{"id":73964,"date":"2026-04-16T17:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=73964"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T21:26:16","slug":"the-white-evangelical-bible-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2026\/04\/16\/the-white-evangelical-bible-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The white evangelical Bible in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Pope Leo quoted the Bible in his Palm Sunday sermon on March 29.<\/p>\n

Reuters\u2019 reporter Joshua McElwee<\/a> gave us those facts in his report from the service:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, \u200bwhom no one can use to justify war,\u201d Leo, the first U.S. pope, told crowds in \u200bbrilliant sunshine.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Jesus) does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: \u2018Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood\u2019,\u201d he said, citing a Bible \u200bpassage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, two<\/em> Bible passages, really, both from Isaiah.* The verse he quotes directly is Isaiah 1:15. Reuters didn\u2019t offer the explicit chapter-and-verse reference there, but Vatican News did<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV went on to recall the prophet Isaiah\u2019s words: \u201cEven though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood\u201d (Is 1:15).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those of us raised in white fundamentalist or white evangelical churches shouldn\u2019t need some papist Catholic news outlet to identify the chapter and verse for us there. We are, after all, the Bible Christians. We are Bible-based and biblicistic. We are good Bereans, noble in character, who \u201cexamine the Scriptures every day\u201d (Acts 17:11). We are Bible-memorizers and Bible-quoters. \u201cEvery promise in the book is mine,\u201d we sing, \u201cEvery chapter, every verse, every line.\u201d For us, it\u2019s all about the Bible as the first word and the last word on any and every question.<\/p>\n

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We take great pride in that, ready and eager to go toe-to-toe against the calcified traditions and rituals and ornate theologies that have accreted around the simplicity of the text that we honor and elevate above all of that. We know that we know the Bible better than they do, so we know that our reliance on the words of The Word will always triumph over all of their earthly, human theologies and doctrines and dogmas.<\/p>\n

And so it was darkly hilarious to watch white American evangelical leaders rushed to Twitter and in front of the cameras to proudly reveal that they cannot recognize the Bible when someone quotes it back to them.<\/p>\n

Isaiah who? Never heard of him! Sounds \u201cwoke\u201d \u2014 like one of those cultural Marxist hippies.<\/p>\n

The Babylon Bee mocked the pope for daring to suggest that God will not listen to the prayers of those whose hands are full of blood, completely missing that they were responding to Isaiah, not to Leo. Allie Beth Stuckey \u2014 the \u201cempathy is toxic\u201d lady \u2014 said \u201cThere is absolutely no biblical basis \u2026 whatsoever\u201d for the verbatim words of Isaiah 1:15. Steve Deace said the biblical passage quoted by the pope was \u201cEXPLICITLY heterodoxical.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not a fan of any of those people, but I still cringed from the second-hand embarrassment of their basic Bible-recognition failure. They brought this humiliation on themselves, and they earned<\/em> it, but it was still almost painful to watch. It was almost like with Malvolio at the end of Twelfth Night,<\/em> when the pompous fool finally gets his comeuppance it\u2019s so devastating that you start to feel sorry for him.<\/p>\n

Still, though, I thought this was going to be a one-day story. Surely, after a half-dozen prominent public humiliations at the start of Holy Week, nobody else is going to repeat this mistake, right? I mean, even if other white evangelical leaders \u00a0didn\u2019t initially recognize the words in Leo\u2019s sermon as being from the Bible, surely they noticed the multitude of others loudly pointing this out in response to that first round of Palm Sunday criticism. Maybe they didn\u2019t see the stories about the sermon and immediately think, \u201cOh, he\u2019s quoting from Isaiah 1:15,\u201d but surely they\u2019d have caught a glimpse of one of the many, many follow-up stories that said \u201cAmerican Christians Didn\u2019t Recognize Isaiah 1:15 As Being From The Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n

And yet, no. Because here we are, more than two weeks<\/em> after Palm Sunday, and this is still happening<\/em>. Mike Johnson, the extravagantly Southern Baptist speaker of the House, just yesterday<\/a> characterized Leo\u2019s direct, verbatim quotation of Isaiah 1:15 as the pope \u201cwading into political waters.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been weeks<\/em> and these white American Christians still do not recognize the words of the Bible as the words of the Bible.<\/p>\n

Johnson\u2019s former Sunday school and VBS and Awana teachers must be mortified.<\/p>\n

Part of the explanation here is that the passage Leo quoted is not one of the tiny handful of passages from Isaiah that white evangelical Americans would recognize. The \u201csuffering servant\u201d passages we Christians treat as messianic prophecies of Christ are familiar to them, and they used to buy and sell T-shirt with Isaiah 40:31 on them (\u201cBut they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint\u201d).** \u00a0But most of Isaiah, like Amos, is just too woke. It all sounds too much like MLK. They avoid<\/em> it, studiously.<\/p>\n

As funny as the white evangelical declaration that Isaiah chapter 1 has \u201cabsolutely no biblical basis\u201d may be, it\u2019s still only the second funniest, and second-most-ridiculous story in the news right now about white evangelicals and the Bible they supposedly love so very much.<\/p>\n

Here is the funniest: \u201cHegseth channels his inner Tarantino with fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction<\/a>.\u201d (Brian Kaylor has a longer report and discussion of this<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar with the Quentin Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction, it features a hit man named Jules Winston, played (to the hilt) by Samuel L. Jackson. Jules likes to recite a terrifying Bible passage to his victims before killing them. As he explains in the movie, \u201cI been sayin\u2019 that shit for years. And if you ever heard it, that meant your ass. You\u2019d be dead right now. I never gave much thought to what it meant. I just thought it was a cold-blooded thing to say to a motherfucker before I popped a cap in his ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jules says that this passage is from \u201cEzekiel 25:17\u201d and what he recites does include some words that come from that passage in the Bible. But most of his \u201cBible quote\u201d is not<\/em> from the Bible. \u00a0It\u2019s something written by Tarantino and embellished by Jackson. It\u2019s Bible-ish<\/em>, a Bible pastiche that doesn\u2019t quite work \u00a0\u2014 too hodgepodge and too muddled. Ezekiel is a very strange book, but Jules speech doesn\u2019t really sound anything like Ezekiel: \u201cThe path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness, for he is truly his brother\u2019s keeper and the finder of lost children.\u201d***<\/p>\n

Good, respectable white evangelicals, of course, do not go to see R-rated movies. But when those of us who are not good and respectable white evangelicals first saw Pulp Fiction<\/em> we tripped over Jules\u2019 words in this scene. We heard all of that and thought: That\u2019s very obviously not<\/em> the Bible.<\/p>\n

But apparently to Pete Hegseth and his fellow holy war-fighters at the Deus Vult Pentagon, that\u2019s not so obvious.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, the actual verse of Ezekiel 25:17 is a pronouncement of God\u2019s judgment on a Philistine city on the Mediterranean coast. So it\u2019s somewhat connected to what may be the third-funniest current news story about white evangelicals and the Bible.<\/p>\n

That has to do with Greg Phillips, the MAGA man appointed by Trump to lead FEMA\u2019s office of response and recovery. Phillips is a frequent guest on right-wing podcasts where he likes to tell stories \u2014 sometimes remarkable stories. Like, for example, the story he has told, repeatedly, about him teleporting 50 miles to a Waffle House in Rome, Georgia<\/a>. Questioned about his claims of teleportation, Phillips doubled down on those claims. And he\u2019s been loudly defending himself as a believer in supernaturalism now facing persecution from secularist liberals who deny all miracles.<\/p>\n

And so some of his fellow MAGA evangelicals have stepped up to defend him from this ungodly persecution. How dare<\/em> you question his belief in miracles?!?<\/p>\n

Both Phillips and his defenders have invoked Acts 8:39 as a biblical basis for belief in supernatural teleportation. That verse reads: \u201cWhen they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe eunuch\u201d there refers to the man Philip the Evangelist just baptized on some random roadside, shortly after his dash through Samaria where he baptized sorcerers and prostitutes and anybody else he could find. The Ethiopian eunuch is, by the way, the first queer Black convert baptized into the early church. (And if you think that\u2019s a misleading way of describing that, you haven\u2019t read the book of Acts.)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a stretch to read \u201cthe Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away\u201d as teleportation. The guy was in a hurry. Jesus had sent him to Jerusalem and all of Judea, and Samaria, and the uttermost parts of the earth. He had a lot of ground to cover, all while still checking in with his day job back in Jerusalem to make sure the immigrant widows weren\u2019t being neglected.<\/p>\n

But OK, sure, if they want to read that as \u201cGod teleported Philip away\u201d I won\u2019t argue. They\u2019re reading about Philip, and having them reading about Philip is always a Good Thing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Acts 8 doesn\u2019t tell us where the Spirit \u201ctook Philip away\u201d to. All it tells us is that \u201cPhilip appeared at Azotus and traveled about.\u201d Azotus is Ashdod, the same city that Ezekiel 25 proclaims God\u2019s vengeance against.<\/p>\n

Why was Philip in Ashdod, specifically? We don\u2019t know. It doesn\u2019t say. There was probably, like, a coven of Philistine witches who had begun feeding local orphans and so he was there to baptize them. You know, the usual Philip stuff.<\/p>\n

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* \u201cKing of Peace\u201d also cites Isaiah, from Isaiah 9:6, a passage usually associated more with the Christmas season than with Holy Week: \u201cFor to us a child is born, <\/span>to us a son is given, <\/span><\/span>and the government will be on his shoulders. <\/span><\/span>And he will be called <\/span>Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, <\/span><\/span>Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The switch from \u201cprince\u201d to \u201cking\u201d there is good Easter theology, with many layers worth exploring. It\u2019s bit jarring in terms of the liturgical calendar \u2014 noting the victory and vindication of the resurrection before<\/em> the end of Lent \u2014 but hailing the Prince of Peace as the \u201cKing\u201d of Peace could be a whole sermon in itself.<\/p>\n

We Christians \u2014 me, Leo, Johnson, Hegseth, etc. \u2014 \u201cinterpret\u201d Isaiah 9:6 as a passage about Jesus of Nazareth. That\u2019s more of an appropriation<\/em> than an interpretation, but that\u2019s a whole other topic. The point here is that once you make that stretch, you\u2019re also applying Isaiah 9:7-8 to Jesus, suggesting that from the first Easter Sunday onward, his reign of \u201cpeace\u201d and \u201cjustice and righteousness\u201d has already begun. That might not be what most American evangelicals are thinking as we sing the words of Isaiah 9:6 along with Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant at Christmastime, but Leo\u2019s \u201cKing of Peace\u201d asks us to remember that.<\/p>\n

Leo also attributes the words of Isaiah 1:15 to Jesus, which is not who the author of Isaiah attributes these words to. This, again, is a thing that we Christians tend to do, projecting our Trinitarian theology back onto passages of the Hebrew Scriptures that were not written or intended to support Trinitarian theology. This is eminently orthodox and traditional and \u201cconservative\u201d as a Christian approach to the text, but not at all a literal reading or strict adherence to the text itself as originally written.<\/p>\n

** Those T-shirts and inspirational posters with air-brushed soaring eagles were really popular except for between 2008 and 2016, because Barack Obama kept quoting that verse when people asked him to name a favorite Bible verse and, for white evangelicals, it was just another example of how that Black guy ruined everything<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Here in Philly, that verse has always<\/em> been popular. Go Birds.<\/p>\n

*** Timothy Christian School was not KJV-only fundamentalist, but the King James Version was our official translation. We were allowed to read the NIV or the Living Bible, but this allowance was meant to be supplemental to the reading and study of the King James, which is the translation we memorized huge chunks of for our weekly Bible memorization tests. (Real<\/em> Bible Christians should be off book.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

We could get extra credit on those tests by memorizing longer passages, and so buy the end of the semester, some of us had built up enough extra credit to have plenty to burn and we\u2019d play a game. We\u2019d memorize the passage for the next week\u2019s test in the NIV and then try to King James-ify it ourselves when we took the test. All of us fundie kids were much, much better at King James pastiche than this passage from Tarantino is.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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A former managing editor of Prism magazine, Fred worked in the parachurch nonprofit world for a decade and then for a decade in the newspaper biz. He began blogging in 2002. In 2003 he began writing a review of the best-selling Left Behind series. Eight years later he still hasn\u2019t finished reviewing the second book of that series and the experience has left him a broken shell of a man. Fred knows the difference between the possessive \u201cits\u201d and the contraction \u201cit\u2019s,\u201d and he is acutely bothered when others mistakenly confuse the two, yet he himself just kind of instinctively types the apostrophe whether or not it belongs there. Some feel this is his greatest hypocrisy, but those who know him better know better. He\u2019s guilty of much greater hypocrisies. Jesus loves Fred far more than Fred loves Jesus, but he at least has the decency to recognize the unfairness of that lopsided relationship and he has long wished that he were better at maybe kind of sort of doing something more to correct that some day. A Baptist, an amateur, a Gen-Xer, a Gemini and a Mets fan, Fred lives in Southeastern Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage daughters. 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