#theocracy — Public Fediverse posts

“'God chose Ethan for a reason,' one South Carolina mother told the Independent this February after her son was paralyzed by measles encephalitis.

'If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine,' she said, citing the misleading scare line publicly shared by Kennedy and Trump that children today receive too many shots."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
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“'God chose Ethan for a reason,' one South Carolina mother told the Independent this February after her son was paralyzed by measles encephalitis.

'If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine,' she said, citing the misleading scare line publicly shared by Kennedy and Trump that children today receive too many shots."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
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"The people dragging America’s public health system toward a new dark age are not demonic. Rather, they are morally bankrupt and high on the supply of theocratic self-righteousness, with no regard to how their words and actions affect real people’s wellbeing.

Christian nationalist language gives calculated government neglect the sheen of providence."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/8

"The people dragging America’s public health system toward a new dark age are not demonic. Rather, they are morally bankrupt and high on the supply of theocratic self-righteousness, with no regard to how their words and actions affect real people’s wellbeing.

Christian nationalist language gives calculated government neglect the sheen of providence."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
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"Public health’s use of science in the collective interest of all races, faiths and genders clashes with their hierarchical moral order, in which Christians are seen as more virtuous and divinely protected than others."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/6

"Public health’s use of science in the collective interest of all races, faiths and genders clashes with their hierarchical moral order, in which Christians are seen as more virtuous and divinely protected than others."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
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"Sociologists Joseph Baker, Stephen Perry and Andrew Whitehead, who have studied the movement, write that because science provides an 'alternative source of moral authority beyond divine revelation', Christian nationalists perceive institutional science 'as a threat to the supremacy of Christianity'."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
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“'What we’re seeing in the US today is the attempt to use religion and Christian nationalism to erode a scientifically based social contract of trust between government and the people, and replace it with a more authoritarian relationship,' adds [Gary] Gunderson [Baptist minister and professor of public health science at Wake Forest University School of Medicine]."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
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"Terms such as 'spiritual warfare' and ''spiritual attack', [Savannah] Tate says, are central to the movement’s vocabulary – part of a binary, warcentric and mystical rhetoric leveraging fear and disinformation to keep people on their toes against enemies both tangible and spiritual."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
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It's not accidental that RFKJr — the lifelong philander with multiple marriages and affairs — goes around babbling about “spiritual malaise,” "spiritual warfare,” “malevolent forces,” and the “sacred ritual” of family dinner time. In talking this way, he's seeding in public discourse — about health matters — Christian nationalist memes.

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
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Adrienne Matei notes what we sometimes miss about RFKJr's attack on public health, science, and research:

"From prescribing spiritual warfare to demonizing health experts, RFK Jr’s health empire has become a dangerous vehicle for a Christian nationalist worldview."

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/03/christofascism-rfk-jr-health

“ What an increasing number of Republicans like Ogles, Fine, Tuberville, Roy, Paxton, Cornyn, and Trump are building is not a defense against theocracy. It is an American version of the same architecture, state power directed at a religious minority, justified by the claim that one faith tradition is incompatible with national life. That is not constitutional governance. It is the thing the Constitution was designed to prevent.”

https://lyingtograndpa.substack.com/p/the-mirror-of-theocracy-what-the

#USPol #Politics #Sharia #Theocracy

“ What an increasing number of Republicans like Ogles, Fine, Tuberville, Roy, Paxton, Cornyn, and Trump are building is not a defense against theocracy. It is an American version of the same architecture, state power directed at a religious minority, justified by the claim that one faith tradition is incompatible with national life. That is not constitutional governance. It is the thing the Constitution was designed to prevent.”

https://lyingtograndpa.substack.com/p/the-mirror-of-theocracy-what-the

#USPol #Politics #Sharia #Theocracy

“ What an increasing number of Republicans like Ogles, Fine, Tuberville, Roy, Paxton, Cornyn, and Trump are building is not a defense against theocracy. It is an American version of the same architecture, state power directed at a religious minority, justified by the claim that one faith tradition is incompatible with national life. That is not constitutional governance. It is the thing the Constitution was designed to prevent.”

https://lyingtograndpa.substack.com/p/the-mirror-of-theocracy-what-the

#USPol #Politics #Sharia #Theocracy

“ What an increasing number of Republicans like Ogles, Fine, Tuberville, Roy, Paxton, Cornyn, and Trump are building is not a defense against theocracy. It is an American version of the same architecture, state power directed at a religious minority, justified by the claim that one faith tradition is incompatible with national life. That is not constitutional governance. It is the thing the Constitution was designed to prevent.”

https://lyingtograndpa.substack.com/p/the-mirror-of-theocracy-what-the

#USPol #Politics #Sharia #Theocracy

“ What an increasing number of Republicans like Ogles, Fine, Tuberville, Roy, Paxton, Cornyn, and Trump are building is not a defense against theocracy. It is an American version of the same architecture, state power directed at a religious minority, justified by the claim that one faith tradition is incompatible with national life. That is not constitutional governance. It is the thing the Constitution was designed to prevent.”

https://lyingtograndpa.substack.com/p/the-mirror-of-theocracy-what-the

#USPol #Politics #Sharia #Theocracy

Played Uno Reverse on themselves?

https://piefed.social/c/tankiejerk/p/1986817/played-uno-reverse-on-themselves

"Israeli universities are embedded in the Israeli state’s military-industrial complex and actively contribute to the occupation of Palestinian land and the apartheid and genocide of Palestinian life. German universities and academic institutions serve as strategic partners in the Israeli colonial apparatus."

The Academic Boycott Campaign Germany: https://theleftberlin.com/academic-boycott-campaign-germany/

#ABCDe #academicBoycott #culturalBoycott #israelBoycott #antiZionism #faculty #academia #academic #universities #higherEd #academicFreedom #university #academics #theocracy #JewishState #campus #campuses #Germany

A quotation from Robert Ingersoll

What is blasphemy? I will give you a definition; I will give you my thought upon this subject. What is real blasphemy?
   To live on the unpaid labor of other men — that is blasphemy.
   To enslave your fellow-man, to put chains upon his body — that is blasphemy.
   To enslave the minds of men, to put manacles upon the brain, padlocks upon the lips — that is blasphemy.
   To deny what you believe to be true, to admit to be true what you believe to be a lie — that is blasphemy.
   To strike the weak and unprotected, in order that you may gain the applause of the ignorant and superstitious mob — that is blasphemy.
   To persecute the intelligent few, at the command of the ignorant many — that is blasphemy.
   To forge chains, to build dungeons, for your honest fellow-men — that is blasphemy.
   To pollute the souls of children with the dogma of eternal pain — that is blasphemy.
   To violate your conscience — that is blasphemy.
   The jury that gives an unjust verdict, and the judge who pronounces an unjust sentence, are blasphemers.
   The man who bows to public opinion against his better judgment and against his honest conviction, is a blasphemer.

Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Speech (1887-05) to the Jury, Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, Morristown, New Jersey

More about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #blasphemy #censorship #conformity #conscience #corruption #exploitation #hell #hypocrisy #indoctrination #injustice #oppression #persecution #publicopinion #punchingdown #slavery #theocracy #dishonesty #guiltyconscience

A quotation from Robert Heinlein

Could it be otherwise here? Could any one sect obtain a working majority at the polls and take over the country? Perhaps not — but a combination of a dynamic evangelist, television, enough money, and modern techniques of advertising and propaganda might make Billy Sunday’s efforts look like a corner store compared to Sears Roebuck. Throw in a depression for good measure, promise a material heaven here on earth, add a dash of anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Negroism, and a good large dose of anti-“furriners” in general and anti-intellectuals here at home and the result might be something quite frightening — particularly when one recalls that our voting system is such that a minority distributed as pluralities in enough states can constitute a working majority in Washington.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Essay (1952-10), “Concerning Stories Never Written,” Revolt in 2100, Postscript (1953)

More about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/82…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #heinlein #robertheinlein #robertaheinlein #extremism #America #antiintellectualism #cult #government #politicalsystem #prejudice #sect #theocracy #tyranny #xenophobia

A quotation from Robert Heinlein

Could it be otherwise here? Could any one sect obtain a working majority at the polls and take over the country? Perhaps not — but a combination of a dynamic evangelist, television, enough money, and modern techniques of advertising and propaganda might make Billy Sunday’s efforts look like a corner store compared to Sears Roebuck. Throw in a depression for good measure, promise a material heaven here on earth, add a dash of anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Negroism, and a good large dose of anti-“furriners” in general and anti-intellectuals here at home and the result might be something quite frightening — particularly when one recalls that our voting system is such that a minority distributed as pluralities in enough states can constitute a working majority in Washington.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Essay (1952-10), “Concerning Stories Never Written,” Revolt in 2100, Postscript (1953)

More about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/82…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #heinlein #robertheinlein #robertaheinlein #extremism #America #antiintellectualism #cult #government #politicalsystem #prejudice #sect #theocracy #tyranny #xenophobia

A quotation from Robert Heinlein

Could it be otherwise here? Could any one sect obtain a working majority at the polls and take over the country? Perhaps not — but a combination of a dynamic evangelist, television, enough money, and modern techniques of advertising and propaganda might make Billy Sunday’s efforts look like a corner store compared to Sears Roebuck. Throw in a depression for good measure, promise a material heaven here on earth, add a dash of anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Negroism, and a good large dose of anti-“furriners” in general and anti-intellectuals here at home and the result might be something quite frightening — particularly when one recalls that our voting system is such that a minority distributed as pluralities in enough states can constitute a working majority in Washington.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Essay (1952-10), “Concerning Stories Never Written,” Revolt in 2100, Postscript (1953)

More about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/82…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #heinlein #robertheinlein #robertaheinlein #extremism #America #antiintellectualism #cult #government #politicalsystem #prejudice #sect #theocracy #tyranny #xenophobia

At least 5,000 dead in #Iran unrest, official says, as judiciary hints at executions - This is what autocratic theocracies do… in the USA #ChristianNationalists would undoubtedly do the same. #Theocracy #Religion #ReligionIsPoison https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/18/iran-unrest-5000-dead.html

Iranian protester faces 'imminent' execution, claims human rights group - Number of protestors murdered by the regime may surpass 10,000. That’s what autocratic theocracies do… brutally suppress any kind of popular protest. Don’t think #ChristianNationalists wouldn’t do exactly the same in the USA. #religion #IranProtests #theocracy https://share.google/FB0ma0OSdtFnZlq2s

"‘In isolation, we’ll never flourish’: What Iranians think about the protests and an end to the Islamic Republic"

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2026/jan/09/in-isolation-well-never-flourish-what-iranians-think-about-the-protests-and-an-end-to-the-islamic-republic

#Iran #Resistance #Fascism #Isolationism #Nationalism #Theocracy

"‘In isolation, we’ll never flourish’: What Iranians think about the protests and an end to the Islamic Republic"

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2026/jan/09/in-isolation-well-never-flourish-what-iranians-think-about-the-protests-and-an-end-to-the-islamic-republic

#Iran #Resistance #Fascism #Isolationism #Nationalism #Theocracy

"‘In isolation, we’ll never flourish’: What Iranians think about the protests and an end to the Islamic Republic"

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2026/jan/09/in-isolation-well-never-flourish-what-iranians-think-about-the-protests-and-an-end-to-the-islamic-republic

#Iran #Resistance #Fascism #Isolationism #Nationalism #Theocracy

"‘In isolation, we’ll never flourish’: What Iranians think about the protests and an end to the Islamic Republic"

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2026/jan/09/in-isolation-well-never-flourish-what-iranians-think-about-the-protests-and-an-end-to-the-islamic-republic

#Iran #Resistance #Fascism #Isolationism #Nationalism #Theocracy

"‘In isolation, we’ll never flourish’: What Iranians think about the protests and an end to the Islamic Republic"

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2026/jan/09/in-isolation-well-never-flourish-what-iranians-think-about-the-protests-and-an-end-to-the-islamic-republic

#Iran #Resistance #Fascism #Isolationism #Nationalism #Theocracy

The uproar over Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes is NOT about principled rejection of the #brOligarch #hierarchy, of violent #patriarchy, #whiteNationalism, and #Christofascist #theocracy ― NO!, it’s about saying the quiet part out loud, deviating from the gaslighting strategy of polite white supremacy.
#US #Politics #Economics #TrumpRegime #MAGA #BlackMastodon #LGBTQ

Bruh, if EVER you hesitate to indulge your rage at the owning class, and if EVER you think we should be a little more compassionate towards billionaires, just look up The Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther".

It makes 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, and pretty much any cyberpunk/dystopic hellscape you want to name look like a frolic through an endless wildflower meadow. 😑

LITERALLY all they want are slaves.
LITERALLY they only see their fellow human beings as livestock to be tagged, monitored, used, controlled, culled, and disposed of.

They have given up their humanity completely.

Any and all overtures that they make towards seeming to think or act in good faith towards others is a distraction and a smokescreen; designed to delay us in stopping them from completely ruining the Earth, and turning the human race into misery-riddled automatons.

Regard them and treat them as such.

Bruh, if EVER you hesitate to indulge your rage at the owning class, and if EVER you think we should be a little more compassionate towards billionaires, just look up The Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther".

It makes 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, and pretty much any cyberpunk/dystopic hellscape you want to name look like a frolic through an endless wildflower meadow. 😑

LITERALLY all they want are slaves.
LITERALLY they only see their fellow human beings as livestock to be tagged, monitored, used, controlled, culled, and disposed of.

They have given up their humanity completely.

Any and all overtures that they make towards seeming to think or act in good faith towards others is a distraction and a smokescreen; designed to delay us in stopping them from completely ruining the Earth, and turning the human race into misery-riddled automatons.

Regard them and treat them as such.

Bruh, if EVER you hesitate to indulge your rage at the owning class, and if EVER you think we should be a little more compassionate towards billionaires, just look up The Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther".

It makes 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, and pretty much any cyberpunk/dystopic hellscape you want to name look like a frolic through an endless wildflower meadow. 😑

LITERALLY all they want are slaves.
LITERALLY they only see their fellow human beings as livestock to be tagged, monitored, used, controlled, culled, and disposed of.

They have given up their humanity completely.

Any and all overtures that they make towards seeming to think or act in good faith towards others is a distraction and a smokescreen; designed to delay us in stopping them from completely ruining the Earth, and turning the human race into misery-riddled automatons.

Regard them and treat them as such.

Bruh, if EVER you hesitate to indulge your rage at the owning class, and if EVER you think we should be a little more compassionate towards billionaires, just look up The Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther".

It makes 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, and pretty much any cyberpunk/dystopic hellscape you want to name look like a frolic through an endless wildflower meadow. 😑

LITERALLY all they want are slaves.
LITERALLY they only see their fellow human beings as livestock to be tagged, monitored, used, controlled, culled, and disposed of.

They have given up their humanity completely.

Any and all overtures that they make towards seeming to think or act in good faith towards others is a distraction and a smokescreen; designed to delay us in stopping them from completely ruining the Earth, and turning the human race into misery-riddled automatons.

Regard them and treat them as such.

Bruh, if EVER you hesitate to indulge your rage at the owning class, and if EVER you think we should be a little more compassionate towards billionaires, just look up The Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther".

It makes 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, and pretty much any cyberpunk/dystopic hellscape you want to name look like a frolic through an endless wildflower meadow. 😑

LITERALLY all they want are slaves.
LITERALLY they only see their fellow human beings as livestock to be tagged, monitored, used, controlled, culled, and disposed of.

They have given up their humanity completely.

Any and all overtures that they make towards seeming to think or act in good faith towards others is a distraction and a smokescreen; designed to delay us in stopping them from completely ruining the Earth, and turning the human race into misery-riddled automatons.

Regard them and treat them as such.

The #SacredGround groups at my church have started a book club rather appropriately called #RBG which, in our case, stands for #ReconciliationBookGroup (as well as honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg). In April we are #reading the #FalseWhiteGospel by #JimWallis which is a troubling chronicle of American #Christianity as well as a (wake up) call to action for many Midwestern #Episcopalians who still don’t understand the threat #ChristianNationalism poses to our faith, our communities, & our #Democracy If you are a person of faith or just someone who wants to understand what’s at stake & why the #theocracy model of the current regime is a bad idea for everyone, please read this book. https://bookshop.org/a/13969/9781250291899 (yes, this is an affiliate link, by using it you help support #IndependentBookStores & my reading habit. Thanks in advance!)

"The impetus is on organisations, probably businesses and charities."
"It's not about what individuals think. It’s about what organisations do."

• When people try to change the British political landscape, they make demands of boycott on British cultural institutions: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/13/pressure-on-british-museum-to-ditch-bp
• When people try to change the German political landscape, they make demands of boycott on German cultural institutions: https://en.hespress.com/78244-cultural-figures-intellectuals-call-for-germany-boycott-over-palestine.html
• When people try to change the Israeli political landscape, they make demands of boycott on Israeli cultural institutions: https://vashtimedia.com/cultural-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza-sally-rooney/

Francesca Newton: https://vashtimedia.com/cultural-boycott-israel-palestine-gaza-sally-rooney/ @academicchatter

#freeSpeech #NaomiKlein #JacquelineRose #MiriamMargolyes #MichaelRosen #culturalBoycott #israelBoycott #antiZionism #faculty #academia #academic #universities #CulturalBoycott #academicChatter #israel #israelGazaWar #higherEd #education #academicFreedom #democracy #dissent #ashlaa #torture #university #academics #ShalhoubKevorkian #theocracy #JewishState #campus #campuses

#Trump Is Planning To Use '#Project2025' To Build a #Russia-Style #Oligarchy in the #UnitedStates.

#AnthonyScaramucci was the former president's #communicationsdirector and, in this exclusive #oped for #Zeteo, he #denounces #Trump's #manifesto for a #Conservative #Christian #theocracy.

#EmptyThePews

https://zeteo.com/p/trump-project-2025-russia-style-oligarchy-scaramucci

"Taken together, the measures have signaled the ambition of the governor and the Republican-led Legislature to be at the forefront of a growing national movement to create and interpret laws according to a particular conservative Christian worldview. And Mr. Landry, a Catholic who has been vocal about his faith’s influence in shaping his politics, wants to lead the charge."

~ NYTimes

#Louisiana #10Commandments #theocracy

Gift article from Greg Dworking, Daily Kos.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/us/louisiana-ten-commandments-landry.html?unlocked_article_code=1.1k0.9K_-.5v5AbvAaN1bb&smid=url-share

TOP “#Christian” #Republican Gets CONFRONTED On Trump’s #Infidelity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pbpyPU77PM

#sundayschool #morality #ethics #affair #cheater #scammer #hypocrite #donaldtrump #theocracy

A BRAVE @CNN reporter just confronted “holier-than-thou” Republican #HouseSpeaker #MikeJohnson over #Trump #cheating on #Melania — and his response is TELLING

"A vicious campaign by Israeli academia, police, and media to silence the professor shows Palestinians they have no safe place in Zionist institutions."

by a former student: https://www.972mag.com/nadera-shalhoub-kevorkian-israeli-academia/ @israel @academicchatter

#faculty #academia #academic #universities #CulturalBoycott #academicChatter #war #israel #israelGazaWar #higherEd #education #academicFreedom #citizenship #democracy #police #repression #socialMedia #972mag #research #dissent #fragility #JewishFragility #science #institutionsDeceive #indigeneity #settlers #colonialism #Zionism #antiZionism #October7 #ashlaa #torture #research #childhood #university #academics #harassment #incitment #warEffort #nationalism #citizenship #ShalhoubKevorkian #theocracy #JewishState #freeSpeech #OngoingNakba #indoctrination #brainwashing #campus #raceMaking #Jerusalem #campuses #education

#Documents show #plans for ‘#Christiannationalism’ based #theocracy in #America if #Trump wins a second term

Close #allies of the #formerpresident #propose an #extremist #farright #agenda

#Religion #EmptyThePews
https://www.washingtonblade.com/2024/02/20/documents-show-plans-for-christian-nationalism-if-trump-wins-a-second-term/

Representative Clay Higgins has 3 offices. It would be a shame if their phones all got tied up with people throughout the day and night asking the representative to stop trying to make the US a theocracy. Like thoughout the day.

Washington DC Office
Phone: +1-202-225-2031

Lafayette District Office
Phone: +1-337-703-6105

Lake Charles District Office
Phone: +1-337-656-2833

#uspol #politics #congress #libraries #FirstAmendment #LApol #Louisiana #Democracy #theocracy