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A Trump Christian is an Oxymoron.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." — Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
A quick little Bible history lesson: The first Christians didn't call themselves Christians.
It wasn't some congratulatory self-identifier as it is today: a way of loudly trumpeting one's own supposed goodness; something easily slapped on social media bios, bumper stickers, and t-shirts without forethought or personal cost or empirical evidence.
It wasn't about a place you visited for an hour on Sunday before Cracker Barrel, either.
The term Christian was originally a designation…
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