Pretty Much The Xianity I Grew Up Around

Pastor Robert Jeffress: "It looks like President Trump has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches than the Pope" pic.twitter.com/TMSyTmdeTE

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 9, 2026

And whole-heartedly rejected. A lot of good anti-RC sentiment thrown in there, too, which would never be explicit, but would also never be denied.

And no, I don’t think Trump has a clue what the Bible says; and it’s clear Robert Jeffress is perfectly comfortable with that. The central tenet of the Reformation, especially in the Reformed tradition, was that every individual was allowed to interpret Scripture individually. But Jeffress knows his congregation “interprets” the way he tells them to, and he likes it that way. Even though he’d distinguish the RC, which his Reformed tradition says doesn’t allow the individual to be guided by the Spirit the way his tradition teaches.

Slippery slopes are everywhere, and the splinter in another’s eye is always just a reflection of the log in yours. Especially when all you really want is just a little more power; which is another slippery slope when you want to judge based on who agreed with you, and who doesn’t.