Why So Many Republicans Are Going to Hell — Part 1

What happens when they are more interested in condemning Muslims than bringing Muslims to Jesus Christ?

They may call themselves Christians.

They may attend church.

They may quote Scripture.

They may proclaim that God appointed their favorite president.

But Jesus is going to separate the sheep from the goats.

And no political affiliation will save them.

John 8:7 records the words of Jesus:

"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her."

The religious accusers brought before Jesus a woman taken in adultery.

They were ready to condemn her.

But Jesus exposed the condition of their own hearts.

How many Republicans spend their days condemning Democrats, Muslims, immigrants, and anyone else who disagrees with them while refusing to examine their own sins?

And how many Democrats do precisely the same thing toward Republicans?

Jesus warned in Matthew 7:1–5:

"Judge not, that ye be not judged."

He continued by describing the hypocrisy of attempting to remove a speck from another person's eye while ignoring the beam in one's own.

This does not prohibit all moral discernment. John 7:24 commands righteous judgment.

But righteous judgment begins with humility and applies God's standards to ourselves as well as others.

The self-righteous man believes he can identify everyone else's sins while overlooking his own hatred, pride, unforgiveness, and cruelty.

That is precisely the spiritual danger Christ warned about.

First Peter 4:18 declares:

"And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?"

Consider that warning carefully and what that word "scarcely" means. The word scarcely in that passage in the Greek is:

Word: molij

Pronounce: mol'-is

Strongs Number: G3433

Orig: probably by variation for 3425; with difficulty:--hardly, scarce(-ly), + with much work. G3425

Use: TDNT-4:735,606 Adverb

Heb Strong:

1) with difficulty, hardly
2) not easily, i.e. scarcely, very rarely 

Peter is not suggesting that Christ's sacrifice is insufficient or that salvation must be earned through human effort.

He is emphasizing the seriousness of God's judgment and the trials through which His people will need to persevere.

If even the righteous must endure suffering and remain faithful, what becomes of those who openly practice wickedness while assuming that their religious identity guarantees heaven?

Hebrews 12:14 commands believers to pursue peace and holiness.

Philippians 2:12 tells us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling.

Second Corinthians 13:5 declares:

"Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves."

Yet many professing Christians do not examine themselves at all.

They examine Democrats.

They examine Muslims.

They examine everyone except the person staring back at them in the mirror.

Matthew 7:13–14:

"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."

Many people will be on the broad road.

Not a few.

Many.

And Matthew 22:14 declares:

"For many are called, but few are chosen."

The danger is assuming that because millions of Americans identify as Christians, millions are necessarily living in obedience to Jesus Christ.

A church full of people who excuse hatred and refuse forgiveness is not made righteous by its size.

A political movement is not made holy by displaying crosses, carrying Bibles, or proclaiming that God is on its side.

The broad road remains broad even when those traveling upon it call themselves Christians.

Hebrews 5:7 declares:

"Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared."

Most Christians do not seem to grasp the gravity of this passage.

In the days of His flesh, Jesus Christ offered prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears.

Our sinless Savior prayed with extraordinary earnestness.

Consider His agony in Gethsemane.

Luke 22:44 describes His intense prayer.

Matthew 26:39 records His submission to the Father's will.

If the sinless Son of God approached His Father with such reverence and earnestness, how much more should we, who struggle with sin, pride, anger, unforgiveness, and temptation, fall upon our faces before Almighty God?

We should not presume upon salvation while deliberately nurturing the very sins Christ commands us to abandon.

We should be crying out to God for mercy.

We should be pleading for cleansing.

We should be asking the Holy Spirit to expose every hidden sin in our hearts.

Psalm 139:23–24 declares:

"Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."

That should be the prayer of every Christian in America today.

Many Republicans could not fathom that Democrats would win the 2026 midterm elections.

But the writing was on the wall.

It was not simply because President Trump went back on his promises to end the wars and strengthen our economy.

It was because of the enormous fracture within the America First movement itself.

I wrote about these dangers in my book, The 2026 Midterms: How America Can Pull Back From The Brink.

The growing dissatisfaction among voters who had supported Trump should have been impossible to ignore.

The Iran war, the economic strain on American households, controversies surrounding the administration, and the disillusionment of influential America First voices created conditions in which Republican losses were entirely conceivable.

And yet so many Republican loyalists acted as though their party could not possibly lose.

They treated warnings as betrayal.

They treated dissent as disloyalty.

They refused to consider that millions of people who once supported Trump might no longer be willing to support his administration.

Proverbs 16:18 declares:

"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."

Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Candace Owens collectively command audiences reaching tens of millions across their platforms.

These influential figures became increasingly estranged from the direction of the Trump administration and the MAGA movement.

In my judgment, this fracture dealt a devastating blow to the political coalition that had helped carry Trump to victory.

But rather than recognizing the magnitude of that division, many Republicans responded with their typical hubris and self-righteous pride.

Some were quick to entertain claims that electoral defeat must somehow have resulted from a stolen election.

They could not see the forest for the trees.

It is baffling to me, and to many others who voted for Trump but subsequently withdrew our support, that these self-righteous Republican goats cannot recognize what happened.

They remind me of the criminal on the cross who continued to mock Jesus while the other rebuked him.

Luke 23:40 records the repentant criminal asking:

"Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?"

Even in the final moments, one criminal remained hardened while the other recognized his guilt and turned toward Christ.

How can Republicans remain so blind to the reality of America's political situation?

How can they fail to understand that former Trump supporters might abstain from voting, support another candidate, or even vote against the Republican Party?

I am well aware of the destructive policies that can come from Democratic leadership.

I am well aware of the influence of pro-Israel lobbying, including AIPAC, on members of both parties.

I strongly oppose the political alignment with the Israeli government that I see in leaders such as Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, just as I oppose it among Republicans when it results in unquestioning support for military actions that harm innocent people.

But that is precisely why I wrote that the America First movement needed to recruit its own candidates for the midterm elections.

Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens, and other influential voices could have spearheaded a movement to unite dissatisfied voters, establish an independent America First coalition, vet candidates, and recruit people who genuinely represented the movement's stated principles.

Instead, in my assessment, far too much energy was spent complaining about the situation rather than organizing to change it.

They complained and complained while failing to build the electoral alternative their own followers needed.

Political influence without organized action is not enough to change a government.

I explained this in my book, The 2026 Midterms: How America Can Pull Back From The Brink, by WLBJ, available through major platforms including Amazon and Apple Books.

Every American who wishes to understand the constitutional and political crisis facing this nation should examine the arguments presented there.

And let us remember James 1:22:

"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves."

Although James was addressing obedience to God's Word rather than political organizing, the principle of acting upon one's convictions rather than merely speaking about them deserves consideration.

The hatred many self-righteous Republicans have for Democrats and Muslims has become a profound spiritual danger.

I believe Trump's rhetoric has intensified that hatred among some of his supporters, although many harbored these attitudes long before he entered politics.

And the tragedy is that these Christians cannot seem to understand the Scriptures warning against hatred and unforgiveness.

First John 3:15 declares:

"Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him."

First John 4:20 warns:

"If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar."

Jesus commanded us to love our enemies.

Not merely our Republican neighbors.

Not merely people who share our religion.

Not merely those who agree with our interpretation of the Constitution.

Our enemies.

Matthew 5:44:

"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."

I am certainly not saying that Democrats, Muslims, or people of any other political or religious persuasion are incapable of committing sins deserving God's judgment.

All have sinned.

Romans 3:23 declares:

"For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God."

But we are not appointed to ridicule, mock, and make hateful degrading memes about every group or person who disagrees with us. Yet this is what countless republicans, including President Trump do.

Jesus warned in Matthew 7:1:

"Judge not, that ye be not judged."

We just read it above:

Matthew 5:44:

"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."

The scripture doesn’t say pray for them, bless them, do good to Muslims and democrats that hate you and then hate them back with mocking ridiculing and degrading memes and keep that hatred flowing like a raging circle of hate! That is feeding into the cycle of hate that Satan wants to consume the world and bring about world destruction. World destruction will certainly come as Revelation 6:4 declares but woe to them by which it comes. We as Christians do not want to be part of the catalyst for that.

And Matthew 6:14–15 declares:

"For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."

Do you understand what that means?

If you refuse to forgive those who have wronged you, you are defying a direct command of Jesus Christ. When you mock, ridicule and degrade someone or a group that is hatred and unforgiveness, PERIOD! You will go to hell for it! STOP IT! IMMEDIATELY!

You cannot excuse that disobedience by pointing to the sins of the person you hate.

You cannot justify hatred because someone belongs to a different religion that is persecuting you or because you fear they intend to persecute you. JESUS said to bless them and to do good to them and to pray for them, PERIOD!

You cannot justify it because someone voted for a Democrat.

And you cannot justify it because someone is your political or religious enemy.

The commandment of Jesus Christ is not suspended during an election or a war.

Jesus taught us to pray in Matthew 6:12:

"And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors."

Luke 11:4 expresses the same principle:

"And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us."

Think about what you are praying when you repeat the Lord's Prayer.

You are asking God to forgive you while affirming that you forgive others.

What happens when your mouth recites those words but your heart refuses to forgive?

What happens when you ask God for mercy while wishing destruction upon your enemies?

Jesus immediately emphasized the importance of forgiveness in Matthew 6:14–15.

The warning could hardly be clearer.

A Christian cannot treat unforgiveness as a harmless personality trait.

It is a matter of obedience to Christ. When God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ look at your heart, they need to see that you love all humanity and pray for all human souls the devil may have ensnared and held in bondage to do evil to you and others. You have to have love in your heart towards them, or you will miss the mark and be excluded from heaven. “Neither will your heavenly Father forgive you.”

Listen carefully to Donald Trump's public statements.

In my 58 years, I cannot recall an American president whose rhetoric toward his political opponents has been so persistently harsh, insulting, and personally vindictive.

He has called Democrats left-wing lunatics.

He has insulted reporters and called people stupid.

He has spoken of political enemies with open contempt.

And his rhetoric toward Muslims and other groups has contributed, in my view, to a political culture in which too many people have confused cruelty with strength.

I am not suggesting that every Republican shares those attitudes.

I am warning those who do.

What troubles me is how easily Christians adopt the language and spirit of the political leaders they admire.

They begin by defending the president's policies.

Then they defend his insults.

Then they repeat his insults and many take the insults much further.

Then they begin hating the very people he hates.

Eventually, their political identity begins shaping their spiritual character more than the teachings of Jesus Christ.

This is what I mean when I speak of the transference of a spirit of hatred.

I am describing the spiritual and moral danger of embracing the attitudes of those with whom we align ourselves.

First Corinthians 15:33 warns:

"Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners."

Second Corinthians 6:14 warns against being unequally yoked together with unbelievers.

And Proverbs 13:20 declares:

"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed."

The Bible gives us these warnings for a reason.

The company we keep and the influences we embrace can shape our conduct.

And that influence need not occur through physical proximity.

A person can be influenced by someone speaking from a television screen or social media account a thousand miles away.

When you continually listen to someone express hatred, and you begin repeating that hatred, you are allowing that influence to change your heart.

Consider the contradiction involving Muslims.

Trump accepted political support from Muslim voters.

His administration also pursued extensive relationships with Muslim-majority countries.

Qatar's proposed transfer of a luxury Boeing aircraft for presidential use became a major ethics controversy.

And the administration's dealings involving Venezuelan oil have raised further questions about control of foreign resources and financial accountability.

I believe these relationships expose the hypocrisy of political rhetoric that encourages hostility toward Muslims while pursuing political and financial arrangements with Muslim-majority governments.

But a Muslim-majority country is not the same thing as every individual Muslim. We must not confuse governments, business transactions, religious beliefs, and the moral worth of individual people.

I also believe the Trump administration's conduct deserves rigorous investigation concerning possible conflicts of interest, financial enrichment, and abuse of public office.

Claims of insider trading, illegal diversion of oil proceeds, or personal enrichment must be supported by financial records and applicable law before they can be established as crimes.

That is why congressional oversight and independent investigation matter.

The same principle applies to the use of military force.

Representative Thomas Massie has introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth concerning unauthorized military action, civilian casualties, strikes against suspected drug-smuggling vessels, and the operation that captured Nicolás Maduro.

These are extraordinarily serious allegations.

They are not yet criminal convictions, and Hegseth disputes wrongdoing.

But they demand investigation.

Christians should never conclude that an act becomes righteous merely because a Republican president or Republican defense secretary orders it.

The shedding of innocent blood is condemned throughout Scripture.

Proverbs 6:16–17 identifies hands that shed innocent blood among the things the Lord hates.

And Isaiah 10:1–2 warns against those who enact unrighteous decrees and deprive vulnerable people of justice.

I supported Trump.

But I cannot follow him through acts that I believe constitute murder, extortion, racketeering, or unconstitutional aggression.

My loyalty to Jesus Christ and the Constitution must come before my loyalty to a president.

And I urge Christians who have adopted a spirit of hatred from their political affiliations to break that yoke.

Repent of the hatred.

Repent of the unforgiveness.

Stop defending conduct you would condemn immediately if a Democrat committed it.

No president is worth losing your soul over.

Many Americans do not understand the Constitution.

They repeat slogans about presidential authority without examining the limits placed upon government by the Constitution, federal statutes, and the laws of the states.

I have spent approximately thirty years studying Section 1983, constitutional law, and governmental corruption.

I have litigated racketeering claims.

And I wrote The 2026 Midterms: How America Can Pull Back From The Brink in part to explain why presidential power is not unlimited.

Consider the military operation that captured Nicolás Maduro and resulted in deaths in Venezuela.

Consider the lethal strikes against boats accused of transporting narcotics.

Consider military operations undertaken without a formal declaration of war by Congress.

Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution assigns Congress the power to declare war.

Article II makes the president commander in chief.

The War Powers Resolution establishes additional statutory restrictions and procedures.

The relationship between these authorities is disputed in particular circumstances, but that dispute cannot be resolved simply by announcing that the president may do whatever he wishes.

I believe the Maduro operation and the boat strikes raise grave questions involving unlawful killing, the use of military power for purposes beyond lawful authority, and possible abuses that warrant examination under criminal and civil statutes.

I have argued that conduct undertaken under color of governmental authority can implicate laws concerning murder, racketeering, and other offenses.

However, a lack of congressional authorization does not automatically prove every element of those crimes. Each offense has specific requirements, and jurisdiction and applicable immunity doctrines must be examined.

That is the difference between a legal argument and a political slogan.

The federal RICO statute, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968, defines racketeering through specified predicate offenses and other statutory requirements.

Section 1983 provides a civil remedy for certain violations of federal rights committed under color of state law; claims against federal officials require different legal analysis.

These distinctions are important.

And they are among the reasons Americans should learn constitutional law rather than assume that political loyalty substitutes for legal knowledge.

I ask those who dismiss my analysis:

Have you litigated racketeering?

Have you spent thirty years studying constitutional remedies and governmental corruption?

Have you examined the actual statutes governing the conduct you are defending?

If you have not, then at least take the time to read the work of someone who has devoted decades to these subjects before dismissing the arguments.

Read The 2026 Midterms: How America Can Pull Back From The Brink, by WLBJ.

You are free to disagree with my conclusions.

But first understand the legal reasoning.

And remember Acts 5:29:

"We ought to obey God rather than men."

No president, no general, no political party, and no government is exempt from moral accountability.

This is one of the most sobering developments of all.

In his November 8, 2026, interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, President Trump discussed his own mortality and the possibility of heaven and hell.

He acknowledged that he did not want to go to hell.

But when correspondent Ross Douthat asked whether he could forgive certain political enemies, Trump answered no.

He acknowledged hatred toward some of his enemies and indicated that he expected those feelings to remain.

This is not merely a matter of political interpretation.

The exchange is recorded in the CBS interview.

Now compare those remarks with the words of Jesus Christ.

Matthew 6:15:

"But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."

Mark 11:25:

"And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses."

And Matthew 18:35 warns of the consequences of refusing forgiveness from the heart.

I cannot pronounce the final eternal judgment of Donald Trump. That belongs to God, who knows whether a person will ultimately repent.

But I can say this:

A public declaration of persistent hatred and refusal to forgive stands in direct conflict with the teachings of Jesus Christ.

And if a person dies unrepentant in deliberate rebellion against God's commandments, that person faces the judgment Scripture warns about.

The president needs repentance.

I need repentance wherever I have sinned.

You need repentance wherever you have sinned.

Every one of us needs the mercy of Jesus Christ.

The danger is not merely that Trump has made these statements.

It is that millions of professing Christians hear them and still refuse to acknowledge the spiritual seriousness of what he is saying.

It should be obvious that countless Democrats face the same spiritual dangers I have described.

Hatred, corruption, pride, cruelty, unbelief, and unforgiveness are not exclusively Republican sins.

But many Republicans and Trump supporters face these dangers as well.

One reason Christians stumble over Trump is their belief that God has called him to accomplish certain purposes in the world.

They assume that if God is using him, his actions must therefore be righteous.

That assumption is completely contrary to Scripture.

God has used wicked rulers throughout history to accomplish His purposes.

Consider Nebuchadnezzar.

Jeremiah 25:9 describes God using Nebuchadnezzar in judgment.

Yet Daniel 4 records the humiliation of that same king because of his pride.

Consider Assyria.

Isaiah 10:5 describes Assyria as the instrument of God's anger.

But Isaiah 10:12 declares that God would punish the arrogance of the Assyrian king.

Do you understand the distinction?

God may use a ruler to accomplish His purposes while still holding that ruler accountable for wickedness.

Divine sovereignty is not divine approval of every action taken by a political leader.

God can use a goat.

God can use an unbeliever.

God can use a wicked king.

God can even use a ruler whose actions eventually bring judgment upon himself.

Romans 9:17 refers to Pharaoh in explaining how God can demonstrate His power through rulers who resist Him.

Therefore, even if someone believes Trump has a role in fulfilling prophecy, that belief does not justify murder, cruelty, hatred, corruption, or lawlessness.

God's commandments do not cease to apply to presidents.

And they do not cease to apply to the Christians who support them.

Continued in Part 2: Why So Many Republicans Are Going to Hell.