I Didn't Realize Just How Flexible Christianity Truly Is Until Today

[Ocelot II]

11. Evangelical Christianity as practiced by MAGA isn't a religion at all.

It's a political movement (a cult, if you like), with a simulacrum of the first-century religious leader called Jesus (who may or may not have been the divine and resurrected son of God, depending on how you roll theologically) as their mascot. Since Christianity is the majority religion in the US and a particularly rigid and cultish version already existed in some locations where MAGA is strongest (chicken or egg?), it was easy to co-opt its symbols and language and repurpose them as the tools of the political cult. The original version of Christianity had only two rules: (1) Love God; and (2) love your neighbor (Matthew 22:37-40). MAGA has a whole lot of other rules, but not the two big ones, which are supposed to be the foundation of everything else. So I'd say that whatever MAGA is doing with Christianity is a sort of extreme heresy that would horrify the Spanish Inquisition (which nobody expects anyhow).