What If Our Democracy Can’t Survive Without Christianity?

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  This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.

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  You've heard the news.

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  Here's what to make of it.

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  I'm David French, and I'm an opinion columnist for the New York Times.

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  I've spent a great deal of time thinking about American democracy

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  and the role Christianity plays in our political systems.

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  As a lifelong evangelical and political conservative, I was alarmed and very surprised,

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  quite honestly, that white evangelicals have followed Donald Trump with such passion and intensity.

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  But I've also wondered why I was surprised.

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  After all, I grew up in evangelical America.

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  I have been a churchgoer my entire life.

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  I was a pro life activist in evangelical America.

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  I was a pro life religious liberty attorney in evangelical America.

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  And I did not see this embrace of Donald Trump coming.

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  And now we finished a third consecutive presidential election when evangelicals voted overwhelmingly

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  for one of the most immoral

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  and cruel men ever to run for president.

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  This experience taught me something,

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  and it taught me that sometimes critics outside a community can see the community more clearly

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  in some ways than those who live inside.

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