"Huge numbers of American fundamentalists and evangelicals—not just cultural Christians, but also those who faithfully attend church and Bible-study sessions and prayer gatherings—prefer the MAGA Jesus to the real Jesus. Few of them would say so explicitly, though, because the cognitive dissonance would be too unsettling. And so they have worked hard to construct rationalizations."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"It’s rather remarkable, really, to see tens of millions of Christians validate, to themselves and to one another, a political movement led by a malignant narcissist—who is driven by hate and bent on revenge, who mocks the dead, and who delights in inflicting pain on the powerless. The wreckage to the Christian faith is incalculable, yet most evangelicals will never break with him."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/3

"They have invested too much of themselves and their identity in Trump and what he stands for.

This moment, and what it reveals about American Christianity, will be studied for a long time to come."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/4

"You're wondering what happened to your Sunday school teacher? What happened to your parents? What happened to your pastor? How are they getting behind this stuff and justifying it in some of the most, frankly, ludicrous ways imaginable?"

~ Tim Whittaker

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/5

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Right-Wing Delusions of their own Persecution | The Tim & April Show LIVE

Is MAGA aware of their religious double standards?

^{Lincoln Square}

"Fox News did this. It is the feeder tube keeping MAGA alive, normalizing cruelty, dehumanization, and lies. Its role in the moral collapse of this country and the erosion of global trust cannot be minimized."

~ Nicole Wear

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #FoxNews
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Nicole Wear | Friday and Company (@nicolewear) on Threads

“I guess my parents are Nazis now,” a dear friend said after yet another futile conversation defending ICE abuses with words like “illegals,” “criminals,” and “animals.” That’s when it hit me again: Fox News did this.

^Threads

Yesterday Catholic VP Vance defended the use of a five-year old boy in Minnesota as "bait" to entrap his family, and the detainment of that child by ICE.

It has just been announced that Vance has been invited to address the upcoming "March for Life" which purports to be about defending the sanctity of life and has strong support by Catholic and other Christian leaders.

#Trump #MAGA #JDVance #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #ProLife
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Vice President Vance defends ICE detainment of 5-year-old in Minnesota

JD Vance visited Minneapolis as scrutiny mounted over the handling of immigration enforcement operations, including the detention of a 5-year-old boy.

^{, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)}

"Around 200 faith leaders fanned out across the city on Thursday (Jan. 22) to observe and document the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with some clergy confronting Department of Homeland Security agents, adding a visible religious presence to widespread efforts to counter the president’s mass deportation campaign in the region."

~ Jack Jenkins

#Minnesota #ICE #DHS #clergy #rabbis #churches #immigrants
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Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE

MINNEAPOLIS (RNS) — The faith leaders, who hail from across the country and represent a range of religious traditions, deployed to neighborhoods with significant immigrant populations, where DHS agents have been most active.

^{Jack Jenkins (RNS)}

"In 1845, a group of pro-slavery Baptists created the Southern Baptist Convention to defend enslavers serving as missionaries. One hundred and eighty years later, SBC leaders defend a pastor serving as an ICE leader."

~ Brian Kaylor

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
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The Line From Enslaver Missionaries to an ICE Pastor - Word&Way

^{Brian Kaylor (Word&Way)}

"While ICE terrorizes people in the Twin Cities, the acting director for the St. Paul field office is also one of the pastors at a Southern Baptist congregation there. After learning about the dual roles of David Easterwood, a group of activists interrupted Sunday worship on Jan. 18 to protest ICE, Easterwood, and the church."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
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"The U.S. Department of Justice quickly promised to press charges against the protesters and many pastors, with three individuals arrested on Thursday."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/11

"There are two stories I’ve thought about in contrast with each other this week. The first was the Southern Baptist pastor in St. Paul, Minnesota, who is also the acting field director for the St. Paul ICE office."

~ Brian Kaylor

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
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Weekly Roundup: Jan. 23

Here’s the weekly roundup from A Public Witness. We published a report on a protest inside a church where a pastor is an ICE leader and broke the news about what was said during a worship service at the Pentagon.

^{Brian Kaylor (A Public Witness)}

"Later, I saw an article about a Minneapolis sex shop that pushed aside their adult toys and other products so volunteers can use the space to organize needs to help immigrants and other vulnerable people in the community."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
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A pastor is a leader of the militarized force terrorizing his community. A sex shop has transformed itself to help serve its neighbors. The words of Jesus to the religious leaders are fulfilled.

'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'”

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #SouthernBaptists
/14

Holly Berkley Fletcher's brilliant non-apology disguised as an apology to her MAGA white Christian friends who claim she has offended them by speaking the truth about Trump is a must-read essay.

A sampler:

"I should acknowledge your feelings that the 2020 election was stolen despite no evidence of such being presented in over 60 court cases."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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An apology to those I have offended

Friday "Fun" on a Thursday, for 23 January 2026

^{Holly Berkley Fletcher (A Zebra Without Stripes)}

"I should acknowledge your feelings that the 2020 election was stolen despite no evidence of such being presented in over 60 court cases. Forgive me for not realizing that judgements in our society are made not in courts but by violent mobs, and that when the leader of the mob gets reelected President and then pardons everyone, that changes the official record."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"I apologize for implying you are a racist because you voted for an administration that seeks to end all non-white immigration, expel even legal immigrants, revoke the citizenship of non-white people, is only admitting white 'refugees,' and violate the Constitution in pursuit of these goals."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/17

"I should acknowledge that you can personally love people whom your chosen President scapegoats, stereotypes, and actively harms. I should give you more credit for all the mission trips you have taken to countries your President calls 'shitholes,' the economies of which he is crushing with policies that were discredited a century ago that also harm Americans."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Holly signs her brilliant screed with a cheeky and right-to-the-point,

"Your sister in Christ,

Holly"

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
/19

"100 clergy members were arrested while protesting federal immigration enforcement outside Minneapolis-St Paul international airport today. They were arrested by members of the airport staff and local law enforcement, according to organizers."

~ The Guardian

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #clergy #resistance #solidarity
/20

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"They added that the faith leaders 'prayed together, sang songs and hymns, and shared stories of those who have been abducted by ICE while at work or commuting to and from the airport' in an effort to call on airlines companies – particularly Delta and Signature Aviation – to 'stand with Minnesotans in calling for ICE to immediately end its surge in the state'."

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #clergy #resistance #solidarity
/21