“Aligning a religious movement with a political movement is dangerous territory,” Nazworth writes. “Political leaders who believe they were chosen by God for a divine purpose tend toward unreasonableness, which is a bad trait for any type of leader, in any context. But is a particular affront within a government designed to carry out a deliberative form of democracy.”
In the article (which is headlined “Donald Trump, Pastor-in-Chief), Nazworth explains that he left the Christian Post “after the company decided to align itself with the interests of Donald Trump. In an editorial I couldn’t support, authored by Senior Managing Editor John Grano and Executive Editor Richard Land, the Christian Post echoed Trump’s class warfare and conspiratorial language in asserting that opposition to Trump was elitist and part of the ‘Deep State.’” Continue reading.