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Attorney David French at The National Review explains<\/a>. \u00a0Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m not one who thinks that Christians in America are suffering as much as their counterparts in China or the Islamic world. \u00a0Far from it. \u00a0And yet, the trick is to not wait until it becomes that bad to care. \u00a0Many are rightly shocked at the number of Evangelicals who threw standards out the window to support Trump. \u00a0And yet, be careful. \u00a0Don\u2019t throw the baby out with the bathwater. \u00a0 If you were worried about the erosion of public displays of non-progressive religious practice\u00a0a year ago, you still should be.<\/p>\n

As a dear priest friend from West Africa asked our parish one Sunday: \u2018What\u2019s the matter with you?\u2019 \u00a0Don\u2019t we know how precious is our religious freedom, and yet we\u2019re feeling the\u00a0need to either change and modify our beliefs to fit the culture, or accept being shoved into the closets and the catacombs. \u00a0Those who shrug and say Americans don\u2019t have anything to worry about, especially if only a few years ago they were yelling \u2018Resist the Tyranny\u2019 in response to such developments as the HHS mandate, might need to be the ones we suspect.<\/p>\n

Perhaps those Evangelicals flocked to Trump only because the choice wasn\u2019t between religious tolerance and religious bigotry, but between which religion deserves the bigotry. \u00a0And rather than embrace the modern tendency to trash our own demographics, they decided\u00a0that if push comes to shove, it will be their own they protect. \u00a0Rejecting the philosophy of modern martyrdom, where by the degree\u00a0to which I\u2019ll tolerate the suffering of others for my opinions have I displayed my righteousness, they chose to take a stand, however flawed, for the well being of their posterity in faith and practice.<\/p>\n

Who knows. \u00a0 There are probably so many reasons the worst candidate in history lost to Donald Trump, you can\u2019t narrow it down to one. \u00a0But this probably isn\u2019t too far off the mark.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"