"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

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https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-flips-with-christians-11741961

It's a war between a Christianity that roots itself in Jesus and the gospels, a Christianity shared by millions of Americans of various confessional backgrounds, and a Christianity that totally ignores who Jesus was and what he said, and that twists Jesus to justify violence and to place "us" on the holy side as we obliterate "them."

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #FranklinGraham #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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It's not coincidental, I think, that Franklin Graham, who is a kind of pope for white evangelicals, would write Trump at just this moment when Pope Leo points out — clearly and rightly — that one cannot invoke Jesus to justify war.

There's a war going on here, for sure. It's a war between competing versions of Christianity.

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #FranklinGraham #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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"Perhaps coincidentally, on Palm Sunday, Trump posted a letter on Truth Social from Franklin Graham, the son of the late legendary televangelist Billy Graham, which assured him that his 'soul is secure' and he is 'bound for heaven.'”

#PopeLeo #Trump #Hegseth #FranklinGraham #war #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals
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"Trump just posted [a day ago] a letter from Franklin Graham assuring him that says 'you commented to the media that you might not be heaven bound. Maybe you responded in jest, but it is an important issue to know for certain that your soul is secure and will spend eternity in the presence of God.'"

~ Aaron Rupar

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #WarCrimes #HolyWar #WhiteChristianNationalism #FranklinGraham #WhiteEvangelicals
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https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mi7brxde6c23

— and to face what the facts tell us about those who have most institutional and economic power in the Catholic church in the US and their role in bringing the nightmare of MAGA to us.

#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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White Catholics wield enormous disproportionate influence in the Trump regime and on the Supreme Court.

There are those who claim that adverting to these facts is racist.
It's precisely the opposite of racist to do so —

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White Catholics do not represent the entire US Catholic church by any means. Catholics of color do not dance to the white Catholic tune.

However: institutional and economic power in the US Catholic church is solidly in the hands of white Catholics. A majority of the US Catholic bishops are white Catholics.

#Trump #StephenMiller #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteCatholics #immigrants #cruelty #EthnicCleansing #WhiteChristianNationalism
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So why do some commentators (I'm included) focus on the fact that white Catholics have voted three times in a majority for Trump, and along with white evangelicals, are the only religious group continuing to support the cruelty of the ethnic cleansing agenda of the Trump regime?

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