If you’re going to talk about white evangelicals not getting the vaccine you have to talk about apocalypticism and the Mark of the Beast as tools of political fearmongering and how the church is part of a coalition to protect white, patriarchal, aristocratic power.

After all these years, after watching white evangelicals treat Trump as a messiah, after watching the cultish devotion, it’s time to stop treating this like it’s just a religion and isn’t part of a much larger political project.

We have to start paying attention, looking deeper, and remembering what’s happened. We can’t just pretend the last few years were a fluke.

We’re dealing with a cult of power and it only endangers us more with every passing day. https://newrepublic.com/article/157062/trump-falwell-evangelicals-coronavirus