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Everyone is discovering the court evangelicals!

John Fea   |  December 14, 2020

The conservative pundits are outraged at what happened at Saturday’s Jericho March!

David French is worried that too many evangelicals have fallen for conspiracy theories.

Rod Dreher says we would be wrong to “blow off” the influence of these evangelicals who still believe Trump won the election.

Andrew Sullivan is concerned about the fusion of religion and politics.

Matt Lewis asks: “Is nothing sacred?”

Beth Moore is not really a conservative pundit, but she is still fired-up.

And we already discussed Michael Gerson.

And those who regularly question my decision to cover the court evangelical phenomenon seem to be taking it seriously now. Yes, even John Wilson ;-):

A friend sent me this Rod Dreher piece about the Jericho March. I wasn't keen to slog through it, but I'm glad I did. What it reported—including the role of my dear friend @ericmetaxas—was even worse than I expected. Aggh. https://t.co/GuhrF5SnUg

— John Wilson (@jwilson1812) December 13, 2020

I’ve been writing about this for the last four years. At this point I am more interested in who was NOT at the Jericho March on Saturday:

Franklin Graham

James Robison

James Dobson

Jentezen Franklin,

Jack Graham

Paula White

Tony Perkins

Johnnie Moore

Ralph Reed

Greg Laurie

Robert Jeffress

The more traditional court evangelicals–most of whom are not connected with the Independent Network Charismatics and similar groups– seem to be focused on the Georgia Senate race and COVID restrictions. Would they like the election results to be overturned? Sure. Do they believe that there may have been election fraud? Of course they do. But they did not want to join the folks who were on the Mall on Saturday. This branch of court evangelicalism seems to only show-up when Trump is in the house or when one of his surrogates is present. They prefer power over prophecy.

And maybe some of them really believe Biden won.

We will see what happens after the Electoral College votes later today, but right now the evangelical voter fraud movement is led by Eric Metaxas (who showed his Charismatic side on Saturday), the gang at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center (Metaxas, Charlie Kirk, Jenna Ellis, Sebastian Gorka, etc.), and the My Pillow Guy.

UPDATE (December 15, 2020, 12:41am):

Some folks on Twitter were not happy with this post. Here are a few:

You might want to walk this one back. You are calling out people who have largely been in agreement with you on substance for years, but who have varying persuasive approaches. You all share similar aims and earnest desire for truth. Bad form to take cheap shots at teammates.

— Matthew Campbell (@SoupDoc) December 15, 2020

No @DavidAFrench @BethMooreLPM or even @roddreher didn’t experience an epiphany of the sort you describe. The first two in particular have been consistent opponents of Court EVs mendacity. It’s not news to them. Far from it, & they’ve suffered great criticism for speaking out.

— David Cassidy (@dpcassidyC3) December 15, 2020

These tweeters made fair points, which prompted me to explain things further. It’s never a good idea to try to “explain further” on Twitter, but I am a glutton for punishment! 🙂

Sure, David. Of course I understand this. Just read my blog. I appreciate these evangelical critics. They inspire me and give me hope about the future of evangelicalism. https://t.co/nMOng6ZC2x

— John Fea (@JohnFea1) December 15, 2020

My point was that all of them erupted on the same day after the Jericho March and they all seemed to be shocked by the depths these evangelicals would go in support of Trump. My blog post was meant to point this out, but it probably should have been clearer.

— John Fea (@JohnFea1) December 15, 2020
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Filed Under: Way of Improvement Tagged With: #ageoftrump, 2020 Election, Andrew Sullivan, Believe Me (book), Beth Moore, Charismatic Movement, Charlie Kirk, David French, Donald Trump, evangelicals and politics, Falkirk Center (Liberty University), Franklin Graham, Greg Laurie, Independent Network Charismatic (INC), Jack Graham, James Dobson, James Robison, Jenna Ellis, Jericho Marches, John Wilson, Johnnie Moore

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