How the Christian right helped foment insurrection

[douglas9]

The Jan. 6 Save America March, where then-President Donald Trump incited a crowd to attack the U.S. Capitol, opened with a prayer. Trump’s longtime spiritual adviser and White House adviser, the Florida televangelist Paula White, called on God to “give us a holy boldness in this hour.” Standing at the same podium where, an hour later, Trump would exhort the crowd to “fight like hell,” White called the election results into question, asking God to let the people “have the assurance of a fair and a just election.” Flanked by a row of American flags, White implored God to “let every adversary against democracy, against freedom, against life, against liberty, against justice, against peace, against righteousness be overturned right now in the name of Jesus.”

Within hours, insurrectionists had surrounded the Capitol, beaten police, battered down barricades and doors, smashed windows and rampaged through the halls of the Capitol, breaching the Senate chamber. In video captured by The New Yorker, men ransacked the room, rifling through senators’ binders and papers, searching for evidence of what they claimed was treason. Then, standing on the rostrum where the president of the Senate presides, the group paused to pray “in Christ’s holy name.”

Men raised their arms in the air as millions of evangelical and charismatic parishioners do every Sunday and thanked God for allowing them “to send a message to all the tyrants, the communists and the globalists, that this is our nation, not theirs.” They thanked God “for allowing the United States of America to be reborn.”

White evangelicals have been Trump’s most dedicated, unwavering base, standing by him through the cavalcade of abuses, failures and scandals that engulfed his campaigns and his presidency – from the “Access Hollywood” tape to his first impeachment to his efforts to overturn the election and incite the Capitol insurrection. This fervent relationship, which has survived the events of Jan. 6, is based on far more than a transactional handshake over judicial appointments and a crackdown on abortion and LGBTQ rights. Trump’s White evangelical base has come to believe that God anointed him and that Trump’s placement of Christian-right ideologues in critical positions at federal agencies and in federal courts was the fulfillment of a long-sought goal of restoring the United States as a Christian nation. Throughout Trump’s presidency, his political appointees implemented policies that stripped away reproductive and LGBTQ rights and tore down the separation of church and state in the name of protecting unfettered religious freedom for conservative Christians. After Joe Biden won the presidency, Trump administration loyalists launched their own Christian organization to “stop the steal,” in the ultimate act of loyalty to their divine leader.


https://revealnews.org/article/how-the-christian-right-helped-foment-insurrection/

[atreides1]

2. Constantine Christians

Constantinian Christians reserve for themselves the right to participate in actions, some of which can be deemed immoral, because they claim moral superiority.

They are terrorists. They cannot be reasoned with. They are inhuman in their actions.

In order to preserve The Good, as defined by Constantine Christians, unjust acts may need to be imposed. Sadly, the people more likely to engage in acts against humanity are those who demonize their opponents so as to justify actions as necessary evils required to protect The Good.

Ironically, it is in the defense of this type of Good that Constantinian Christianity ceases to be Christian.

[niyad]

3. To a degree, that Florida sun-baked charlatan's prayer was answered. Just not the way she

wanted.

[kas125]

4. So, according to this article, Michelle Bachmann was part of it. She was in the

Capitol on the 6th. So, she should be getting arrested any time now, right?

[Karadeniz]

5. Restoring the US as a Christian nation? I may have said this before. At the constitutional

Convention, one Luther Martin asked if they shouldn't put God in it somewhere. They voted. God lost. George Washington wrote (? He may have been there in person) to a Jewish synagogue that they were free to worship, it was their right and not a case of a superior class bestowing a favor to them. Jefferson signed the first treaty with a foreign govt, a Muslim one. I think he included the wish that Muslims might one day partake of the religious freedom we have. I wish I could remember which founding father wrote to Jefferson when he was putting U. VA. together, (paraphrase) For God's sake, don't hire those Christian academics in Europe... All they do is create dissention. And, Washington may have felt a spousal obligation to accompany Martha to church, but he never took communion...I think he actually left at that point.

If anyone wants to post the letter to the synagogue and Jefferson's treaty, our group might like to see them. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do technical stuff. All I can do is tap Reply. Sorry...I've tried!