"The rest of us, our rights, our lives, become collateral damage in this gruesome fantasy.

Christian nationalism and the Christian patriarchy that comes built in are direct threats to our basic freedoms: freedom of religion, freedom (for women) to vote, freedom for all of us to make basic choices about our own lives."

#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"The right to live that life freely and safely gets swallowed by the fundamentalist state religion and its function as an arbiter of the nation’s will to power."

#Trump #Hegseth #DouglasWilson #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #patriarchy #misogyny #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"Do Christian nations rain down death and destruction all day long? Which part of Jesus’ ministry signals this sort of behavior is in line with his goals for his followers?

Violence, and the glorification of it, is a central cultural element of the Christianity of Christian nationalism."

~ Andrew Whitehead

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #violence
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https://andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/would-jesus-condone-death-and-destruction

"In the context of the broader Christian tradition, however, other expressions of Christianity would consider it an idol. And an idol is whatever Christians place their hope and trust in rather than God."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #violence
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"It feels patently ridiculous, but we have, you know, white Christian nationalists running the Pentagon. … They clearly haven't read the Bible because in Revelation, the people who start the war are the bad guys in that book. So it really does make you think a little bit how deeply they've thought this through."

~ Sam Osterhout

#Trump #Hegseth #MikeHuckabee #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/a-war-to-spark-armageddon-its-the

Peter Wehner looks at Hegseth's "manosphere affect," "his delight in celebrating mercilessness, his talk of death and destruction raining down from the skies, his glee in 'punching them while they’re down, which is exactly how it should be.'"

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/03/pete-hegseth-briefings-iran/686260/?gift=_ZIU2b-u6NxEmt_0j2INZhTy61PDPqyziuCLgGDS-U4&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

For Hegseth, it's all about strutting and freeting his hour upon the stage, engaging in displays of belligerent performative masculinity designed to hide the smallness and emptiness of his core.

But:

"America’s 'secretary of war' doesn’t approach matters of war and peace, of life and death, with even the slightest bit of reverence or humility."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"All of his instincts are toward aggression; he appears to relish the destruction and death that he can now unleash.

We need people in government and in the military who can lead the nation to victory in times of war, but that is quite different than having people in leadership who indulge in bloodlust or who are wrestling with inner demons."

#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #armageddon #rapture #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Crisis is always the authoritarian's friend, whether it's a manufactured crisis, or an actual crisis that gets exploited. This is definitely a war of choice. It was not a war of necessity. So you ask why. And I think it's just part of the continued drum beat of crisis."

~ Robert P. Jones

#Trump #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #authoritarianism
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGY0GAGlhUE&t=1s

"Because when you have the drum beat of crisis, you can make all kinds of arguments about I need extraordinary power. I need extraordinary power, these are extraordinary times, so the normal rules don't apply. So all of that just kind of goes out the window. So I think that one thing we do know about authoritarians is that they are always trying to either generate, exploit, or continue this continual state of crisis."

#Trump #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #authoritarianism
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"That's really I think part of the game plan and if this comes up and comes down, you know there'll be another one because I think that is the playbook, to kind of keep the crisis going so everybody's kind of off offb alance and. And I will say this again — you all have heard me say, like I keep saying — we just need six righteous Republicans in Congress."

#Trump #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #Republicans
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"That's all we need um to stop most of this nonsense, most of this violence. We don't have them."

Note: I have lightly edited Jones' verbal statements for clarity and flow.

#Trump #Iran #war #ChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #Republicans
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"The politicized element of American evangelical splinter Protestantism has been delivering all manner of bovines all over social media because Talarico is engaging them on their own ground. For decades now, because of their organization, their money, and a compliant political media," (continued in /15)

~ Charles Pierce

#JamesTalarico #Republicans #WhiteEvangelicals #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #media
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70647443/trump-administration-sexual-assault/

(continued from /14)

"these people have managed to define their interpretation of Christianity in political contexts as all of Christianity itself from the stable in Bethlehem to the New Hampshire primary.

It has driven me crazy ever since I saw its beginnings at a thing called Washington For Jesus in 1980."

#JamesTalarico #Republicans #WhiteEvangelicals #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #media
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"There is no single 'Christian' position on, say, women’s rights because there is no single 'Christian' position on Jesus Christ. They are not used to having to defend their theology as theology in political campaigns."

#JamesTalarico #Republicans #WhiteEvangelicals #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #media
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