#whiteevangelicals — Public Fediverse posts

"The fundamental bargain for a lot of Trump’s advisors, maybe the shorthand for it would be, 'He’s not a godly man, but he’s God’s man.'”

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #Pentecostals #WhiteChristianNationalism #megalomania
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(continued from /3)

"apart from the ways that these prophecies have impacted his existing megalomania and shaped it into a kind of Messianic narrative, and the way that he phrases that narrative is — especially in reference to the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt — as “God saved me to save America.”

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #Pentecostals #WhiteChristianNationalism #megalomania
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"They literally say they hear from God, direct messages for leaders, for individuals, for nations. And there are now hundreds, maybe even 1000s, of prophecies about Donald Trump, many of them that have been spoken directly to him, and I don’t think you can even make sense of the way that Donald Trump is operating in office in the second term," (continued in /4)

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #Pentecostals #WhiteChristianNationalism #megalomania
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"I think one of the most important things to understand, especially in the present moment, is that these leaders have functionally enshrined Trump with a certain kind of holiness, with a narrative that he is a prophesied figure, quite literally, many of the people who surround Donald Trump as advisors would also identify as prophets and not in the 'Martin Luther King was a prophetic figure' kind of way."

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #Pentecostals #WhiteChristianNationalism #megalomania
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Matthew Taylor notes that though Trump is heavily supported by white evangelicals, one group of evangelicals have a particular grip on him: Pentecostal-charismatic evangelicals who constitute the network called the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), led by his "faith advisor" Paula Cain-White.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #Pentecostals #WhiteChristianNationalism #megalomania
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https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/medici-white-house-and-the-pseudopropheta

"I am no preacher, but what I have learned in my Baptist Church about the Old Testament prophets makes me suspect that God may not look very favorably on being asked to bless a government that is busy slamming its doors to refugees and taking food out of the mouths of hungry people while its corrupt leaders manipulate the system to enrich themselves."

~ Svante Myrick

#WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #Hegseth #Trump #EconomicElites
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https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5847719-religious-nationalists-trump-america/

"I find it heartbreaking that some of the loudest voices defending Christian values are the very ones breaking the first commandment again and again. … Just to be clear, Christian nationalism has no place in either Christianity or patriotism.”

~ Lutheran Bishop Shelley Bryan Wee quoted by Morgen White

#WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #Hegseth
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https://favs.news/at-seattle-talk-rick-of-christian-nationalism-threat/

Now it has shifted to become less focused on America itself and more aligned with a global authoritarianism that is grounded in a violent masculinity."

For more discussion of these themes, see the discussion between Holly Berkley Fletcher and Steven Hassan linked below.

#WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #Hegseth
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22D7c_xxV5M

"As a theologian, as a pastor, I understand Christian nationalism as an idolatry. And what I've seen is that the idol itself has shifted. It's shifted from a backwards sort of patriotic-ish view of America, a lot of iconography of flags, of military insignia, really Norman Rockwell-esque sort of fuzzy white Americana pictures."

~ Lutheran pastor Angela Denker

#WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #Hegseth
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https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/christian-nationalism-as-heresy-and

The basic message of Wife School, drawn from white evangelical Christianity, to women: Obey, please him, put him first, make him comfortable, submit to him in every respect, try to look pretty and make the home pretty: then you'll have the perfect marriage.

#women #WhiteEvangelicals #TradWives #WifeSchool #misogyny #feminism
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"The proof of concept is their domestic bliss, they say: Dillehay has a satisfied husband, picture-perfect family and a living room that looks straight out of Pottery Barn catalogue. ...

Much of what they say is that every problem in a modern Christian marriage is the woman’s fault."

#women #WhiteEvangelicals #TradWives #WifeSchool #misogyny #feminism
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Alaina Demopoulos reports on Wife School, a video masterclass led by Tilly Dillehay, and on other web sites similar to Wife School:

"Wife School is part of a cottage industry of affable Christian women selling online courses to their compatriots promising connubial joy, with a generous helping of Bible passages and anecdotes from their own enviable relationships."

#women #WhiteEvangelicals #TradWives #WifeSchool #misogyny #feminism
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/28/wife-school-christian-women-submissive

"You can't understand the MAGA movement, the thing that is like ripping the world apart, without understanding Christian nationalism, right? And the hold that it has on the deep followers, particularly white evangelicals in this country."

#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #media #NewYorkTimes
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"And I was like... Well, how are you going to understand the kind of biggest force shaping the MAGA world if you're going to ignore the best social scientific research in the country? …

You cannot understand the Latino vote without understanding religion, right? You can't understand this entanglement with the Pope over war without understanding religion."

#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #media #NewYorkTimes
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5. How the Roberts Court has weaponized (individual) religious liberty to curtail other freedoms.

Jones:

"We've actually had two top level religion reporters at The New York Times essentially saying we're not going to use the term Christian nationalism because they think it's a made up term by academics."

#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #media #NewYorkTimes
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2. How Hegseth’s anti-DEI crusade is really about mainstreaming white Christian nationalism in the military.

3. Why reporters who refuse to use the term “Christian nationalism” are out of step with well-grounded social science research.

4. The enormous influence of Christian media on those within its bubble (which doesn’t include most political reporters).

#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #media
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"As [Robert P. Jones] and I discussed, it’s a third rail for reasons that are understandable, but not defensible. Nobody wants to risk offending or essentializing people’s most deeply held beliefs — but those beliefs, and the institutions behind them, are too important to ignore."

Podhorzer and Jones discuss:

1. Why Trump can’t take Catholic voters for granted.

#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #media
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"The influence of Christian nationalism, especially among white Evangelicals in the South, explains why Trump’s base has stayed with him through so much scandal — and why our politics in general is so polarized and dysfunctional. ...

So why do we almost never hear about religion in political reporting?"

~ Michael Podhorzer

#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #media
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https://www.weekendreading.net/p/the-real-third-rail-in-american-politics

"Leo’s willingness to stand up to the end product of that rightward decline, the shallowest public figure in human history, may inspire the resurgent liberals from the Protestant tradition. If he can stand up to the president, they can perhaps find more voice to reclaim their heritage from the evangelicals who have walked away with the cross and the Bible in recent decades."

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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"Because the theology that underlays the whole white rightwing megachurch evangelical movement is unforgivably shallow. ... The depth of white evangelical theology is demonstrated by the fact that 70% of its adherents still support Trump, even after the carnival of racism, cruelty and blasphemy they’ve witnessed in the second term. The movement’s 'spiritual formation' has been tested and found wanting."

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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"He was overseas while that was going on, mostly in Peru, ministering to the poor. In some ways, his seems like a 1960s or 70s Christianity, preserved by circumstance. And he speaks midwestern American English, easy for everyone to understand, hard for anyone to undercut. ...

And in response, Trump and Hegseth had … nothing."

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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"Which brings us to the pope, the American pope, who has taken on Maga’s regressive form of Christianity more memorably & powerfully than any religious leader in recent history. Leo grew up in this country in precisely that period when the church was transitioning, post-Vatican II, to a more liberal tone. He left America before the church fathers turned rightward with their grim obsession with a woman’s right to choose."

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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"The first person to really stand up to Donald Trump in the days after his inauguration, as he launched his blitzkrieg of rightwing change, was Episocal bishop Mariann Budde….

There were a great many different forces behind the magnificent display of non-violent resistance in Minneapolis this winter, but one of them was the Lutheran church, dominant in the region and with a long tradition of immigration advocacy."

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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(continued from /8)

"have grown old unchallenged in their thinking that scripture somehow demands the various cruelties we’ve seen play out in the 'culture wars'.

But it doesn’t. In fact, for most of American history Christianity has been read in the opposite way, as a liberating force."

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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"Hegseth’s denominational leader, Doug Wilson, has gotten far more airtime than the heads of the much larger Protestant traditions, because they don’t do insane things like demanding women give up the vote. Partly as a result, a generation of Americans has grown up convinced that Christianity is a freak show, and another generation – those inside the evangelical tent –" (continued in /8)

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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(continued from /5)

"it’s producing the sudden recognition that a kind of progressive Christianity long given over for dead seems to be stirring. …

Real Christianity is always journalistically represented by evangelicalism – everyone knows its stars, the Franklin Grahams and the Paula Whites, the layers-on-of-hands in the Oval Office."

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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Focusing on the senior advisor to Trump's Faith Office Paula White-Cain, Oliver Markus Malloy concludes:

"America is the Jerry Springer show of the world."

#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #corruption #WhiteChristianNationalism #PaulaWhite #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteSupremacy #cruelty #immigrants
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https://www.atheist.guide/p/this-is-the-con-artist-trump-picked

"They were fastened tightly together by the abortion issue, the key element of the culture war. Their fusion was a carefully engineered political operation."

And now Trump has torn that engineered fusion to bits, though whether some Catholics in the US will continue to follow their savior figure regardless of his attacks on their pope remains to be seen.

#PopeLeo #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #Catholics #morality
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"Their relationship to Trump long ago melded partisan politics with a cult of personality to form a revised religious identity.

In this theology, Trump is both king and Christ. ...

Since the Reagan presidency, the alliance between evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics has been the essential coalition of the reframed Republican party."

#PopeLeo #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #Catholics #morality
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"Though notoriously illiterate about religion – Trump once cited 'Two Corinthians' – he is keenly aware that he is venerated by white evangelical Christian nationalists. Despite his tribulations, white evangelicals remain among his strongest devotees. Christian nationalists pray at the altar of the church of Trump."

#PopeLeo #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #Catholics #morality
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"The most despised American in the world cannot bear the judgments of the most admired American in the world. Trump’s wounded pride has festered from envy into malice. Trump’s expectation of submission dashed, he flew into a fury, but his rage could not overawe Leo."

~ Sidney Blumenthal

#PopeLeo #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #Catholics #morality
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/24/trump-pope-leo-catholics

Authoritarians, strongmen wannabes like Trump and Mussolini, make the "authoritarian bargain," Ben-Ghiat says, in which they court elites, business and religious ones, to give legitimacy to their authoritarianism. On the Catholic side, as Ben-Ghiat points out, there's the powerful, secretive, wealthy right-wing cult Opus Dei which is omnipresent in DC and helps prop trump up.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat notes that "Trump does this thing with images of Jesus when he feels extremely threatened." Not only did he recently post the blasphemous AI image equating himself with Jesus (and then lie and say he thought the image was a doctor). But when he had his criminal trial, he released a sketch showing Jesus standing next to him.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/lessons-in-authoritarian-history

"A lot of thoughts spring to mind in relation to this, but at the very forefront, one question: do the US’s evangelical Christians, who overwhelmingly support Trump, have a red line and if so, can they find it with both hands?

I’m stating the obvious but it’s worth raising again, if only to boggle at the sheer shamelessness of a religious community that has thrown in its lot with Trump."

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety
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"He has lost the Catholics, the foreign policy isolationists and the millions of people affected by ICE’s immigration raids. But Donald Trump is still counting on the goodwill of one powerful constituency of American voters, to whom he appealed this week by reading a passage from the Bible urging people to repent their 'wicked ways'."

~ Emma Brockes

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalists #bible #PerformativePiety
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/23/donald-trump-bible-readings-god-evangelical-christians-us

Evan Hurst, who grew up in my hometown of Little Rock until he was a young adolescent and then spent the rest of his growing-up years in Memphis, which is still home for him, is snarky. Profane. Cusses a blue streak in everything he writes.

But despite that — or for some of us, precisely because of that — he's one of the sharpest commentators around on our culture right now.

#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalists #WhiteEvangelicals #MAGA #antichrist #bible
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https://evanhurst.substack.com/p/is-trump-the-antichrist-well-im-not

"And in 2024, only Hispanic Protestants got on the Trump bandwagon with white Christians, giving Trump his long desired, though narrow, popular vote victory (presuming you believe the election results weren’t rigged.)

Yet Trump’s only connection to Christianity is a loose one."

#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel."

~ Nesrine Malik

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/20/trump-presidency-evil-absurd-frightening-ideology

"White Christians are the ONLY reason Trump ever became president, either time, since in 2016 every other religious/ethnic group voted in a majority for the Democrat. And no group has supported Trump more emphatically than white evangelicals. It’s not even close."

~Joy-Ann Reid

#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.joyannreid.com/p/is-donald-trump-the-antichrist-some

The story here is "the story of Dr James Orr, the lawyer turned theologian, sits at the centre of a clandestine transatlantic nexus of faith, finance, think tanks, seminars and seminaries, media companies and conference events — and an apparently catastrophic view of politics."

#PeterThiel #PaulMarshall #JamesOrr #NigelFarage #JDVance #UK #WhiteEvangelicals
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"The clearest indication of the intersection between the two millenarian hedge fund owners, Marshall and Thiel, is Orr’s friendship with the US Vice President JD Vance.

Vance was a protégé of Peter Thiel in an even more direct way than Orr was of Marshall."

#PeterThiel #PaulMarshall #JamesOrr #NigelFarage #JDVance #UK #WhiteEvangelicals
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Thiel-Marshall represent "a covert combination of faith and finance, of evangelical doom-mongering and disruptive tech and media, from the two real kingmakers in right-wing British and American politics — the deeply religious and deeply wealthy owners of GB News and Palantir: Sir Paul Marshall and Peter Thiel."

#PeterThiel #PaulMarshall #JamesOrr #NigelFarage #UK #WhiteEvangelicals
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Peter Jukes and Nafeez Ahmed spotlight James Orr, Nigel Farage’s new head of policy, and how he's the key religious and ideological linkman for Palantir’s Peter Thiel and Sir Paul Marshall’s GB News. As Jukes and Ahmed show, these worthies are working with big-money funders in the US and elsewhere to effect an even harder rightward turn in the UK, with an evangelical gloss.

#PeterThiel #PaulMarshall #JamesOrr #NigelFarage #UK #WhiteEvangelicals
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https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/james-orr-and-the-messianic-transatlantic

Women were made to look pretty and be loved, not to involve their pretty little heads in political or business matters, says the church's assistant pastor Corbin Clarke. His wife agrees, saying that "God" designed things to work that way.

This model is coming for all of us sooner than we think, is going to be imposed on all of us, if we stand by and let that happen.

#WhiteEvangelicals #Hegseth #women #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #WhiteChristianNationalism #LGBTQ #Catholic #Islam #Hinduism
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Partridge's message:

"On social media, the pastor has attracted a following by posting incendiary commentary: railing against feminists, Catholics and gay people, describing immigration as 'national suicide,' and labeling Islam and Hinduism 'demonic.' He also calls for erasing women’s suffrage, which he lists as one reason 'the world is falling apart.'”

#WhiteEvangelicals #Hegseth #women #patriarchy #MaleEntitlement #WhiteChristianNationalism #LGBTQ #Catholic #Islam #Hinduism
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It's a war between a Christianity that roots itself in Jesus and the gospels, a Christianity shared by millions of Americans of various confessional backgrounds, and a Christianity that totally ignores who Jesus was and what he said, and that twists Jesus to justify violence and to place "us" on the holy side as we obliterate "them."

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #FranklinGraham #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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It's a war between a Christianity that roots itself in Jesus and the gospels, a Christianity shared by millions of Americans of various confessional backgrounds, and a Christianity that totally ignores who Jesus was and what he said, and that twists Jesus to justify violence and to place "us" on the holy side as we obliterate "them."

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #FranklinGraham #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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It's not coincidental, I think, that Franklin Graham, who is a kind of pope for white evangelicals, would write Trump at just this moment when Pope Leo points out — clearly and rightly — that one cannot invoke Jesus to justify war.

There's a war going on here, for sure. It's a war between competing versions of Christianity.

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #FranklinGraham #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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"Perhaps coincidentally, on Palm Sunday, Trump posted a letter on Truth Social from Franklin Graham, the son of the late legendary televangelist Billy Graham, which assured him that his 'soul is secure' and he is 'bound for heaven.'”

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #FranklinGraham #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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"Trump just posted [a day ago] a letter from Franklin Graham assuring him that says 'you commented to the media that you might not be heaven bound. Maybe you responded in jest, but it is an important issue to know for certain that your soul is secure and will spend eternity in the presence of God.'"

~ Aaron Rupar

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #WarCrimes #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism #FranklinGraham #WhiteEvangelicals
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https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mi7brxde6c23