Author Tim Alberta Explains Evangelicals’ Faith in Donald Trump | The View
Summary
TLDRDans cet entretien, l'auteur du best-seller du New York Times, Tim Alberta, aborde les divisions, les scandales et les liens étroits entre les évangélistes américains et la politique conservatrice. Alberta explique comment le terme 'évangélique' a évolué au fil des ans, passant d'une sous-culture protestante aux États-Unis à un terme souvent associé à la politique, notamment avec le soutien des évangéliques à Donald Trump. Il discute également des défis auxquels font face les chrétiens qui ne s'identifient pas à cette image et appelle à un retour aux principes fondamentaux du christianisme.
Takeaways
- 🔍 L'auteur Tim Alberta explore les divisions, les scandales et les liens profonds du mouvement évangélique américain avec le conservatisme politique.
- 🗣️ 'Evangelical' est un terme qui a évolué au fil des ans, passant d'une sous-culture distincte au sein du protestantisme américain à une connotation politique.
- 🚨 L'image actuelle d'un évangélique est souvent perçue comme étant un républicain blanc, conservateur et partisan de Trump, ce qui nuit à la crédibilité du témoinage pour Jésus-Christ.
- 🏛️ Alberta a été motivé à écrire le livre suite à des expériences conflictuelles lors du deuil de son père, où il a été confronté au rejet de sa communauté évangélique pour ses critiques politiques.
- 🤔 Le soutien des évangéliques à Trump dépasse la simple question de l'avortement et s'étend à une croyance plus large que Trump est le 'homme de Dieu' pour cette ère.
- 🙏 L'argument commun selon lequel Trump est utilisé par Dieu malgré ses défauts est discuté, soulignant les problèmes théologiques de cette interprétation.
- 🔥 La campagne de Trump en 2024 continue de recevoir un large soutien des évangéliques, malgré des actes passés qui seraient en contradiction avec les valeurs chrétiennes traditionnelles.
- 🤝 Alberta souligne la nécessité de revenir aux principes de la foi chrétienne, plutôt que de se focaliser sur le pouvoir politique et l'idéologie partisane.
- 🌐 L'idée que l'Amérique judeo-chrétienne est en danger et qu'un 'barbare' est nécessaire pour la protéger est une croyance courante parmi les évangéliques, malgré les implications théologiques problématiques.
- 📚 Le livre 'The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory' offre un aperçu profond de la complexité des croyances et des pratiques au sein du mouvement évangélique contemporain.
Q & A
Quelle est la définition d'un évangélique selon le livre 'The Kingdom'?
-Un évangélique est quelqu'un qui croit que la Bible est la parole inspirée de Dieu, qu'il a une responsabilité d'aller prêcher l'Évangile jusqu'aux extrémités de la Terre et d'évangéliser.
Comment le terme 'évangélique' a-t-il évolué au fil des ans?
-Dans les années 60 et 70, le terme faisait référence à un sous-culture distinct au sein du protestantisme américain. Au fil du temps, il a pris une connotation politique, devenant souvent synonyme de républicain blanc, conservateur et soutien de Trump.
Quels sont les effets de cette évolution sur la crédibilité des témoins pour Jésus-Christ?
-Cette évolution a causé un préjudice profond à la crédibilité des témoins pour Jésus-Christ, car ceux qui ne se conforment pas à cette image se sentent exclus et marginalisés par le mouvement.
Quelle a été la réaction de la communauté évangélique après la publication du premier livre de Tim Alberta?
-Après la publication de son premier livre, Tim Alberta a été confronté à des réactions hostiles de la part de la communauté évangélique, notamment lors des funérailles de son père, où il a été confronté à des questions sur sa foi en raison de ses critiques envers Donald Trump.
Pourquoi les évangéliques soutiennent-ils Donald Trump malgré ses actions controversées?
-Certains évangéliques perçoivent Trump comme le 'homme de Dieu', choisi pour protéger leur idéal américain chrétien menacé. Ils utilisent des arguments théologiques comme celui de la nécessité de protéger leur 'royaume' sur Terre.
Quelle est la position de Tim Alberta sur l'utilisation de la politique par les évangéliques pour combattre l'avortement?
-Tim Alberta souligne que les évangéliques ont utilisé la politique pour tenter de régler un problème moral et spirituel comme l'avortement, ce qui a eu des résultats contraires à leurs objectifs.
Quels sont les choix alternatifs que les évangéliques auraient pu faire en 2016?
-En 2016, les évangéliques auraient pu soutenir d'autres candidats comme Ted Cruz ou Marco Rubio, mais ils ont choisi de soutenir Trump, qui a finalement remporté la nomination malgré une résistance significative de la part d'entre eux.
Quelle est la différence entre la perception des évangéliques de Trump en 2016 et aujourd'hui?
-En 2016, Trump a lutté pour gagner le soutien des évangéliques, mais aujourd'hui, il est perçu comme un sauveur par une partie de cette communauté, qui le considère comme un protecteur contre les menaces perçues.
Quels sont les enjeux pour les évangéliques après l'invalidation de la loi Roe v. Wade?
-L'invalidation de la loi Roe v. Wade, malgré être une victoire pour certains évangéliques, soulève des questions sur l'efficacité de l'utilisation de la politique pour résoudre des problèmes moraux et spirituels.
Quelle est la vision de Tim Alberta sur la voie que les chrétiens devraient suivre face aux défis?
-Tim Alberta suggère que les chrétiens devraient suivre l'exemple de Jésus, en étant fidèles et gracieux même envers ceux qui les menacent, plutôt que de chercher à exercer la puissance politique.
Outlines
📚 Définition et évolution du terme 'Evangelical'
Le premier paragraphe introduit le concept d'Evangelical et son évolution au fil des ans. L'auteur, Tim Alberta, explique que traditionnellement, les Evangéliques étaient perçus comme un sous-groupe au sein du protestantisme américain, ayant une foi profonde dans la Bible comme étant la parole de Dieu et ayant le devoir d'apporter l'évangile à travers le monde. Cependant, avec le temps, le terme a pris une connotation politique, devenant associé à des conservateurs, des républicains et des soutiens de Trump. Alberta souligne comment cette évolution a nui à la crédibilité de la mission évangélique et a marginalisé ceux qui ne se conforment pas à cette image.
🤔 Comment les Evangéliques justifient leur soutien à Trump
Le deuxième paragraphe explore la manière dont les Evangéliques perçoivent Trump comme un choix divin, malgré ses actions et ses caractéristiques qui semblent aller à l'encontre des valeurs traditionnelles chrétiennes. Alberta discute de la façon dont certains Evangéliques utilisent des arguments théologiques pour justifier leur soutien, en comparant Trump à des figures bibliques imparfaites utilisées par Dieu. Il soulève également la question de savoir si Trump a été choisi pour protéger leur idéal américain ou pour les éprouver, en les éloignant de Christ et en transformant la politique républicaine et le trumpisme en idoles.
🔮 La mentalité Evangélique face à la persécution et l'apocalypse
Le troisième paragraphe d'Alberta traite de la mentalité des Evangéliques face à la persécution et à la fin des temps. Il décrit comment la rhétorique de la fin imminente et la lutte contre un monde séculier corrompt est profondément ancrée dans la culture Evangélique. Alberta critique l'idée que les Evangéliques cherchent à se saisir du pouvoir politique pour protéger leurs valeurs, au lieu de suivre l'exemple de Christ qui a enseigné à souffrir et à pardonner. Il appelle à un retour aux principes fondamentaux du christianisme, qui sont souvent oubliés dans la quête de protection et de pouvoir.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Évangélique
💡Moral Majority
💡Trump
💡Repentance
💡Partisan Identity
💡Roe v. Wade
💡Persecution
💡End Times
💡Secular
💡Kingdom of God
Highlights
24% of Americans are Evangelical Christians, and their movement has deep ties to conservative politics.
The term 'Evangelical' has evolved to include a political connotation, often associated with conservative white Republicans and Trump supporters.
The perception of Evangelicals as Trump supporters has damaged the credibility of their witness for Jesus Christ.
Author Tim Alberta's personal experience with the Evangelical community after criticizing Trump led to the writing of 'The Kingdom'.
Evangelicals view Trump as an agent of God, chosen for this moment, despite his moral shortcomings.
The Evangelical community's belief that their 'Judeo-Christian' America is under attack has led them to support Trump as a protector.
Trump's Supreme Court picks and potential overturning of Roe v. Wade are seen as a win for the Evangelical movement.
The Evangelical vote for Trump is not solely based on single issues like abortion but also on a perceived need for protection.
Evangelicals have put their faith in political power for 50 years, which has not resulted in the expected moral outcomes.
The fear of persecution among Evangelicals has led to a divide between those who turn to political power and those who follow Christ's path of grace.
The book 'The Kingdom' aims to remind Evangelicals of the true path of Jesus amidst the current political and religious climate.
Trump's continued support among white evangelicals, with 53% of their vote in the Iowa caucuses, despite other options.
The theological problem with viewing Trump as a chosen leader, when many biblical figures who were used by God repented and sought after God.
The idea that Trump might be a test for Evangelicals, to see if their convictions can withstand the idolatry of political partisanship.
The historical role of Christianity operating from the margins and not needing control of state power.
Transcripts
so 24% of Americans are Evangelical
Christians and a stunning new book peels
back the curtain on the movement's
divisions scandals and deep ties to the
conservative politics please welcome the
author of that book New York Times
bestseller the kingdom the power and the
glory American evangelicals in an age of
extremism Tim Alberta
yes it's a mouthful but my God the
things it is a spectacular book it is
just spectacular can you explain to
people because I I don't think I
understood and then the more I read I
sort of was able to click in but
Evangelical is a term that gets thrown
around a lot but it seems to have
different meanings to different people
and how would you how do you define
an Evangelical what is an Evangelical
yeah well there's certainly been a an
evolution with the definition over the
past 50 or 60 years it was well
understood in the 60s certainly in the
70s to understand that this was a
distinct subculture within American
protestantism uh where folks truly
believed that uh the Bible was the
inspired word of God that it was not
just a collection of writings about God
but that in fact it was the word of God
and that they had a responsibility then
to take the gospel to the ends of the
Earth and to evangelize that's the verb
right I think what's started to happen
certainly in the late 7s and then into
the 80s in the Moral Majority era is
that the term began to take on more and
more of a political connotation and if
you fast forward all the way to today
you know for better or worse and I in my
opinion it's for Worse the perception of
what it means to be an Evangelical is a
conservative white Republican Trump
supporter and and the Damage Done to The
credibility of the witness for Jesus
Christ is profound because of that
anyone who does not fit into that box is
now uh you know they feel unwelcome and
they feel they feel uh ostracized and
and sort of um set aside by this
movement and the ability to evangelize
those people is now significantly
diminished as a result well Tim you and
I both grew up in the Evangelical Church
and your story had so many parallels to
my own um you know brief I had people
who grew I grew up within the church who
haven't spoken to me since I spoke out
against Donald Trump family members who
think I walked away from the faith
because I walked away from Donald Trump
um you tell a very compelling story
about after your father passed can you
tell me tell us that and what inspired
you to write the book yes so I grew up
as a as a PK a pastor's kid uh my dad
was the the leader of a pretty large
evangelical church outside of Detroit
where we grew up and it just so happens
that my first book came out right when
he died in my first book as you know
Alyssa I uh I took a took a pretty hard
look at a number of your former bosses
not just Donald Trump and uh and so when
I went home for the funeral then because
the book was in the news and because I
was getting beat up by right-wing media
over the book a lot of folks at the
funeral were confrontational they were
rather cold they were uh asking me if I
was still a Christian because how could
I be if I was criticizing Donald Trump
um and so it was very ugly but it was
also very eye openening and and and I
would say galvanizing because I I think
it was a moment where a problem that had
been sort of abstract this radicalizing
happening within the Evangelical
movement which I had seen in my travels
as a political reporter suddenly it was
now very concrete and and really sort of
threatening almost feeling as though
listen if my home Church where I'd grown
up since I was a toddler your father was
the pastor my father was the pastor they
know him right they they don't know
Trump they know me they know him yeah so
if they're willing to treat me this way
while he's in a box 50 ft away then how
are they treating the rest of the world
right and that and that's that's the
crisis that I decided I had to try to
tackle so let let's go here how has he
sinned let us count the ways Trump has
paid off porn stars bragged on tape
about grabbing women by their genitalia
he's in court this week in a case
involving involving alleged rape he
calls his opponents Vermin right out of
the Nazi Playbook he incited a riot on
the Capital that left five people dead
and yet he's posting this ad and playing
it at rallies watch and on June 14th
1946 God looked down on his planned
paradise and said I need a caretaker so
God gave us Trump God said I need
somebody willing to get up before Dawn
fix this country work all day fight the
marxists eat supper then go to the Oval
Office and stay past midnight at a
meeting of the heads of state so God
made Trump yes okay can we say blasphemy
this is one of the most amoral and least
religious men I have ever seen in
politics for for for sure remember two
Corinthians I thought that was the Bible
upside down upside down but he's the de
facto poster boy uh for these
evangelicals that you're describing I'm
assuming not all of them are in for him
but the ones that you're talking about
now what am I missing how do God-fearing
people reconcile this with that okay so
so there there's a lot to unpack let let
me say this first and foremost um that
that advertisement that video that's now
being played at Trump's rallies it is
speaking directly to a belief system now
within the Evangelical world that Trump
is God's man that he is chosen for this
moment that he is an agent of the
almighty and and the justification many
people will use Joy is well listen God
used flawed characters throughout the
Bible nobody was perfect and yet he used
them to advance his purposes I there are
many theological problems with that one
of which being that most of those people
Moses David Peter Paul they all repented
and they all had a heart that was after
God's Own Jesus died for everyone yes so
wait God chose him he also chose Putin
Hitler himler musolini I could name a
few that he chose also according to this
Theory and let me be clear about this uh
the qu the the question that is
uncomfortable for a lot of folks to
answer and and I have friends and family
members in this camp and I want to be
respectful when I say it they they
believe that Trump was chosen for this
moment to to to protect their kingdom
here on Earth but have they entertained
the possibility at least the possibility
that Trump was actually chosen to test
them in this moment and to see to see
whether their beliefs their convictions
as followers of Christ can withstand the
sort of testing of national idolatry of
of political uh partisan identity that
has taken them further and further away
from Christ and and turned Republican
politics and trumpism into into an idol
yeah and into a power play which was
never about the power for the the
individual it was always in the name of
God and but um at the Iowa caucuses
earlier this week Trump dominated with
white evangelicals garnering 53% of
their vote um now that's over 30 points
higher than in 2016 Ronda santis had the
endorsement of a hugely influen ual Iowa
Evangelical uh Bob Vander plats um and
Trump still got double disantis support
so they're been off-ramps there have
been options that were other than Donald
Trump why didn't evangelicals throw
their weight behind Des santis Mike
Pence Tim Scott people with like much
more legitimate religious Bona Bona
feeds than Trump it's I mean it's a
great question what we've seen here in
the last eight years is is an incredible
Arc from you you know back in 2016 it's
well it's a binary choice he's the
lesser of two evils I mean the funny
thing is if you look at the Iowa results
in 2016 Trump dominated among
non-evangelicals but really struggled
with evangelicals and that was actually
the story of the entire primary Trump
won the nomination in spite of
significant resistance from evangelicals
if you fast forward now eight years many
of these same people feel guilty about
having ever doubted him they view him as
sort of a a deliverer for their
community and I think it really all
boils down to this idea that these folks
view their country their judeo-christian
idealized America as being under attack
that that The Barbarians are at the
gates and therefore they need a
barbarian to protect them that is see as
I have to say I'm Catholic and and I was
so shook by that ad so I'm still a
little out of sorts but um I thought
that the Evangelical vote was trumps
because he promised to get rid of roie
Wade and I thought they were just one
issue voters I had no idea idea that
they thought he was the Messiah but um
so this is shocking to me so Trump's
Supreme Court picks overturning roie
Wade after 50 years was really a massive
win I thought for the Evangelical um
movement but why would you stick with
him after that what is he promising in a
potential second term to to keep their
support you know well let's I think I do
but I'm scared of the answer okay let me
let me say two things quickly to the
premise there what's fascinating is that
evangelicals put all their eggs in the
political basket for 50 years to
overturn roie Wade and they succeeded
and the result is more abortions in
America which raises an interesting
question which is that if you believe as
an Evangelical that life is made in the
image of God and that therefore it
deserves protection at every stage that
if you believe that to your core that
abortion is not a political issue it is
an ethical moral spiritual issue yes
then why have you why have you attempted
to exercise raw political power on that
issue on that issue right that so so I
would say that first secondly I would
say now if you understand the
Evangelical mindset I grew up steeped in
this rhetoric this messaging that the
end is coming that we are approaching an
imminent an IM imminent an imminent
clash between the good God-fearing Bible
believing Christians and the secular
Wicked outside world which is by the way
when covid-19 comes along and you have
blue State Governors ordering churches
to shut down everybody said well here we
are the government's coming for us we
knew this day would come so there is a
pervasive fear in the Evangelical world
that persecution is coming for them the
the the problem with that there's a
number of problems but the the key
theological problem with that is that
you look at the founding of Christianity
Christianity has always operated from
the margins it has never been about
power it has never been about needing to
control the levers of the state or
Kingdoms in heaven not on Earth exactly
Jesus said my kingdom is not of this
world as he was is being led to his
execution so you can turn as a Christian
you have two choices in times of trouble
you can turn to the sword you can turn
to a political military strong man you
can try to co-op the power of the state
or you can turn to the cross and you can
walk in the path of Jesus and you can be
faithful and gracious even to those who
are threatening you your perceived
enemies and that is the fundamental
divide now within the Evangelical world
and and if nothing else I'm just hoping
to remind people of what the path of
Jesus looks like you sure did I'm
telling you it it the book is it's a
knockout so our thanks to Tim Alberta
the book The Kingdom the power and the
glory is available now
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