The 'unlikely vessel' lie
The danger of evangelical cognitive distortions
Cognitive distortions are irrational thoughts that shape an individual’s or a group’s worldview. Everyone has some, but not everyone’s are harmful, dangerous, or both. The idea that Trump is a divine agent of the Christian god here on earth is a cognitive distortion both harmful and dangerous.
Evangelicals are already programmed with cognitive errors that baffle anyone looking in from outside. Burning bushes, talking snakes, incest and murder, a vengeful, jealous sky daddy, etc. Adding a grifter like Trump to the mix is a bomb waiting to go off. The Capitol insurgency was just a tiny little burp. If Trump gets his power back, all hell is literally going to break loose.
Throughout the Bible, God makes heroes out of the unlikely. Jacob was a homeless grifter, Moses a murderer with a stammer, Ehud a disabled lo…
