NPR correspondent Sarah McCammon grew up in a white evangelical church that taught her to never question her faith. She was later surprised by the community's overwhelming support for Donald Trump.
Worshippers attend a concert by evangelical musician Sean Feucht on the National Mall on Oct. 25, 2020, in Washington, D.C.grew up in Kansas City, Mo., in the 1980s and '90s in an evangelical Christian community that taught her to fear God and never question her faith. She was"saved" at age 2, baptized at 8 and raised watching Christian movies and reading Christian books.
Then, in high school, McCammon participated in the Senate Page Program, which meant moving away from home and living in Washington, D.C., for half a year. One day Sina, a Muslim friend and fellow page, asked her something that shook her belief: Did she believe he was going to hell because he wasn't Christian?According to McCammon's faith, the answer was yes, but she couldn't bring herself to say that to her friend. Instead, she remembers,"I just said, 'I don't know.
"There were all of these questions around their support for Donald Trump," McCammon says."How would they deal with the cognitive dissonance, the apparent conflict between everything Trump seemed to stand for and what the movement said it stood for?", when she saw people with crosses and"Jesus saves" signs participating in the insurrection on the Capitol."That was the moment that I really wanted and needed to say something," she says.
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