How the Republican Party is Gaslighting Christians

This is an EXCELLENT first-person view of one woman's epiphany concerning the toxic marriage between Republicanism and Christianity.  Much of this I have been trying to state in smaller snippets than this article, but her narrative and analysis of how she came to understand all the shameless bullshit that Republicanity now contains is exceptional.

Here is her basic premise to whet your appetite:

"And then came 2016. Donald Trump, a man whom until then I most closely associated with 'The Apprentice,' was now the Republican nominee for president of the United States. Trump’s campaign and election was a breaking point for me and many other American evangelicals. This was when we realized that everything we had been told was non-negotiable didn’t matter when there was power on the line. The election was like a floodlight on the underbelly of the evangelical church, and this is when the church started gaslighting me.
Gaslighting is psychological manipulation that leads one to question one’s own feelings and perceptions of reality. For more than two years now, I have watched, shocked, as 81 percent of the religious leaders and peers of my youth and early adulthood have embraced a man and a political ideology contrary to the teachings of Jesus. They have thrown out the foundational values of Christianity in exchange for tax cuts, Supreme Court nominees and political power. Today, those Christians are calling me a heretic and a godless woman because now I reject their Republican rhetoric and because my personal Christian values (that they drilled into me for decades) more closely align with the Democratic Party’s platform.
The boldness of the church’s hypocrisy is causing me to question the very foundation of my spiritual beliefs. It’s disorienting. Every biblical principle I hold sacred has been disregarded by many other Christians, and I often feel like I’m losing my sanity while the entire house of cards that is my evangelical upbringing collapses around me."

Now, go and read the rest of it; it is worth it.  Then, spread it around, especially if you know one of those 81% of the white evangelicals that support this piece of human buffoonery.  If the church wants its credibility back anytime soon, it is high time to disassociate itself completely from Trump.