Writing as a self-declared "Jewish atheist," Paul Waldman says,
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@wdlindsy as an atheist I like this Pope, he says and does what Christians who follow that book should be doing. He does good Pope'ing
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"For half a century in American public life, a political force has attempted to use Christian faith and 'traditional values' to turn back the gains of the 20th century’s civil and human rights movements."
~ William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
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/13https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/theres-nothing-christian-about-christian
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The authors argue that for the past 50 years, a specific political movement has weaponized Christian faith and "traditional values" to reverse civil and human rights gains made in the 20th century. -
"This has become the foundational base of white Christianity, of white Christian nationalism, I should say, because white Christians are alone in the belief, what I just told you, that there should simply be fewer non-white people in America, that the non-white population must be reduced to as low as possible so that white Christians prevail."
~ Joy-Ann Reid
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/15https://www.joyannreid.com/p/countering-white-christian-nationalism
"This has become their theology and they're alone in that theology."
Robert P. Jones replies:
"It's really plain that what we're seeing today is a battle for the soul of white Christianity in this country. I can just not say it any plainer than that. It's not actually new, but it has come to a head under Trump. Trump has really brought it back to the fore."
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"This has become their theology and they're alone in that theology."
Robert P. Jones replies:
"It's really plain that what we're seeing today is a battle for the soul of white Christianity in this country. I can just not say it any plainer than that. It's not actually new, but it has come to a head under Trump. Trump has really brought it back to the fore."
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/16Joy-Ann Reid and Robert P. Jones discuss the contest in Texas between Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico, two self-professed Christians challenging white Christian nationalism, but with different emphases — Crockett more as the prophet and Talarico more as the priest.
#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #JamesTalarico #JasmineCrockett #Texas
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Joy-Ann Reid and Robert P. Jones discuss the contest in Texas between Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico, two self-professed Christians challenging white Christian nationalism, but with different emphases — Crockett more as the prophet and Talarico more as the priest.
#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #JamesTalarico #JasmineCrockett #Texas
/17"Today’s white Christian nationalists, who along with Trump scream about persecution, are part of a long tradition. ...
Those who study white evangelical Christian movements are not surprised by how disconnected their attitudes are from political reality and the policies currently on display."
~ Tom Schaller
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"Today’s white Christian nationalists, who along with Trump scream about persecution, are part of a long tradition. ...
Those who study white evangelical Christian movements are not surprised by how disconnected their attitudes are from political reality and the policies currently on display."
~ Tom Schaller
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/18"In fact, many conservative American Christians happily ignore entreaties from the Beatitudes to bless the neediest in favor of exacting punishment on them.
'What some on the hard right think is religion amounts, in many cases, to a punitive impulse: the desire to punish perceived evildoers and transgressors,'" (continued in /20)
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"In fact, many conservative American Christians happily ignore entreaties from the Beatitudes to bless the neediest in favor of exacting punishment on them.
'What some on the hard right think is religion amounts, in many cases, to a punitive impulse: the desire to punish perceived evildoers and transgressors,'" (continued in /20)
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"Katherine Stewart, an expert on white Christian nationalism and author of the 2025 New York Times bestseller, 'Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy,' wrote to me by email."
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Joy-Ann Reid and Robert P. Jones discuss the contest in Texas between Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico, two self-professed Christians challenging white Christian nationalism, but with different emphases — Crockett more as the prophet and Talarico more as the priest.
#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #JamesTalarico #JasmineCrockett #Texas
/17Democrats tend to go for the watered down candidate.
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"So even if you don’t share the faith of candidates like Beshear and Talarico, or their visible piety makes you a little uncomfortable, don’t forget that Christian nationalism is a growing threat, and fighting it is going to require the help of a lot of Christians."
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/2@wdlindsy "The only thing that can stop a bad man who believes in the flying spaghetti monster is a good man who believes in the flying spaghetti monster."
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"Katherine Stewart, an expert on white Christian nationalism and author of the 2025 New York Times bestseller, 'Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy,' wrote to me by email."
#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteSupremacy #racism
/20Noting that "the nearly half of Republicans who said the Epstein files mattered at least 'a little' to how they assess Trump’s presidency in July 2025 dropped to just 36 percent by November," Kalli Hollaway says,
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/22https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-maga-trump-morals/
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Noting that "the nearly half of Republicans who said the Epstein files mattered at least 'a little' to how they assess Trump’s presidency in July 2025 dropped to just 36 percent by November," Kalli Hollaway says,
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/22https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-maga-trump-morals/
"For the better part of a decade, conservatives lurched from one pedophile-focused moral panic to the next, proclaiming themselves the true saviors of children. They didn’t mean all children, of course; these are the same people who gifted a white woman with $750,000 just for calling a 5-year-old autistic Black boy the n-word."
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"For the better part of a decade, conservatives lurched from one pedophile-focused moral panic to the next, proclaiming themselves the true saviors of children. They didn’t mean all children, of course; these are the same people who gifted a white woman with $750,000 just for calling a 5-year-old autistic Black boy the n-word."
#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteSupremacy #racism #Epstein #pedophiles
/23"Their concern was always reserved for the white children they saw as fully human.
The moral charade was always going to be undone by the Trump of it all. His supporters are members of a reactionary movement almost singularly animated by racial grievance."
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"Their concern was always reserved for the white children they saw as fully human.
The moral charade was always going to be undone by the Trump of it all. His supporters are members of a reactionary movement almost singularly animated by racial grievance."
#Trump #Republicans #MAGA #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #WhiteSupremacy #racism #Epstein #pedophiles
/24"Trump supporters believed the racial contract — and above all, its guarantee that whiteness was the most immutable hurdle to the American presidency — had been broken. 'We haven’t felt like ourselves since Barack Obama,' Megyn Kelly said just this past September, a reminder of the imagined injury white racists sustained nearly two decades ago."
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