“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”
— Judges 9:38
how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
— Psalm 89:51
The just upright man is laughed to scorn.
— Anonymous
Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.