U.S. Christians who have supported Donald Trump, you have shown how weak your judgment is, how superficially you have read your own Gospels, and how laughable is your supposed commitment to any kind of spiritual vision that goes beyond the desire for strength and toughness--exactly as the world defines those things. God forbid that the world should ever again believe you when you speak about unseeable things, when you have spoken so falsely about things that are obvious to the eye. You should have been wise enough to know not to yoke the Gospel message to such a dubious political venture, and to remain publicly silent if your heart--for whatever reason--continued to insist that you vote for it. There was no justifiable reason to contaminate the Christian message by associating it with something so obviously controversial and foul.

People in the world have access to the words of Christ, through the Bible you claim to live by. They hear these words in their plain and simple sense. They may not share your conviction that Jesus is the son of God, but they are rightly offended when you suggest that real Christianity means accepting cultural goals that cut, perpendicularly, across the plain meaning of what he said (think about the Sermon on the Mount, for example). Ironically, they see your own spiritual condition more clearly than you do, noticing that your behaviors and attitudes bear no resemblance to those of the person you claim to be the perfect embodiment of God, and God himself.

As a result, many will choose to be atheists, just to avoid association with those who honor Christ's words with their lips, but not with actions that reflect those words--or those who cherrypick those words to fit their prejudices against others, but not to judge themselves. Ironically, in doing so, many of these atheists will be more possessed by the truth of Christ's words--and perhaps by the life that is in them--than those who, although they wear the name of Christian, do not tempt anyone to apply that name to them as an adjective.