"In Donald Trump’s America and Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, this project has furnished a spurious religious underpinning to a politics of authoritarian power and exclusion.

Nothing could be further from the spirit of St Paul when he asserts: 'There is neither Jew nor Greek; there is neither slave nor free; nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.'”

#religion #authoritarianism #violence #ChristianNationalism #Trump
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"An ethnocentric politics legitimising xenophobia, cultural exclusivism and indiscriminate deportations is fundamentally unchristian, as the late Pope Francis repeatedly underlined. ...

In its various guises, the contemporary far right is seeking to transform Christianity into a vehicle for cultural and ethnic supremacism, exploiting and corrupting desires for meaning and belonging."

~ The Guardian

#religion #authoritarianism #violence #ChristianNationalism #Trump
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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The Guardian view on far-right perversions of the Christmas message: promoting a gospel of hate

Editorial: A Tommy Robinson-inspired carol service is the latest sign of a burgeoning Christian nationalist movement. The Church of England is right to push back

^{Editorial (The Guardian)}

"There’s perhaps no better way to understand the contemporary anti-liberal project than as a return to the pre-liberal trauma of the wars of religion, in the worst of which a third of the population was killed. And there may be no better way to illuminate the liberal project conservatives wish to destroy than by recalling how it emerged out of healing from that trauma."

~ Paul Henry Rosenberg

#religion #authoritarianism #violence #ChristianNationalism
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liberalcurrents.com/trumps-war…

Trump's War on Christmas Is a War on Liberalism

After decades of make-believe, the Trump administration is promising an actual war on Christmas that would traumatize religious communities with armed state power.

^{Paul Henry Rosenberg (Liberal Currents)}

Dan Froomkin reports on the many ways in which Minneapolis residents are giving ICE an "ice-cold reception" as it invades their city.

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #Minneapolis
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headsupnews.org/p/federal-agen…

Federal agents get an ice-cold reception in Minneapolis

Powerful stories of residents fighting back

^{Dan Froomkin (Heads Up News)}

MPR News reports on the ICE arrest of Susan Tinchner, a Minneapolis woman who confronted ICE to ask why three of her neighbors were being apprehended. Tinchner was thrown to the ground, handcuffed, threatened with pepper spray, and then taken to a federal building.

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #MaskedThugs #violence #Minneapolis
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youtube.com/watch?v=nIC0uFP0x9…

Woman observing ICE arrested during early morning action in north Minneapolis

A 55-year-old woman who is an American citizen was arrested early Tuesday after confronting ICE officers over the arrests of three of her neighbors in the Wi...

^YouTube