The year 2020
is a hugely significant one for the United States of America, marking as it
does the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Mayflower Pilgrims to
the New World and their establishment of a 'godly' colony in (what was for
them) the 'American wilderness'. But it is also the year of the next
Presidential election, one where the current occupant is expected to stand for
re-election.
Many millions
of Americans will not see this as a random juxtaposition of events, since for
them the unlikely person of Donald Trump is the one chosen by God to implement
a twenty-first-century programme of godly rule and the restoration of American
spiritual exceptionalism that is directly rooted in those far-off times when
Puritan settlers (who followed in 1630) first established a semi-theocratic
'New Jerusalem' in the 'New World'.
The USA is the home of more Christians than any other nation on earth.
In 2014 research revealed that 70.6 per cent of Americans identified as
Christians of some form with 25.4% identifying as
'Evangelicals'. Eighty-one per cent of them, around 33.7 million people,
voted Trump in 2016. How can it be that
self-described Christians of the 'Evangelical Religious Right' see, of all
people, Donald Trump as their political representative and thus defender of
their cause?
Product code: 9781785905087
| ISBN |
9781785905087 |
| No. Of Pages |
320 |
| Publisher |
Biteback Publishing |