Philosophers Café: “Star Spangled Christians”: Evangelicals in Age of Exremism

It is odd, troubling, and perhaps terrifying. How has it come about that the evangelical communities in the United States as well as Canada have been reconfigured? How has it come about that many who once rooted their faith in the Gospels and its call to “serve the Prince of Peace” and the kingdom in which “there is no slave nor free, no male or female, not Jew or Gentile” now read the scripture through the lens of fear and ‘Christian nationalism’ and see a political leader as the servant of God on a crusade to “save Christianity?”