tough choices” with “no good options.”

Everyone who told us that needs to shut up, post haste. They won’t, of course, because they practice the glossolalia of Satan and can’t stop running off at the mouth. But it would be in our best interest to tune them out until Jesus comes.

The last two days, the evangelical elite - after disappearing on election night like dispensationalists in the rapture - have come out in force, lamenting exactly how divided the church is and discussing how we might minister to all the “hurting” evangelicals out there.

Phooey.

Anguish! Despair! The next thing you know, these three guys aren’t going to be cutting their hair on a livestream, promising to not have sex with any more men (just kidding; they wouldn’t go that far).

In the coming days you’ll see a huge amount of evangelical elitists put out blog posts or podcasts like the one you see above, explaining how to best minister to the disaffected, marginalized, and broken-hearted congregants who supported Kamala Harris.

Bro. There aren’t any.

You’ll also see the lefties attempt to shame Christians for rejoicing in Trump’s election because, apparently, this is no time for a praise report.

Understand the messaging here. When evangelicals prove themselves unified, it’s not unity. It’s a cult. It’s idolatry. To evangelical leftists, the illegitimate spiritual children of Karl Marx, unity is dangerous, seedy, and sinister. Without division, their agenda dies. They hate unity in the church, so they are losing their minds over Donald Trump.

But, the church is unified. Let’s discuss this Biblically for a moment.

The Scripture tells us that unity in the church is directly from God the Holy Ghost. Unity in the church demonstrates spiritual health. Division, on the other hand, is from Satan. Unity in the church is never, ever characterized as problematic, let alone “idolatry.”

In coming months and years, the evangelical church needs to lean into its political alignment, not be ashamed of it. One can argue biblically - for good reason - that the evangelical church’s support for Donald Trump is quite literally a move of the Spirit. Nothing else can explain how a church with so many divisions can be brought together around a singular cultural issue without it being supernatural.

This, of course, is not to say Trump is a Christian or that his policies are all Biblical. It is to say that there is a level of discernment that comes from the Holy Ghost that universally informs Christians that the Democratic Party is an enemy of God and of God’s people.

Lean into it.