Voters had better educate themselves about the danger of Christian Nationalism

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/03/voters-need-to-educate-themselves-about.html

The idea of America as some kind of a promised land for white, European Christians predates the founding of the country, according to Robert P. Jones, who authored the commentary on the research in Baptist News Global. It turns political contests in to apocalyptic battles, leading to the justification of violence, in spite of Christian principles against the use of violence under any circumstances. And, says Jones, it leads to the belief that political opponents who are perceived to be representatives of "evil," should be jailed, exiled, attacked and even murdered for disagreement.

Completely abandoning the core values taught by Jesus, the survey results provided by Jones indicate a significant percentage of Christian Nationalists believe that it would be right for them to resort to violence in order to restore a nation that has gotten so far off the track of its Christian roots. They believe that being an American patriot means that it is justified to take up arms and resort to violence to "save" the country, while others believe that some kind of upheaval will be necessary to sweep away the "elites in power" and restore the "rightful rulers."

This is a very real threat. As many as 30% of Americans believe in Christian nationalism. There is absolutely no justification in the Christian gospel, or in the scripture Evangelical and conservative Christians claim is their "authority" for faith and practice, for the use of violence in this way.

Christian Nationalists, in any form, are people who are advocates of political revolution, which is also an anti-Christian concept (Romans 13:1-7 and I Peter 2:13-17). And the best way we have in our American constitutional democracy to neutralize their influence and prevent them from getting into any position of power is to vote against them when they run in any election. And since they have established themselves as the "ideological keystone" in today's Republican party, we must commit to cast our ballots against every Republican running for office in America. Every single one.

[NoRethugFriends]

1. Voters educate themselves? Fat chance.

[lees1975]

3. Well, let's help.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/03/voters-need-to-educate-themselves-about.html
https://baptistnews.com/article/the-threat-of-christian-nationalism-in-all-50-states-illustrated-in-eight-charts/

[NoRethugFriends]

4. The ones needing educating are not here.

And they will happily deny anything presented to them.

[multigraincracker]

2. So we are a Christian Nation.

Which franchise? The largest membership consists of Catholics so that must make us a Catholic Nation and hail the Pope as our leader.
Even the two Methodist can’t agree. We have a First and a second Methodist Church in town. Lots of different Baptist Church’s
that split years ago on what the Bible says or means.

[sanatanadharma]

5. It has been quite a while since the last Christian religious war

It has been quite a while since the last Christian religious wars (Ireland may or may not count).
But, in centuries past, the peons knew each time the churches' armies past.

Leave all that to the past.
The choice now is between being American or being against a Constitutional USA.