Trump’s party and their “Christian” message is probably creating more atheists and agnostics than any other point in American history. I’m making an assumption here, an accurate one, I think, but certainly not one for which the necessary studies have been conducted.
What leads me to conclude this about Trump and his party are the messages he put out into the world on Easter morning and today, Tuesday, April 7, 2026. His Easter message was this:
And this morning, he went with another equally inspiring and “Christian” message:
I’m just gonna gloss over the fact that Obama would have been impeached if he ever tweeted, Praise be to Allah, on Easter or any other day because that’s not what this post is about.
This post is about how confusing and hard it must be to arrive at the Christian faith nowadays. The most public references to God and faith I see/hear on a daily basis are, unfortunately, from the American regime. If it’s not Trump’s Happy Easter message, then it’s Pete Hegseth’s messaging that our war with Iran is a just and holy cause, that God is on our side. Or it’s Karoline Leavitt’s bizarre exclamation to start off a presser last week, “Could you hear our ‘amen’ in there? We just said a little loud prayer as a team.” Imagine circling up for a prayer (bragging about it, too), then going out to face the media to promote and justify killing innocent Iranians or to talk about taking out Iranian infrastructure? If I were looking for a religion, a savior, a movement to put my faith in why, oh why would it ever be the “Christian” one the power players in the GOP serve to us on a daily basis? How could anyone make the connection from Jesus’ words to the words featured above?
Faith-wise, I am in a place that is not tied to a political party. I am highly skeptical of any talk that refers to God being on our side, whether the conflict in question is a war or an NCAA football game. I think it’s a good, informed, wise place to be, but not the end of the journey (just where I am). If I was coming of age now, looking at the party and the people exclaiming that they are God’s warriors, I would not arrive at the same place. I don’t know what I would be. Agnostic? Maybe. I know one thing, “Christians” would be the most confusing people ever and I wouldn’t once say, I want what they’re having.
My kids are coming of age in this tumultuous time, in which the Christian faith has been hijacked by a political party in the most obvious and obscene ways I have ever witnessed. When my daughter and son see things on the news and turn to me questioningly, I am reminded to tell them the message Mr. Roger’s mom told him, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
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