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"[Matthew D.] Taylor believes that the spread of what he calls maga Christianity is serving as cover for the authoritarian turn in right-wing politics: if your enemies are controlled by demonic forces, why would you respect how they voted?"
"Christian nationalism is arguably the dominant political force in Texas today, thanks, in part, to multimillion-dollar donations from two West Texas billionaires, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks…."
"Compared with the religious right of previous generations, this cohort of pastors, influencers, and self-described prophets offers up a version of worship that’s at once more mystical, with an emphasis on supernatural powers, and more militaristic, with heightened political rhetoric. Many adopt a Christian-nationalist framework, arguing that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and should be governed as such."
Rachel Monroe looks at Mercy Culture, a huge nondenominational evangelical megachurch in Fort Worth, for a glimpse into how white Christian nationalist ideas increasingly control the country via the Republican party under Trump.
"People not attuned to the evangelical world may have missed the growing prominence of hyper-politicized churches such as Mercy Culture, which have become a key wing of the maga coalition."
"According to Hegseth, Islamists are enabled by American leftists against God-fearing Christian Americans. He wrote, 'We don’t want to fight, but, like our fellow Christians one thousand years ago, we must,' and he then envisioned in his book that the United States would go to war alongside Israel.
This is who is directing our military and the war in Iran right now."
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"He also has the phrase 'Deus Vult' as a tattoo, which was the Latin rallying cry of Crusaders during the First Crusade in 1095. It means 'God Wills It.'
Hegseth has not been shy about his deep distrust of Islam and opposition to Muslims. In his book 'American Crusade,' he said that America faces a 'Crusade moment' that is similar to the 11th-century Christian crusades his tattoos point to."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"He then adjusted FDR’s 'arsenal of democracy' quote to say, ''Not only are we warriors armed with the arsenal of freedom, we ultimately are armed with the arsenal of faith.'
His beliefs take on a deeper and quite disturbing dynamic when one considers his tattoos. He has a Jerusalem Cross on his chest, which is a symbol tied to the Crusades, when many European Christians attempted to retake the Holy Land from Muslims."
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During a recent press conference at the Pentagon, he also quoted Psalm 44 by saying, 'Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle.'
At the national prayer breakfast, Hegseth emphasized his belief that America is a 'Christian nation' and needs to defend that identity."
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"Hegseth talks often about how God is on his side and has said that Iran shouldn’t doubt the US’s resolve because it is backed by God. He said, 'Our capabilities are better. Our will is better. Our troops are better. The providence of our almighty God is there protecting those troops, and we’re committed to this mission.'”
~ Benjamin Cremer
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With about half of Americans supporting some version of Christian nationalist ideology, it's impossible to ignore the centrality of that ideology to Trump-Hegseth's war against Iran.
As Zachary B. Wolf says,
"Hegseth has long wanted to reprogram the country.
'America was founded as a Christian nation,' he said at a recent National Prayer Breakfast."
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"But they don't care. They're cosplay crusaders tatted up as white supremacists just holding a cross. And Jesus is a mascot."
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"And they're not at all interested in what Jesus has said, because if they actually were interested in what Jesus said, they would feed the poor. They would actually have USAID. They would have SNAP benefits. They would make sure women were treated well. They would not have these belligerent wars. They would not fund the genocide."
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Wajahat Ali, who is Muslim and educated in a Jesuit school, says,
"These people have hijacked Jesus and used him as a mascot. They put duct tape over his mouth and they've slung an AR-15 around him and said, You shut your mouth. We've got the wheel. And in Jesus's name, we're going to be white supremacists. That's all it is. It's about power and racism and greed."
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Joy Ann Reid Has INFURIATED MAGA Yet Again! This Time Over Trump and Iran
A recording from Joy-Ann Reid and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live videoJoy-Ann Reid (Welcome to Joy's House!)
"The greatest theological trick the American Church ever pulled was marrying Dispensationalism with Christian Nationalism. One says the world is doomed to burn; the other says they're entitled to rule it. When you fuse them, you get an empire that believes it has a divine mandate to rule the world by actively setting it on fire. It's a theology of absolute violence."
~ Faithful Citizen Podcast
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"The problem isn’t that people are finally hearing a Christian politician talk about justice. The problem is that many of them had to hear it from a white man before they recognized it as Christianity."
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Jemar Tisby notes the willingness of many white Christians to welcome a progressive, prophetic form of Christianity when someone like James Talarico preaches it — when that progressive, prophetic Christianity has been there all the time, for a very long time, in the Black church. He concludes,
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Why White Christians Love James Talarico
And what they're missingJemar Tisby, PhD (Footnotes by Jemar Tisby)
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"the latter seeks to impose that faith, by law and policy, on the rest of us. ...
religious nationalism has no interest in civility. Its nature is authoritarian; it does not learn from civil debate."
"It’s that goal of privileging Christianity in law and government that I think marks the line between personal politics (potentially based in faith-informed values) and religious nationalism. The former is an individual value set that may or may not influence particular policies, but still allows for freedom for others to move religiously within the subsequent law;" (continued in /5)
~ Sarah Stankorb
"They came out and just said that directly because it does not come anywhere near meeting the preconditionsfor anything that could be called a just war that Christians can endorse. … That's a big deal."
"We have two cardinals in the US actually this week calling out the administration for violating those conditions [of Catholic teachings about the morality of war] — Cardinal Robert McEkroy of Washington DC and Cardinal Blaise Kubic of Chicago saying this war is not morally legitimate."
~ Robert P. Jones
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Normalcy and Resistance Amid an Unjust War
This week, we open the conversation with reflections on the challenges of living daily life amid the onslaught of horrific news, so often these days instigat...YouTube
"When Christianity becomes publicly associated with nationalist aggression and eagerness for war, it presents a face to the world that is, by any honest reading of the New Testament, a misrepresentation of the faith."
~ Michael Mellette
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"Do you support internment camps for undocumented immigrants where they should be rounded up until they can be deported? Even when we put that language into a question, we've got a majority of Republicans [and white evangelicals] now saying, yeah, I'm down with that."
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"And this is the America that we're living in, that we literally are having internment camps. And we've polled on this. And what we're finding is that, again, it's a majority of Republicans and a super majority of white evangelical Christians who actually, even when we say to them, internment camps," (continued in /37)
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Then Robbie adds:
"The big, beautiful bill, let's just make sure everybody remembers, has got money already in it for like $50,000 plus beds at internment camps that they're already trying to open all over the country, probably one coming to an abandoned warehouse near you."
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Robbie replies:
"Well, you know, I do tend to use those words all together, right? White Christian nationalism, because that really is the only way to understand what it is in our context, right? Now, there is religious nationalism in other parts of the world, but in America—our issue is white Christian nationalism."
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" Within Democratic circles, mainstream circles, corporate media circles, they are averse to using the word white Christian nationalism because, number one, they don't want to piss off Christians. And number two, they don't want to piss off white. I say, no, no, no. The data says that this is a white Christian nationalist problem."
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The two leading religion reporters at New York Times refuse even to use the term "Christian nationalism." Lots of establishment Democrats want to ignore the religious and racial roots of Trump's support and to suppress this discussion.
Wajahat says:
"Robbie, you know that you and I get backlash. So like, no, no, don't say Christian nationalism, say religious nationalism."
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PRRI president Robert P. Jones talks with Wajahat Ali about how we are all "now reaping the consequences of the unwillingness of our senators to recognize the dangers of Hegseth’s Christian nationalism."
Wajahat starts by pointing out how the powers that be want to shut up discussion of white Christian nationalism.
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Hegseth the Crusader: The Trump Administration's Holy War
A recording from Robert P. Jones and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live videoRobert P. Jones (Redeeming Democracy by Robert P. Jones)