Many Christians are scandalized or crying “I told you so” in the wake of the Trump Administration’s examination of the number and type of grants given to supposedly charitable Christian organizations. That once stalwart Evangelical or Reformed schools, ministries, and publications are now revealed to have taken large sums of money from our administrative state coincides uncomfortably with the hard left turns they made over the last decade or two.
The same goes for many Catholic charitable organizations. The large salaries and the direction of their advocacy and their services raise big question marks about how those who have cried loudest about the threats of “Christian nationalism” or “integralism” seem to have embraced some version of such views themselves in their operations. It’s just that their Christian nationalism was left wing.
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