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Jemar Tisby replies:
"I'm still waiting on the humility part."
Du Mez responds:
"Turn from their wicked ways."
Footage follows of Trump "reading" this verse and what precedes it, using a sing-songy affected voice that one assumes he imagine a preacher would adopt.
Tisby:
"As the young people say, gives you the ick."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #PseudoReligion #bible #PerformativePiety
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Jemar Tisby replies:
"I'm still waiting on the humility part."
Du Mez responds:
"Turn from their wicked ways."
Footage follows of Trump "reading" this verse and what precedes it, using a sing-songy affected voice that one assumes he imagine a preacher would adopt.
Tisby:
"As the young people say, gives you the ick."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #PseudoReligion #bible #PerformativePiety
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"The idea here, and this is like at the heart of Christian nationalism, is if we align the country and the country's laws with God's laws, if we repent as a country, as God's specially chosen nation and, you know, get our house in order, then God will heal our land. Then we will be blessed. So it's kind of like a national level prosperity gospel kind of thing."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #PseudoReligion #bible #PerformativePiety
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"The idea here, and this is like at the heart of Christian nationalism, is if we align the country and the country's laws with God's laws, if we repent as a country, as God's specially chosen nation and, you know, get our house in order, then God will heal our land. Then we will be blessed. So it's kind of like a national level prosperity gospel kind of thing."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #PseudoReligion #bible #PerformativePiety
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"It reads, 'If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land.' …
I knew it was going to be this one because this is the favorite Bible verse of Christian nationalists. Has been for decades, right? You see it pop up here & there all over the place."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #PseudoReligion #bible #PerformativePiety
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"It reads, 'If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and I will heal their land.' …
I knew it was going to be this one because this is the favorite Bible verse of Christian nationalists. Has been for decades, right? You see it pop up here & there all over the place."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #PseudoReligion #bible #PerformativePiety
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Historian Kristin Du Mez comments on Trump's performative piety stunt of reading a bible verse in public:
"Totally predictable. And when I heard that Trump was going to be reading a verse I honestly knew exactly what verse without needing to look it up. I think you probably did too. So this is 2 Chronicles 7:14."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #PseudoReligion #bible #PerformativePiety
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Historian Kristin Du Mez comments on Trump's performative piety stunt of reading a bible verse in public:
"Totally predictable. And when I heard that Trump was going to be reading a verse I honestly knew exactly what verse without needing to look it up. I think you probably did too. So this is 2 Chronicles 7:14."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #PseudoReligion #bible #PerformativePiety
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"More than that, as both Orbán and Trump have understood extremely well, religious nationalism offers a permission structure for the worst kinds of corruption, violence, and abuse. If God is on your side and the devil is on the other side, after all, anything goes."
#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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"More than that, as both Orbán and Trump have understood extremely well, religious nationalism offers a permission structure for the worst kinds of corruption, violence, and abuse. If God is on your side and the devil is on the other side, after all, anything goes."
#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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"Does anybody remember Jerry Falwell Jr, the high and holy Christian nationalist whose endorsement of Trump in 2016 was pivotal, but who then lost his job in a morass of yacht-based sex and money scandals?
This is a movement that doesn’t just succumb to the occasional grifter, but rather produces them regularly, and then backs the grifter-in-chief all the way to the end of time."
#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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"Does anybody remember Jerry Falwell Jr, the high and holy Christian nationalist whose endorsement of Trump in 2016 was pivotal, but who then lost his job in a morass of yacht-based sex and money scandals?
This is a movement that doesn’t just succumb to the occasional grifter, but rather produces them regularly, and then backs the grifter-in-chief all the way to the end of time."
#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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"Those who have not studied the movement often express some surprise on seeing the connection between Christian nationalism and corruption. These people are supposed to have Jesus and the Bible on their minds, not Mammon, right? But religious grifting is something of a cottage industry in the US."
#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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"Those who have not studied the movement often express some surprise on seeing the connection between Christian nationalism and corruption. These people are supposed to have Jesus and the Bible on their minds, not Mammon, right? But religious grifting is something of a cottage industry in the US."
#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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"In both Russia and America, the money machine that funds pseudo-religious kleptocracy is still present.
Furthermore, while the MAGA movement is showing some division around the war in Iran, there is little sign that the base of religious nationalist supporters has lost its appetite for culture wars against the supposedly 'woke.'”
#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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"In both Russia and America, the money machine that funds pseudo-religious kleptocracy is still present.
Furthermore, while the MAGA movement is showing some division around the war in Iran, there is little sign that the base of religious nationalist supporters has lost its appetite for culture wars against the supposedly 'woke.'”
#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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"'Pseudo-religious' because it involves the use or exploitation of religious imagery and narratives for political purposes, often by people who don’t even believe in the religion they are selling. ...
What we can take for granted is that neither America’s Christian nationalist leaders, nor their Russian allies, are likely to re-think their basic vision or mode of operation."
#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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"'Pseudo-religious' because it involves the use or exploitation of religious imagery and narratives for political purposes, often by people who don’t even believe in the religion they are selling. ...
What we can take for granted is that neither America’s Christian nationalist leaders, nor their Russian allies, are likely to re-think their basic vision or mode of operation."
#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
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"Hungary and Iran are where Trump’s politics of kleptocracy went to die. The defeat of Viktor Orbán and the folly of Trump’s war in Iran both expose the machinery and failures of anti-democratic ‘pseudo-religious kleptocracy.’"
~ Katherine Stewart
#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
/5https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hungary-and-iran-are-where-trumps
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Hungary and Iran are where Trump’s politics of kleptocracy went to die. The defeat of Viktor Orbán and the folly of Trump’s war in Iran both expose the machinery and failures of anti-democratic ‘pseudo-religious kleptocracy.’"
~ Katherine Stewart
#Trump #Orbán #WhiteChristianNationalism #corruption #kleptocracy #PseudoReligion
/5https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/hungary-and-iran-are-where-trumps