In late 2015, famed neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who was running for the Republican presidential nomination, became the target of scrutiny and innuendo from some in the media, who used the moment to turn his religious identity on its head. Ben Carson is a Seventh-day Adventist, and people wanted to know how Adventism influenced the candidate’s thinking. Carson lost the election race, but won a cabinet position in the Trump administration.
Antipapism: realism or paranoia? (I)
