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“’God is in control,’ some will say. ‘Be silent, be still, wait for the Lord.’ Sentences like these can excuse inaction, dress paralysis in pious garb, and frame cowardice as an act of faith."
“’Wait for God’ means to watch out for God's action in history and participate in it. Not inaction or surrender, but a renewed commitment.”
~ Ibid., p. 27
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #bible #religion #solidarity #resistance #antichrist
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“Believe the demons, too — they're often the earliest to recognize the Spirit of God. If they flinch and yell, trust that something real is happening. Their violent response is a sign of anxiety and despair, not of true power, but it points you the way. It reveals their weakness and allows you to leverage it.”
~ Ibid., p. 26
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #bible #religion #solidarity #resistance #antichrist
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“Seek the wisdom of those on the margins. To them the beast will show its true face first, and they have long had to live with far fewer illusions. To them the resurrected Christ will appear first, and they have long developed practices of resilience and discernment.”
~ Ibid., pp. 25-6
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #bible #religion #solidarity #resistance #antichrist
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What has to be asked is how US Catholics have gotten themselves to this place: Who have been their pastoral and moral leaders in recent decades?
If the answer is that they're the same set of bishops now telling Catholics to welcome immigrants and treat them humanely, then the bishops need to own their complicity in creating the conditions for more than half of white Catholics to vote for Trump three times.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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We’ll reiterate that point and then show that Catholic Christian nationalists are largely on the same page as other Christian nationalists when it comes to issues adjacent to the bishop’s statement."
Djupe and Walker find that a majority of US Catholics are fully on board with white Christian nationalism and with the Trump regime's attacks on immigrants.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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What has to be asked is how US Catholics have gotten themselves to this place: Who have been their pastoral and moral leaders in recent decades?
If the answer is that they're the same set of bishops now telling Catholics to welcome immigrants and treat them humanely, then the bishops need to own their complicity in creating the conditions for more than half of white Catholics to vote for Trump three times.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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That fact is a damning indictment of the (lack of) pastoral and moral leadership US Catholics have received from their bishops for several decades now.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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We’ll reiterate that point and then show that Catholic Christian nationalists are largely on the same page as other Christian nationalists when it comes to issues adjacent to the bishop’s statement."
Djupe and Walker find that a majority of US Catholics are fully on board with white Christian nationalism and with the Trump regime's attacks on immigrants.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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What has to be asked is how US Catholics have gotten themselves to this place: Who have been their pastoral and moral leaders in recent decades?
If the answer is that they're the same set of bishops now telling Catholics to welcome immigrants and treat them humanely, then the bishops need to own their complicity in creating the conditions for more than half of white Catholics to vote for Trump three times.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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We’ll reiterate that point and then show that Catholic Christian nationalists are largely on the same page as other Christian nationalists when it comes to issues adjacent to the bishop’s statement."
Djupe and Walker find that a majority of US Catholics are fully on board with white Christian nationalism and with the Trump regime's attacks on immigrants.
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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As political scientists Djupe and Walker have measured the attitudes of US Catholics towards immigrants and immigration. As they note,
"There has been very little attention paid to Catholic Christian nationalism (CN), which is primarily portrayed as a White evangelical worldview, despite the fact that multiple investigations have shown substantial CN among both lay and elite Catholics."
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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"Paul Djupe and Brooklyn Walker say that in stating clearly that one cannot claim to be a faithful follower of Jesus and also practice cruelty towards immigrants, the US Catholic bishops are not only addressing Trump and ICE. They are "also speaking to adherents of the Catholic Church who may not be on the same page as the Bishops and the Pope."
#Catholic #PopeLeo #Trump #ICE #immigrants #WhiteChristianNationalism
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Noting that she is not a Christian or a Christian thinker but an Americanist who specializes in American history, Heather Cox Richardson explains why she thinks it important to talk to someone like Diana Butler Bass, whose specialization is religious history: as Richardson says,
"Evangelical Christian nationalism ... is right now making a play to take over our entire country."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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Bass notes that what we're up against now in the US is "crusader Christianity." She points to Hegseth, who recites the Lord's Prayer on TikTok with pictures of bombers and people being killed by American soldiers:
"That is imperial Christianity run amuck. And it is horrible in terms of politics and foreign policy and every all those things."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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"For me, Trump’s toxic relationship with white American Christianity has ironically steeled my resolve to hang on to some version of my faith, for spite if nothing else. Like a small child who newly discovers the value of his toy when another kid takes it away, I refuse to share Jesus with a schoolyard bully."
~ Holly Berkley Fletcher
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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https://hollyberkleyfletcher.substack.com/p/crossing-the-football-field-part-f73
Rather than scorn or ridicule these believers who are trying to point to what's essential in their religious tradition as they use their tradition to push back against authoritarianism, it makes eminent political sense to form bonds of solidarity with these people of faith who share the goal of overcoming theocratic fascism and propping fascism up with cruelty.
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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Bass notes that what we're up against now in the US is "crusader Christianity." She points to Hegseth, who recites the Lord's Prayer on TikTok with pictures of bombers and people being killed by American soldiers:
"That is imperial Christianity run amuck. And it is horrible in terms of politics and foreign policy and every all those things."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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Because a certain kind of theocratic-authoritarian Christianity has overweening influence throughout the political sphere in the US, and even more so under MAGA and Trump, Richardson thinks it's essential for people pushing back against this authoritarianism to listen to and make solidarity with those "on the inside" of religious traditions who are critiquing the abuse of the symbols and beliefs of their religious traditions.
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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Rather than scorn or ridicule these believers who are trying to point to what's essential in their religious tradition as they use their tradition to push back against authoritarianism, it makes eminent political sense to form bonds of solidarity with these people of faith who share the goal of overcoming theocratic fascism and propping fascism up with cruelty.
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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Noting that she is not a Christian or a Christian thinker but an Americanist who specializes in American history, Heather Cox Richardson explains why she thinks it important to talk to someone like Diana Butler Bass, whose specialization is religious history: as Richardson says,
"Evangelical Christian nationalism ... is right now making a play to take over our entire country."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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Because a certain kind of theocratic-authoritarian Christianity has overweening influence throughout the political sphere in the US, and even more so under MAGA and Trump, Richardson thinks it's essential for people pushing back against this authoritarianism to listen to and make solidarity with those "on the inside" of religious traditions who are critiquing the abuse of the symbols and beliefs of their religious traditions.
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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Noting that she is not a Christian or a Christian thinker but an Americanist who specializes in American history, Heather Cox Richardson explains why she thinks it important to talk to someone like Diana Butler Bass, whose specialization is religious history: as Richardson says,
"Evangelical Christian nationalism ... is right now making a play to take over our entire country."
#WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #evangelicalism #theocracy
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"By actively choosing to starve or bankrupt Americans by refusing to extend healthcare subsidies and fully fund SNAP, thereby endangering human lives, Trump and his administration are doing the furthest thing from establishing a Christian nation."
~ Rayne
#Trump #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism #food #hunger #children #women #SNAP #healthcare
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https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/09/yet-more-of-a-lapsed-catholics-bible-study/
"By actively choosing to starve or bankrupt Americans by refusing to extend healthcare subsidies and fully fund SNAP, thereby endangering human lives, Trump and his administration are doing the furthest thing from establishing a Christian nation."
~ Rayne
#Trump #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism #food #hunger #children #women #SNAP #healthcare
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https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/09/yet-more-of-a-lapsed-catholics-bible-study/
"They are not acting with charity, and in this sense the demonstration of agape. They are treating persons who are marginalized by circumstances with more than disrespect but malignant disregard."
#Trump #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism #food #hunger #children #women #SNAP #healthcare
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"By actively choosing to starve or bankrupt Americans by refusing to extend healthcare subsidies and fully fund SNAP, thereby endangering human lives, Trump and his administration are doing the furthest thing from establishing a Christian nation."
~ Rayne
#Trump #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism #food #hunger #children #women #SNAP #healthcare
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https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/09/yet-more-of-a-lapsed-catholics-bible-study/
"When ordinary Christians find anti-muslim and anti-immigrant rhetoric acceptable, and when the state begins to use Christian imagery to recruit for agencies that enforce policies that have terrorized people, separated families, detained asylum seekers, and contributed to deaths in custody, it should set off alarm bells in every church.
This is not a minor matter of 'optics.' It is a theological and moral crisis."
#Trump #Republicans #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteChristians
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