As Democrats preach faith, conservative pastors condemn their campaigns from the pulpit

This post was originally published on Politico.

When Robert Jeffress takes the pulpit at First Baptist Dallas on Sunday, he’ll give his 16,000 congregants a not-so-subtle message: Beware of false faith.

Jeffress will preach about the Tower of Babel, a topic that shares “some parallels to what’s happening in the election,” he said in a recent interview with POLITICO.

“My goal as a pastor is not to get people in the voting booth, but to keep them out of hell,” the archconservative megachurch pastor, televangelist and longtime Republican backer said. Texas Democratic Senate nominee James Talarico, a Presbyterian seminarian, “seems harmless,” Jeffress continued, “but the toxic faith he is