Americans becoming less Christian as over a quarter follow no religion

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. No, he's just taking advantage of it.

Evangelicals got involved in right-wing politics in an organized way back in the '80s or even earlier. Before long the political part of the relationship overtook the Christian part, and the fundies, mostly in the South, decided it was more important to support the most racist, oppressive and inhumane policies of the GOP than to love their neighbors, heal the sick, feed the hungry and all that other subversive liberal stuff Jesus was into. They also aligned with the Catholics on the abortion issue despite the fact that the evangelicals mostly think Catholics are heretics, and vice-versa. Many evangelical denominations became arms of the GOP, despite risking their nonprofit tax status (which the IRS has never seemed to enforce), and right-wing politics became subsumed into their religious doctrine.