"These believers find in Donald Trump a reflection of themselves, a champion of the unfettered greed, cult of masculinity, lust for violence, white supremacy, bigotry, American chauvinism, religious intolerance, anger, racism and conspiracy theories that define the central beliefs of the Christian right."
— Bruce Gerencser
Though now beginning to wane somewhat, the popularity of Donald Trump in the past five or six years has stunned most Americans, especially his deification by white Christian fundamentalists. The traditional assumption that Christians sought to emulate Christ was shattered as white Evangelicals became increasingly outspoken about their desire to replace democracy with a white nationalist theocracy.
Our featured guest on this week's Ageless Wisdom Mystery School program on KPFK-90.7 FM is Carolyn Baker, the author of "Confronting Christofascism — Healing the Evangelical Wound." A psychotherapist and history professor, Dr. Baker traces the Evangelical movement from its inception in the American South by klansmen and segregationists after the Civil War, through the rise of televangelism, to the groundswell of white fundamentalist church support for Donald Trump.
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