So many groups have betrayed their principles under President Donald J. Trump. It’s hard to keep count. It’s a given that Trump corrupts everything he touches. I could go on about the criminal Republican party, for example, and that’s still true. But I find the Evangelicals much harder to explain. What price did they get for their everlasting souls? They’re dealing with the Antichrist, after all.

The Republicans are easier to understand, or at least explain. Trump gave them a choice: me, or all your political positions. They looked at Trump. He’s the antithesis of every political, ethical, and moral idea they publicly espoused. And yet the Republican party chose to ditch conservatism and brown-nose up to his whims. Will they shrink Leviathan? Maybe later. Act with fiscal responsibility? Not anymore. Support conservative, family values? That’s so 80s to ask. Naa. They get their tax cuts and a steady stream of partisan apparatchiks nominated to lifetime judicial appointments. That’s easy to understand. They’re not changing any positions.  That’s all they ever wanted. The Republican party was always serving their corporate and financial masters first; the rest was always a cover story.

But the American Evangelical community was right behind the GOP hypocrites. Evangelical support never waivers, even as Trump slowly transforms into the spitting image of the Antichrist. So we’re turning away refugees and asylum seekers? I’m sure Jesus never spoke about people like that. Well, maybe he did, but being the savior and all, he probably didn’t mean all that stuff. Concentration camps? They quibble that the definition is only technically correct. Splitting apart families, then torturing the men, women, and children in separate cold, crowded, dirty cages, all because they’re brown? Are you kidding? All that damage, pain, and suffering is a feature, not a bug.  That’s what Trump’s administration likes about their policy. Maybe Evangelicals decided to cut an exception: use Christian values for everyone except brown people.

We’re around ten thousand lies past ‘bearing false witness.’ Start with the Central Park Five and Trump’s birther nonsense, and you can stop there. I suppose African-Americans can take pride that Trump hated them first, following his father before him.  And the Evangelical community continues to endorse Donald ‘Baby Hands’ Trump. So add ‘black people’ to the Evangelical exception list.

How about when Trump endorses sexual promiscuity? That’s okey-dokey, or so it seems. Treating women as sexual objects? Not a Christian issue, apparently. Trump’s support for sexual predators, wife beaters, and child molesters? I mean, so long as they’re white and rich, turn the other cheek. So the Christian behavior exceptions include brown people, black people, and women.

I could do this depressing analysis all day.  There is no part of Trump’s personality that’s moral. His administration, his appointees, and his policies are all contrary to Christian teachings.  I could look at modesty, humility, service, reverence, honor, and all those other Christian goals, but we already know they’re foreign concepts to our President.

Hey, look, here’s an easier trip. What does Trump support?  Consider Trump’s positions on pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth.  How many people can claim – gleefully – that they’ve covered all seven deadly sins? Got to be a new record. Trump does love his superlatives.

And yet the Evangelicals continue to love Trump, the walking, talking Antichrist. He seems like odd company for people who claim to be the godliest among us.