"Increasingly erratic dictatorial behaviour, violent nihilism, exploitative religious hypocrisy and blatant corruption: this is the challenge facing the US and the world. Is Leo, speaking up for human dignity, decency and faith, the leader whose hour has come?"
~ Simon Tisdall
#Trump #PopeLeo #morality #HumanRights #immigrants #Catholic
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"The American pope could do what others manifestly cannot: shame and tame the monster. To do so, he needs what Trump’s nemesis, the late Pope Francis, prayed for: the support not only of Catholics, but of 'all men and women of good will'. That, and maybe a small miracle, too. After all, brave Saint George was martyred."
#Trump #PopeLeo #morality #HumanRights #immigrants #Catholic
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"Those of us – in older age cohorts a near majority – who were raised as mainline Protestant Christians ... have watched over the years as rightwing evangelical churches turned the Jesus we grew up with into exactly the opposite of who we understood him to be."
~ Bill McKibben
"At its most basic, they turned a figure of love into a figure of hate who blesses precisely the cruelties that he condemned in the Gospel; we went from 'the meek shall inherit the Earth' to 'the meek shall die of cholera.'”
"Jesus undid hierarchy, invited everyone to a shared table, and proclaimed liberation from debt and forgiveness from sins. The kingdom he envisioned was one of human solidarity, non-violence, and shared goods. As the oldest creed in Christianity most likely said, 'In Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ.'”
~ Diana Butler Bass
#Trump #MAGA #ChristianNationalism #evangelicals
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https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/christ-the-no-kings-sunday
"We should not be surprised that a U.S. government entity was attempting to make nooses and swastikas more acceptable. Each expression of racism has its own history in America, but in 2025 they come together to advance the goal of creating an American ethno-state supported by ideologies of White supremacy and Christian nationalism—"
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#ChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #racism #swastika #noose
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"a state in which racialized voter suppression, mass detention and deportation, and Fascist-style population engineering schemes reshape American governance and society."
#ChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #racism #swastika #noose
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William Lindsey 
