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"And then NPR reported that when he got to the detention facility, they took trophy photos with him, like he was a slave or an animal that they caught out in the wild. And he wasn't the only one that they did that to.
So somebody tell me, how is it acceptable for David Easterwood to be a pastor when he is condoning this kind of conduct? And not just condoning it."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"Now contrast that gospel message to what we have been seeing by ICE and the terrorism that they have engaged in on the streets of St. Paul, Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs and including outstate Minnesota where they kicked in the man's door and came in with big guns and took him out."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
/12
"Someone help me understand how it's possible to hold both roles with integrity, with honor, because the gospel that I believe in, the foundation, says that we are to love our neighbor as we love ourselves."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
/11
Joy-Ann Reid addresses "people who have a problem with the fact that we came into the church to confront an injustice and do not have a problem with the fact that you have an ICE director, not just an ICE agent, as some people have said, but the director of the ICE field office in the state of Minnesota, also serving as a pastor at Cities Church in St. Paul."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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America 2026: A Tale of Two Dons | The Joy Reid Show
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(continued from /8)
"one that's compatible with democracy, one that celebrates pluralism, and one that is willing to put itself on the line, right, to help bring those things into reality."
Jones replies:
"If we don't want Christianity to be associated with ICE, if we don't want Christianity to be associated with Trump, if we don't want Christianity to be associated with the Nazis and the racists, we're going to have to build and put out there a different version of Christianity that people can in fact see," (continuedf in /9)
"Stop believing in God. I said, yes, it's fine. I've heard it all. You might be done with religion, but sadly, for better and for worse, religion is not done with America and American politics. And if you simply dismiss all religion, religious people, then you're dismissing a huge chunk of America that is motivated by God and religion, which now, unfortunately, because we have ceded the ground, it has been taken over by MAGA."
"I've always said this, folks, you need to publicly hear and see from faith leaders, especially white Christians. You need like a public face. You need a reclaiming of Christianity, of religion, of religious values, of religious language. Because you and I know this, Robbie, and this is much to the chagrin of many progressives and liberals.
They say religion's stupid. You guys are idiots."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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Wajahat Ali (who is Muslim) responds by underscoring how critically important it is for people of faith, for other white Christians, to challenge this white supremacist distortion of Christian faith. He says that progressives and anti-religionists are making a huge mistake in taunting and not supporting those believers who are trying to wrest ownership of the Christian tradition from MAGA:
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"I mean, part of it is that because inside of white Christianity, the largest Protestant expression of Christianity stems directly from this move to say that, oh, no, actually enslaving others is completely compatible with the gospel and the worship of Jesus and the worship of white Jesus."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"They were like, No, no, no. We think this is perfectly consistent with the gospel and the Jesus that we worship. They founded an entire denomination on that. And that denomination has become the largest Protestant expression of Christianity in the country today. So if we're confused about, like, why is this so easily acceptable?"
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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"This is the denomination I grew up in, was founded in 1845. And they were founded that year because they decided that they could no longer be in fellowship with their Northern brethren because the Northern brethren were saying to them, It's inconsistent to call yourself Christian and enslave others based on the color of their skin."
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians #immigrants
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Robert T. Jones tells Wajahat Ali that he grew up Southern Baptist with roots in Mississippi, and has a degree from a Southern Baptist seminary. When a demonstration happened at a church in St. Paul last Sunday pastored by the head of ICE in that area, Jones noticed right away that this was not just any church: it was a Southern Baptist church. He says:
#Trump #ICE #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteEvangelicals #SouthernBaptists #WhiteChristians
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MAGA's White Christian Nationalist End Game
A recording from Robert P. Jones and THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live videoRobert P. Jones (White Too Long by Robert P. Jones)
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
"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
/18
"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 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
/16
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 2026Holly Berkley Fletcher (A Zebra Without Stripes)
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
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"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
/13
"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
/12
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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)
"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
"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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"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
/9
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)
"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
"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
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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
"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
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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
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"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 has become virtually impossible to write a survey question about immigration policy that is too harsh for white evangelicals to support,' Robert P. Jones, the president of the Public Religion Research Institute, recently wrote."
~ Peter Wehner
#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #Jesus #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
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MAGA Jesus Is Not the Real Jesus
Trump is causing incalculable damage to the Christian faith, yet most evangelicals will never break with him.Peter Wehner (The Atlantic)
"It's really plain that what we're seeing today is a battle for the soul of white Christianity in this country. I can just not say it any plainer than that.
It's not actually new, but it has come to a head under Trump. Trump has really brought it back to the fore."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristians #churches #WhiteEvangelicals
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Constitution Under Fire - The Joy Reid Show LIVE!
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"There is nothing Christlike about the way power is being wielded today in the name of immigration enforcement.
There is nothing Christlike about using little children as bait to entrap their families.
There is nothing Christlike about dragging an elderly man, a US citizen, out in the freezing cold in his underwear."
~ Benjamin Cremer
I try to avoid Facebook links, but find this nowhere else.
#Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristians #churches #WhiteEvangelicals #Hegseth
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For a valuable sketch of the version of white Christianity that is gung-ho for Trump and MAGA, see Brian Kaylor's on Pete Hegseth's bellicose war-happy application of Christianity as Secretary of Defense (excuse me: of War).
Note how Hegseth's use of the bible to justify violence and war totally elides the life and teaching of Jesus, raising the question of how he's promoting Christianity at all.
#Trump #MAGA #WhiteChristians #churches #WhiteEvangelicals #Hegseth
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Hegseth Shares War Psalm He Prayed During Venezuela Attack
During the first Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the U.S. military operation that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth framed that military action as a godly mission.Brian Kaylor (A Public Witness)