As we observed the presidential primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, and based upon reporting from pundits and news broadcasters, I have obviously missed a major change in Christianity. If the reporting is correct, the former POTUS has garnered tremendous support from the evangelical community.

I was baptized and raised in the Methodist Church, from Sunday school through adulthood, but it has been 25 years since I have attended organized services. Ingrained in me were the foundational Christian values found in Jesus of Nazareth’s Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7), primarily the Golden Rule, and including lessons on anger, judgment, lust, oaths, retaliation, loving your enemies, giving to the needy and, of course, the Beatitudes. (Blessed are the poor, the meek, those who hunger, etc.)

Based on what I read about current evangelical voters and who they support, I must have missed a very significant change in the values I was taught, as it seems today’s evangelicals have thrown their support behind the most un-Christian candidate in our nations history.

The four times criminally indicted, civilly guilty sex offending, verifiably lying, shamelessly grifting, insurrectionist planning, hatred mongering former POTUS has seemingly wrapped up the Republican nomination for president, with the express support of a large section of the evangelical community in direct contradiction to virtually all the values Jesus laid out as guidelines for living.

The Christian values I was taught seem to have been discarded.

Gene Orr

Kline