As attention once again focused on America's 39th President, Jimmy Carter, following his death at 100 years of age, the stark contrast between his Christian faith, which he characterized for Americans unfamiliar with conservative Evangelicalism back in the 1970's by using a term from John's gospel, "Born Again," and the conservative Evangelicals who turned away from Carter to the right, to support a divorced, "B" movie Hollywood actor with no ties to any specific religion, except perhaps the New Age superstitions of his second wife, is noticeable. Carter, who is the only President to teach Sunday School while serving as President, and who has been a visible and notable role model in exhibiting the characteristics and values of the Christian gospel in his entire public life, stands in contrast to their racism, doctrinal purity and hypocrisy.

The disconnect between Carter and the right wing Evangelical leadership has a lot to do with their blending of right wing extremist politics with their theology and doctrine, creating heretical principles requiring adherence to doctrinal conformity, and to certain political partisan perspectives as orthodoxy, rather than living the lifestyle that is the Christian gospel of Jesus Christ. Carter's theology, as exhibited by what he has taught in his Sunday School classes, is consistent with the life he lives and the values he exhibits, which is what the emphasis of conservative Evangelicalism once was. But the partisan political orientation of most of the rest of America's conservative Evangelicals has led them astray.

And that's why they can't stand Carter. People see the difference, and they associate Carter with the Christian gospel of Jesus Christ, and conservative Evangelicals with the partisan legalism they've embraced, including wrapping their arms around one of the most worldly, immoral, licentious-living, corrupt, anti-Christian human beings alive on this planet in Donald Trump.

And of course, that's getting a reaction.