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jmbar2

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30. Trump is supported by a Christian nationalist movement seeking to create a theocracy.
Fri Feb 2, 2024, 01:50 AM
Feb 2024

He does whatever they tell him to do as long as he gets money and gets elected.

Seriously, if you have not been following the Christian Dominionist movement, it's very important to understand what's going on. They are very well organized and holding mass meetings all over the country to take over local government, school boards, elections offices, etc. to usher in theocracy. Trump is their ticket to power.

...today’s Christian right is a very real and very well-funded and highly organized institutional movement to end real democracy and create a White Christian theocracy in America and then around the world.


Dominionism “is the theocratic idea that Christians are called by God to exercise dominion over every aspect of society by taking control of political and cultural institutions.” For me, evangelical Trump supporters hold to “dominion” as their political theology of power. Now for Christians to exercise “dominion,” they need to be mobilized to action. This is the purpose of the “7 Mountain Mandate,” a marketing strategy popularized (but not invented) by Lance Wallnau, a Pentecostal Christian businessman, regarded as a prophet, an apostle, and a teacher, to mobilize Christians into action and occupy top roles in the spheres (or mountains) of government, education, business, family, arts & entertainment, media, and religion. Dominion will be implemented, when “kingdom-minded” Christians are positioned at the head of these cultural mountains.


https://www.salon.com/2024/01/31/mobilizing-his-prayer-warriors-religion-scholar-on-what-maga-means-by-spiritual-warfare/

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Growing up steeped deep in Evangelical, Pentecostal New Testament Christianity... czarjak Jan 2024 #1
They also believe he's an "imperfect king" Arazi Jan 2024 #6
Hateful ignorance wrapped in BS religion. czarjak Jan 2024 #18
That's it. yardwork Jan 2024 #20
Evangelical, Pentecostal New Testament Christianity sounds like something I want NO part of, elleng Feb 2024 #26
You, are correct. czarjak Feb 2024 #29
This message was self-deleted by its author BannonsLiver Jan 2024 #2
Racist toxic white entitlement trumps religion Ponietz Jan 2024 #3
Lack of critical thinking skills among evangelical followers make them easy to manipulate by fear and hatred Freethinker65 Jan 2024 #4
It's about the patriarchy dlk Jan 2024 #5
Patriarchy seems to be the root philosophy of all Abrahamic religions. LastDemocratInSC Jan 2024 #14
Yes, it does dlk Feb 2024 #24
It's that ole prosperity gospel. Drum Jan 2024 #7
Same mindset Matthew28 Jan 2024 #8
Addicted to mob hate. It's a dopamine hit. haele Jan 2024 #9
They see an opportunity for open Christian Dominionism. Caliman73 Jan 2024 #10
Yes. They feel they're under attack by infidels and he's their defender lindysalsagal Feb 2024 #28
Trump isn't a Christian... but he empowers Christians. WarGamer Jan 2024 #11
fundamentalist religions create an authoritarian mindset DBoon Jan 2024 #12
Someone here on DU renamed them evilangelicals and I couldn't agree more ! kimbutgar Jan 2024 #13
FAITH can move mountains. bluestarone Jan 2024 #15
It doesn't even have to be their own pastor, any pastor Lars39 Jan 2024 #17
It's the King Cyrus/End Times crap that bounces around their bubble. Lars39 Jan 2024 #16
Evangelicals make a lot more sense if you think of them as an offshoot of the gop, not a religion Takket Jan 2024 #19
Like jean Carroll said, He is a Nothing! Its the people around him who makes him powerful, but he is NOTHING. CarolinaNC Jan 2024 #21
The evangelical movement is a con Johonny Jan 2024 #22
Once you're in the cult, the details don't matter much...nt Wounded Bear Jan 2024 #23
Because they aren't done yet. Xolodno Feb 2024 #25
they have no actual reasons... Think. Again. Feb 2024 #27
Trump is supported by a Christian nationalist movement seeking to create a theocracy. jmbar2 Feb 2024 #30
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