• [[00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBlUdoqg2R0&t=0s)] 🌟 Trump's recent campaign events exhibit a more religious tone resembling evangelical gatherings, reflecting a strategic appeal to white evangelical voters.
• [[00:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBlUdoqg2R0&t=30s)] 🗳️ White evangelicals, comprising 14% of the US population, constituted a quarter of 2020 voters, with 71% of monthly churchgoers supporting Trump.
• [[01:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBlUdoqg2R0&t=61s)] 🇺🇸 America has experienced significant secularization since the 1990s, becoming the 12th least religious country globally by 2020, with a rising percentage (30%) having no religious affiliation.
• [[02:01](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBlUdoqg2R0&t=121s)] 📉 The decline in religious affiliation in the US is attributed partly to scientific and rational progress, alongside shifts in American Christianity towards more politically focused engagement.
• [[03:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBlUdoqg2R0&t=212s)] 🤝 Increasingly, religion in America is associated with the Republican Party, leading to a significant decline in Democratic church membership.
• [[05:05](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBlUdoqg2R0&t=305s)] 🌍 Secularism coincides with a sense of loss for many, prompting a turn towards populism and nationalism as substitutes for traditional faith and community.

Rachel Held Evans was a New York Times best-selling author whose books include Faith Unraveled (2010), A Year of Biblical Womanhood (2012), Searching for Sunday (2015), Inspired (2018). Hailing from Dayton, Tennessee—home of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925— she wrote about faith, doubt and life in the Bible Belt.

Brent Zupp Nice to see this pushback against religious traditions, practices, and beliefs that are clearly against human rights, free speech, etc.

Quick note: A good measure of an organization is how they talk about and treat non-members of the organization.

I wonder is this is true?