Letter: In 2024, 79% of Trump voters identified as Christian. Here’s what that suggests.
FILE — Hats for sale at a “Save America” rally held by former president Donald Trump in Commerce, Ga. on March 26, 2022. (Dustin Chambers/The New York Times)
Pew research reports that, in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, 79% of Trump voters identified as Christian. A recent article in The Tribune’s “Faith” section advises that, “All Christians ‘should be taken aback’ by today’s ‘toxic environment.’”
Given that the Trump administration owns responsibility for much/most of that toxicity, it would seem to be a “physician, heal thyself” piece of advice. Just one more evidence of something dawning on an ever increasing portion of our young people: self-described Christians don’t believe their faith’s teachings.
Welcome and care for the stranger? Honor Jesus Christ by caring for “the least of these.” Shunning falsehood? Loving thy neighbor as thyself?
When the country’s voters select a leader who would term those concerns “woke” nonsense, it inescapably undermines the notion that “Christians” believe in “Christianity.”
Thomas Walker, Salt Lake City
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