In all my years of attending churches (quite a few of various denominations, since I am a Christian, not really tied to denomination and moved often), they have never once advocated a political position. The most evangelical of them was the least political, when the minister was asked about attempts to suppress prayer in school, he responded he was more concerned about families praying at home.

So, where are you getting your views on how Christians think and behave. You do know that 62% of Christians lean Democrat. So, how is Trump influencing them?

Those Christians I do know that lean Republican care mostly about a few issues, that they have strong feelings about. Two of them are...

Some were angry when our Democratic governor closed down churches but allow liquor and marijuana dispensaries to remain open as it considered the latter "essential". They feel this violated their religious liberties as citizens, not as Christians. This scared them, that government felt it was okay to "cancel" their churches. This feeling was shared by Jews in NYC during Covid, so it's not a Christian issue, but a religious one.

Others are angry over their children being taught secular values that are tied to ideologies inconsistent with Christianity and our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. They are fine with not imposing their values on the children of non-Christians and expect the same from non-Christians. If schools cannot do that, then just give them a school voucher equal to the average cost to educate a child and let them take their child elsewhere.

Religions are not responsible for more wars and death than any other force in history... that is myth. One repeated so often, it is accepted truth. Over 200 million people were killed by communists in the 20th Century alone. And that is just communism.

Most deaths associated with "religion" are clearly not about religion, but instead about power and money and not carried out be "churches" but by states. In other words, government, not religion is behind the vast majority of deaths. Take "states" out of the "killing" business and people who have died at the hands of churches are a rounding error.

So, should we end government? I know libertarians that believe that government is the root of all evil and to some extent the statistics support that. And yet the ideologies of progressive liberal are centered on the idea of a powerful central Federal government doing what it does for "the greater good". When you hear that phrase... run.

One thing that makes Protestant Christianity somewhat unique is that it stresses that one's faith is about a personal relationship with God. Many other faiths including Catholicism are grounded in a "corporate" relation with God. I was never a fan of the "corporate" relationship because it is more prone to corruption... just like government... because in some respects, it is just another hierarchal organization.

As a Christian I have been subjected to so much hateful language on the internet, that it is hard for me to believe that how some people were raised to believe that was okay. Deep down we are human and flawed, Christians are the same. But faithful Christians are regularly challenged by their faith to consider their behavior... that is not unique to Christians, but it does serve to restrain them.

Study the history of nations without religion and you will see no such restraint. For the evil you assign to Trump as history goes, other than being braggart, womanizer, and bully, he was actually very restrained in his use of government against people.

Trump is Trump, but as far as evil leaders in the history of the world, he doesn't even qualify for a footnote status.