They’re Not Deceived – Trump Evangelicals Are CHOOSING the Lies
January 16, 2026
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"A Christian Case Against Donald Trump" (2024)
"MAGA SeductionResisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience" (2020)
Why do so many white evangelicals still support Donald Trump—even after all the lies, cruelty, and corruption? It’s not because they’ve been fooled. It’s because they’ve chosen the lie.
In this video, we hear from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor and theologian who resisted Hitler and wrote powerfully about the moral danger of what he called folly—a willful, self-protecting ignorance that chooses comfort over truth, and power over integrity. Other call it his Theory of Stupidity.
As ICE agents shoot civilians in American cities, and Christian leaders like Franklin Graham continue defending Trumpism, we have to ask: What’s really going on? How does religious faith become a weapon of the state? And how do we respond as people of conscience?
📖 Featuring readings from Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison (1943)
📜 Biblical reflections on James 1, Matthew 13, and more
⚠️ A blunt, pastoral challenge to the American Church
🙏 Hopeful reflections on humility, redemption, and spiritual resistance
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