Yes, Christianity is shrinking in Iowa, and across the United States. It’s not happening because of demons. It’s happening because Christians are allowing their religion, in the pursuit of power, to become aligned with the most corrupt, hateful, and violent presidential candidate the United States has ever seen.

Christianity is shrinking in Iowa because of the behavior of Iowa Christians.

It’s not too late for this trend to be reversed.

Republican Iowa Christians have the opportunity tomorrow to let go of the hate and anger in their hearts.

They can go to the caucuses and vote for a candidate who does not threaten to kill their opponents, who does not promise to set up concentration camps, who does not center their campaign upon a thirst for bloody retribution.

If you want people to return to Christianity in Iowa, you need to demonstrate that Christianity is something worth returning to.

The first step in that process is to vote for any other candidate than Donald Trump.

 If you can’t bring yourself to do that, if your religious fury is too strong, you will have no one else to blame but yourself as the number of Iowans who are willing to call themselves Christians continues to wither.