Hear Ye, Hear Ye! The Conversion of Kanye West Got Evangelicals Going Crazy

Right-wing evangelicals can now come out of their Kanye closets.

I have to be honest. This blog post started out one way and ended up slightly different. It was originally meant to be a full blown referendum on the craziness of Kanye and the evangelicals who are now so in love with him.

But then I listened to his whole Apple Music Beats 1 interview with Zane Lowe, and I gotta say, I was genuinely impressed with MOST of what he said.

And while I may have taken a slight detour on my trip down this particular train of thought, I am still ending up at the same place. That if you say the right things, and support the right politicians, American evangelicals will love you.

And way too many people, me included, care too frakking much what celebrities think.

How it all started

I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and seeing the usual number of provocative or incendiary posts those f-ing algorithms have deemed the priority for me to see. And I started seeing a number of posts from white evangelicals espousing their newfound love and appreciation for hip-hop mogul, designer, and self-proclaimed “greatest artist in the history or art,” Kanye West.