Mastodawn

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

Apr 20

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

~ Nesrine Malik

"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

#JamesTalarico #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians #BlackChurch #Trump #WhiteEvangelicals
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Mar 13

"The problem isn’t that people are finally hearing a Christian politician talk about justice. The problem is that many of them had to hear it from a white man before they recognized it as Christianity."

#JamesTalarico #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians #BlackChurch #Trump #WhiteEvangelicals
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Mar 13

Jemar Tisby notes the willingness of many white Christians to welcome a progressive, prophetic form of Christianity when someone like James Talarico preaches it — when that progressive, prophetic Christianity has been there all the time, for a very long time, in the Black church. He concludes,

https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/why-white-christians-love-james-talarico

Why White Christians Love James Talarico

And what they're missing

Footnotes by Jemar Tisby

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #ChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals
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Jones offers a map showing state-by-state support for Christian nationalism.

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #ChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals
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"The study’s findings are unequivocal. Support for Christian nationalism is positively correlated with a range of religious practices. In other words, on average, the more frequently Americans attend church, read the Bible, or pray outside of religious services, the more likely they are to hold Christian nationalist views."

Jones is discussing the study linked below.

https://prri.org/research/mapping-christian-nationalism-across-the-50-states-insights-from-prris-2025-american-values-atlas/

Mapping Christian Nationalism Across the 50 States: Insights from PRRI’s 2025 American Values Atlas

One year into the second Trump administration, a new national survey examines support for Christian nationalism across all 50 states and examines connections between support for Christian nationalism and Trump favorability, partisanship, religion, media habits, and more.

PRRI

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #ChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals
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"White evangelical Protestants (67%) and Hispanic Protestants (54%)—two groups comprising the religious base of the Republican Party—are the only two major religious groups in which a majority qualify as Christian nationalism Adherents or Sympathizers."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #ChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians #WhiteEvangelicals
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"The PRRI study also finds that white Christians (46%) are more likely than Christians of color (39%), non-Christians (13%), and religiously unaffiliated Americans (10%) to qualify as Christian nationalism Adherents and Sympathizers."

#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristians #WhiteChristianNationalism

Feb 15

"It should be made clear, when any theology teaches that men are default authorities and women and children are subordinate, we should not be surprised when abuse is minimized and loyalty to male leadership eclipses justice. ...

If our Christianity causes us to protect the powerful and ignore the powerless, that’s when we know we are following someone other than Jesus."

~ Benjamin Cremer

https://benjamin-cremer.kit.com/posts/the-epstein-files-and-the-theology-of-excusing-kings

The Epstein files and The Theology of Excusing Kings.