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Somehow #whiteEvangelicals, #christianNationalists, the #farRight, and none of the #ultraConservatives who claim to protect and fight for "#Christian traditional family values" are lined up to learn the original language #Jesus spoke: #Aramaic.
Nor do they do #pilgrimage to one of the last two #Syrian towns where #WesternAramaic is still spoken: Maaloula.
#hypocrisy #democracy #christianity #history #syria #languageLearning
"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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