#evangelical — Public Fediverse posts

Today’s Tarot: Clarity (Q&A)

https://youtu.be/A7InMa2oCjQ?si=tKeE68AJXtOKi3v1

Q: What do we most need to know right now in the United States following Lindsey Graham’s death and conjecture about Mitch McConnell’s.

I drew this card with this question in mind, right after seeing a social media post from someone who I typically has good points and real food for thought. This may well be the first time I’ve disagreed with him.

But no, this isn’t a time for tut-tutting about “speaking ill of the dead” from either side of the political divide. Graham was not a good person who, because of his political power, inflicted real harm on real people and contributed much to the rise of fascism and white christian nationalism in America today.

I’m sorry for the loss of any kind person who feels his – or their – passing. But at the same time it is fair to think they are lying in the bed they made during their lifetime.

The social media person clucked something on the order “saying these things says more about you as a person than it does about them.

Not this time.

If making fun of a powerful bad man says something about the person saying it….what does a powerful man’s silence about the death of school girls at the hands of unnecessary war, the death of women at the hands of politically and religiously motivated abortion bans, the death of schoolchildren at the hands of our lack of gun control….and on and on and on. What does silence about these dead say about THEM? I’d rather people make merciless fun of the politicians who caused harm than remain silent in the face of the harm they caused.

It’s more important to be kind to everyone living than to worry about what is said about the dead.

Laughter is good medicine. Public figures who caused real harm aren’t going to be any less dead if we only say nice things about them after they’ve been rendered harmless by the inevitable. Momento Mori.

In the noise of current events, the Ace of swords reminds us to cut to the chase, get to the point, simplify. Tune out the static and get right down to what really matters. In the end, kindness is the only measure of what that is.

Good ol #Christofascism. AKA:

The #SevenMountainMandate, also Seven Mountains Mandate, #7M, #7MM, or Seven Mountains #Dominionism, is a #dominionist #conservative #Christian movement within #evangelical #Christianity, particularly independent Charismatic groups. It holds that there are seven aspects of society that believers seek to dominate: #family, #religion, #education, #media, #arts and #entertainment, #business, and #government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate

#Teacher #Arrested Again Outside #School That #Sacked Him For #Refusing To #Accept #Transgender #Student #Transition.

The #hatemongering #Evangelical #Christian was first #suspended from the #school in 2022 after refusing to call a #transitioning #student by their new #name and their #preferred #genderneutral #pronouns.

https://www.boredpanda.com/enoch-burke-irish-teacher-arrested-transgender-student-pronouns/

John #Hagee is the founder and leader of
🔸Christians United for Israel, 🔸
which boasts 10 million members
-- more than the total population of American Jews.
#CUI was founded in 2006 after the publication of Hagee’s book “Jerusalem Countdown,”
which asserts that a U.S.-Israel war against Iran is both biblically prophesied and necessary to bring about the battle of #Armageddon and the Second Coming.
Two years later, John McCain rejected Hagee’s endorsement in the 2008 presidential campaign, after a sermon of Hagee’s surfaced describing Hitler as fulfilling God's will by hastening the return of Jews to Israel. 
But Hagee is just one figure in the still-poorly-understood #Christian #dominionist movement that’s supporting Trump and MAGA Republicans in general.
Their goal is to remake America into a right-wing Christian #theocracy.

Canadian scholar André Gagné’s recent book “American Evangelicals for Trump: Dominion, Spiritual Warfare, and the End Times” does much to explain the #evangelical wing of that movement, known as the
🔸New Apostolic Reformation🔸, drawing on its own own words. 
Three high-profile NAR leaders
— Lance #Wallnau, Paula #White-#Cain and Dutch #Sheets
— were intimately involved in bringing Trump to power,
supporting him and then
fighting to keep him in power after the 2020 election.
They're just the tip of the iceberg.
Since 2020, Gen. Michael #Flynn, Trump’s short-lived national security adviser, has been a co-leader of the
“ReAwaken America Tour,”
which is connected to multiple NAR figures, as Jennifer Cohn reported in 2022.
Just this month, Salon contributor Frederick Clarkson of Political Research Associates reported on Wallnau’s latest political venture, dubbed the
“Courage Tour,” which targets 19 counties that “are going to determine the future of America.”
https://www.salon.com/2024/05/26/cracking-the-christian-nationalist-code-a-glossary-for-the-confused/

y'all have homework: it's imperative everybody learns about the #antisemitism #racism and #colonialism under-pinning #ChristianZionism.

gave y'all some easy articles cuz am not sure y'all are ready to know about the NUCLEAR #HOLOCAUST some branches of this #evangelical #Dominionist movement cannot wait to detonate.

yes, there are evangelicals that see the #Apocalypse as a nuclear holocaust that will wipe out all who don't see them as celestial beings; including other christians.