"Before Hegseth spoke, the National Prayer Breakfast this morning started by fêting two authoritarian leaders."
~ Brian Kaylor
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https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/at-national-prayer-breakfast-hegseth
"For American Christians not all-in on MAGA, yesterday’s National Prayer Breakfast was one long parade of bleakness and despair. There was the outrageous presence of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who cast his authoritarianism and barbarity as a God-blessed spiritual struggle against his country’s Satanist gangs."
~ Andrew Egger
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"There was the full-service tongue-bath for Donald Trump from speaker after speaker: Televangelist Trump ally Paula White called him 'the greatest champion of faith that we have ever had,' a man who has 'brought religion back to this nation and beyond.'”
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"And there was Trump’s own ordinary barrage of tasteless, cruel obscenity, including in his mockery of the very idea that Democrats would attend the event: 'I don’t know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat, I really don’t,' he said.
But the most interesting moment of the breakfast came when Trump turned briefly to another topic: the contemplation of his own soul."
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"Surrounded by spiritual leaders, political sycophants, and the spiritual leaders who are his biggest political sycophants, Trump offered the clearest formulation yet of his own bespoke soteriology. Don’t worry, he reassured the audience: He’d been mostly kidding when he said he wasn’t heaven-bound."
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“'I really think I probably should make it,' he said. 'I mean, I’m not a perfect candidate, but I did a hell of a lot of good for perfect people.' ...
It’d be hard to come up with a better formulation of Trump’s attitude toward American evangelicalism, its attitude toward him, and why their partnership has become so dangerous for the country."
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
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"Trump’s political project is seen by the MAGA faithful as utterly righteous, the work of God on earth against the forces of Satan. But he has broad license to transgress all moral boundaries as he does that work. When he does so, it doesn’t cause MAGA Christians to reevaluate whether he’s actually on the side of the angels."
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
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"Instead, it makes them perversely grateful that he’s doing it so their hands can be clean.
None of this, it should probably go without saying, is compatible in the slightest with the teachings of actual Christianity."
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"What made the spectacle so grotesque wasn’t just Trump’s usual carnival of exaggeration and cruelty dressed up in religious vocabulary; it was the room’s willingness to treat it as normal. To applaud and pray over him as if he were a misunderstood prophet rather than a man using Christianity as stage lighting for authoritarian politics."
~ Rev. Bryan Berghoef
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"Instead of a prayer breakfast, it was a political branding exercise with hymnals.
The question hanging over the waffles and amens is unavoidable: What does it say about American Christianity that so many of its leaders are willing to call this 'faith'?"
N.B. My sharing of excerpts published on any given platform does not represent endorsement of that platform.
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"White Christian nationalism ... is a mix, a blend of tech bro feudalism, techno feudalism, which is where these tech CEOs want to rule the country, and this theobro feudalism,feudalism, where these theobros want to have a white Christian nationalist country. ...
MAGA is a religion. It's not a political ideology. It's a religious ideology."
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
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https://www.joyannreid.com/p/minneapolis-and-the-great-replacement
A recording from The Joy Reid Show's live video
"Notice they always go to Christian and not Jesus. They're not believers in anything Jesus said. In fact, in many of their churches, you can't quote Jesus because he's too woke for them. But this sort of Christian nationalist, techno feudalist, small number of Uber CEO men that will run the country, it's a problem."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #techbros #theobros
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"That's the white Christian nationalist aspect of it. With the Technobros and Curtis Yarvin, they believe democracy is incompatible with capitalism. As such, you need a type of techno-feudal system, a techno-fascism, where the council of these brilliant white men will choose their puppet leader."
~ Wajahat Ali
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/epsteins-ideological-marriage-with
Jeffrey Epstein's island helped seed the racist, anti-democratic worldview of Silicon Valley billionaires who are attempting undo the post WW2 otder and usher in their techno-fascist utopia.
"And they will create these perfect cities in Greenland and other places, not making this up. And then, of course, what ties together other folks and ties together all these people is white supremacy. That's what ties together Russell Vought. That's what ties together Stephen Miller. That's what ties together Elon Musk. At the end of the day, power must be in the hands of the white man."
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"The sin and stain of racism within white Christian nationalism is but another piece of rotten fruit from a long-diseased tree. It is in this history that we see how white supremacy is—and always has been—intimately intertwined with idolizing power, fear, and violence in the calls to make the United States a Christian nation."
~ Andrew Whitehead
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https://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/racial-equality-in-a-christian-nation
"The people who are launching a campaign to overturn Obergefell because it harms the children ... suddenly they had nothing to say they had nothing to say about actual children being harmed by one of the world's most prolific um um uh you know. ...
A lot of people might be saying, I don't get it."
~ Tim Whitaker
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/maga-hypocrisy-outrage-over-bad-bunny
"At the end of the day, Trump at best knew about what was happening and did nothing"
"Like, how do these Christians who claim to worship Jesus and follow Jesus, how do they not see this and get outraged?
And one of the key things you have to realize to folks who did not grow up like how me and April grew up in the white evangelical world, very conservative, is that this is how the white evangelical world operates."
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
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"There is a trail of leaders who have credible allegations or convictions of SA-ing children or protecting men who do, and they're still hailed. as faithful gospel preachers. ...So the reason why so many of these people just don't give a crap about what's happening in the Epstein files" (continued in /19)
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(continued from /18)
"because they're already primed to see that when their leaders have scandal to touch not God's anointed, to believe in forgiveness, to not trust the media narrative, right? Don't trust the reporters. Trust what we're telling you from the stage."
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
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"Just last week, a coalition of 47 conservative anti-LGBTQ+ organizations banded together to launch the Greater Than Campaign. Its express goal is to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges."
~ Todd Beeton
#Trump #Epstein #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #SameSexMarriage #Obergefell
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https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/greater-than-obergefell-gay-marriage
"For those who will accuse me later of preaching a 'political' sermon, a 'partisan' sermon, this transcends politics. Our federal government, by sanctioning unwarranted lethal force, has made this a matter of faith, of basic morality and decency. This goes well beyond politics."
~ Michael Delk, St. Thomas à Becket Episcopal Church, Morgantown, West Virginia
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https://newrepublic.com/article/206180/west-virginia-sermon-christianity-immigration
"We worship Jesus Christ, an innocent man arrested, beaten, and then put to death by the Roman state on false charges just because it wanted to, because it could, because killing him was more convenient."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #ICE #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #immigrants
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"[Trump's] remarks [at the National Prayer Breakfast] were filled with lies about losing the 2020 election, cursing, threats to churches and nonprofits who disagreed with him, and the demonization of Democrats.
We’ve come a long, long way from the days when conservative Christians were proudly talking about themselves as values voters'—"
~ Robert P. Jones
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/23
https://convocation.substack.com/p/tculive-trumps-shameful-national
(continued from /23)
"to the point where few white evangelical Trump supporters are even attempting to explain away his markedly unChristian behavior and rhetoric."
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John Stoehr says that Trump
is trying to crush a religious uprising against him." But:
"You might not know that thanks to the media."
"Pastors, ministers, rabbis, imams – there is a huge multifaith resistance taking shape, especially against Trump’s immigrant purge.
And you probably never heard of it."
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https://www.editorialboard.com/donald-trump-is-trying-to-crush-a-religious-uprising-against-him/
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