@Snowshadow now, let's make sure they don't vote for the Canadian version of #WhiteChristianNationalism. Wouldn't that be awesome! Nice start banning US made weapons - way to go, Canada!

At a point in history at which more than half of white Christians have voted for Trump three times, this last time setting off an orgy of chaos, destruction, and cruelty through which we're now beginning to live, the church itself offers the most glaring counterwitness imaginable to the gospel it prodlaims.

One can keep believing only by leaving the church behind.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #chaos #destruction #cruelty
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"So the church took the offer, and didn't even get a golden fiddle in exchange for its soul. And here, at last, we were. ...

Think of what made me leave my church. It wasn't somebody welcoming me into the new thing. It was the fact that I actually believed the truths I had learned and couldn't handle the lies any more."

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #chaos #destruction #cruelty
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"Also, the Republican Party had already been a hate group for many years prior to that, and the church had been the enthusiastic, sustaining, energizing force behind that organization, as part of its overall capture by authoritarian state power, which had offered it relevance and influence in the form of enforced cultural domination over others."

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #chaos #destruction #cruelty
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Moxon writes,

"The fact that the church collectively went for their deep-fried golden calf didn't surprise me in 2016—I was more naive than I am today (which suggests that in ten year I will be less naive than I am now) but I wasn't totally snowed, and I had been watching over the preceding years in a state of slowly dawning awareness."

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #chaos #destruction #cruelty
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"Trump’s rise has paralleled the rising influence of Christian nationalism as a driving force in the Republican Party (as we have seen with the ascension of Christian nationalist Mike Johnson to third in line to the presidency)."

~ Todd Beeton

#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #Project2025
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/russell-vought-trump-unitary-executive

But:

"In the collective (with significant numbers of exceptions), I far prefer the non-religious people I encounter, who seem more open, more curious, more accepting, more tolerant, more harmless, more fun, less angry, less burdened, less awful."

#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #Project2025
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Holly Berkley Fletcher, who grew up the child of Southern Baptist missionaries in Africa, comments today on "Thugs, and other Christian Nationalists," whose plan is to take control of the government.

She writes,

"I myself am still a religious person."

#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #Project2025
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https://open.substack.com/pub/hollyberkleyfletcher/p/imagine

"Before Trump won, many people struggled to see how white Christian nationalism operated or what danger it presented.

Now they are living it."

J. Tisby says that "God and Country" is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, AppleTV, YouTube, and Tubi.

#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #Project2025
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"When put into practice, these lies run on a systemic spiritual frame known as supremacy. There's white supremacy, and male supremacy, and christian supremacy, and there's wealth supremacy (which we call capitalism), and many other supremacies as well."

#Musk #Trump #billionaires #EconomicEiites #chaos #destruction #WhiteChristianNationalism #racism #capitalism #patriarchy
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More valuable commentary on Katherine Stewart's new book about Christian nationalism, Money, Lies, and God: this is a discussion of the book between Robert P. Jones, Jemar Tisby, and Kristin Du Mez who conclude that "Money, Lies, and God is a must-read book to understand the coalescing of white Christian nationalism, the tech bro oligarchy, and authoritarianism that is actively wrecking the nation under Trump."

#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #KatherineStewart
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4EN67RHBP4

"But maybe, just maybe, our faith and morality need to show up now, in spines and strength and in voices that finally say: ENOUGH."

#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #authoritarianism #cruelty
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"The path forward for this nation won’t be about everyone coming together, and it doesn’t need to be. It will be about those of us who will not abide this brutality, standing together against those who are celebrating it.

You may choose, as a matter of faith or moral conviction, to keep trying to preserve your relationships with people you know and love who still support him, and I respect that."

~ John Pavolvitz

#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #cruelty
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https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-may-need-to-cut-ties-with-trump

"A façade of pro-Christian culture is used to pass off, misrepresent or justify virtually everything from his supposed pro-life beliefs, to his contempt for science, to his attacks on political opponents as 'godless communists.'"

#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #authoritarianism #cruelty #Catholic
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As Catholic theologian Massimo Faggioli says, "Donald Trump captured American Catholicism — and the ramifications are being felt around the world." And:

"Trumpian populism is part of America’s exit from its self-conception as a Christian nation. It is a symptom of the advent of a post-Christian nation, though one that remains captive to a certain religious nationalism."

#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #authoritarianism #cruelty #Catholic
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https://www.abc.net.au/religion/massimo-faggioli-trump-captured-american-catholicism/104955542