Where do evangelical conservatives go from here, after Dobbs and as Trump tries to return? Jane Coaston interviews the author Jon Ward.
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I don’t know that the Dobbs decision is going to change the way evangelicals engage in politics because the habits are so old and established now and they have a lot of sunk costs with the Republican Party.
Right now, there’s too much emotion and identity and ego and psychology involved. I think in a decade or two, there will be a lot more recognition or acceptance by evangelicals, that there was just a lot of bad that happened during Trump or a lot of damage that occurred to the country. Obviously, the fact that I’m writing this book and a lot of other people are writing similar books shows that there’s some level of grappling with this. I think that’ll continue.
, where it talks about spiritual warfare and putting on the breastplate of righteousness and our struggle is not against flesh and blood.In Ephesians 6, Paul describes putting on the “armor of God,” which different Christian denominations have interpreted and emphasized in different ways. Some believe, for instance, it means living a moral life and adhering to one’s values in a challenging world.
There’s a lot of nuance there. My theory is that the more this stuff is talked about in a reductionist way, it actually pushes people toward radicalization. It either makes them feel like, “What’s the point of trying to be acceptable to people who aren’t like me or mainstream culture?” I think that feeling makes them more susceptible to those leaders who are going to try to radicalize them.
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