William Lindsey 1d ago

"Hardline US evangelical nationalists are the modern equivalent of what a memorable 1964 book by Diana Dewar, an expert on children’s religious education, called 'backward Christian soldiers'. As ever, the religious right, like the right in general, is marching furiously in the wrong direction."

~ Simon Tisdall

#WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicalism #Trump #MAGA #morality
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/04/donald-trump-iran-war-evangelical-nationalists-moral-world-order-pete-hegseth

As Team Trump wage unceasing war on Iran, evangelical nationalists are destroying any moral world order we once had

The brutalisation of global norms by figures like Pete Hegseth has become a fight against chaos, and all major religions must play a role, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

The Guardian
Show threadWilliam Lindsey 1d ago

"The Department of Defense hosted a Protestant Good Friday service at the nation’s military headquarters and confirmed that Catholic worship was excluded entirely.

A Pentagon employee who has worked there since 1980 told Letters from Leo that this is the first time a Catholic Good Friday service hasn’t been offered in their time."

~ Christopher J. Hale

#Hegseth #Trump #Pentagon #WhiteChristianNationalism #Catholics
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https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/trump-vance-white-house-escalates

Trump-Vance White House Escalates Holy Week Assault Against Catholic Church

A judge forced ICE to open the doors. On Holy Thursday, four priests washed the feet of fourteen detained migrants. The next morning, the Pentagon excluded Catholics from Good Friday services.

Letters from Leo — the American Pope & US Politics
Show threadMichael Gemar1d ago

@wdlindsy Honestly I’d be delighted if far-right MAGA Catholics feel unwelcome by far-right MAGA evangelicals. Historically there has been deep enmity towards the Catholic Church by many fundamentalist sects — the current MAGA-associated truce is an anomaly. If MAGA lets its own internal prejudices tear it apart, I couldn’t be happier.

(There are six Supreme Court justices with Catholic backgrounds. I wonder how they feel about this administration’s anti-Catholic tendencies?)

Show threadDuchamp Pérez
@michaelgemar @wdlindsy I love it how they don't believe how they are not seen as equals. They think they are on the same team 😂
Apr 4 at 3:46pmWeb
Show threadMichael Gemar1d ago
@hugoestr @wdlindsy Arguably the supposed rapprochement was engineered over abortion by Falwell in the 1980s, a political expediency adopted because fundamentalists were no longer allowed to have segregated universities. Up to that time Protestants hadn’t viewed abortion as murder, and largely had hated the Catholics as idol-worshipping papists (if not The Whore of Babylon itself). It would be great to get back to that division.
Show threadDuchamp Pérez1d ago
@wdlindsy @michaelgemar Many still believe that. Like everything else, they are feeling more empowered to express it now