OPINION:
Last week, a friend sent me an article and asked for my opinion. The author of the essay in question is a “progressive Christian” named Tripp Fuller. His long, verbose column is titled “Bonhoeffer’s Warning, Unheeded: The Moral Collapse of White Evangelicalism.”
Painful though it was, I read all 7,300 words of Mr. Fuller’s musings, and here is what he said in a nutshell: Today’s “White evangelicals” are like the German Christians of the 1930s, and, like them, we are “sequentially complicit” in the evils of a Nazi regime.
In other words, America’s White evangelicals are “frogs in the kettle” whose consciences have been slowly “boiled” by our moral compromise with the Republican Party.
That’s it. Mr. Fuller could have saved himself a lot of words and barrels of ink and just said, “If you want to know what’s wrong with America, look no further than ‘White evangelicals.’ Their sellout to the Republican Party is the cause of all that ails us.”
Am I the only one who gets weary of the hypocritical duplicity of oxymoronic “Christians” such as Mr. Fuller? I mean, seriously, how could such a self-declared “scholar” be so clueless?
Has it never crossed his mind that millions of “White evangelicals” vote for Republicans for a variety of reasons other than superficial political alignment? Never mind that the party Mr. Fuller and his liberal sycophants favor supports government collectivism over individual responsibility, drag queens over the dignity of women and the sexual indoctrination of children over the innocence of little boys and girls.
Never mind that they align with those who champion illegal immigrants over the blue-collar citizens in Springfield, Ohio, who are being overrun by the crime and vagrancy of these imported masses.
Never mind that Mr. Fuller’s politics favor illegal gangs over the working-class Hispanic Americans in Aurora, Colorado, who are afraid to leave their apartments because another country’s murderous thugs have taken over their neighborhoods and streets.
Never mind that Democrats seem to care more about the “rights” of those who have entered our country illegally than they do about young women who are afraid to go for a jog in the local park for fear of being raped and murdered.
Never mind that this is a party that seems to think running over a federal officer with your car in Minneapolis is justified, while singing hymns outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Tennessee is not.
Never mind that Democrats at the highest level of government have specifically labeled anyone who champions traditional sexual morality, school choice, parental rights, secure borders and/or religious freedom a “national security threat” while they laud the “peaceful protests” of Black Lives Matter and antifa. Never mind all this.
How is it possible that the smart folks such as Mr. Fuller are so deluded? How can they be so blind? How can they not see that “White evangelicals” (as well as those who are Black, Hispanic, Native and Asian) vote Republican because we believe women are biological facts, that antisemitism is wrong and that Marxism is evil? How can they not see that we vote Republican because we can read and have thereby concluded that the Green New Deal is not only anti-science but also anti-human, Orwellian and insane?
How can they not see that we vote Republican because we understand what a fascist is and what a Nazi isn’t and they apparently don’t?
How can they not see that we vote Republican because we are appalled by the racism of critical race theory and the divisive agenda of diversity, equity and inclusion?
I could go on and on, but the point is clear.
What Tripp Fuller’s long-winded, condescending essay tells us more than anything else is that he and his acolytes (i.e., his tribe of “progressive Christians”) are the ones being slowly cooked in the proverbial pot, much more so than the conservative “White evangelicals” they bemoan.
The fact that this guy can’t see that he is the poster child for the “sequential complicity” that he pedantically criticizes is nothing short of stunning. My land, he just spent 7,300 words blathering on about the moral compromise of “White evangelicals” while apparently blind to his own rampant moral compromise.
These liberals could save themselves a lot of words by simply quoting Pogo: “We have met the enemy, and it is us.”
A good dose of self-awareness never hurt anybody. These proudly deconstructed “Christians” (and I use that term loosely) would all do well to go back and reread Matthew 7:5. “You hypocrites, first take the log out of your own eye.”
Talk about a frog in a kettle.
• Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery). He can be reached at epiper@dreverettpiper.com.
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