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The self-published tome, inspired by President Donald Trump, came together quickly and exceeded her expectations, with 1,000 copies sold within two months. The profits have helped relieve her of a massive burden, allowing her to pay off her $4,000 medical debt.
“There’s prophets in that [religious] world that make prophetic videos about how Trump is being called by God to change and save the nation,” Teixeira, a 40-year-old woman living in Florida, told HuffPost. “So, because it’s now been close to 10 years of [me] seeing the church idolize this man, it popped into my head."
Having collated all of the scriptural evidence, she has presented it to the world.
The book is filled with blank pages.
Teixeira grew up in the evangelical church in Arizona and attended a private Christian school. She voted for Trump in 2016, but after she asked church leaders to explain some of Trump’s choices, like his cabinet appointees, she said she began deconstructing her beliefs. By 2017, she stopped attending church, and today she makes videos on social media about her upbringing.
Teixeira, who said she is still a Christian, is now in therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder, specifically scrupulosity, which is religious-related OCD. She said worrying about the rapture caused her to do “silly” rituals growing up, like tapping her fingers a certain amount of time to ensure none of her friends or family members would die. She said she also didn’t like leaving the house, because her OCD would make her believe she had to pray for everyone she laid eyes on.
Today, many of Teixeira’s beliefs have changed, including her idea of who Jesus was.
“In the evangelical church, he’s always presented as this strong warrior, like a white American Jesus. And if I go back and I read the Gospels now with a different perspective, I see him just as a man who was against government and people who were thirsty for power, and I just see him as a man who cared for the sick and the hungry and the poor, regardless of political affiliation or nationality or gender or any of those things,” she said.
“I feel like I have a sweeter relationship with Jesus,” Teixeira added. “He represented how we’re supposed to be acting as Christians, which I feel like in America, we’re acting like we just want all the power and to control people, when simultaneously we’re voting for a man who’s also cutting funding from the hungry and not protecting women and children and not protecting people in minority groups.”
“There’s prophets in that [religious] world that make prophetic videos about how Trump is being called by God to change and save the nation,” Teixeira, a 40-year-old woman living in Florida, told HuffPost. “So, because it’s now been close to 10 years of [me] seeing the church idolize this man, it popped into my head."
Having collated all of the scriptural evidence, she has presented it to the world.
The book is filled with blank pages.
Teixeira grew up in the evangelical church in Arizona and attended a private Christian school. She voted for Trump in 2016, but after she asked church leaders to explain some of Trump’s choices, like his cabinet appointees, she said she began deconstructing her beliefs. By 2017, she stopped attending church, and today she makes videos on social media about her upbringing.
Teixeira, who said she is still a Christian, is now in therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder, specifically scrupulosity, which is religious-related OCD. She said worrying about the rapture caused her to do “silly” rituals growing up, like tapping her fingers a certain amount of time to ensure none of her friends or family members would die. She said she also didn’t like leaving the house, because her OCD would make her believe she had to pray for everyone she laid eyes on.
Today, many of Teixeira’s beliefs have changed, including her idea of who Jesus was.
“In the evangelical church, he’s always presented as this strong warrior, like a white American Jesus. And if I go back and I read the Gospels now with a different perspective, I see him just as a man who was against government and people who were thirsty for power, and I just see him as a man who cared for the sick and the hungry and the poor, regardless of political affiliation or nationality or gender or any of those things,” she said.
“I feel like I have a sweeter relationship with Jesus,” Teixeira added. “He represented how we’re supposed to be acting as Christians, which I feel like in America, we’re acting like we just want all the power and to control people, when simultaneously we’re voting for a man who’s also cutting funding from the hungry and not protecting women and children and not protecting people in minority groups.”
