How do Christians outside the US view American Christian Nationalism? 🤔
If you were a Christian living outside the US and you had the opportunity to chit-chat with an American Christian Nationalist about your shared Christianity, what would you want to tell them about their faith?
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In Dallas, 6,700 women rally for culture war battles after Kirk’s death | AP News
The values being targeted, according to the event speakers, include convictions about the dangers of “transgenderism” and queer identity, the belief that abortion is murder, and the upholding of traditional roles for men and women in marriage.
#women #evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #culturewars #Dallas #MAGA #press
I posted this eight years ago and it's still true today.
"In light of the Harvey Weinstein (and let's not forget Trump) sexual harassment/assault/rape, this came up.
Does Fundamental Christianity FOSTER and PROTECT the PREDATORS?
Look at the lies and threats perpetrators of sexual assault use and then look at this list."
#ChristianNationalism #ChristianDominionism #ChristianFundamentalism #PDFfiles #AmericanChristianity #ReligionIsPoison #MAGA #Trump #EpsteinFiles
“Atheists and anyone else who doesn’t believe in the Christian God are shut out of a vital role in elections. That’s not just bureaucratic oversight. That’s an unconstitutional relic of Christian arrogance.
“There’s no good reason to force people to pledge an oath to God if they want to manage elections. It’s discriminatory and a betrayal of the very Constitution these officials claim to defend. No one should be forcing citizens to invoke a deity as a condition of public service.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/friendlyatheist/p/south-carolina-bars-atheist-from
#religion #civicduty #nonChristian #atheism #ChristianNationalism #elections
10+ million people protesting and saying NO to #fascism, #WhiteSupremacy, #WhiteNationalism, and #ChristianNationalism in #America. Inspiring AF!
incredible explanation of bots from the head of product over at #X, the everything app
my take is that the #FSB / #MSS / #crypto pumpers / etc. know exactly how to get the tards riled up
#socialmedia #bots #christiannationalism #nikitaBier #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics
Christianity in the US is being rebranded now in a way that is deeply perverse, distorted, downright evil. And many of those pushing for the rebranding have no stake at all in Christianity, but want to use Christianity as a convenient tool to plant fascism firmly in our midst.
#CharlieKirk #ChristianNationalism #Minneapolis #media #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #homophobia #heterosexism #racism
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"His brand of white male masculinity said yes, you could be conservative, Christian, follow Jesus, love America - and also use slurs, make jokes at women’s expense, and overall care less about Jesus’ less popular teachings like loving your neighbor, selling your possessions, or caring for the poor."
#CharlieKirk #ChristianNationalism #Minneapolis #media #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #homophobia #heterosexism #racism
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"He loved snark and sh*t-posting. He laughed in the face of cruelty, violence, and hate. On Turning Point’s website advertising the speaking tour during which Kirk was shot, he’s wearing a black shirt with white letters that reads: 'Not Illegal.'
Kirk made it acceptable and maybe even cool to be an asshole."
#CharlieKirk #ChristianNationalism #Minneapolis #media #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #homophobia #heterosexism #racism
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A few days after this, Star Tribune informed Angela Denker that they weren't renewing her contract. Three days ago, she shared the editorial that Star Tribune refused to publish. It speaks truth many of us, including media outlets, do not want spoken.
Denker says,
"Among others, Kirk was the progenitor of a new sort of young, white, male conservative."
#CharlieKirk #ChristianNationalism #Minneapolis #media #ToxicMasculinity #MaleEntitlement #misogyny #homophobia #heterosexism #racism
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Angela Denker is a Lutheran minister in Minnesota. Until she wrote an op-ed piece following Charlie Kirk's death that Minneapolis Star Tribune refused to publish, she was on contract to write for that outlet.
In its op-ed section commenting on Kirk's murder, the Star Tribune published editorials by three white men, all of them with centrist or conservative slants.
#CharlieKirk #ChristianNationalism #Minneapolis #media
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https://angeladenker.substack.com/p/85528096-7c67-4d7c-9545-8b72e8bd800d
Letters from an American – October 12, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American – October 12, 2025
By Heather Cox Richardson, Oct 12, 2025
On October 9, President Donald J. Trump’s office issued an official proclamation declaring Monday, October 13, “Columbus Day.” The proclamation says that the day is one on which “our Nation honors the legendary Christopher Columbus—the original American hero, a giant of Western civilization, and one of the most gallant and visionary men to ever walk the face of the earth. This Columbus Day, we honor his life with reverence and gratitude, and we pledge to reclaim his extraordinary legacy of faith, courage, perseverance, and virtue from the left-wing arsonists who have sought to destroy his name and dishonor his memory.”
The proclamation goes on to present a white Christian nationalist version of American history, with much more emphasis on Christianity than Trump’s previous, similar proclamations. It claims that Columbus was guided by a “noble mission: to discover a new trade route to Asia, bring glory to Spain, and spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to distant lands.” “Upon his arrival,” it says, “he planted a majestic cross in a mighty act of devotion, dedicating the land to God and setting in motion America’s proud birthright of faith.”
“Guided by steadfast prayer and unwavering fortitude and resolve,” it goes on, “Columbus’s journey carried thousands of years of wisdom, philosophy, reason, and culture across the Atlantic into the Americas—paving the way for the ultimate triumph of Western civilization less than three centuries later on July 4, 1776.”
Then the proclamation turns to MAGA’s complaints about modern revisions of this triumphalist history, saying: “Outrageously, in recent years, Christopher Columbus has been a prime target of a vicious and merciless campaign to erase our history, slander our heroes, and attack our heritage.” Our nation, the proclamation says, “will now abide by a simple truth: Christopher Columbus was a true American hero, and every citizen is eternally indebted to his relentless determination.”
This proclamation completely misunderstands the fifteenth-century world of expanding European maritime routes that entirely reworked world trade—including trade in human beings—and the role of Italian mariner Christopher Columbus, who worked for Spain’s monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella, in that expansion.
It also misses what historians call the “Columbian Exchange”: the transfer of plants and animals between the Americas and the “Old World”—Europe, Asia, and Africa—after Columbus’s first landfall in the Bahamas in 1492. That exchange went both ways and transformed the globe, but its effect on the Americas was devastating. When Columbus and his sailors “discovered” the “New World,” they brought with them both ideologies and germs that would decimate the peoples living there.
Estimates of the number of Native people living in North America and South America in 1490 vary widely, but there were at least as many as 50 million, and possibly as many as 100 million. In the next 200 years, displacement, enslavement, war, and especially disease would kill about 90% of those native peoples. Most historians see the destruction of America’s Indigenous peoples as the brutal triumph of European white men over those they perceived to be inferior.
Historians are not denigrating historical actors or the nation when they uncover sordid parts of our past. Historians study how and why societies change. As we dig into the past, we see patterns that never entirely foreshadow the present but that give us ideas about how people in the past have dealt with circumstances that look similar to circumstances today. If we are going to get an accurate picture of how a society works, historians must examine it honestly, seeing the bad as well as the good. With luck, seeing those patterns will help us make better decisions about our own lives, our communities, and our nation in the present.
History is different from commemoration. History is about what happened in the past, while commemoration is about the present. We put up statues and celebrate holidays to honor figures from the past who embody some quality we admire.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Letters from an American, October 12, 2025 – Heather Cox Richardson
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Why America needs faithful Christians now more than ever
"MAGA is, itself, a front for wealth class projects, a means of forwarding austerity and wealth redistribution as capitalism requires authoritarianism to continue functioning, and so its actions, and Trump’s actions, are in constant conflict with both the true believers and those who have sought to use his hatred, his racism, his sexism, and his fascistic instincts to change the country and society at large."
#Trump #MAGA #evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #EconomicElites
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"Then, there are others who see through Trump’s bullshit and recognize him as an idiot. But a useful idiot.
Within the confines of MAGA, these separate forces have made for uneasy allies."
#Trump #MAGA #evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #EconomicElites #fascism #authoritarianism
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"They were primed for decades to believe the United States of America, as God’s chosen country, was under siege by demonic forces and, eventually, it would culminate in a great battle between Good and Evil. These acolytes filter everything about Trump through this lens, which has been helped by both Christian grifters and Trump himself."
"It helps to understand MAGA as both a political movement and a cult. There is a wide swathe of followers and supporters, ranging from those who believe he is literally a messianic figure sent by God and others who consider him useful for their own purposes and projects."
~ Jared Yates Sexton
#Trump #MAGA #evangelicals #ChristianNationalism
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https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/where-its-all-heading-the-fascist
Claire Giangrave offers a succinct and comprehensive guide to Pope Leo's "I Have Loved You," noting that "Leo has been increasingly vocal in his appeals to welcome the stranger, especially in his native United States, where the Trump administration is carrying out aggressive deportation policies."
#PopeLeo #immigrants #EconomicElites #poverty #ChristianNationalism
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https://www.npr.org/2025/10/09/nx-s1-5567702/pope-leo-issues-new-document-on-poverty
"The American pope does not shrink from taking up his Argentine predecessor's challenge. He actually advances it."
#PopeLeo #immigrants #EconomicElites #poverty #ChristianNationalism
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"Those who predicted that Pope Leo XIV would slow or even reverse his Jesuit predecessor's reformagenda seem to have got it spectacularly wrong. ...
Those who expected Leo to soften or retreat from Francis's insistence on advocating for a number of social issues as being part and parcel of the Church's mission to preach the gospel will be disappointed in this new document."
~ Robert Mickens
#PopeLeo #immigrants #EconomicElites #poverty #ChristianNationalism
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https://www.ucanews.com/news/a-low-key-pontificate-starts-to-shift-gears/110587
