"[Anthea Butler] lamented that as a result of the embrace of White Christian Nationalism, 'Christianity has destroyed democracy in America.'

'You need to understand that this brand of Christian Nationalism does not want a Christian world, nor does it want democracy. It wants power,' Butler added."

~ Brian Kaylor

#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/notre-dame-conference-addresses-pressing

"The question for Christians, especially white evangelicals, becomes: Why should anyone think you guys are on the level? I mean, just explain that to me. You preach one thing and practice another. That’s weakening Christianity and because Christianity is a load-bearing wall in our democracy, it’s creating a political crisis as well."

#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"You know that famous observation Trump made that his supporters are so loyal that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and they wouldn’t mind? That was at a speech in January of 2016 at Dordt College in Iowa, an evangelical school. He says that in the same speech where a few paragraphs earlier, he says, 'If you vote for me, you will have power.'"

~ Jonathan Rauch

#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-revival-of-true-christianity-would

"Rather than tell themselves a story in which Trump may be a sinner but his goals are those of Jesus, they’ll just alter their value system to align with his; forced to choose between Trump and their lord and savior, they choose Trump."

This is why some members of the Black church in the US say that much of white Christianity in the US is heretical.

It has departed fundamentally from Jesus and the gospels.

#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"Thanks to the political muscle of white Christian nationalist Evangelicals, and the financial backing of revanchist billionaires like the Kochs, the movement that started as the Tea Party and grew into MAGA became a ruthlessly successful RINO-hunting machine, executing a hostile takeover of both the Republican Party and state governments."

~ Michael Podhorzer

#ChristianNationalism #Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #EconomicElites #billionaires #racism
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https://www.weekendreading.net/p/americas-second-redemption

"The story the evangelical movement tells about itself is that it is a Bible-honoring rebuke to mainline churches that were absorbing progressive values and abandoning the historic tenets of the faith. In actuality, the evangelical movement became a vehicle driven by a culture war agenda that used its religion mostly to grant theological justification for its political ambitions."

~ Benny Belvedere

#ChristianNationalism #race #gender #Trump #evangelicals
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/we-need-to-restore-a-healthy-protestantismthe-us-into-a-recession-in-charts

"To maintain this charade, they have brandished the Bible like a cudgel, bludgeoning poor people, people of color, the Indigenous, women, LGBTQ+ people, and others with tales of their supposed sinfulness meant to distract, demean, divide, and dispossess."

#religion #politics #ChristianNationalism #race #gender #Trump #evangelicals #MaleEntitlement #heterosexism #WhiteSupremacy #LGBTQ #women
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"The Christian nationalism, exceptionalism, and white supremacy ascendant in Trump 2.0 has evolved from a long genealogy that has enabled an elite strata of mostly white Christian men to rule society and amass enormous wealth and power throughout American history.

Such Christians have always anointed themselves with the lie of divine righteousness, while insisting that they are God’s chosen representatives on Earth."

#ChristianNationalism #race #gender #Trump #evangelicals
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