The Religious Right's Rhetoric Fueled the Insurrection

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The Religious Right’s Rhetoric Fueled the Insurrection
And it continues to fan fear and rage.

BY PETER MONTGOMERY FEBRUARY 8, 2021


(The American Prospect) The morning after the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol interrupted but failed to stop congressional certification of Joe Biden’s election, The Dove Christian television network’s morning news program featured hard-right activist John Guandolo telling viewers that the insurrectionists showed “restraint” by not executing the “traitors” in Congress.

“I don’t see any other way out than a real armed counterrevolution to this hostile revolution that’s taking place, primarily driven by the communists,” said Guandolo, who trains law enforcement agencies to view Muslims as terrorist threats.

Guandolo’s call for civil war on a channel called “The Dove” was far from the only pairing of religious fervor and calls for violence by Trump supporters seeking to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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Right-wing pastors, religious-right leaders and activists, and conservative Christian media aggressively promoted then-President Donald Trump’s false claims that he won the 2020 presidential election in a landslide and that it was being stolen from him and his supporters.

These leaders and media outlets inflated the stakes of Trump’s re-election campaign and post-election efforts to “stop the steal” by portraying them as part of a spiritual war between good and evil. In their telling, Trump was the divinely anointed leader of the forces of light, and his opponents were agents of Satan bent on crushing religious freedom and destroying the American republic. Prayer and calls for spiritual warfare were blended with invocations of “1776.” ............(more)

https://prospect.org/politics/religious-right-rhetoric-fueled-the-capitol-insurrection/

[onecaliberal]

1. Modern day Christians are a moral and ethical failure.

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2. The IRS needs to start taxing every single one of them. Tax-free churches who are involved in

politics is the biggest scam going in America today.

[consider_this]

3. Yah beat me to it!

You have earned all those hearts by the way, warming many of ours with your pet posts, but common sense stuff like this always gets a like from me.

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5. Thank you!

Letting those hatemongers get away with this crap is even worse than granting tax-free status to the "Church" of Scientology.

[keithbvadu2]

4. They did not show 'restraint' when they killed a police officer and attacked other LEOs.

They did not show 'restraint' when they killed a police officer and attacked other LEOs.

Using the American flag to attack police.

[RussBLib]

6. Just sickening

Sickening to see the deference still paid to crackpot preachers spinning their webs of biblical bullshit.