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#WhiteChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #fascism #Trump #idolatry #morality

"Authoritarianism necessitates religious nationalism. Because the goal of authoritarianism and neo-fascism is to make people engage in moral deregulation, to stop believing what you have believed, to stop holding certain things true, to surrender, surrender your moral foundations. ... C. Eric Lincoln called it Americanity."

~ William J. Barber

https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/driving-out-the-spirits-that-hold

Driving Out the Spirits That Hold Us Captive

A conversation about the prophetic work of faith communities in this moral moment

Our Moral Moment w/ Bishop William Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

#RFKJr #Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #healthcare #PublicHealth #science #research #MAHA #theocracy #EconomicElites
/9

“'God chose Ethan for a reason,' one South Carolina mother told the Independent this February after her son was paralyzed by measles encephalitis.

'If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine,' she said, citing the misleading scare line publicly shared by Kennedy and Trump that children today receive too many shots."

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/8

"The people dragging America’s public health system toward a new dark age are not demonic. Rather, they are morally bankrupt and high on the supply of theocratic self-righteousness, with no regard to how their words and actions affect real people’s wellbeing.

Christian nationalist language gives calculated government neglect the sheen of providence."

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/7

"Where [Calley] Means and Kennedy find their most profitable common ground with the Christian nationalist worldview may not be its fire-and-brimstone zealotry so much as its prosperity gospel tenet: that accumulating wealth and power is divine. The sicker and more desperate Americans become, and the weaker the public health system that might support them, the more lucrative the alternative wellness space grows."

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/6

"Public health’s use of science in the collective interest of all races, faiths and genders clashes with their hierarchical moral order, in which Christians are seen as more virtuous and divinely protected than others."

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/5

"Sociologists Joseph Baker, Stephen Perry and Andrew Whitehead, who have studied the movement, write that because science provides an 'alternative source of moral authority beyond divine revelation', Christian nationalists perceive institutional science 'as a threat to the supremacy of Christianity'."

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/4

“'What we’re seeing in the US today is the attempt to use religion and Christian nationalism to erode a scientifically based social contract of trust between government and the people, and replace it with a more authoritarian relationship,' adds [Gary] Gunderson [Baptist minister and professor of public health science at Wake Forest University School of Medicine]."