The Christian Nationalist Machine Turning Hate Into Law

[douglas9]

Jason Rapert has likened himself to an Old Testament seer, conveying hard truths on behalf of an angry God. On his broadcast Save the Nation, the 50-year-old preacher and former Arkansas state senator calls himself a “proud” Christian Nationalist, insisting: “I reject that being a Christian Nationalist is somehow unseemly or wrong.”

Long a shadowy force in American politics, Christian Nationalism is having a coming out party. The movement seeks a fusion of fundamentalist theology with American civic life. “They believe that this country was founded for Christians like them, generally natural-born citizens and white,” says Andrew Whitehead, author of Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States. Whitehead emphasizes that the danger of Christian Nationalism to democracy is that the movement “sees no room for compromise — their vision must be the one that comes to pass.”

Thanks to Rapert, the Christian Nationalist movement now commands a burgeoning political powerhouse, the National Association of Christian Lawmakers. A first-of-its-kind organization in U.S. history, NACL advances “biblical” legislation in America’s statehouses. These bills are not mere stunts or messaging. They’re dark, freedom-limiting bills that, in some cases, have become law.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/christian-nationalists-national-association-christian-lawmakers-1234684542/

[Ocelot II]

1. Jesus wept.

[Joe Cool]

2. They should be called Nazis.

Christian Nationalist is too polite a term for those Nazis.

[Docreed2003]

3. K&R

These people need to be exposed and highlighted for just how dangerous they really are to our democracy

[2naSalit]

4. Indeed...

Whitehead emphasizes that the danger of Christian Nationalism to democracy is that the movement “sees no room for compromise — their vision must be the one that comes to pass.”

Emphasis mine.

[TygrBright]

5. Alf Smith lost a presidential election because he was Catholic...

...and John F. Kennedy's Presidential candidacy was at risk for the same reason, until he gave his "Church and State" speech.

Catholics, of course, aren't "real" Christians by the standards of fundy wackjobbery. I suspect the Episcopal Church of America and probably the African Methodist Episcopal Church are also not "real" Christians by those standard.

And maybe the United Methodist Church.

And probably a few others.

And this is why the First Amendment includes the clause that "Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion".

Of course, having a Supreme Court ready to ignore the Establishment clause makes all this "Biblical Worldview" shit possible anyway.

disgustedly,
Bright

[scarletlib]

6. Jesus's ultimate message is one of love & forgiveness.

These guys are not Christians by any stretch of the imagination.