The possibility of a post-Nov. 8 cloud darkening American life reaches beyond the Republican schism over Donald Trump.
The seething mutual anger between born-again Christian leaders who back Mr. Trump for president and those who oppose him calls into question the survival of religious conservatism as a political force within the Republican Party.
Russell Moore, a former Democratic congressional staffer and president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, has attacked Mr. Trump for his “reckless, demagogic rhetoric” about Muslims.
“We cannot complain that Muslims refuse to denounce extremist rhetoric of the jihadists if we do not denounce @realDonaldTrump!” tweeted Dave Miller, pastor of Southern Hills Baptist Church in Sioux City, Iowa.
Other big guns of the Bible brigades fired right back, with Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. formally endorsing Mr. Trump and showing up to cheer him on at his convention nomination in Cleveland in July. Mr. Falwell called Mr. Trump “a man who I believe can lead our country to greatness again.”
The Rev. Franklin Graham, while not endorsing Mr. Trump, made clear that opposing his election would do irreparable harm to Christianity in America.
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