Promoting the confusion of religion and politics

Marie Wilson's article, "The evangelical who called out Trump," comes as no surprise since evangelical is now a political, not religious term. It's news because of the alignment of evangelical leaders with the current Oval Office as a voting block of conversatism in America.

Evangelicalism's cave-in to politics has been around ever since Billy Graham became our presidents' best friend and Jerry Falwell represented the silent majority of moral Christians in America. Mark Galli, CT editor, is concerned that Trump is "publicly moral." Would he feel better if Trump's immorality were private?

And where was CT's concern about the public immorality of Pastor Bill Hybels who to this day remains unrepentant of his sexual sins with 10 women? Would it not be more appropriate for a periodical with "Christianity" in its title to call out a Christian pastor's immoral behavior? Instead Galli's magazine initial coverage pooh-poohed Hybel's behavior and credited Willow Creek's innovations at "doing church" [whatever that means].

Mark Galli knew exactly what he was doing with an anti-Trump editorial. Please note how important it was for him to state the net increase of 6,000 subscriptions in response to his editorial. Galli simply body surfed the increasing wave of anti-Trump sentiment in America and drank the Kool-Aid along with other evangelicals who want to be Democrats.

He goes out with a legacy representing the theo-politics of a dying evangelical-as-Christian movement in the nation. I don't remember Jesus ever pointing out Herod's publicly immoral behavior. He was under the impression that his role was to proclaim a Gospel again and again, even if it lacked glitz that accompanies absorbing culture into the church to its harm.

It would be nice to see Christianity Today become Christian again. Or just change the name to Christianity Yesterday.

Paul O. Bischoff

Wheaton