After Trump, Christian nationalist ideas are going mainstream - despite a history of violence

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In the run-up to the U.S. midterm elections, some politicians continue to ride the wave of what’s known as “Christian nationalism” in ways that are increasingly vocal and direct.

GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a far-right Donald Trump loyalist from Georgia, told an interviewer on July 23, 2022, that the Republican Party “need[s] to be the party of nationalism. And I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists.”

Similarly, Rep. Lauren Boebert, a Republican from Colorado, recently said, “The church is supposed to direct the government. The government is not supposed to direct the church.” Boebert called the separation of church and state “junk.”

Many Christian nationalists repeat conservative activist David Barton’s argument that the Founding Fathers did not intend to keep religion out of government.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-christian-nationalist-ideas-going-121259012.html

[vlyons]

1. BS oh yes the founding fathers intended for there to be no state religion

and no religious test to hold office.

[SCantiGOP]

2. We already tried letting the Church direct the government

It’s called the Dark Ages for a reason.

[PortTack]

3. Mainstream..oh BS! Mainstream for the cult maybe which is approx 10% of the voting population

The media and the cult want to think it’s mainstream…makes good click bait

[Thomas Hurt]

5. IMO, the christofascists won't need a majority of Americans to back them to get their theocracy.

They just need to seize power install a dictator and one party govt and we are looking at the Christian Confederate States of America.

[lees1975]

4. Best thing to do is call this stuff out

and make sure people know what its all about. Make this extremism stick to Republican candidates, point out that it's not consistent at all with any orthodox, Biblical Christianity and it won't succeed.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/08/theres-way-for-democrats-to-call-out.html

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-pseudo-christian-threat-to-both.html

[keithbvadu2]

6. Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. For this thread

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