"What made the spectacle so grotesque wasn’t just Trump’s usual carnival of exaggeration and cruelty dressed up in religious vocabulary; it was the room’s willingness to treat it as normal. To applaud and pray over him as if he were a misunderstood prophet rather than a man using Christianity as stage lighting for authoritarian politics."
~ Rev. Bryan Berghoef
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/9
"Instead, it makes them perversely grateful that he’s doing it so their hands can be clean.
None of this, it should probably go without saying, is compatible in the slightest with the teachings of actual Christianity."
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/8
"What made the spectacle so grotesque wasn’t just Trump’s usual carnival of exaggeration and cruelty dressed up in religious vocabulary; it was the room’s willingness to treat it as normal. To applaud and pray over him as if he were a misunderstood prophet rather than a man using Christianity as stage lighting for authoritarian politics."
~ Rev. Bryan Berghoef
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/9
"Instead of a prayer breakfast, it was a political branding exercise with hymnals.
The question hanging over the waffles and amens is unavoidable: What does it say about American Christianity that so many of its leaders are willing to call this 'faith'?"
N.B. My sharing of excerpts published on any given platform does not represent endorsement of that platform.
#Trump #Hegseth #NationalPrayerBreakfast #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/10
"White Christian nationalism ... is a mix, a blend of tech bro feudalism, techno feudalism, which is where these tech CEOs want to rule the country, and this theobro feudalism,feudalism, where these theobros want to have a white Christian nationalist country. ...
MAGA is a religion. It's not a political ideology. It's a religious ideology."
~ Joy-Ann Reid
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism
/11
https://www.joyannreid.com/p/minneapolis-and-the-great-replacement
"Notice they always go to Christian and not Jesus. They're not believers in anything Jesus said. In fact, in many of their churches, you can't quote Jesus because he's too woke for them. But this sort of Christian nationalist, techno feudalist, small number of Uber CEO men that will run the country, it's a problem."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #techbros #theobros
/12
"That's the white Christian nationalist aspect of it. With the Technobros and Curtis Yarvin, they believe democracy is incompatible with capitalism. As such, you need a type of techno-feudal system, a techno-fascism, where the council of these brilliant white men will choose their puppet leader."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteEvangelicals #authoritarianism #techbros #theobros
/13
https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/epsteins-ideological-marriage-with
