MAGA: They’re only Christians when it’s convenient

The MAGA movement wraps itself in Christianity while betraying nearly every principle it claims to defend. Scripture is treated not as moral guidance, but as a prop — waved when useful, ignored when inconvenient.

MAGA leaders speak loudly about faith, yet excuse behavior that openly mocks it: habitual lying, cruelty toward the vulnerable, greed, adultery, vengeance, and the glorification of power. They preach humility while worshiping dominance. They quote Jesus while rejecting his most basic teachings — love thy neighbor, care for the poor, welcome the stranger, tell the truth.

The movement rails against “moral decay,” yet celebrates figures whose lives are defined by corruption and self-interest. Forgiveness is demanded endlessly for their leaders, while mercy is denied to immigrants, the poor, the sick, and anyone outside their political tribe. Sin is condemned selectively, enforced downward, and ignored upward.

Faith becomes a weapon rather than a compass. Christianity is reduced to slogans about control — over women’s bodies, over education, over who is deemed worthy of dignity — while the radical compassion at the heart of the Gospel is dismissed as weakness or “socialism.”

This is not religious conviction; it is religious branding. It replaces repentance with resentment and replaces moral accountability with blind loyalty. When Christianity is used to justify cruelty, exclusion, and dishonesty, it ceases to be a faith and becomes an excuse.

Calling this out is not an attack on religion. It is a defense of it. A faith that bends to power while abandoning principle is not being practiced — it is being exploited.

DAVE KOSANKE
Post Falls