Opinion Trump has changed the way evangelical Christians think?
It is only now that the results are clear - if still rhetorically contested - that the language of Trump's allies can return to the eschatological. Richard Land, president of the Southern Evangelical Seminary, responded to an interviewed asking him why God would allow Trump to lose by saying, "it could be that Joe Biden and Kamala D. Harris are a judgment of God on the United States." Robert Jeffress, Trump's stalwart ally, finally published an opinion piece entitled "Biden is president-elect - how should Christians respond?" In it, he writes, "Now, it's always easier to submit and to pray for someone when he was our preferred candidate. But the rubber really meets the road when the person who takes office is not the one we supported. Paul didn't give us any wiggle room - his command applies all the same, whether the emperor was the faith-friendly Constantine or the evil emperor Nero." With that last...