Christianity and MAGA Trumpism are mutually exclusive. [View all]

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https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/christianity-and-maga-trumpism-are.html

Most of the time, in discussions with conservative Evangelicals regarding the alignment of right wing political extremism with conservative, politicized Evangelicalism, I will get a reference to Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA, which seems to have become the religious apologist for the MAGA cult. The problem with that is that the late Kirk, along with the collection of speakers he used to draw crowds to his rallies, follows the same faulty interpretation and perspective of the Bible, making the same errors as the Evangelical branch of the American church does, falling victim to the same pseudo-Christian doctrine and theology.

Kirk was a Christian nationalist. And as the linked article above points out, his religious perspective was tailored to fit with Trumpism, and without Trump, there's no Charlie Kirk. It's hard to use the word heresy here, since what Kirk preached and debated was not really Christian faith, in any context of that being a means by which humans relate to God, but more of a means to align politics with a form of pseudo-Christian religious practice that elimnates Christian principles which are in diametric opposition to MAGA political positions to give those who care more about the political side of the religious right than the religious side of it the means to ignore the Christian gospel and still feel good about it.

Whew! That was a long sentence, but it makes the point. Turning Point USA is pseudo-Christian. It won't lead you to salvation by grace through faith in Christ, it will lead you to religious sounding justification for right wing Trump politics that are not consistent in any way with real Christian faith.

In his recent book, The Bible According to Christian Nationalists, Baptist minister Brian Kaylor points out the errors of Christian nationalists, including Kirk, who cherry-pick Bible verses, leaving out both historical context and original meaning, and any other supporting scripture, to aim their message at those who are already steeped in Evangelical presuppositions. Kaylor eliminates the erroneous conservative Evangelical presuppositions as an interpretive basis by correctly referencing the "Jesus Criterion," as the starting point for interpreting scripture according to the Christian gospel.