Bottom line: we would not be where we are, the Trump nightmare as 24 million face loss of healthcare, without white "pro-life" Christians 1)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
White "pro-life" Christians brought us the Trump nightmare, and continue supporting him as the GOP promises to rip coverage from millions 2)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
The churches — white churches — are deeply implicated in the national disgrace of the Trump regime. 3)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
How have we (how have the white churches) arrived at this point? 4)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
In large part, through a theology strong in white evangelical churches that sees shame as someone else's problem or challenge. 5)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
It's THEY who should be ashamed of who they are and what they do — not us, who are God's chosen people. 6)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
The white churches, especially white evangelical ones, have lost the capacity for shame, and the result is the Trump presidency. 7)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
White evangelicals have lost the capacity for shame because their theological system is about shaming others — never themselves. 8)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
White evangelical theology is about locating enemies over there, not here, within the holy community called by God. 9)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
White evangelical theology is about naming liberals, LGBTQ folks, women, people of color as the enemy — not the holy people of God. 10)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
This theology allows white evangelicals to turn an obvious immoral charlatan into an idol, and to feel no shame about this idolatry. 11)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
Via their idolization of one political party, white evangelical churches have abdicated responsibility to teach and lead responsibly 12)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
The abdication of civil (and gospel) responsibility by white churches is to a great degree responsible for Trump 13).— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
Church leaders could/should have been preaching about racism, exploitation of the many by the few, xenophobia, misogyny: silence. 14)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
Instead, they've focused on a "pro-life" message that turns out to be empty as 24 million face loss of coverage — Trump is the result. 15)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
Instead, they've focused on the "evil" of LGBTQ people and women — with Trump as the result. 16)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
The support of "pro-life" white Christians for Trump is on a par with the churches' silence in the face of Hitler in the 1930s. 17)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
It is historic sin equivalent to the capitulation of German churches to the Nazi regime. 18)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
This idolatry, this capitulation to Trump and his party, could not be more anti-life and anti-gospel. 19)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
But appealing to white U.S. Christians' sense of shame at this point in history will bear no fruit: that moral sense is gone. 20)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
And it cannot be recovered in the theological universe white evangelicals have built for themselves, which is impervious to shame. 21)— Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) March 14, 2017
