Tim Alberta, an evangelical Christian journalist who got his start at the conservative National Review, thinks something has gone seriously off the rails for many of his fellow evangelicals in the age of Donald Trump.
In an excerpt of his new book published in The Atlantic, Alberta details how he was accosted by MAGA fans at his own father's funeral over a recent book he'd written containing "unflattering revelations" about former President Donald Trump that had been criticized by the late Rush Limbaugh on his radio show in 2019.
Although some of the remarks people made to Alberta were done in jest, he said that others were overtly hostile in a way that left him shaken.
"One man questioned whether I was truly a Christian," Alberta writes. "Another asked if I was still on 'the right side.' All while Dad was in a box a hundred feet away. It got to the point where I had to take a walk. Here, in our house of worship, people were taunting me about politics as I tried to mourn my father."
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Alberta brought this incident up briefly while delivering his father's eulogy and suggested to the audience that they would have been better off listening to sermons delivered by his father, who had been a priest, instead of listening to "garbage" spewed by Rush Limbaugh.
While Alberta at first questioned whether he'd gone too far in making this mention at the eulogy, he was further shaken when he was handed a note written by one of his father's longtime friends that accused him of "part of an evil plot... to undermine God’s ordained leader of the United States."
