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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCampus 'counter protesters' are MAGA after all.
MAGA pastor Sean Feucht and a band of Christian nationalists are glomming on to campus protests against Israels war on Gaza, leading United for Israel marches at Columbia and the University of Southern California while professing their belief that the conflict is a harbinger of the End Times predicted in the Bible.
On Wednesday night, Feuchts followers and far-right extremists rallied outside USC with the help of a police escortan image that stands in stark contrast to the LAPD officers in riot gear who previously arrested activists from the schools pro-Palestinian camp.
The Christian Zionist parade kicked off with Feucht performing contemporary worship music (Our God is an awesome God) and anti-LGBTQ speakers like preachers Lou Engle and Ché Ahn, who once crowed at a Stop the Steal rally: Were gonna rule and reign through President Trump and under the lordship of Jesus Christ.
Feucht, looking every bit the part of a Jesus rocker in a black jean jacket, fired up the crowd with a concert before the march.
Lord, we stand together against hatred, bigotry, anti-semitism, violence thats taken over this campus and the streets of the city, Feucht said between songs.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/christian-nationalists-mobilize-to-fight-campus-gaza-protests?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&via=twitter_page&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb
H2O Man
(73,723 posts)Recommended.
Biophilic
(3,767 posts)B.See
(1,387 posts)let's them. We're being run around by a loud, radicalized, violent minority of FASCISTS, and that shit is getting OLD.
wnylib
(21,847 posts)supposed to scare the "be Jesus" into you?
Biophilic
(3,767 posts)jalan48
(13,929 posts)Deep State Witch
(10,488 posts)From 2017:
WASHINGTON Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Christian evangelical audience in Washington on Monday that they were Israels best friends in the world, in an address notable for the pointed absence of any reference to US President Donald Trump or his administrations efforts in the region.
When I say we have no greater friends than Christian supporters of Israel, I know youve always stood with us, Netanyahu told the cheering crowd at Christians United for Israels annual conference. You stand with us because you stand with yourselves because we represent that common heritage of freedom that goes back thousands of years.
America has no better friend than Israel and Israel has no better friend than America, Netanyahu continued. And Israel has no better friend in America than you.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-evangelical-christians-are-israels-best-friends/
Think. Again.
(9,088 posts)Eko
(7,437 posts)I posted a link on this a couple of days ago. But I wouldn't say that they all are.
stopdiggin
(11,446 posts)(and Sean Fuecht is a known anti-vax Christian nationalist wingnut)
But otherwise and overall - not sure that 'MAGA' is a good cover for the multitude of objections.
Are we supposing that the following individuals are Trump supporters? (I wouldn't lay any money on it):
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218937125
Cha
(298,293 posts)Eko
(7,437 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,695 posts)Mountainguy
(610 posts)protesting and another group of antisemites counterprotesting that group.
Horseshoe theory.
Cha
(298,293 posts)TY
Tickle
(2,634 posts)of my enemy is my friend.. or something like that
obamanut2012
(26,209 posts)Even the Jewish ones? Wow.
BaronChocula
(1,664 posts)They're actually WHITE nationalists or a faction thereof. They call themselves Christian nationalists because the religious labeling is less biting to the ear than the racial nomenclature. So please call them what they really are.
Cuthbert Allgood
(5,013 posts)Have you heard about the crusades? Or the like hundreds of instances of colonizing by the RCC and other Christian sects?
We don't need to let religion off the hook here.
slightlv
(2,903 posts)until they start the apocalypse. That's their end game, anyway... no matter what Christ said about the timing!
NanaCat
(1,681 posts)Of his followers. He was always vague about that one, but wrong either way.
I'm trying to decide what was his dumbest move--predicting the world to end in the 1st century CE, or getting mad at a fig tree that wouldn't give him fruit just because he wanted it. I mean, really, what kind of idiot expects fruit from a tree that doesn't have any visible to the naked eye, and then gets mad at the tree if it doesn't respond to attempts to hocus-pocus the fruit onto it without success? My baby brother knew better than to expect fruit off a tree that had none when he was two years old.
How dumb are you when even a two year old knows better how reality works?
TeamProg
(6,421 posts)AZ8theist
(5,551 posts)I'm sick of these religious MORONS who think some imaginary Jewish zombie is going to appear and do what?
It is beyond STUPID.
Charlatans have been predicting the end of the world since the beginning of the world. COMPLETE NONSENSE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
The Earth will end in about 1B years when the Sun runs out of hydrogen and starts burning helium and expands to encompass the Earth's orbit. Some believe humans will have by then emigrated to other planets. I don't.
Humans will extinct themselves long before that.......probably because some religious fuckwits get nuclear weapons and start using them.
Ligyron
(7,655 posts)These are guys who totally flunked science class.
wnylib
(21,847 posts)already have enough problems.
Just for the record, not everyone who disagrees with the protesters is RW and definitely not a religious fundie. Liberals who disagree with the protesters have various reasons, but anticipating "the rapture" is not one of them.
stopdiggin
(11,446 posts)Cha
(298,293 posts)the Counter posters. Not mentioning they were RW & Pastor Sean.. But when we went to the link there it was. Blew the whole narrative to Smithereens. Never did get an acknowledgement or an apology. Go Figure.
TY
betsuni
(25,878 posts)Cha
(298,293 posts)with pesky details like getting important information included in the OP... .. as I posted.. It Messes with Their Gaslit Narrative.
Tickle
(2,634 posts)Marching????
madaboutharry
(40,249 posts)The overwhelming majority of counter protesters do not fall into the category of MAGA.
Voltaire2
(13,353 posts)Get used to it.
madaboutharry
(40,249 posts)Don't tell me what I need to get used to.
Voltaire2
(13,353 posts)And here is a clue: christian zionists aren't jews. How this got to be about the fact that you are jewish is a bit of a mystery to me.
Chakaconcarne
(2,487 posts)obamanut2012
(26,209 posts)Proud Boys and the AFA are local to the Davis-Sacramento area. The UCD students have been keeping things calm and keeping channels open with teh Administration, but there are worries about more of teh RW counter-protestors coming onto campus this weekend for teh Whole Earth Festival in Davis.
Remember, UCD is where that asshole cop soaked the peacefully protesting students with pepper spray -- soaked them orange, so people are worried about what the UCDPD will allow the counter protestors to do.
iemanja
(53,137 posts)Boogaloo Bois (or whatever they are called) were arrested and convicted for arson in Minneapolis.
RandiFan1290
(6,264 posts)and those murders were blamed on BLM.
Initech
(100,168 posts)There's assholes everywhere looking to commit violence in order to gaslight the protests. Don't give them what they want.
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