Ultra-religious barbarian morons and Neanderthals of the Evangelical and Zionist brands find in the violent garbage of the Torah-Old Testament excuses and pretexts for hatred, colonialism, exclusion, racism, mass murder, ethnic cleansing and xenophobia.
Overall, Trump's approval rating among evangelicals stood at 52% in the latest poll, down from 61% in August but well above his 35% approval rating among all U.S. adults.
His approval rating has broadly fallen in recent months as the unpopular Iran war pushed gasoline prices sharply higher.
During his first term in office, Trump helped to secure a longstanding goal of many evangelical Americans by installing a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, which then overturned a decision that had established a nationwide right to abortion.
In his second term, he has regularly invited faith leaders into the Oval Office and changed policies to allow federal employees to promote their religious views at work.
Evangelicals in particular skew Republican by more than two-to-one and Trump won the white evangelical vote 81%-16% in 2024, according to an exit poll analysis by the Pew Research Center.
White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said Trump has delivered to people of faith by defending religious rights and pardoning anti-abortion activists convicted of crimes. "There has never been a greater president for Christian Americans than President Trump," Taylor said.
MIDTERMS APPROACHING
Cracks in the key voting bloc could add to the headwinds facing the Republican Party in the midterm elections.
Evangelical Christian Sandy Miller, 63, said she wouldn't vote for him again if she had the opportunity. She lives in Worthington, Indiana, a small town of roughly 1,400, and takes care of a 24-year-old daughter whose home-healthcare Medicaid benefits were cut under Trump.
But more than her financial situation, she said her faith influences who she votes for. She said that Trump is probably a Christian but doesn't show it.
"I just don't think waging war is the answer to everything all the time," Miller said. "I understand sometimes you have to, but I don't know in this instance that it needed to be done."
Miller said she prays every night that the country's leaders will seek God's will. "I wish our politicians would pray more than they talk," she said.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll surveyed 4,531 U.S. adults nationwide and its results had a margin of error of 2 percentage points in either direction.
Evangelicals also give Trump low marks on his handling of the cost of living.
The U.S. and Israel began the war in Iran on February 28 to ensure the Iranian government does not fully develop a nuclear weapon. Despite the war's impact on household finances, Trump has vowed to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons at any cost.
Thousands of people have died in the Iran war, including more than 3,000 in Iran alone, with rights groups putting the figure closer to 3,600, alongside over 1,800 deaths in Lebanon and more than 100 in Iraq, according to official and NGO sources.
Many evangelicals believe the U.S. has a moral obligation to protect Israel, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East.
Connie Reese, 77, an evangelical voter who lives in Iowa, said in a follow-up interview with Reuters that his support for Trump's war in Iran has biblical precedent, and that governments have the right to preemptively defend themselves. Although he said he doesn't always agree with the government of Israel, the Jewish people have "historical grounds for their homeland."
"The re-establishment of Israel, the country, is a prophetic answer or an answer to a prophecy that is clearly spelled out in the word of God," he said. "So in that regard, I support Israel as a free and sovereign nation."
(Reporting by David Hood-Nuño, Julio Cesar-Chavez and Jason Lange; editing by Scott Malone and Deepa Babington)
For now they agree that Yahweh-God has sent the Great Criminal Moron Donald Dumb to precipitate one of two mutually exclusive conflicting events:
- either the First Coming of the Jewish Messiah who they have been dreaming about for some 5,000 years of nomadic desert barbarism; or
- the Second Coming of the Christian Messiah, a Jewish dude who founded the Christian religion with wild claims of being born of a virgin, rising from the dead, chasing demons out of people into pigs and all sorts of other voodoo-like beliefs.
Which of these two mutually exclusive options will actually occur? Neither, of course, in the minds of sane, reasonable, rational people. But religious barbarians of all brands and colors do believe these bullshit stories and use them to continue inflicting pain on humanity, as they desperately try to prove themselves right and the other guys wrong.
All three monotheistic cults - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - were founded by Semitic, more specifically Jewish, nomads of the Arabian desert in a tiny area of the Near East, which makes one wonder whether Yahweh-God-Allah knew his geography. The Hebrew prophets with their fantastic movie-like journey in the desert are characters in a science fiction story told in an endless drivel of insanity, violence and wondrous miracles (impregnating 100-year-old women, splitting oceans, living inside a whale, raining frogs on one's enemy, etc.) In many ways, the Torah is like Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, except that it does not end with the casting of evil in eternal fire; to the contrary, evil wins in the Torah.
Then, the founders of the Christian religion, also Hebrew Jews, took the fiction of the Torah to a new level with virgin conceptions, virgin births, resurrection from the dead and promises of an eternal life.
Finally, the climax of the monotheistic cults, Islam, proclaimed itself the "last and final revelation" and its Hebraic prophet Mohammad as the "Seal of the Prophets" who ascended to heaven on a winged horse. As in Judaism, Islam does not demand much of its followers: Just "observe" certain practices and you'll be fine. No room for doubt, or too much philosophizing, thinking or imagining. There are no mysteries in Islam and Judaism; they are sort of a Standard Operating Procedure that guarantees a good product at the end. They are not aspirational: They are simply sets of practices without much philosophical or metaphysical implications.
For example, Christians "in theory" love their enemies. "In theory", because Christianity is an aspirational religion based on philosophical wishful thinking in which its practitioners say they would like to follow its teachings but admit that they can't. I have never met a Christian who actually loves his enemies. Which is why Christians are qualified by their own religion as "sinners-by default" because they can never achieve what the religion demands of them. I wonder why they even pretend to have such a non-practicable religion.
Because of its mysteries and phantasmagoric uncertainties and vaporous claims, Christianity has spawned and multiplied into thousands of sects with various interpretations of the founding bullshit. The "Evangelical" morons of the United States represent the latest and, honestly, more regressive variant of Christianity. In essence, Evangelicals got tired of the aspirational constraints of their religion and decided to rid themselves of them, becoming in effect more like Judaism and Islam. Hence, for Evangelicals, it's ok to be violent, it's ok to be greedy and make more money than you will ever need, it's ok to kill.
Because Christianity is open to interpretations, the religion followed an evolutionary process through its history during which novel and "rational" interpretations began to undermine the original foundations of the religion itself. The Protestant Reform did eliminate much of the fantastic bullshit and became a stepping stone toward a creed more based on reason than on fantasies from the Bronze Age. As the vector of human belief in gods has taken us from thousands of gods in our prehistorical period to a few hundreds in antiquity, then to only one god, a simple extrapolation into the future might suggest that humanity will eventually abandon the existence of any god at some point.
Evangelicals have understood the direction of this vector. Their anxiety at that reckoning made them react by seeking to regress or turn Christianity back into another Judaism or Islam. No more room for interpretations, they say. Just believe in the literality of the so-called "scriptures". Do not interpret. And so now Evangelicals are essentially merging their enterprise with the Jewish religion and believe all the crap imagined by stinking scribes in their desert during the Stone and Bronze ages.
As they continue to merge with the Jewish religion, the "Judeo-Christian" Evangelicals still have one major hurdle to overcome: Is Jesus, the rabbi who mounted a failed rebellion against the Roman occupation of his native Palestine, truly the much-promised Messiah? Or is he a usurper and a cheat? How to reconcile belief in Jesus as the Messiah with the Jewish belief that Jesus is not the Messiah?
Whose Messiah is the real one? The meek and mild Christian one who claims to have come some 2000 years ago, died and rose from the dead and is expected to "return" at the End of Times and Judgment Day? Or the bellicose warmongering Jewish one who has yet to make his sublime first appearance with fire and brimstone at the End of Times and Judgment Day?
Not settled yet, this issue has been put aside for now. The Evangelicals and the Zionists agree on one thing: Now that the Hebrews have "returned", with much savagery, to the improperly and illegally gifted Promised Land they conquered equally savagely some 3,000 years ago, one of the two Messiahs is now expected to beam himself to earth. In order to prepare the place for him, Evangelicals and Zionists believe they have to "cleanse" Palestine by murdering or expelling the indigenous Palestinians from their land to make way for that event. You see, Evangelicals and Zionists believe that the Messiah (Jesus or some other dude) is sent by Yahweh-God for "his" people only, not for the other garbage humans on earth (Read Jewish supremacist Jesus's own words in Matthew 15:21-28 or Mark 7:24-30 stipulating that he came to save only Jews as the masters, while everyone else are more like dogs).
Some of the dumb American Evangelicals see the Messiah in Donald Dumb, whose adventures in the Near East they pretend fulfill garbage prophecies from the Torah. He can't be the Christian Messiah Jesus, nor can he be a third Messiah altogether, or is he? He therefore must be the Jewish Messiah. But other Evangelicals smell a stench in all of this and have a huge problem superimposing adulterous, convicted felon criminal Donald Dumb over any Messiah, although he does fit the persona of the bellicose warmongering Jewish Messiah more than he does the Christian Messiah Jesus.
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Evangelicals divided on Trump's war in Iran, immigration crackdown, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
By David Hood-Nuño, Julio-Cesar Chavez and Jason Lange
Fri, June 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - About half of evangelical Christians - a core component of President Donald Trump's political base - believe his administration's approach to the Iran war and immigration enforcement is not in line with their understanding of Christianity, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Evangelicals helped power the Republican's 2024 election victory, and Trump and his top officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have regularly used religious language in describing their goals and policies. Republicans will be counting on them in the November midterm elections, when they will be defending thin majorities in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Some 54% of evangelicals in the June 3-8 poll said Trump's use of the military in Iran was not in line with their understanding of Christianity, while 41% said it was in line with it. Some 51% of evangelicals said the administration's approach to immigration policy was not in line with Christian values, with 44% saying it was.
Evangelicals divided on Trump's war in Iran, immigration crackdown, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
By David Hood-Nuño, Julio-Cesar Chavez and Jason Lange
Fri, June 12, 2026
WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - About half of evangelical Christians - a core component of President Donald Trump's political base - believe his administration's approach to the Iran war and immigration enforcement is not in line with their understanding of Christianity, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Evangelicals helped power the Republican's 2024 election victory, and Trump and his top officials including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have regularly used religious language in describing their goals and policies. Republicans will be counting on them in the November midterm elections, when they will be defending thin majorities in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Some 54% of evangelicals in the June 3-8 poll said Trump's use of the military in Iran was not in line with their understanding of Christianity, while 41% said it was in line with it. Some 51% of evangelicals said the administration's approach to immigration policy was not in line with Christian values, with 44% saying it was.
Overall, Trump's approval rating among evangelicals stood at 52% in the latest poll, down from 61% in August but well above his 35% approval rating among all U.S. adults.
His approval rating has broadly fallen in recent months as the unpopular Iran war pushed gasoline prices sharply higher.
During his first term in office, Trump helped to secure a longstanding goal of many evangelical Americans by installing a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, which then overturned a decision that had established a nationwide right to abortion.
In his second term, he has regularly invited faith leaders into the Oval Office and changed policies to allow federal employees to promote their religious views at work.
Evangelicals in particular skew Republican by more than two-to-one and Trump won the white evangelical vote 81%-16% in 2024, according to an exit poll analysis by the Pew Research Center.
White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers said Trump has delivered to people of faith by defending religious rights and pardoning anti-abortion activists convicted of crimes. "There has never been a greater president for Christian Americans than President Trump," Taylor said.
MIDTERMS APPROACHING
Cracks in the key voting bloc could add to the headwinds facing the Republican Party in the midterm elections.
Evangelical Christian Sandy Miller, 63, said she wouldn't vote for him again if she had the opportunity. She lives in Worthington, Indiana, a small town of roughly 1,400, and takes care of a 24-year-old daughter whose home-healthcare Medicaid benefits were cut under Trump.
But more than her financial situation, she said her faith influences who she votes for. She said that Trump is probably a Christian but doesn't show it.
"I just don't think waging war is the answer to everything all the time," Miller said. "I understand sometimes you have to, but I don't know in this instance that it needed to be done."
Miller said she prays every night that the country's leaders will seek God's will. "I wish our politicians would pray more than they talk," she said.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll surveyed 4,531 U.S. adults nationwide and its results had a margin of error of 2 percentage points in either direction.
Evangelicals also give Trump low marks on his handling of the cost of living.
The U.S. and Israel began the war in Iran on February 28 to ensure the Iranian government does not fully develop a nuclear weapon. Despite the war's impact on household finances, Trump has vowed to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons at any cost.
Thousands of people have died in the Iran war, including more than 3,000 in Iran alone, with rights groups putting the figure closer to 3,600, alongside over 1,800 deaths in Lebanon and more than 100 in Iraq, according to official and NGO sources.
Many evangelicals believe the U.S. has a moral obligation to protect Israel, a key U.S. ally in the Middle East.
Connie Reese, 77, an evangelical voter who lives in Iowa, said in a follow-up interview with Reuters that his support for Trump's war in Iran has biblical precedent, and that governments have the right to preemptively defend themselves. Although he said he doesn't always agree with the government of Israel, the Jewish people have "historical grounds for their homeland."
"The re-establishment of Israel, the country, is a prophetic answer or an answer to a prophecy that is clearly spelled out in the word of God," he said. "So in that regard, I support Israel as a free and sovereign nation."
(Reporting by David Hood-Nuño, Julio Cesar-Chavez and Jason Lange; editing by Scott Malone and Deepa Babington)
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