Trump Cultists and Children

I have several atheist friends, who pose one simple question (along similar variations) to me from time to time, "If Christians are really new creations in Christ, why are they by and large the shittiest people in America?"  Honestly, I've never come up with a good answer for that.  Many people say that there's no reason for someone to judge God by those who profess to follow Him and His dictates and commandments, but if we are new creations in Christ, isn't that exactly what should be done?  If we truly believe that Christians are changed from the people they once were, into new and better people by being saved by the grace of Christ, should it not be assumed that they should act that way?  That their beliefs be judged that way?''

Honestly, I don't know the answer.  I just don't, and I hate the whole No True Scotsman game, because those I would say don't represent Christianity would do the same of me.  I've always firmly believed that my morals came from my religion, and to an extent, I still do.  However, looking at my co-religionists, I have to pause and wonder if that is the case, or if my values often lie more in a broadly humanist philosophy that has been influenced by the positive aspects of my religion. 

It terrifies me to see how American Christendom is rapidly becoming the Cult of their new Lord, Trumpus Christus, instead of Jesus the Christ.  It terrifies me to see the Evangelicals in particular, but more than a few Catholics, practically orgasm at the thought of ripping children from their parents and placing them in literal concentration camps.  It terrifies me on so many levels to see how these people forsake Christ in favor of evil, all for the promise of temporal power.

When the Disciples tried to stop some children from Jesus, He said to allow them to come unto Him and that if one caused them to stumble, then it would be better for them to tie a millstone around their neck and throw themselves into the sea.  Rather than embracing children, as did Christ, the Trump Cultists embrace the idea of throwing them into camps where they are not even provided soap.  Rather than care for their spiritual well being, the Trump Cultists pay them no heed.  In the face that these traumas will scar these children for life, the Trump Cultists will shrug and happily go on their way.  In the face of the great falling away from faith these camps will cause among their survivors (since we know people are dying already in ICE custody...or did until they stopped updating the death counter), the Trump Cultists say they weren't real Christians anyhow.  The Trump Cultists worship death, they worship evil, and they claim to do so in the name of Christ, but the Christ would tell them that it is better to tie a millstone around their neck and cast themselves into the sea, than to continue in what they are do.  The Trump Cultists mouth allegiance to the Christ, but will find themselves on their last day hearing the words, "Depart from me, I never knew you."