Published on: Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:53:32 GMTOriginal Story: Trump’s Racist Post Deserves Outrage – Christianity Today The Holy Ghost of “Better Late Than Never” I just spent forty-five minutes trying to explain to a Gen Z intern why we used to have to wait ten minutes for a single JPEG to load on a 56k modem, and honestly, that felt more productive than reading Christianity Today’s sudden epiphany. The flagship publication for the evangelical set has finally noticed—after roughly nine years of “locker room talk” and rhetoric that sounds suspiciously like a 1930s European radio broadcast—that the former guy might have a bit of a racism problem. It’s like watching your boss finally figure out how to attach a PDF in 2024; you want to clap, but you mostly just want to put your head on your IKEA desk and weep for the lost time. The magazine’s editorial is calling out the “poisoning the blood” comments, acting as if they’ve just unboxed a brand-new moral compass that was previously stuck in shipping. For those of us who have been burned by the corporate grind since the days of burning Napster playlists onto Memorex CDs, this “moral awakening” feels a lot like a late-stage performance review. It’s wonky, it’s defensive, and it’s about as timely as a Blockbuster Rewards card. They’re wrestling with the “Loyalty Test,” trying to figure out if they can keep the tax-exempt status and the pews full while acknowledging that their chosen vessel is currently leaking vitriol at a rate that would make a Winamp visualizer glitch out. But let’s talk about the Personal Economic Annoyance of this particular brand of soul-searching. While the religious intelligentsia debates whether calling people “vermin” is technically a sin or just “unfortunate phrasing,” my grocery bill is still looking like a high-score on a Tony Hawk Pro Skater level. This constant cycle of “Is he racist? Is he just ‘telling it like it is’?” is a massive tax on our collective mental bandwidth. It’s a distraction economy. Every hour we spend analyzing the moral gymnastics of the religious right is an hour we aren’t talking about why my rent has increased more than the price of a first-generation iPod on eBay. We’re being gaslit by the very institutions that are supposed to provide a baseline for “not being a terrible person,” and the overhead cost of that cognitive dissonance is making us all broke and bitter. At the end of the day, this isn’t just a theological debate; it’s a structural failure. It’s like the social contract is a corrupted .zip file and we’ve lost the recovery key. Christianity Today is trying to reboot the system, but the blue screen of death is already staring us in the face. I’m too tired for the “both sides” dance. I’ve got a spreadsheet to finish and a 401k that is currently worth approximately three bags of name-brand chips. If the evangelical base needs a magazine to tell them that racism is “un-Christian,” we aren’t just living in a glitch in the Matrix—we’re the ones who forgot to save the document before the power went out. Related Coverage from Other News Outlets: ‘Non-negotiable’: Iran says missiles off the table in talks with the US (via Al Jazeera) ‘An unqualified insurrectionist’: outcry over Trump nominee in Wyoming (via The Guardian) Trump envoys met directly with Iran foreign minister in Oman (via Axios) Post navigation Preach Nicely or Pay the Tax Man