The False White Gospel is a sermon aimed at the “Amen corner” of the Left. Wallis considers former President Donald Trump and his followers evil. The problem with his book is that, like so much of liberalism, the arguments are not specific. Wallis shouts about racist white pastors, yet he doesn’t name a single one. He condemns MAGA conservatives yet will not examine who they are and why they believe what they do. He preaches that America is awash in white supremacy yet offers no contemporary examples, instead falling back, as liberals always do, on old stories from America’s past.
The False White Gospel is a culmination of the greatest hits from the Hymnal of High Liberalism. No heresy is allowed. It’s a lazy book that contains no real research.
The one villain that Wallis does name, and obsessively so, is — you guessed it — Donald Trump. In Wallis’s theology, Trump is Satan, Herod, and Judas all rolled into one. The former president is ignorant, obnoxious, xenophobic, and racist, racist, racist. His supporters can’t be reasoned with.
[The quasi-religious Left and progressive Christian pastors have been doing this since Reagan, at least. Who can forget the rantings of Jeremiah Wright at TUCC, from which Barack Obama only reluctantly distanced himself in his first campaign? Wallis would have to go a fair piece to outdo Wright. — Ed]
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