Mastodawn

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty #PopeLeo #Catholic
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"The growing response by Catholic leaders to the deliberate and persistent government cruelty imposed on the most vulnerable in our society represents a new moment for U.S. Catholics. It is a moment fraught with no small measure of risk."

https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/unique-political-moment-catholic-tradition-provides-prophetic-way-forward

Editorial: At unique political moment, Catholic tradition provides prophetic way forward

We should not be surprised if Catholics are asked to pay a price for what their leaders are compelled to do in service of the Gospel. Sometimes the Gospel requires that we bear a burden.

National Catholic Reporter

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty #PopeLeo #Catholic
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"It is a very different moment in U.S. Catholic experience when the cardinal archbishop of Chicago, Blase Cupich, celebrates an outdoor Ash Wednesday Mass attended by 3,000 people in solidarity with immigrants being detained, a direct condemnation of U.S. government policy."

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty #PopeLeo #Catholic
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"It is a different moment when Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, says it was a priority to celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass inside an immigrant detention center before the usual Mass of that day at the cathedral."

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty #PopeLeo #Catholic
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"The record is accumulating. Other bishops and priests, joined by hundreds of laity, march to detention centers and issue pastoral statements decrying the activity of a paramilitary force, masked and accountable to no one, that is terrorizing whole cities on orders from the highest levels of government."

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty #PopeLeo #Catholic
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"No script, no precedent, exists for what we are seeing. ... What we are seeing is a genuinely prophetic answer to a call from the heart of the Gospel."

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty
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It never was about abortion.

It wasn't about the "right to life." It wasn't about anything "pro-life," definitely not about a consistent ethic of life.

For many of us, this era has been eye-opening. It has taken the mask off the movement masquerading as the "moral" "majority."

And now pedophilia.

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty
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We're discovering that all the loud shouting about abuse of minors meant nothing at all to the same "moral" "majority," when push comes to shove.

When their idol is the one in the limelight as abuse of minors is discussed….

So what is it about, then?

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty
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What really energizes the white Christian majority that set all this into motion by voting for Trump three times?

It's about their "right" to harm vulnerable others. It's about their desire to swallow, spread, and act on hateful lies about fellow human beings who happen to be immigrants.

Or LGBTQ. Especially, today, trans.

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty
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It's about cruelty, hostility, plain meanness, wrapped up in bible verses.

It's about a rancid, twisted perversion of Christianity that has no gospel, no grace, and certainly no Jesus in it.

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty
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And the price of allowing that perversion of Christianity to prance proudly as it represents itself as "moral" and "religious" is proving to be very high for the whole world — and will get higher.

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #ProLife #ChristianNationalism #cruelty
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"These are modern concentration camps that I'm writing about. And there is a real heritage of this kind of detention that we have to nod to because concentration camps can't enter the world without some of that previous stuff."

~Andrea Pritzker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKdYHccdQdI

What’s the deal with Concentration Camps? w/ Andrea Pitzer

YouTube

"he most important parts of that history of locking up groups of civilians without any due process or trial we have to look at the Americas, Africa, Asia. It's a lot of colonial powers and imperialism doing kind of early versions of this particularly in the Americas under Spanish rule um and then under British and then later American rule with Native American genocide."

#Trump #StephenMiller #immigrants #EthnicCleansing #deportations #detention #warehouses #EthnicCleansing #cruelty
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Angela Scholder Mar 1

@wdlindsy Jesus his *fanclub" at it's finest. Well, actually they would find an even more cruel way to execute him if he would return. Especially as to their horror they would find out Jesus wasn't lilly white skinned.

Kevin Karhan

#CUFI #USpol #Evangelicals #Christofascism

@wdlindsy precisely!

These people want A jewish ethnostate because they want #Armagheddon to happen unsarcastically and they believe in that shit.

Like a #SuicideCult…

Why Evangelical Christians Love Israel | VICE on HBO

YouTube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_(609_BC)

Becca Feb 27

@kkarhan @wdlindsy theyre a little late to the party

Battle of Megiddo (609 BC) - Wikipedia

bouriquet Feb 27

@kkarhan And they probably don’t like or trust anyone else in that region who isn’t judeo-christian. That’s why the conservative Christian right in the US is trying to deport not only hispanics but also Muslims and keep them from entering the country.
This is a delicate topic but it points to the root of the issue

Kevin Karhan

@bouriquet even then they only see Jews as "useful idiots" to flex for their bigotry…

Óscar Morales Vivó Feb 27

@kkarhan @wdlindsy the logical thing to do for an apocalypse accelerationist is to get on team Antichrist hard 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kevin Karhan

@wdlindsy exactly!

#Chrostofascidts are insufferable egoistic assholes that don't want everyone to be happy, but OTHERS to SUFFER MORE than they do!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wilhoit_(composer)

mkb Feb 27

@wdlindsy It always comes back to Wilhoit’s law:

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

(Yes, that Wilhoit, strangely.)

Frank Wilhoit (composer) - Wikipedia

Phil Thane ✅Feb 27

@wdlindsy
"So what is it about, then? "

For the wealthy and powerful it's about remaining wealthy and powerful, and hopefully becoming even more so. For the rest, it's about religious fundamentalism, American exceptionalism, poor education (and disdain for those better educated). We have similar tendencies in the UK though so far they are less influential than in the US.

Tawtovo (ܬܘܬܒܐ)Feb 27

@wdlindsy
This is merely the wishful thinking of the tribally Catholic. Ministering to the oppressed without alleviating their oppression is not prophetic. Excommunicating ICE agents and calling for the abolition of ICE might be prophetic. Celebrating Mass outside a detention center, or inside one, is not prophetic.

@tawtovo I hear this pastoral call emanating from Pope Leo and bishops aligned with him as precisely the opposite of tribalism. It's a pastoral call directly challenging the tribalism of white US Catholics who buy Trump's anti-immigrant agenda and Christian nationalism.

Tawtovo (ܬܘܬܒܐ)Feb 27

@wdlindsy The pastoral call from Pope Leo is not tribalism, I agree. But only US Catholic tribal thinking could possibly mistake these tepid protests as a "prophetic voice," by ignoring the much stronger moral calls emanating from non-Christian origins. Calling such weak protests "prophetic" is a sign of just how cowed and coopted US Catholicism is.

Feb 28

@tawtovo I see this differently. Given the strength of the alliance between the US Catholic bishops and white evangelicals which has led to the Trump presidency, any cracks in that alliance, no matter how weak they may appear to us as outside observers, are very important. There's a reason Bannon and Epstein colluded to try to take Pope Francis down. Rich right-wing US Catholics have for years now tried to torpedo any mention of Catholic social teaching, precisely because it has prophetic power.

Tawtovo (ܬܘܬܒܐ)Feb 28

@wdlindsy
I welcome defectors.

Any cracks in the RC-evangelical alliance could become important, but they remain merely potential. The RC hierarchy isn't excommunicating autocrats. There's a reason we don't expect moral courage from popes or bishops; they are company men. Catholic support for Trump increases with frequency of church attendance! Some Black Protestant leaders have shown more moral courage than any RC leaders, but they get erased by white supremacist Catholic tribalism.

Tawtovo (ܬܘܬܒܐ)Feb 28

@wdlindsy
I will believe churches are good when they start doing real good, not just talking. That time is not yet for almost any American churches. In consequence, almost all American Christians have so distorted their moral sense as to champion the most timid expressions of discontent that agree with them, regardless of the powerlessness of any such expressions in the face of real evil. I long for American Christians to take a morally serious look in the mirror and see what they've become.

Feb 28

@tawtovo I see evidence of lots of good being done right now by religious communities (not solely churches and Christian ones) and by people who do not necessarily represent a religious institution but are moved by religious warrants.