WND’s Brown Lectures Evangelicals About Spending Too Much Time On Politics — Then Does Exactly That

Michael Brown spent part of his Dec. 29 column lecturing his fellow right-wing Christians about spending too much time supporting Donald Trump:

The fact is, all too often, especially during the last eight years, many of us who are Christian conservatives have proclaimed our loyalty to Trump (or our candidate of choice) more loudly than our loyalty to the Lord. Many of us are better known for our MAGA (or, similar) hats than for our personal testimonies. And many of us are far more vocal about conservative political issues, such as gun rights or secure borders, than we are about our faith.

No wonder so many non-believers are so confused about who we are and what is most important to us.

To be sure, we are in the political and cultural battle of a lifetime, and Christian conservatives have every right to stand up and to speak out and to take political action. In many ways, the future of our nation depends on us doing these very things.

We really do face life and death issues, and without a doubt, there is an all-out assault on both our freedoms and our children. To fail to speak and act is to be negligent during a time of crisis.

But when we make the secondary or tertiary thing the main thing, our messaging becomes confused.

What are we best known for? What are we most passionate about? What are the hills on which we will die, literally or symbolically? If we could convey one message to the watching world, what would that message be?

I openly voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020 (although I endorsed no candidate and am a registered Independent), so that is not my issue here, even though some old, childhood friends cut me off because I supported him.

That’s regretful, but inevitable. We will never please everyone.

But when it comes to politics, I have done my best to shout to the world at the top of my lungs, “JESUS IS MY LORD AND SAVIOR, THE ONE WHO DIED FOR ME AND WHO ROSE AGAIN, THE ONE TO WHOM I OWE EVERYTHING. HE GETS MY HEART, MY SOUL, AND MY LIFE, TO THE VERY LAST BREATH.”

Then, about 100 decibels more quietly, “And I voted for such and such a candidate.”

Brown is being disingenuous about his support for Trump. Far from not endorsing him and being quiet about what he did, he wrote two books designed to help his fellow evangelicals get past Trump’s amorality and support him because he was fulfilling the right-wing political wish list.

Having thusly lectured his fellow right-wing evangelicals about spending too much time on politics, what did Brown do in succeeding columns? Lean hard into right-wing political talking points. He spent his Jan. 1 column ranting about Marxism and dubiously blaming it for anti-Semitism:

The big revelation for me was just how deeply Marxism has impacted our country – and this, in fact, ties in directly with the open manifestation of Jew-hatred and Israel-bashing as well.

To be sure, I was quite aware of Marxist influences in movements like BLM and in different aspects of our campus curricula. And I understood how concepts like intersectionality and CRT and DEI tied in with Marxist ideologies. I was also aware of the concept of the “long march” through our institutions of higher learning in which the radical activists of the ’60s and ’70s became our university mentors and teachers.

It’s just that I’m reluctant to call everything “Marxist” and to view everything through a conspiratorial lens. But when the evidence is so widespread and pervasive, the conclusions are unavoidable.

Given that Brown pretty much spends the rest of his column calling everything he doesn’t personally like as “Marxist,” he’s clearly not reluctant at all to do so.

In his Jan. 5 column, Brown defended the firing of Harvard president Claudine Gay after alleged plagiarism was revealed from claims that it was racially motivated:

To say things plainly, Dr. Gay’s demise was no more the result of racism than was the failure of the Jewish stutterer to get the radio announcer’s job. The big difference between the two is that Dr. Gay’s story is real; the Jewish radio announcer story is a joke.

But that didn’t stop Rev. Al Sharpton from saying, “President Gay’s resignation is about more than a person or a single incident. This is an attack on every Black woman in this country who’s put a crack in the glass ceiling.”

That would only hold true if every high achieving black woman in America: 1) was a serial plagiarist; 2) issued a tepid response to 31 Harvard student groups who claimed that the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis was entirely Israel’s fault; and 3) was unable to state before Congress that calls for the genocide of the Jews might not be a violation of school policy.

Please.

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To repeat: Pulling the race card here only undermines the reality of racism in America’s history and undermines efforts to expose racism where it does still exist.

Put another way, this is the boy crying “Wolf” one too many times. No one is listening anymore.

Brown wasn’t spending any time in either of these columns lamenting that he was spending too much time on politics and not enough time on religion.