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Article about "Christian" Nationalism  - which I believe is anything but Christian.   These people have placed their trust in

politics and not in the God they say they believe.  They are living for a earthly kingdom and not the heavenly one they say

they believe in.  The goal of Christianity isn't to nationalize the faith but to build the spiritual kingdom and that is done 

via showing the love of Christ and not by packing guns and spreading political 'terror' in the same of 'god'.  This is the 

equivalent of Islamic Fundamentalism  - the "Christian" version. 

 

 

https://www.denverpost.com/2022/09/14/lauren-boebert-christian-nationalist-republican-colorado/

 

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The congresswoman told Christians at a right-wing religious conference last year to “speak up” for God and to remove “unrighteous politicians, these corrupt, crooked politicians” while installing “righteous men and women of God in their place.”

Boebert is perhaps best known for her gun-rights advocacy and said this summer that Jesus had been killed by Romans because he didn’t have enough assault rifles “to keep his government from killing him.”

She blamed a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which left 19 students and two teachers dead, on “godlessness that is here overtaking America” and she frequently says drug use and violent crime are on the rise because of the Latin American people illegally immigrating through the southern border.

“It’s the idea that government power should be in the hands of ‘real Americans’ and those ‘real Americans’ are defined by an ethnoreligious category that usually entails white conservative Christians,” Kristin Kobes DuMez, a professor of history and gender studies at Calvin University, said. “This is not compatible with democracy.”

The end goal for certain sects of Christian nationalism, which subscribe to so-called Dominion theory, is to conquer what are called the “seven mountains” or seven areas of influence, Gorski said. They are family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business and government.

“Once they do, that will trigger the second coming of Christ,” Gorski said, citing their prophecy.

Boebert is moving in those circles, which also have ties to militia groups, Gorski added.

 

 

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An organized quest for power.”

Religious nationalism isn’t a new concept, it’s centuries old, said DuMez, whose 2020 book “Jesus and John Wayne” focuses on the historical intersection of evangelicalism and American politics. But it’s seeing a resurgence.

Current examples of religious nationalists include Vladimir Putin of Russia, Viktor Orbán of Hungary and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, according to Katherine Stewart, an investigative journalist whose 2020 book, “The Power Worshippers”, focuses on the rise of religious nationalism. Political leaders like these bind themselves to ultraconservative religious figures in their countries to consolidate authoritarian, political power.

“These leaders use religious nationalism to bubble-wrap themselves in sanctimony, to guard against any democratic check on their power or critique of their corruption,” Stewart said.

American Republicans welcomed Orbán to the stage of the Conservative Political Action Conference in August shortly after he said that Hungary must not become a “mixed race” country, Politico reported.

“Christian nationalism is a means of persuading a large subsection of the American public to vote for the political candidates that the movement favors, and thus empower movement leaders and enshrine the policies they want in our laws and society,” Stewart said. “Movement leaders want power and political access, policies that favor certain ‘approved’ religious and political viewpoints and access to private and public money.”

“It is a political phenomenon that involves the exploitation of religion for political purposes,” Stewart added. “I think of it as combining two things. On the one hand, it is a set of ideas or an ideology. On the other hand, it is a political movement, an organized quest for power.”

Stewart added that former president Donald Trump also capitalized on the movement.

The movement is also evolving, DuMez said. Christian nationalists aren’t as subtle as they once were. Some, like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia publicly identify as Christian nationalists.

Other contemporaries mentioned by the experts include Sen. Rick Scott and Gov. Ron Desantis, both of Florida; Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas; and gubernatorial candidates Kari Lake and Doug Mastriano, of Arizona and Pennsylvania, respectively.

The list goes on and spans every level of American government, DuMez said.

 

 

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