2020: A Good Year for Bad Religion

2020: A Good Year for Bad Religion
(Emily Elconin/The News & Advance via AP, File)

We can all agree 2020 was a bad year. But not for everybody or every pursuit: For some - the kinds of religious actors and forces that received outsized attention, support and access to power were, frankly, up to no good - it wasn't bad at all.

These groups include those evangelicals who worshipfully followed Trumpism to its ugly end, religious communities that insisted on ignoring a global pandemic to the detriment of public health and their own congregants' safety, and Catholics who used to challenge dominant cultural or political trends but who have become unconditional disciples of parties and ideologies.

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