"The MAGA guy who killed four people and injured eight others in an attack on a LDS church in Michigan Sunday ranted to a political candidate just days before the attack that he considered Mormons 'the antichrist.'”

~ Marty Kelley

#ThomasSanford #MassShooting #Michigan #Mormon #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/maga-dude-who-shot-up-burned-michigan

"The fact that many Christian nationalists don’t accept Mormons as equally Christian may signal the dissolution of a political marriage of convenience, as John Stoehr argues at The Editorial Board. As long as the Religious Right was still on the outside, many evangelicals were willing to accept conservative Mormons as part of the culture-warring coalition that sought to ban abortion and roll back LGBTQ+ rights."

#ThomasSanford #Michigan #Mormon #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals
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"The MAGA guy who killed four people and injured eight others in an attack on a LDS church in Michigan Sunday ranted to a political candidate just days before the attack that he considered Mormons 'the antichrist.'”

~ Marty Kelley

#ThomasSanford #MassShooting #Michigan #Mormon #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/maga-dude-who-shot-up-burned-michigan

"The MAGA guy who killed four people and injured eight others in an attack on a LDS church in Michigan Sunday ranted to a political candidate just days before the attack that he considered Mormons 'the antichrist.'”

~ Marty Kelley

#ThomasSanford #MassShooting #Michigan #Mormon #WhiteChristianNationalism #evangelicals
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/maga-dude-who-shot-up-burned-michigan

"He’d seen cadets and families at the Cadet Chapel welcomed by 'a phalanx of enthusiastic pastors' and recruited to Monday night Bible studies taught by members of New Life Church and Focus on the Family staff bused in for that purpose. The academy, Antoon realized, had become 'a giant Trojan horse for evangelicals to get inside the military.'”

#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #WarriorEthos
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Commenting on the Trump-Hegseth performance yesterday, Kristin Du Mez points to a passage in her book Jesus and John Wayne in which she discussewd retired colonel David Antoon's commentary on the infusion of warrior rhetoric in the military in the 2000s.

She wrote,

"Antoon identified a source of this inflitration."

#Trump #Hegseth #military #fascism #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #WarriorEthos
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https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/catching-up

@DemocracyMattersALot #Mormons and '#Christian' Nationalists don't seem get along at all. As #America further tribalizes it seems likely that the Christian Nationalists and radicalized #Evangelicals will turn on the #Catholics.

@DemocracyMattersALot #Mormons and '#Christian' Nationalists don't seem get along at all. As #America further tribalizes it seems likely that the Christian Nationalists and radicalized #Evangelicals will turn on the #Catholics.

"The divine is always invoked to conquer, to exclude, to strip away the humanity of others. ...

This is America’s problem. We imagine fundamentalism as the product of religion alone, but in truth it is about power. It thrives in systems that punish dissent and demand obedience. It flourishes where inequality is already deep, where racism already wounds."

~ Lola Ibrahim

#Trump #MAGA #evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #Zionism
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https://www.alternet.org/religious-fundmentalism-us/

"The gun becomes holy; violence is celebrated as sacrament; scripture appears only to bless white entitlement and empire. And somehow, the divine is always invoked to conquer, to exclude, to strip away the humanity of others."

#Trump #MAGA #evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #Zionism #CharlieKirk #guns
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"Whether it calls itself Christian nationalism or Zionism, the fruit is the same: oppression disguised as divine order.

Christian nationalism, in particular, is theater. Fear of the stranger is the script. The Gospels are props—quoted when convenient, discarded when not."

#Trump #MAGA #evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #Zionism #CharlieKirk #guns
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"The divine is always invoked to conquer, to exclude, to strip away the humanity of others. ...

This is America’s problem. We imagine fundamentalism as the product of religion alone, but in truth it is about power. It thrives in systems that punish dissent and demand obedience. It flourishes where inequality is already deep, where racism already wounds."

~ Lola Ibrahim

#Trump #MAGA #evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #Zionism
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https://www.alternet.org/religious-fundmentalism-us/