#whitechristians — Public Fediverse posts

"The problem isn’t that people are finally hearing a Christian politician talk about justice. The problem is that many of them had to hear it from a white man before they recognized it as Christianity."

#JamesTalarico #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians #BlackChurch #Trump #WhiteEvangelicals
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Jemar Tisby notes the willingness of many white Christians to welcome a progressive, prophetic form of Christianity when someone like James Talarico preaches it — when that progressive, prophetic Christianity has been there all the time, for a very long time, in the Black church. He concludes,

#JamesTalarico #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians #BlackChurch #Trump #WhiteEvangelicals
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https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-white-christians-love-james-talarico

"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
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"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
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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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https://www.joyannreid.com/p/america-2026-a-tale-of-two-dons-the

"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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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/magas-white-christian-nationalist

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
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"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
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https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/weekly-roundup-jan-23

"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
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"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
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https://wordandway.org/2026/01/23/the-line-from-enslaver-missionaries-to-an-ice-pastor/

"Adams embraced MAGA fascism in the last decades of his life. When he says he is a Christian, and doesn’t repudiate the fascism, it’s reasonable to assume that before he died he became a christofascist. Fascist to christofascist isn’t much of a conversion at all—which is, I think, the point."

#Trump #ScottAdams #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #MAGA #fascism
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"Instead, it seems like a Christianity that is mostly about empowerment of and lauding of Christians—for their (often violent) history of evangelicism, for their status as default religion in the US, for their predominance in Adams’ community, which is MAGA community."

#Trump #ScottAdams #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #MAGA #fascism
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"When Scott Adams says he is converting to Christianity, it is worth asking, what Christianity is he converting to? By his own testimony, it is not a Christianity that asks for or requires some sort of reckoning with past harms or past cruelties."

~ Noah Berlatsky

#Trump #ScottAdams #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #MAGA #fascism
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https://www.everythingishorrible.net/p/what-scott-adams-deathbed-conversion

"It tends to pit the kind of middle class white upper middle class white person is the victim you know, the culture is changing and it's, it's toxic and it's terrible. And we have to fight against this, you know, horrible, evil culture. And it, it, it just, it's like a, it's kind of like a, I call it the rollercoaster paranoia."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants #FoxNews
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"Fox news is kind of a paranoia fear rollercoaster for folks who a lot of them are near the end of their life. They're seniors. They've been retired for years and years and they sit down, they turn it on. And it's this, kind of constant they're coming for you and we'll save you and don't worry."

~ Juliet Jeske

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants #FoxNews
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/how-right-wing-media-keeps-us-outraged

"No rejection, no detention, no zip ties or shackles. Jesus, Joseph and Mary immigrated to Egypt. Jesus was an immigrant."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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"In this Christmas season, all of us who say we are Christian have to remember that in our faith story, a tyrant King seeks to kill all the babies in his empire out of spite and threat. Jesus’ parents take him to Egypt to keep him alive. They seek refuge and safety and are welcomed their."

~ Jacqui Lewis

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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https://jacquilewis.substack.com/p/jesus-was-an-immigrant

"White Christians, who are America’s most conservative citizens, hold the most radically right wing views on immigration, per the lates information from the Public Religion Research Institute. ... They would definitely deport baby Jesus."

~ Joy-Ann Reid and Kahlil Greene

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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https://www.joyannreid.com/p/foxs-jingle-bells-crash-out-kahlil

"We find those Americans who are the strongest adherents to that ideology, about one in 10 Americans, really look very distinct on immigration policy. They're, I think, the most draconian in their views about immigration."

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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"I think, for me, the biggest takeaway from the [PRRI] survey is that the Trump administration's second term immigration agenda is mobilizing his base, particularly white evangelical Protestants and Christian nationalists, but it's really alienating a lot of other Americans across the board."

~ Melissa Deckman

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trump-an-unpopular-populist-president

"White Christian groups are the most likely to approve of the job Trump is doing handling immigration, including nearly three in four white evangelical Protestants. A majority of white mainline/non-evangelical Protestants (62%) and white Catholics (59%) also approve of Trump’s job on immigration."

~ PRRI

#Trump #MAGA #immigrants #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteMainlineProtestants
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https://prri.org/research/the-new-immigration-crackdown-where-americans-stand/

“Among religious groups, Trump’s favorability is highest among white evangelical Protestants (72%), followed by 55% of white Mainline/non-evangelical Protestants, and 54% of white Catholics. These groups have become more favorable toward Trump since 2016 (61%, 46% and 43%, respectively).”

White US Christians own the Trump presidency, all of its crudities and cruelties.

#PRRI #evangelicals #WhiteChristians #WhiteProtestants #WhiteCatholics #Trump #Jews #BlackProtestants #HispanicProtestants
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"However, white evangelicals (76%), white Catholics (57%) and white Mainline Protestants (57%) more often approved of the job Trump is doing in the White House.

Trump’s favorability ratings also vary according to the religious affiliation of respondents, the PRRI study explains:"

#PRRI #evangelicals #WhiteChristians #WhiteProtestants #WhiteCatholics #Trump #Jews #BlackProtestants #HispanicProtestants
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Jeff Brumley comments on what the just-released PRRI American Values Survey tells us:

"When asked about the president’s job performance, Black Protestants (77%), the religiously unaffiliated (77%), members of non-Christian religions (76%), Hispanic Catholics (71%) and Jewish Americans (70%) said Trump is not doing a good job."

#PRRI #evangelicals #WhiteChristians #WhiteProtestants #WhiteCatholics #Trump #Jews #BlackProtestants #HispanicProtestants
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https://baptistnews.com/article/republicans-increasingly-stand-alone-prri-finds/

As polls have consistently demonstrated from 2016 through today, white Christians — not just white evangelicals, though they are the chief cheerleaders, but white Christians across the board — own the Trump presidency and its manifold crudities and cruelties, its deep corruption and immorality, it's fundamental clash with everything the Christian gospel proclaims.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristians #ApprovalRating #PRRI
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"Majorities of white Christian groups, including 72% of white evangelical Protestants, hold a favorable view of Trump; by contrast, Christians of color, members of other religions, and the religiously unaffiliated all hold mostly unfavorable views of Trump. ...

With the exception of Republicans and white Christians, most Americans reject Trump’s secretive ICE tactics and harsh immigration policies."

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristians #ApprovalRating #PRRI
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"Notably, 56% of Americans—including two thirds of political independents—view Trump as a “dangerous dictator.” ...

Trump’s favorability rating remains underwater. Only 40% of Americans hold a favorable view of Trump, compared to 58% who hold an unfavorable view of the president. Notably, more than twice as many Americans hold 'very unfavorable' views than hold 'very favorable' views of Trump (46% vs. 20%)."

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristians #ApprovalRating #PRRI
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PRRI has just released the results of its 16th American Values Survey. PRRI president Robert P. Jones summarizes key findings of this survey:

"Majorities of Republicans and white evangelical Protestants continue to back President Trump and many of his most extreme policies, but most other Americans hold unfavorable views of Trump and believe he has 'gone too far.'"

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristians #ApprovalRating #PRRI
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https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/trumps-overreach-highlights-from

I know that giving in lets these folks win. And that they delight in seeing many of us feel defeated; their cruelty feeds on their belief that they dominate. But one grows old and weary….

#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #evangelicals #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteCatholics #cruelty
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I'm haunted by these words because I know that if he feels this way and I feel this way, many others do, too, and I wonder what the future can hold for a world in which many of us decide we can no longer make a dent in the cruelty, the corrupt and warped religion feeding it, and the stupidity.

#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #evangelicals #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteCatholics #cruelty
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Via AJJ

Is Britain racist?

Here's just another reason why I have love for Akala, in my opinion, speaking for many based on facts rather [than]

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#blackmen #blackcaribbean #germany #australia #indigenous #whitechristians #blackbritish #britishasian #blackhistory #blackmastodon

David Gushee points to a key finding about the 2024 election:

"White Christian people voted pro-Republican, not just white evangelicals at 82% but white Catholics at 63% and white Protestants overall at 72%. These were worse numbers than I had expected even in my most pessimistic moments."

#Trump #Republicans #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalists #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #WhiteProtestants

https://davidpgushee.substack.com/p/final-reflections-on-the-lessons

"You want to know why Trump has a decent chance to win the presidency again? Because most white Americans support him. In the latest New York Times/Siena poll, Trump wins white voters by 52 percent to 44 percent."

~ Bill Kristol

#Trump #Republicans #WhiteVoters #race #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-one-thing-obama-got-wrong

Chris Suellentrop reports on the exodus of millions of Americans, especially younger ones, from churches. These “nones” are reshaping US political life—and in many cases are reacting to the appalling spectacle of seeing huge numbers of US Christians and their churches idolize Donald Trump.

#Trump #WhiteChristians #churches #nones #idolatry #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

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