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"[Elon Musk's statement that 'the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy'] echo[es] what is apparently a growing movement among evangelical Christians to explicitly reject empathy, because caring about the suffering of others might distract you from the more urgent task of accumulating power."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #Republicans #evangelicals #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/conservatives-declare-war-on-empathy
"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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@wdlindsy@toad.social"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
"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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"[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
As a New Jersey-raised Catholic of Italian descent, Greg Olear asks Leonard Leo, a New Jersey-raised Catholic of Italian descent with enormous political power through the Federalist society, if he's okay with what he and other right-wing Catholics have now set in motion:
"Although the legacy media is reluctant to say so, Musk has outed himself as a Nazi."
#Musk #Trump #Nazi #Catholics #LeonardLeo
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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/an-open-letter-to-leonard-leo-concerning
"I know you have some connection to VP Vance through the Catholic networks, but he is, and has long been, an open fascist. Trump, a yooge fan of Hitler, promised to be a dictator on Day One and is doing his level best to keep that promise.
All of these things are objectively true, and are really taking place."
"In fact, your old fellow-traveler Ed Whelan has been tweeting his displeasure about the goings-on, leading me to the uncomfortable realization that I sometimes agree with Ed Whelan. Strange bedfellows, indeed.
But I digress. I’m writing today to ask one simple question:
Are you okay with this?"
Throughout history, more devilry has been wrought in the name of religion than has likely been wrought by *any* other controversy (with the possible exception of simple land-grabbing (which has been attributed many times to "saving occupants" in name of religion))...
Not surprisingly, most of this "saving" is in the name of Christianity.
And they ask/demand me to join...??
Seriously??
Historically speaking, yes, Christians are okay with Nazis.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-german-churches-and-the-nazi-state
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchenkampf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_and_Nazi_Germany
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/protestant-churches-nazi-state
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zw6s7p3/revision/6
Vatican ratlines
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratlines_(World_War_II)
https://time.com/6270677/catholic-church-holocaust-documents/
The links I included demonstrate the fractured relations between religion & Nazis.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Jehovah's_Witnesses_in_Nazi_Germany
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith_in_Germany
Religious minorities were ruthlessly exterminated.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany
Catholic Slavs in Poland were mass murdered. 6 million
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_Poland
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_war_crimes_in_occupied_Poland_during_World_War_II
@wdlindsy Trump said he'd be a dictator on day one - and many thought he meant ONLY day one. But as we've "supposedly" learned, NO dictator EVER gives up power without being forced to.
@wdlindsy The Christians I know like this think religion & politics are the same thing.
It’s bizzarro.
I’m a Christian who hasn’t gone to service in 10 years.
I feel those dark souls around me when I’m trying to feed my spirit.
American laws are based on the UK's Common Law which was originally from Catholic jurisprudence & Imperial Roman law.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_law
When Christianity became the state religion of Imperial Rome in 380 AD, the law of both religion and despotism melded together.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_the_Great_and_Christianity
Evangelicals want the power of an imperial state religion.
