apologetics

But Mr. Johnston, whose work at the 57,000-member megachurch in Plano, Texas, centers on apologetics and cultural engagement, isn’t opposed to digital versions of the world’s best-selling book.

It is not too much to say that conservative apologetics is a vast rhetorical structure that purports to say one thing when it means another.

Those remarks echoed a previous bout of Putin apologetics by Mr. Berlusconi last month on one of the country’s most prominent political talk shows.

Christopher Check, president of the apologetics website Catholic Answers, called Mr. Newsom’s project a “deadly blasphemy” for “co-opting Sacred Scripture in the service of abortion.”

Sure enough, Fuentes quickly became a verified member, putting his openly white nationalist beliefs and Nazi apologetics into the realm of the "truths" that Trump is protecting.