“’God is in control,’ some will say. ‘Be silent, be still, wait for the Lord.’ Sentences like these can excuse inaction, dress paralysis in pious garb, and frame cowardice as an act of faith."
“’Wait for God’ means to watch out for God's action in history and participate in it. Not inaction or surrender, but a renewed commitment.”
~ Ibid., p. 27
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #bible #religion #solidarity #resistance #antichrist
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“Believe the demons, too — they're often the earliest to recognize the Spirit of God. If they flinch and yell, trust that something real is happening. Their violent response is a sign of anxiety and despair, not of true power, but it points you the way. It reveals their weakness and allows you to leverage it.”
~ Ibid., p. 26
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“Seek the wisdom of those on the margins. To them the beast will show its true face first, and they have long had to live with far fewer illusions. To them the resurrected Christ will appear first, and they have long developed practices of resilience and discernment.”
~ Ibid., pp. 25-6
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #bible #religion #solidarity #resistance #antichrist
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“There is a reason the Bible talks about the devil as ‘the antichrist.’ Evil likes to pose as salvation, and to harness the power of faith for its falsified gospel.”
~ Hanna Reichel, For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2025), p. 23
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #bible #religion #solidarity #resistance #antichrist
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https://www.eerdmans.com/9781467470575/for-such-a-time-as-this/
"Since the Trump regime defunded U.S.A.I.D., at least 600,000 people who should still be alive are dead. 400,000 of those who’ve died are children."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Musk #USAID #hunger #starvation #children #healthcare #medicine #ProLife #WhiteChristianNationalism
That fact is a damning indictment of the (lack of) pastoral and moral leadership US Catholics have received from their bishops for several decades now.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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What has to be asked is how US Catholics have gotten themselves to this place: Who have been their pastoral and moral leaders in recent decades?
If the answer is that they're the same set of bishops now telling Catholics to welcome immigrants and treat them humanely, then the bishops need to own their complicity in creating the conditions for more than half of white Catholics to vote for Trump three times.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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We’ll reiterate that point and then show that Catholic Christian nationalists are largely on the same page as other Christian nationalists when it comes to issues adjacent to the bishop’s statement."
Djupe and Walker find that a majority of US Catholics are fully on board with white Christian nationalism and with the Trump regime's attacks on immigrants.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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As political scientists Djupe and Walker have measured the attitudes of US Catholics towards immigrants and immigration. As they note,
"There has been very little attention paid to Catholic Christian nationalism (CN), which is primarily portrayed as a White evangelical worldview, despite the fact that multiple investigations have shown substantial CN among both lay and elite Catholics."
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"Paul Djupe and Brooklyn Walker say that in stating clearly that one cannot claim to be a faithful follower of Jesus and also practice cruelty towards immigrants, the US Catholic bishops are not only addressing Trump and ICE. They are "also speaking to adherents of the Catholic Church who may not be on the same page as the Bishops and the Pope."
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William Lindsey 
