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In Pasco, Washington, the leader of a Christian church has been charged with engaging in a massive cryptocurrency fraud that targeted the members of his church. Francier Obando Pinillo, the pastor of the Pasco Spanish Adventist Church, tricked 1,515 people, most of them members of his church, out of $5.9 million by telling them he had a special cryptocurrency scheme that could deliver them a 34.9% return on their investments every month.
It was all a fraud, as cryptocurrency schemes are, but it was enabled by the religious faith that members of Pinilloâs church placed in their pastor. They had to have faith, they were told, or they wouldnât go to Heaven when they died.
The Commodities Futures Trading Commission declared, âPinillo provided customers with access to an online dashboard with account statements showing their purported account balances and profits. He encouraged customers to involve friends and family in his fraudulent scheme by offering to pay a 15% referral fee to them for referring additional customers. These representations and account statements were false. During the relevant period, there was no trading platform, no trading took place, no profits were generated, and Pinillo misappropriated all assets that customers transferred to him.ââ
In Donald Trumpâs Christian Nationalist political movement, religious faith and financial fraud go hand in hand, just as they did under the criminal Pastor Pinillo. Thatâs why Donald Trump is appointing Paul Atkins to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC is the organization that is supposed to protect Americans from financial fraud, but Paul Atkins is an advocate of fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes. Cryptocurrency is nothing more than a financial faith, with no physical assets to back up its extravagant spiritual promises of wealth and liberation. Donald Trump is putting Paul Atkins in the SEC to make sure that the Securities and Exchange Commission looks the other way while cryptocurrency scammers like Sam Bankman Fried rip Americans off.
In the same way, Donald Trumpâs Christian Nationalist Cabinet appointees will be looking the other way while Christian leaders rip off their congregants. Pastor Pinillo and Paul Atkins are ultimately leading the same scam.
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Pete Hegseth says that his lord and savior Jesus Christ has made him a changed man from what he was a few years ago, so that all the awful things he ever did donât count against him any more. He gets a Christian Nationalist hall pass from Jesus, he says.
The truth is that Pete Hegseth was raised as a right wing Christian extremist. He has been a Christian Nationalist extremist his whole life. Pete Hegseth has been following the religion of Jesus Christ into violence, drunkenness, and a brutal vision of holy war the whole time.
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Iâm hearing a lot of people in the media, in the podcasts, on the TV, on the pages of the few newspapers that our country has left, say that we must not use the label of âfascismâ to describe what is happening, and must not call the people who are doing it fascists. They say that we should stop talking about democracy, and freedom, because these are abstractions that donât really matter to people.
They say that we should stop talking about fascism, because we tried that during the election, and it didnât WORK.
Robert Reich says that we shouldnât get bogged down in paying attention to âculture warâ issues like the right to marry the person you love, and the right to define your own identity, and the right to make your own choice about whether to teach your own children to follow a religion. He says that these issues are just a âdistractionâ from what this is all REALLY ABOUT, which is the economy, and the effort by financial elites like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg to use the power of Donald Trumpâs government to grab even more money for themselves.
I like Robert Reich. Robert Reich is not wrong that Donald Trumpâs Silicon Valley benefactors are using Trump as a means to consolidate wealth and power for themselves.
However, Robert Reich is dead wrong to characterize issues of freedom and democracy as nothing more than a distraction. He is wrong that economic inequality is the only real story, the only valid thing thatâs going on.
The movement behind Donald Trump is complex and multidimensional, as fascist movements always have been. It includes economic opportunists, Christian Nationalists, and a huge number of gullible, ignorant suckers who are proud to have avoided an adequate education.
The leadership of the Democratic Party doesnât want Americans talking about this, because as a political strategy, they think that it doesnât WORK. They want to keep pretending that the Americans who voted for Donald Trump are good, intelligent people who just somehow mysteriously happened to vote for a politician who promised to terminate the Constitution, become a dictator, and exterminate tens of millions of Americans like vermin.
The truth is that good, intelligent people donât support a candidate like that. The truth is that there are two reasons for an American to have voted for Donald Trump. If you voted for Donald Trump, youâre either a cruel person who doesnât care about other people or youâre an idiot.
The Democratic Party leadership wants to convince us otherwise. They want to argue that, somehow, the Americans who voted for Donald Trump simply held their noses and voted for a narcissistic aspiring dictator because the price of eggs is too high.
Sure, the price of eggs is too high. But is it really that high? Is it so high that you would choose to live under the dictatorship of a madman?
The price of eggs matters, but if we talk about the price of eggs INSTEAD of talking about the attacks against the essential liberties defined in the Bill of Rights, we will cheapen ourselves along with our eggs.
Are we willing to sell away our freedoms for the low low price of a dollar for a carton of a dozen eggs? Is that the price of our liberty?
If we stop talking about the values of democracy because itâs not popular to do so, because democracy does not feel like a winning strategy, that is not a way to win against the fascists. It is a way to help the fascists win.
The fascists want us to agree that the only thing that the government of the United States of America really stands for is the price of eggs. If we agree to those terms, the fascists will always win the argument, because the fascists will always find someone else to blame when the price of eggs is high. They will find someone else to blame, and they will send those people into the concentration camps.
The minute that we agree that the price of eggs is more important than freedom, we have lost.
Letâs get practical about this. Letâs talk about kitchen table politics.
When Donald Trump and his fascists are done, who will be left to sit at your kitchen table?
Democracy is not an abstraction. Freedom is not an abstraction. They are matters of life and death.
This is no longer about how to win an election. The election is over.
This is about whose family gets rounded up in the middle of the night and separated from each other.
This is about who gets sent to the concentration camps.
This is about who survives.
Donât tell me that democracy doesnât matter. Donât tell me that the cost of eggs is more important.
When youâre in a prison camp, when youâre dead, it wonât matter what the price of eggs is.
For now, we still have the right to speak freely. While we have that freedom, we should use it to speak honestly.
I donât oppose the fascism of Donald Trump because itâs a strategy that works.
I speak out against the fascists because itâs the right thing to do.
I call them fascists because thatâs what they are.
Speak honestly, while you still have the freedom to speak.
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The Texas Tribune reports that Texas General Land Office is offering President-elect Donald Trump a 1,400-acre ranch in Starr County, near the border with Mexico, as a site to build concentration camps for his promised mass deportations of residents of the USA. The concentration camps will imprison many undocumented immigrants, but will also contain documented immigrants working under legal arrangements that have been canceled by the Trump Administration, as well as American citizens who are the children of immigrants.
Donald Trump has confirmed that he will use the US military to round up massive numbers of people living in the United States and take them to concentration camps.
Imagine a concentration camp 1,400 acres in size. Imagine the number of people such a concentration camp could hold. Imagine the kind of things that could happen in such a place.
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said in a letter to Donald Trump that Texas is "fully prepared" to "allow a facility to be built for the processing, detention, and coordination" to imprison millions of people currently living in the United States.
In February of this year, the Arizona Republic reported that Stephen Miller, who Donald Trump has now selected to become the White House Deputy Chief of Policy, announced a plan to use National Guard troops from states controlled by Republican governors to invade states controlled by Democratic governors in order to seize millions of residents and take them to concentration camps.
There are signs that groups are organizing in Democrat-majority states to assist in the execution of Donald Trump's plans to place massive numbers of US residents into concentration camps. In some cases, these signs are literally signs.
In the week before Election Day, for example, signs appeared across New York State, a Democratic Party stronghold. The signs carried a message reading: "No legal rights for illegal immigrants" and a small notification declaring that the signs had been produced by the New York Republican State Committee.
In the United States of America, all people have legal rights. American citizens have legal rights, but so do noncitizens. All people within the borders of the USA are protected by the Constitution, whether they have been accused of criminal activity or not.
What the New York Republican State Committee announced with its signs is that the Republicans in New York State seek to overturn the Constitution of the United States in order to create new classes of people who have no legal rights at all. What this suggests is that Donald Trump and the Republican Party intend to imprison large numbers of people in concentration camps like the one proposed by the state of Texas General Land Office, and keep people there without recognizing their habeas corpus rights, their right to due process of law, the right to protection from cruel and unusual punishment, the right to a fair trial, and their rights under current US immigration law and international treaties.
In order to create concentration camps in the United States, Republicans following Donald Trump are planning to end the rule of law. These lawless concentration camps are just one example of what we mean when we use the word "fascist" to describe the government now being prepared by Donald Trump and his followers. The fascists are developing specific plans to execute on these threats.
Let's also use the term "Christian Nationalist" to describe these plans. Christian Nationalism is the ideological foundation being used to justify the destruction of the Constitution and the rule of law in the United States. Donald Trump and his followers claim that their loyalty to the Christian god and the rules described in the Christian Bible can be used to overrule any law in the United States.
Christianity does not forbid concentration camps. The Christian Bible does not provide for habeas corpus rights, or protection from punishment without due process of law.
Christian Nationalists like to say that Christianity is the basis of law in the United States, but until now, that hasn't been true. The Constitution of the United States of America, not Christianity, established the right to a fair trial, protections from cruel and unusual punishments, and a legislative and judicial system designed to protect the rights of all people, whether they are citizens or not.
Christianity allows for authoritarianism. The Constitution does not.
That's why Donald Trump has promised to terminate the Constitution, and give power to Christian leaders instead. Donald Trump knows that he can use Christian Nationalism as an excuse to impose totalitarian fascism in the USA.
Already, Republicans are taking concrete action to prepare Christian Nationalist concentration camps. We don't have long to prepare.
In less than two months, Donald Trump will have the power he needs to build a 1,400 acre concentration camp in Starr County, Texas and begin to imprison massive numbers of people there.
I know you may feel exhausted with politics, but this isn't about politics. This is about the basic survival of the rule of law in the United States of America. This is about the creation of massive concentration camps that exist outside the law, right here in our own country. This is about fascism.
What are you going to do about it?
Now is the time for you to decide whether you're going to be one of the people who stand up to fascism, or if instead you will be one of the people who did nothing, who pretended not to know what was going on.
This is the time for you to choose whether youâre going to take action to resist fascism, or whether youâre going to turn away, and engage in self-care.
This is not a drill.
It is time get organized.
If you can find even just one other person who doesn't agree with the new fascist regime, you can begin to get ready. As a next step, you can find other people who are willing to take a stand.
Now is the time to decide: Which side are you on?
Are you with the fascists, or are you against them?
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Donald Trump got less than 50 percent of the vote in 2024. The current vote count shows Trump getting just 1.64% more of the vote than Kamala Harris, who earned the support of 48.24% of American voters!
Donald Trump has no mandate to impose his extremist Project 2025 agenda, or his clown car of nominees for the White House Cabinet either. Donald Trump barely won a very close election. Trump should be reaching out to Democrats, not trying to steamroll them.
No one who looks at the facts can seriously claim that Donald Trump has a mandate. Of course, Donald Trump doesnât like to bother himself with facts, and neither do his Christian Nationalist supporters. Trump and his Christian Nationalist followers prefer to operate on blind faith, and their faith claims that Donald Trump has a mandate from God himself.
Of course, if thatâs true, itâs a problem for the America First agenda, because God is not an American. God doesnât speak English. God has never registered to vote and doesnât pay taxes. Jesus has never been to the United States of America.
Yet, Christian Nationalists want you to believe that this non-American magical being should have the right to fly across US borders and come interfere in our presidential elections, and then grab control of our government.
That doesnât sound like a genuine America First agenda to me.
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Any justifications RFK Jr. may have had about using his power within the Trump Administration to fight processed food were destroyed yesterday, with the release of a photograph from the Trump Transition publicity team. The photograph showed RFK Jr. sitting down on a private jet with Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr., eating a meal of processed food from McDonaldâs, consisting of a large order of French fries, a Big Mac, a 10 piece box of Chicken McNuggets, and a bottle of Coca Cola. Behind RFK Jr. was Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who was on the same flight but apparently wasnât allowed to sit at the table to have his own feast of McDonaldâs processed food.
The photograph was a dominance display, a demonstration by Donald Trump that he will not allow anyone to ally themselves with him without a complete and degrading surrender. Itâs not just on the matter of processed food that Robert F. Kennedy was humiliating himself for the pleasure of Donald Trump, either.
RFK Jr. used to be known as an environmentalist activist. In this photograph, however, he was shown riding with Donald Trump on a private jet that flies that around the world burning fossil fuels.
A recent study by Professor Stefan Gossling of Linnaeus University in Sweden found that there has been a 46% increase in emissions by private jets over the last 5 years. A typical private jet flight, Professor Gossling found, âemits in one hour as much as an average human being emits in a year.â
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01775-z
Not only has RFK Jr. abandoned his public health principles in a display of obedience to Donald Trump, but he has ritually destroyed his environmentalism as well.
The message from this ritual humiliation is clear. There are only two paths forward under the second presidency of Donald Trump: Either you give Donald Trump total obedience, doing anything he says, or you are an enemy of Trump. No in-between position will be recognized.
In this Christian Nationalist model of leadership, there can be only one leader, to whom everyone else offers complete blind obedience.
There are no democratic elections in the Christian Bible. There are no senators or representatives in Christian texts. There are only kings and lords, and over them all, one leader who rules them all, with complete power, listening to no one, one leader who knows everything, and can do anything he wants.
What will Donald Trump tell you to do?
Will you obey the commands of this absolute leader?
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The Washington Post has submitted to Donald Trump under pressure from its owner, Jeff Bezos, and is replacing reporting with artificial intelligence slop.
The New York Times, meanwhile, has declared in an editorial by Bret Stephens that Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election because they are âprigsâ who care too much about the truth, and are too preachy about fascism. The New York Times apparently no longer cares about speaking truth to power.
In the face of the surrender of big journalism, can community grassroots media make up the difference, before itâs too late?
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Itâs Christian Visibility Day.
Thatâs what the America First Policy Institute declared Election Day would be. They said that on November 5, Christian Visibility Day, the world would see what American Christians really stand for.
Today, we can see what American Christians stand for. They stand for Donald Trump.
According to exit polls conducted by NBC News, 62 percent of Protestant Christian voters supported Donald Trump, and 56 percent of Catholic Christian voters supported Donald Trump.
By comparison, only 26 percent of non-religious Americans voted for Trump. Only 19 percent of religious Jewish Americans voted for Trump. A minority of Americans of other non-Christian religions supported Trump.
Donald Trump won because the majority of American Christians voted for him.
So, for the next four years, every day will be Christian Visibility Day.
Every day, as we watch what Donald Trump does as President-elect and then President of the United States, we will know that his actions embody what American Christianity is all about.
No one can pretend that American Christianity is somehow something set apart from Donald Trumpâs fascist ideology. We have clear data showing that a strong majority of American Christians support what Trump is doing.
Donald Trump said he would put tens of millions of people into concentration camps, and then the majority of American Christians voted for him.
Donald Trump said that he would use the military against Americans to crush political dissent, and then the majority of American Christians voted for him.
Donald Trump said that he would persecute his political opponents like vermin, and then the majority of American Christians voted for him.
Donald Trump said that he would use his power to ban books across America, and then the majority of American Christians voted for him.
Donald Trump said that he would use the power of the presidency to promote cryptocurrency scams, and then the majority of American Christians voted for him.
Donald Trump said that he would become a dictator and terminate the Constitution of the United States of America, and then the majority of American Christians voted for him.
Christian Nationalist activists in organizations like the Heritage Foundation and the America First Policy Institute wanted the world to see what Christian values are all about.
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A man knocks on your door.
His speech is rambling and difficult to follow, but you hear him say that he has been robbed.
He says some strange things about your neighbors eating dogs and cats, and about there being an invasion of the country. He talks about Hannibal Lecter. He talks about sharks. He says that he has been chosen by God. He says that he is the only one who can put things straight.
"I need a gun," he says, "so I can fix things. I'm going to punish the people who robbed me. There are enemies within this town. They're vermin, and I'm going to get rid of them. I am your retribution!"
Then, he laughs, and says he was just kidding. It was just a joke, he says.
Then, he asks you again to give him a gun.
Would you give this man a gun?
Donald Trump has said all these things, and more. He has promised to persecute anyone who stands in his way. He has threatened to turn the US military into a weapon against the American people in order to punish his political enemies. He has pledged to put tens of millions of people in concentration camps. He has said that he will terminate the Constitution and its freedoms. He has said that he will be a dictator, and that he will send police out on a rampage of bloody violence so that no one ever defies him again.
Donald Trump's supporters say that he doesn't really mean it. They say he's only joking.
The American Presidency is a deadly weapon. It has entire armies at its command. It wields attack drones running on artificial intelligence to fire explosive missiles at its targets from a distance. The American President controls an arsenal of nuclear weapons.
If Donald Trump came to your door, ranting and raving about being persecuted, telling you about his plans to take revenge on his enemies, would you put a gun in his hand?
Today is Election Day.
You know the right thing to do.
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Some people say that the Fascism of Donald Trump and the America First Policy Institute that is planning his presidential transition are less important to Americans than practical policy decisions. The truth is that Trumpâs Fascists have plenty of policies that will have a practical impact on Americansâ daily lives. Among these are the Christian Nationalist family policies in the America First Agenda, approved of by Donald Trump. The America First Policy Institute declares that Americansâ families only exist in order to conform to the demands of Godâs purpose, and the mission of Christian churches. They say that your body does not belong to you, but is the property of the Christian religion. The practical implications of these extremist fascist policies will be devastating to American families, because there is nothing more personal, and more important, than the freedom to choose when to make a family, how to make a family, and who to form a family with. The Christian Nationalist America First Agenda want to take that freedom away from you.
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This first in the Stop Christian Nationalism series on the America First Policy Institute looks at the distortions by Institute Board member and Christian Nationalist Paula White Cain, who says that the American people cannot be trusted to govern themselves. What is the relationship between the Nazi America First Agenda and Christian Nationalism?
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JD Vance is part of a network of Opus Dei activists, an international cult of Christian Nationalist power that maintains its fascist ideology and hatred of secular democracy.
Why is JD Vance spending so much time with Opus Dei acolytes Leonard Leo and Kevin Roberts of Project 2025?
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Donald Trumpâs former generals are warning us that Trump is âfascist to the coreâ, and that Trump believes Adolf Hitler did a lot of good things. Donald Trump is threatening to send the US military after Americans who refuse to obey him.
Itâs high time that people start taking the threat of the Christian Nationalist fascism of Donald Trump seriously. Itâs no joke.
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As members of Donald Trump's Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, Mark DeFord, Udit Singh, Ajai Prakash and Maureen Prakash say that marriage must only be between one man and one woman. They say that marriage has to be that way because the Bible says so.
Actually, the Bible has lots of examples of marriages that don't fit the one man one woman model. Take the prophet Abraham, for example. This is the guy who is supposed to have founded the nation of Israel. You don't get more biblical authority than that.
Yet, Abraham was polyamorous. Abraham told his wife that they should go to Egypt, knowing that other men would want to marry her there. Abraham became friends with the Pharaoh and took the Pharaoh's gifts while the Pharaoh married Abraham's wife. Then, Abraham did it again, cucking his wife Sarah off to marry another king. Then, Sarah told Abraham to get a second wife so he could get her pregnant.
In the Book of Genesis, marriage is sometimes not one man and one woman. Sometimes, biblical marriage is three men and two women.
When Christian Nationalists tell us that Christianity can only accept marriage of one man and one women, it makes me wonder: Do Christian Nationalists actually read the Bible?
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Republican Christian Nationalist Prophet Joseph Z says that the AntiChrist has personally chosen Tim Walz to be the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 2024 because Walz is under the control of goblin puppet masters and Lizard Mafia Overlords.
Cosplay is okay. The problem is that Christian Nationalists take this stuff seriously, and they want to force it on everybody else.
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Charlie Kirk wants to remind you that you have to obey an Asian sky god because he delivered you out of Egypt... but wait a minute. You were never in Egypt, were you? When Charlie Kirk says that environmentalism is just nothing more than a god that you worship, it's only because he has become such an obsessed fanboy of ancient Middle Eastern mythology that he has become incapable of paying attention to anything else.
No, TikTok is not a god. Environmentalism is not a false idol. Atheism is not a psyop from Satan.
Christian Nationalism is lost in a bizarre fantasyland. We need more serious political leadership from people who are willing to pay attention to the reality we're actually living in.
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Why does JD Vance get weird over the idea that women might live happily with a cat instead of pumping out babies in a marriage? Why do Christian Nationalists get so obsessed with other people's sex lives? It's all about control.
When churches are able to control people's access to sex and affection, they can control every other part of people's lives too. That's why Christian Nationalism supports totalitarianism. The Christian Nationalist hunger for control cannot be satisfied until its control over society is complete.
In defiance of Christian Nationalist schemes for control, cats, and the single women and men of America, will not be leashed.
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Donald Trump recently promised Christian Nationalists that if they elect him, they will never need to vote again, because heâs going to make sure the government is âfixedâ in their favor. What many people didnât note was the way that Trump then praised the Puritan pilgrims that settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He said they came to America for freedom, when in fact they came to America to establish a hellish torture-filled authoritarian city on a hill.
The city on a hill of Puritan times wasnât a utopia. It was a place of misery that people were desperate to escape. Puritan leaders themselves made it plain that they were opposed to democracy. They wanted Christian theocracy instead. Puritan leader John Winthrop wrote:
âIf we should change from a mixed aristocratic to mere democracy, first we should have no warrant in scripture for it: for there was no such government in Israel. We should hereby voluntarily abase ourselves and deprive ourselves of that dignity, which the providence of God has put upon us, which is a manifest breach of the Fifth Commandment, for a democracy is, amongst civil nations, accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.â
Donald Trumpâs Christian Nationalism movement is seeking to return the United States to the bad old days of Puritan extremism. Ben Zeisloft, a prominent Trump Supporter online advocate for Christian Nationalism, declared this a few days ago:
âWe need to restore true blasphemy laws. For centuries the entire Western world had statutes that prohibited the brazen public blaspheming of the Triune God. Now most of the Western world has the same types of laws, except to protect sodomy and other forms of perversion. We need the former and not the latter.â
Then Zeisloft cited a specific law from colonial times he wants to be re-enacted: The Act against Atheism and Blasphemy from the Massachusetts Bay Colony of 1697. This law provided for the public torture and execution of atheists and blasphemers.
âBe it declared and enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Representatives, convened in General Court of Assembly, and it is enacted by the Authority of the same, that if any person shall presume willfully to blaspheme the holy Name of God; Father, Son, or Holy Ghost; either by denying, cursing or reproaching the true God; his Creation or Government of the World: or by denying, cursing, or reproaching the holy Word of God; that is, the canonical Scriptures contained in the Books of the Old and New Testament; namely Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Samuel, Samuel, Kings, Kings, Chronicles, Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, The Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkak, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, Corinthians, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, Peter, Peter, John, John, John, Jude, Revelation: Every one so offending shall be punished by imprisonment, not exceeding six months, and until they find sureties for the good behavior; by fitting in the pillory; by whipping; boring through the tongue, with a red hot iron; or setting upon the gallows with a rope about their neck; at the discretion of the Court.â
Brad Sherman, an Iowa State legislator and member of Donald Trumpâs Iowa Faith Leader Coalition, supports an extremist restoration of the cruel and violent Christian Nationalism of ages past. Sherman perceives the purpose of Christianity as to conquer and dominate everyone in the United States and around the world. He writes:
âWe are called to be soldiers in God's army - and we are supposed to win. Jesus has given us the authority and commissioned us to â...make disciples of all the nationsâ⊠We are called to boldly proclaim Christian values, not only in our churches, but also in the public square and make disciples of all the nations. We are called to prepare the way for the King and His appearing, at which time every knee will bow and the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord.â
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At the end of last week, Donald Trump told a crowd at the Christian Nationalist Turning Point Action Believers Summit:
"Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore for more years. You know what? It'll be fixed. It'll be fine. You won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you. Get out. You've got to get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not going to have to vote."
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is depicting voting as a terrible burden, as something that people don't want to do and that they shouldn't have to do. If the government is run right, and he's promising that he's gonna run the government in such a way that Americans will not want to vote again, and they will not vote in another election because things are going to be fixed.
When we were young, we were taught that voting was a civic duty, that voting a way for us to be empowered. It was a chance for us to be heard. It's not a burden. It's not a terrible thing. It's not a pain in the neck to have a voice in our own government. It's a privilege. It's something we should be proud of. But Donald Trump doesn't see it that way. He sees voting and having a country in which Americans turn out to vote as a burden, as an obstacle, as something that we would all be better off if it was just done away.
Donald Trump wants to fix it so that Christians never have to have another vote, never have to turn out on Election Day ever again, because their way of doing things, the Christian nationalist way of doing things, is going to become permanent. And that's another indication in this speech that Donald Trump intends to effectively end democracy in the United States.
Donald Trump and his supporters at organizations like Turning Point Action's Believers Summit believe in Christian Nationalism. Christian Nationalism is their core moral and political ethical foundation. They don't believe in the values of the Constitution of the United States of America. They don't believe in the worth of democracy.
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New Apostolic Reformation leader Lance Wallnau claims that Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is possessed by a demon. On Fox News, Megyn Kelly claims the Christian god planned the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Instead of addressing the real challenges Americans face today, Christian Nationalists are trying to make the election of 2024 a referendum on ancient mythologies from thousands of years ago.
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