"Shifts inside these groups offer a signal of where political pressure may be building ahead of the midterms."

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #Catholics #MainlineProtestants
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"President Donald Trump’s approval rating has turned negative among Catholics and [mainline] Protestants, even as support among white evangelicals has strengthened, according to new Fox News polling. ...

Religious voters have long been a key part of Trump’s coalition, helping anchor Republican support in national elections."

~ Sam Stevenson

#Trump #Hegseth #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #Catholics #MainlineProtestants
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https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-flips-with-christians-11741961

Noting that over half of mainline Protestants voted (with white Catholics and white evangelicals) in a majority for Trump three times, Ryan Burge offers a graph of the Republican affiliations of mainline Protestants as compared to their clergy.

#Trump #MainlineProtestants #WhiteChristians #churches
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https://www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/how-big-is-the-political-divide-between

"The one thing the church must never do is to claim God to be on the side of any particular country or any particular political party or any particular individual. That is is the road to idolatry. That is a bargain with the Devil."

Kristin Du Mez's article has a link to a YouTube video of her pastor's sermon this past Sunday.

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #MainlineProtestants #WhiteCatholics
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Kristin Du Mez then notes that she went to church the Sunday after the election and heard her pastor Len VanderZee preach the following:

"We’ve heard it all before. The divine right of kings. God and country in the Fuhrer’s 1000 year Reich. And today, there’s the message that God is leading America back to its former glory as a 'Christian nation.'

That was exactly the idolatry that many early Christians died in resisting."

#Trump #WhiteEvangelicals #MainlineProtestants #WhiteCatholics
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"The principal danger we face is not division itself but the emergence of a new American form of fascism, wrapped in the flag and justified by a white Christian theology of dominion. Through its takeover of the Republican Party under Trump, that once-vanquished toxic ideology now threatens to metastasize further than most of us anticipated was possible."

#Trump #fascism #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #MainlineProtestants #PRRI
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I'd replace "despite of" with "because of" in the openoing of Jones' statement: US white Christians are in it for the coarseness, misogyny, convictions for sexual assualt, racism, and demonization of immigrants.

This is now the brand for Christianity among US white Christians, who are chiefly responsible for Trump's ascendancy – to the tremendous shame of US white Christians.

#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #MainlineProtestants #PRRI
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"Despite all of Trump’s coarseness, misogyny, convictions for sexual assault, explicit racism, and demonization of immigrants, PRRI finds all white Christian subgroups continue to support Trump at comparable levels to 2020: white evangelial Protestants at 83%, white non-evangelical Protestants at 60%, and white Catholics at 61%."

#Trump #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #MainlineProtestants #PRRI
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