From “Why Christians Should Be Leftists” by Phil Christman
In many cases, that change began with the incandescent charisma of former president Barack Obama. His seemingly sincere, if vague, God-talk during the 2008 election campaign, plus the hard-to-ignore failures of the evangelical George W. Bush, forced many to at least consider voting Democratic for the first time in a while, perhaps in a lifetime. For others, it was the virulent anger that Obama’s election then seemed to arouse from other Christians, and the wholesale lying that Christian political opponents of Barack Obama engaged in. A locally well-respected Christian man somberly informed my niece and nephew that Obama was a secret Muslim who was planning to behead Christians at some point in the future. This kind of misinformation was incredibly common in Christian circles for eight years, and a lot of it was both so outrageous and so ubiquitous that some of the people spreading it had to be knowingly lying.