Name: MAGA 並未拯救基督教——它正在加速崩潰！ (MAGA Isn’t Saving Christianity — It’s SPEEDRUNNING Collapse)
Uploaded: 2026-01-28T16:59:18.000Z
Duration: 12 min 58 s

Christian nationalists want us to believe that Christianity is booming in America right now.

基督教民族主義者希望我們相信，現在美國的基督教正蓬勃發展。

情態副詞

But what if MAGA is actively putting the final nail in the coffin of Christianity instead?

但如果MAGA實際上是在為基督教敲響喪鐘呢？

程度副詞

We've seen how white conservative evangelicals continue to shill for Trump, no matter how utterly corrupt his approach becomes.

我們已經看到，無論川普的手段多麼腐敗，白人保守派福音派仍然為他充當說客。

Surely this has an impact on how people view the God these people claim to be inspired by, right?

這肯定會影響人們如何看待這些人聲稱受其啟發的上帝，對吧？

Well, it turns out that there's a clear pattern that MAGA Christianity sits within that gives us a good idea of what we can expect their impact to ultimately be.

嗯，事實證明，MAGA基督教存在一個清晰的模式，讓我們可以好好預期他們最終的影響。

My name's Heidi, and on this channel, we deconstruct holy ideas.

我是Heidi，在這個頻道，我們剖析神聖的觀念。

讓我們一起走上通往Kotland的神聖之路。

For most of modern American history, Christianity has been remarkably stable.

在現代美國歷史的大部分時間裡，基督教一直非常穩定。

For decades, roughly 90% of Americans identified as Christian.

幾十年來，大約有90%的美國人認同自己是基督徒。

When you look at this longitudinal graph, two sharp declines stand out.

當你看到這張縱向圖表時，有兩個急劇的下降顯得格外突出。

在1990年代初期和2000年代後期。

So the question becomes, what happened right before each of those drops?

所以問題來了，在那兩次下降之前分別發生了什麼事？

In the years preceding that first drop in religiosity, a very clear pattern emerged in America.

在宗教虔誠度首次下降之前的幾年裡，美國出現了一個非常明顯的模式。

Between the years of 1986 and 1991, there was a wave of nationally televised televangelist scandals, including fraud, sexual abuse, financial exploitation, and

在1986年至1991年間，出現了一波全國性的電視傳道者醜聞，包括詐欺、性侵害、財務剝削，以及

hypocrisy exposed live on television year after year.

年復一年在電視上曝光的虛偽。

And right when that first wave of scandal had enough time to sink into culture.

而就在第一波醜聞有足夠時間滲透到文化中時。

That's when we see the first drop in religiosity in America come 1992.

我們就看到了1992年美國宗教虔誠度的首次下降。

That's when we see this sharp decline on our graph.

那時候我們在圖表上看到了這個急劇的下降。

People didn't stop believing overnight, but they stopped trusting.

大家不是一夜之間就不信了，而是不再信任了。

the Boston Globe drops a bombshell article exposing systematic abuse within the Catholic Church.

《波士頓環球報》刊登了一篇爆炸性文章，揭露了天主教會內部的系統性虐待。

And the massive drop in religiosity that we see five years after this article was published, I believe was bolstered by a couple factors that hadn't been present before.

我認為，這篇文章發表五年後我們看到的宗教虔誠度急劇下降，受到了幾個先前不存在的因素的推動。

And these include the fact that broadband Internet had just recently started being widely available in America, starting around 2001, as well as between 2004 and 2006, the start of the New Atheist movement making a major splash in America for the first time.

這些因素包括寬頻網路大約在2001年才開始在美國廣泛普及，以及在2004年至2006年間，新無神論運動首次在美國引起巨大反響。

There was widespread doubt of the moral authority of the institutions of Christianity and Catholicism, as well as this new ability to get out of your perspective and see the world at large in a way that had never been possible before.

人們普遍質疑基督教和天主教機構的道德權威，同時也獲得了一種全新的能力，能夠跳脫自身觀點，以前所未有的方式看待整個世界。

But it wasn't just the decline of Christianity Christian affiliation that happened during these two pivotal points in modern US History.

但現代美國歷史上這兩個關鍵時刻，發生的不只是基督教、基督教歸屬感的下降。

We also have this indication that moral failings did in fact, contribute to both of these drop offs in religious affiliation.

我們也看到有跡象顯示，道德上的失敗確實導致了這兩次宗教歸屬感的下降。

This is a graph that reflects public trust in the religious institution in America compared to all institutions in America.

這張圖表顯示了美國民眾對宗教機構的信任度與對所有機構的信任度相比。

As you can see, there are three distinct Public trust toward the institution of religion starts out above the that of other institutions, then goes to be the same as that of other institutions to ending up being underwater compared to other institutions.

正如大家所見，有三個明顯的階段：對宗教機構的信任度最初高於其他機構，然後與其他機構持平，最後則落後於其他機構。

And the time that these changes happen is really important.

而這些改變發生的時間點也非常重要。

They happen right before affiliation starts to go down, just a couple years later.

這些改變發生在歸屬感開始下降的前幾年，大概幾年後。

Conservative evangelicals can claim that the world has gone to hell in the past number of years, but

儘管保守的福音派人士聲稱這幾年世界已經變得糟糕透頂，但

it seems clear at the very least that Americans also have seen with their own eyes that the moral authority that Christians claim to have is at the very least highly suspect.

至少可以清楚地看到，美國人也親眼目睹了基督徒聲稱擁有的道德權威，至少是高度可疑的。

但這對我們今天有什麼意義呢？

A recent viral TikTok series is a great example of the impact that the decay of moral authority among Christians has had on society.

最近一個在 TikTok 上爆紅的系列影片，就很好地展現了基督徒道德權威的衰敗對社會造成的影響。

Today there was a woman conducting a social experiment where she called around different churches asking them one simple question.

今天有一位女士做了一個社會實驗，她打電話給不同的教會，問了一個簡單的問題。

Do you have any spare formula for my starving baby?

你們有剩下一些配方奶粉給我快餓死的寶寶嗎？

I'm not sure cuz we don't have cash here.

我不太確定，因為我們這裡沒有現金。

不行，我們完全不提供配方奶粉的幫助。

We really don't have an estimated time just because we do receive a lot of requests here.

我們真的沒有一個預計的時間，因為我們這裡收到的請求很多。

It can take a couple days, it could take a couple weeks.

可能需要幾天，也可能需要幾週。

Really just don't have a time right there.

真的就是沒有一個確定的時間。

But we don't have formula or anything like that.

但我們沒有配方奶粉或類似的東西。

You want, you want somebody to give you some money or something?

你是想要，你是想要有人給你一些錢還是什麼的？

I have a two month old and she ran out last night.

我家有個兩個月大的寶寶，她昨晚奶粉就用完了。

So she's went all night and all day without formula.

所以她一整晚、一整天都沒有喝奶粉了。

Yeah, we don't have any formula here for now, baby.

對啊，我們這裡暫時沒有奶粉給寶寶喔。

No, we have a kitchen but we don't have milk.

不，我們有廚房，但是沒有牛奶。

Is there any way y' all could just get a can and I could pick it up?

你們有沒有辦法弄一罐給我，然後我過去拿？

We don't have time to do that because we don't.

我們沒時間這樣做，因為我們沒有。

She called megachurches mid sized churches, different denominations, Catholics, Mormons and she got the same response from almost everyone.

她打電話給一些中大型教會，不同教派，包括天主教、摩門教，結果幾乎所有人都給她一樣的回應。

But the real reason why I think everyone was talking about this situation wasn't because they were surprised?

但我認為大家討論這件事的真正原因，不是因為他們感到驚訝？

I think it was actually because they weren't surprised at all.

我覺得其實是因為他們根本一點也不驚訝。

Am I surprised that the church is not taking accountability?

教會不願承擔責任，這讓我很驚訝嗎？

Am I continuously disappointed with them?

Quaverly Church in Tennessee is a beautiful example and demonstration of what we call Darvo, which is a known manipulation tactic that people who have narcissistic, abusive and manipulative behavior use when they are confronted with the truth and are being asked to be accountable for their bad behavior.

田納西州的 Quaverly 教會，就是一個很棒的例子，展示了我們所說的「達佛」（Darvo）手法，這是一種已知的操縱策略，有自戀、虐待和操縱行為的人，在面對真相並被要求為他們的惡劣行為負責時，就會使用這種手法。

There was less shock and outrage in people's responses to watching this social experiment play out in real time, and

人們在觀看這個社會實驗即時上演時，反應中少了震驚和憤怒，

more so confirmation of the things that they already believed about how Christians would respond.

更像是證實了他們本來就相信的，關於基督徒會如何回應。

And the outcome of this social experiment seemed to be clear.

而這個社會實驗的結果似乎很清楚了。

Christians are so much more likely to talk about morality rather than actually practice it.

基督徒更常談論道德，而不是真正實踐它。

And when confronted with the implications of this social experiment, some defenders of Christianity didn't even argue the facts.

當面對這個社會實驗的意涵時，一些基督教的辯護者甚至沒有爭論事實。

They dismissed the relevance of this entire experiment to begin with.

他們一開始就駁斥了整個實驗的相關性。

Even if you called every single church around the world pretending that your child needed baby formula and every single one of those churches rejected you, it wouldn't change the fact that Jesus Christ still paid for your sins on the cross and then rose again on the third day, and

即使你打遍全世界每一間教會，假裝你的孩子需要配方奶粉，而每一間教會都拒絕了你，這也不會改變耶穌基督在十字架上為你的罪付出了代價，然後在第三天復活的事實，

that the only way into heaven is by trusting in him for your salvation.

而且進入天堂的唯一途徑就是信靠祂來獲得救贖。

And it's responses like this from Christians that exposes the much deeper problem at play.

而基督徒的回應就像這樣，暴露了更深層的問題。

The holy idea present within these powerful sectors of Christianity is that morality is not an objective thing that we measure our leaders or role models against.

這些基督教強大領域內存在的聖潔觀念是，道德並非一個客觀的事物，我們用來衡量我們的領袖或榜樣。

Instead, within these spaces, morality is defined by leadership because leaders talk to God and God is the ultimate arbiter of our reality of truth, of our sense of morality.

反而是在這些空間裡，道德是由領導者定義的，因為領導者與上帝對話，而上帝是我們現實、真理、道德感的最終仲裁者。

This idea is the foundation for leaders who evade accountability, followers who defend the system instead of recognizing that they're being manipulated by it, and

這個想法是那些逃避責任的領導者、那些為了維護體系而非認清自己被操縱的追隨者，

a watching world who sees morality being happily traded in for the real prize of the religious machine, which is power.

以及一個旁觀的世界的基礎，這個世界看到道德被高高興興地交換了，換取了宗教機器真正的獎賞——權力。

This is the pattern that continues to repeat within the conservative evangelical church in America.

這就是在美國保守派福音派教會中不斷重複的模式。

Whether we're talking about televangelism in the 80s or megachurches in the 2010s or Christian nationalism today.

無論我們是在談論 80 年代的電視傳道者，還是 2010 年代的超級教會，或是今天的基督教民族主義。

First, you have to create a high status environment that makes people feel chosen, elite and morally superior.

首先，你必須創造一個高地位的環境，讓人們感覺自己被揀選、是精英，並且在道德上優越。

Next, offer a certainty based belief system that is controlled by unquestionable leaders.

接著，提供一個基於確定性的信仰系統，由不容置疑的領導者掌控。

Then you have to convince followers that they're under siege, victims of a hostile world.

然後你必須說服追隨者，他們正處於圍攻之下，是敵對世界的受害者。

And lastly, demand loyalty from them instead of accountability from yourself.

最後，要求他們效忠，而不是要求自己負責。

And this is how this segment of Christianity has created so such a loyal base that has kept pretty consistent numbers between 20 to 25% of the American population for decades.

這就是為什麼這個基督教派別能夠創造出如此忠誠的基礎，數十年來，其人數在美國人口中一直穩定地維持在 20% 到 25% 之間。