Trump’s fans seem to think that he can do no wrong. They insist that Trump is not merely the better choice in the 2024 election, but the best President in all of American history, the smartest, strongest, all around greatest leader of them all. Some even call Trump a prophet, anointed by God, who never ever makes mistakes.
Could it be that the inflexibility of the Christian doctrine of biblical infallibility has been transferred, in the minds of America’s Christian Nationalists, into a kind of worship of Donald Trump?
Darin Cerwinske is pastor of the Cedar Point Church in Nashua, Iowa.
Cerwinske writes that, “The Bible is God’s infallible word.” This absolute certainty in the inability of one’s own religious perspective to be flawed is strikingly similar to the attitude of Donald Trump’s supporters.
The 317 members of the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition each carry a story in their minds about what led them as individuals to proclaim that their religious leadership would be devoted to the political career of Donald Trump. Some of those stories have been shared in public, though many of them remain in the privacy of Coalition members’ own consciences.
Beyond these individual stories, there is a larger narrative about the impact of Christian Nationalism on American politics and the radically transformative plans of Christian Nationalists for the American future.
These stories are told in a new book on the subject. It’s called Donald Trump’s Army of God: Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.
It sounds crazy, but it’s real. What they intend to do to America is too extreme for us to ignore.
The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a radical political organization that violates American law
Let’s learn more about the extremist Christian Nationalists who are members of Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition.