Tag: Cult of Trump

There’s an Evangelical. Tradition of Distrusting Science

Buck Banks

“From the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries, evangelicals developed a strained relationship with modern science. Geology revealed ancient fossils and an old Earth. Biology traced the course of human evolution. Cosmology attributed the beginnings of an expanding universe to a Big Bang. … For many evangelical believers, the scientific description of reality did not look like the universe of their imagination. The scientific profession became an object of suspicion. And this distrust was only exacerbated by a resurgence of fundamentalism in the late 20th century.”

— Michael Gerson

Schiff: GOP now the Cult of Trump

Buck Banks

“It is certainly true that much of his conduct qualifies for that, but at the same time we have to recognize the reality that one party, the Republican Party, has turned itself into a cult of the president’s personality and is not likely to act consistent with its constitutional obligations.”

— House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA), quoted by Axios, on impeaching President Trump.