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Today is Christian Visibility Day

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Today is Christian Visibility Day Clifford Cook

According to exit polls conducted by NBC News, 62 percent of Protestant Christian voters supported Donald Trump, and 56 percent of Catholic Christian voters supported Donald Trump.

By comparison, only 26 percent of non-religious Americans voted for Trump. Only 19 percent of religious Jewish Americans voted for Trump.  A minority of Americans of other non-Christian religions supported Trump.

Donald Trump won because the majority of American Christians voted for him.

So, for the next four years, every day will be Christian Visibility Day.

Every day, as we watch what Donald Trump does as President-elect and then President of the United States, we will know that his actions embody what American Christianity is all about.

No one can pretend that American Christianity is somehow something set apart from Donald Trump’s fascist ideology. We have clear data showing that a strong majority of American Christians support what Trump is doing.

Donald Trump said he would put tens of millions of people into concentration camps, and then the majority of American Christians voted for him.

Donald Trump said that he would use the military against Americans to crush political dissent, and then the majority of American Christians voted for him.

Donald Trump said that he would persecute his political opponents like vermin, and then the majority of American Christians voted for him.

Donald Trump said that he would use his power to ban books across America, and then the majority of American Christians voted for him.

Donald Trump said that he would use the power of the presidency to promote cryptocurrency scams, and then the majority of American Christians voted for him.

Donald Trump said that he would become a dictator and terminate the Constitution of the United States of America, and then the majority of American Christians voted for him.

Christian Nationalist activists in organizations like the Heritage Foundation and the America First Policy Institute wanted the world to see what Christian values are all about.

Forget the high-minded claims about Christian morality. We now have the opportunity to see what Christian principles look like in practice,  when Christianity is able to grab the reins of power.

Christian voters in the USA got what they wanted. They got Donald Trump.

Now, every action taken by Donald Trump and his supporters will be a representation of what American Christianity is really all about.

For the next four years, every day will be Christian Visibility Day.

We will be watching.