To the editor:

Christian Evangelicals are committed to the authority of the Bible, evangelism and personal conversion, as well as the exaltation of Christ's death on the cross. However, the "Moral Majority" of Evangelicals is rapidly becoming the immoral minority. Claiming to be "values voters" they have forfeited their souls to a biblically illiterate, thrice-married sexual deviant and sociopath who models the antithesis of sophisticated moral reasoning.

Claiming that God often chooses unlikely leaders, Evangelicals sustain their hypocrisy only by engaging in theological gymnastics, boggling the mind of anyone who has not made God into his own image. The prejudice that the word "Evangelical" now connotes has begun a death-spiral not only for Evangelicals but for other believers as well.

A generation ago, Evangelicals sold themselves to the Republican Party in exchange for political power. The Republican Party has been using Christianity to cover bad deeds ever since.

Few Evangelical leaders demonstrate the soul-searching necessary to ask what it is about their world view that has made them susceptible to a fascist, bigoted, sexist, xenophobic and anti-intellectual political movement in which truth no longer matters. Is it the carrot of a national theocracy? Most Christian biblical scholars, using a historical-critical method of scholarship, do not believe that the Bible is the literal and complete word of God. Evangelicals do. And they fail to acknowledge that the Bible contains some terribly bad ideas.

Their whole enterprise is built on a scientifically indefensible view of the Bible, now merged with Republican dogma, leaving believers vulnerable to political exploitation. So many Christians have been so thoroughly indoctrinated into Bible-sanctified Republican ideology that it will take a generation to move them away from the distinctly un-Christian beliefs and priorities that elected the Republican president and nearly elected Roy Moore.

Jon Kroll

Alexandria, MN