"f you assume all evangelical Christians are motivated by the thought of a coming Rapture today, you may have missed the new end-of-days mood that has taken hold within American evangelicalism. For many Christians on the right, the end times are no longer a source of dread and anxiety so much as an expected and even welcome opportunity for God’s soldiers to conquer the earth."

~Matthew D. Taylor

#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism
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thebulwark.com/p/how-left-behi…

How ‘Left Behind’ Got Left Behind

A changing political mood among evangelicals has many believers imagining the end of the world differently than they used to.

^{Matthew D. Taylor (The Bulwark)}

"If radicalized dispensational premillennialism inclines believers to retreat into distrustful enclaves and leave the world to its fate, radicalized victorious eschatology pushes believers to triumphally (and, perhaps, coercively) impose their Christianity on whole societies. If we have eyes to see and ears to hear, we can observe this change in eschatological mood happening all around us as politicized Christians abandon their quietism and become more politically aggressive—even militant."

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"To claim that one political figure uniquely represents God’s will for the body politic is a form of anti-Christian idolatry. To elevate one set of spiritual beliefs above another and do it by force of law removes a nonnegotiable tenet of evangelical faith—free will. We are born again when we choose to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, not when we’re forced to do so."

~Rob Schenck

#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism
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motherjones.com/politics/2024/…

I was once an architect of the Christian nationalist agenda. I regret it all.

When religion is placed at the service of a political party, it corrupts both.

^{Mother Jones}

"Because it is immoral, I believe Christian nationalism is inevitably doomed. But in the meantime, the pain, suffering, and injury it will inflict will be enormous—just consider women facing difficult pregnancies, trans children seeking care, librarians attacked for certain books."

#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism
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"The danger of the Christian nationalist worldview is that it raises the stakes of political contests exponentially, transposing political opponents into existential enemies. Politics are no longer understood to be disagreements between fellow citizens of goodwill but to be apocalyptic battles over good and evil, fought by agents of God against agents of Satan."

~ Robert P. Jones

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salon.com/2024/09/25/donald-tr…

Donald Trump has turned Christian nationalism toxic, religious polling expert Robert P. Jones explains

"Two-thirds of the country rejects this anti-democratic ideology," explains Robert P. Jones of PRRI

^Salon.com