An open letter to white evangelicals: Weâre done with you.
By North Carolina Pastor John Pavlovitz
 Dear White Evangelicals,
I need to tell you something: People have had it with you. Theyâre done. They want nothing to do with you any longer, and hereâs why: They see your hypocrisy, your inconsistency, your incredibly selective mercy, and your thinly veiled supremacy.
For eight years they watched you relentlessly demonize a Black President; a man faithfully married for 26 years; a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity. They watched you deny his personal faith convictions, argue his birthplace, and assail his characterâall without cause or evidence.
They saw you brandish Scriptures to malign him and use the laziest of racial stereotypes in criticizing him. And through it all, White Evangelicalsâyou never once suggested that God placed him where he was, you never publicly offered prayers for him and his family, you never welcomed him to your Christian Universities, you never gave him the benefit of the doubt in any instance, you never spoke of offering him forgiveness or mercy, your evangelists never publicly thanked God for his leadership, your pastors never took to the pulpit to offer solidarity with him, you never made any effort to affirm his humanity or show the love of Jesus to him in any quantifiable measure.
You violently opposed him at every single turnâwithout offering a single ounce of the grace you claim as the heart of your faith tradition. You jettisoned Jesus as you dispensed damnation on him.
And yet you give carte blanche to a white Republican man so riddled with depravity, so littered with extramarital affairs, so unapologetically vile, with such a vast resume of moral filthâthat the mind boggles.
And the change in you is unmistakable. It has been an astonishing conversion to behold: a being born again.
With him, you suddenly find religion. With him, youâre now willing to offer full absolution. With him, all is forgiven without repentance or admission. With him, youâre suddenly able to see some invisible, deeply buried heart. With him, sin has become unimportant, and compassion no longer a requirement. With him, you see only Providence.
And White Evangelicals, all those people who have had it with youâthey see it all clearly. They recognize the toxic source of your inconsistency.
They see that pigmentation and party are your sole deities. They see that you arenât interested in perpetuating the love of God or emulating the heart of Jesus. They see that you arenât burdened to love the least, or to be agents of compassion, or to care for your Muslim, gay, African, female, or poor neighbors as yourself.
They see that all youâre really interested in doing is making a God in your own ivory image and demanding that the world bow down to it. They recognize this all about white, Republican Jesusânot dark-skinned Jesus of Nazareth.
And I know you donât realize it, but youâre digging your own grave these days; the grave of your very faith tradition.
Your willingness to align yourself with cruelty is a costly marriage. Yes, youâve gained a Supreme Court seat, a few months with the Presidency as a mouthpiece, and the cheap high of temporary powerâbut youâve lost a whole lot more.
Youâve lost an audience with millions of wise, decent, good-hearted, faithful people with eyes to see this ugliness. Youâve lost any moral high ground or spiritual authority with a generation. Youâve lost any semblance of Christlikeness. Youâve lost the plot. And most of all youâve lost your soul.
I know itâs likely youâll dismiss these words. The fact that youâve even made your bed with such malevolence, shows how far gone you are and how insulated you are from the reality in front of you. But I had to at least try to reach you. Itâs what Jesus would do.
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