Eric Metaxas, the author of biographies of William Wilberforce and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, has proclaimed that Donald Trump won the 2020 election "in a landslide." As a result, Metaxas forecasts, many will be imprisoned for attempting to steal the election, an attempt that he calls "the most horrible thing that ever happened in the history of our nation." Thankfully, "Jesus is with us in this fight."
When a reputed evangelical public intellectual exhibits this behavior, it’s worth asking about the state of the evangelical mind. Recent proclamations by other evangelical Christians suggest a propensity to believe conspiracy theories on the origins of COVID-19, nefarious purposes underlying the coming vaccines, the climate change "hoax" and Tom Hanks leading a global pedophile ring.
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