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Building on that, many Evangelicals believe in an "Authoritative God" (to use the terminology in the excellent book America's Four Gods: What We Say about God—and What That Says about Us), a God that is both active in human affairs and judgmental—in other words, an authoritative father figure who lays down the law and expects obedience. Trump actively symbolizes this same authoritative viewpoint, so many of them are willing to overlook his other flaws. It's not that farfetched; look at how they generally treat sins like gluttony and greed compared to hot-button issues like homosexuality or abortion.
While not all Evangelicals believe this way, many of them do (as shown in the above book using comprehensive data from the national Baylor Religion Survey).
Edit: A word.
There's a lot of social science literature about images of God. Folks "see" God differently and one of the scales actually does measure on a "Mother" and Father" dimension. There's also a loving vs. judging dimension. You would be really surprised how much diversity there is.
I could dump a ton of cites on this as I was attempting to write a paper on the topic a few years ago. If you really want a decent, non-academic introduction you could look at a book called "The Four Gods" by Paul Froese and Chris Bader.
You are starting from flawed assumptions.
2)That is god is the god you agree with because of the religion you just happen to follow vs Islam, Hindu, Jewish, Zoroaster, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Native American, ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, etc, etc etc.
What I find annoying with your question is you presume to talk about god from your set bias. Its a done deal when you talk about god as automatically being Christian.
America's Four Gods: What We Say about God--and What That Says about Us
Even with Christians have differences concepts of what god is and isn't.
As a non believer its not about god its the issues with Christianity that sustains my doubt.