Writing for the Christian Post, Christian broadcaster Michael Brown couldn’t help but wonder if his fellow churchgoers should be happy if Donald Trump runs again considering how influential he was in changing Christian behavior over the past six years.

In his column, Brown writes that he’s not suggesting it would be a bad thing if Trump runs again, but says he is worried that Christians who follow Trump will continue to adopt his “nasty” and divisive rhetoric and continue to move away from the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Brown also writes that while Trump kept many of his promises to the Christian community but he still had to ask “Do I believe that Trump, in the midst of his many positive accomplishments, had a profoundly negative affect on much of the Church of America? I certainly do.”

He contended, however, that the fault doesn’t lie with Trump, Raw Story reports.

“But I don’t blame President Trump for that. That’s on us, not on him,” he writes. “The fact that many of us exalted him as some kind of political savior is our fault.”

Brown continues to write about Trump’s accomplishments inside the Christian community but never mentions what they are and this bugs me. What accomplishments? Dividing the country? Bringing out the crazier elements of the Republican Party? What?

But he’s quite right in placing the blame where it belongs: On Christians who adhered to the uglier elements of Trump’s personality.

To further this sentiment, Brown writes:

“The fact that we enjoyed watching him belittle and mock his political opponents, often in crude and cruel ways, is our fault. The fact that we divided over him so passionately, some to the point of literally loathing him and others to the point of talking more about him than they talked about Jesus, is our fault. The fact that he changed us more than we changed him, with some of our social media pages looking more like political attack sites rather than the pages of Jesus lovers, is our fault.”

Once again he claimed it’s easy to vote for Trump because of the changes he brought about as president, and I still would like to know what Brown is referring to because I can’t think of anything this man did that’s even remotely positive for Christians or non-Christians. The country is hurtling towards fascism because this former president brought out the very worst in right-wing Christian Republicans and seemed to give white supremacists new life.

We’re in a really bad way largely because of this man.

Nevertheless, Brown did wonder how much damage the more fervent Trump-loving Christians did to their churchgoing friends.

“While we could easily justify our vote for Trump as followers of Jesus (as opposed to voting for Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden), the way many of us joined ourselves to him deeply hurt our witness. So, it was not voting for Trump that hurt our witness, but our actions as Trump supporters that did,” he writes. “In many ways, by our carnal behavior, by our obsession with the elections, by our over-exhalting of a man, by our savaging each other over our differences, by our following false prophecies, by our embracing of QAnon conspiracy theories, we deeply hurt our witness to a watching world, becoming better known as the Trump supporters than as the Jesus followers.”

And again Brown writes about the “so many good things” Trump stood for. Go figure.

“In the case of Trump, there were so many good things he stood for, so many admirable things he championed, so much courage he displayed, so much of our burden that he shared that it was all too easy for us to get seduced. (By seduced I don’t mean voting for him; I mean acting the way we did.) In the process, we comprised our witness, put our trust in the political system, and divided over the president rather than united around Jesus. Will we do better if Trump decides to run again?”

The best way to do better is to not vote for an obviously amoral man who has never EVER exemplified Christian values. Trump wasn’t interested in Christians in the least until he realized the more fanatical among them could help him get elected. Look, I’m not religious, but I can’t ever imagine Jesus voting for this self-absorbed sociopath.