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Recently we've seen MAGA Republicans publicly advocate for Christian Nationalism in America. Their idea of Making America Great Again entails the eradication of the separation between Church and state and the establishment of America as an exclusively Christian nation.
source: YouTube
That in itself is a big problem and a denial of the country's founding principles. Making Christianity the exclusive or official religion is antithetical to freedom of religion and freedom of speech. If your idea of a Great nation is based on the white-picket-fence American Dream and white suburbia under God, you love Trump; he'll build you a wall keeping out brown people, he'll propose an outright ban on Muslim-immigration and he'll do so in a brazen unapologetic manner. This has been the basis for the unholy alliance between Trump, QAnon and Evangelicals.
Evangelicals and born-again Christian Republican conservatives have been staunch and politically active supporters of the GOP since the early 1980s when they backed the election of Ronald Reagan. This alliance would have grave consequences for the state of American politics, and would lead to tens of thousands of deaths that could have been prevented during the HIV and AIDS pandemic of the 1980s.
Reagan understood that a great deal of his power resided in a broad base of born-again Christian Republican conservatives who embraced a deeply reactionary social agenda of which a virulent, demonizing homophobia was a central tenet. In the media, men such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell articulated these sentiments that portrayed gay people as diseased sinners and promoted the idea that AIDS was a punishment from God and that the gay rights movement had to be stopped.
source: Forward
AIDS was first reported in the medical and popular press in 1981, but Reagan kept silent and inactive on the matter until 1987 when he first publicly spoke about it, and by then some 28,000 men and women had died. How many of those deaths could have been prevented? We'll never know, just like we'll never know how many could have been saved if Trump took the COVID-19 pandemic seriously from day one, instead of ignorantly claiming it'll go away by summertime or riling up hate for Asians by claiming it was a Chinese hoax.
Religious people, not just Christians, are raised in faith. That is to say that they're raised to believe in something without evidence, and to derive their knowledge from up high. To base their entire life on that belief. It provides them with the warm embrace of false certainty and an uncomplicated morality; everything God made or commands is good, and evil is the work of Satan. Homosexuals were demonized, AIDS was God's punishment for their sins. Biden and all leftists are now demonized, and God will punish them for their sins through Trump who will return. Some Evangelical pastors have bought in completely into the conspiracy theories of the stolen election and QAnon. And pastors who don't go with that conspiracist flow risk being opposed or abandoned by their congregants:
The congregants were worried about Frailey’s intentions. At Coffee Creek, his evangelical church outside Oklahoma City, he had preached on racial justice for the past three weeks. He says the couple didn’t appreciate his most recent sermon, which urged Christians to call out and challenge racism anywhere they saw it, including in their own church. Though Frailey tries to keep Coffee Creek from feeling too traditional—he wears jeans, and the church has a modern band and uses chairs instead of pews—he considers himself a theologically conservative Southern Baptist pastor. But at one point, the couple Frailey spoke to said they believed that he was becoming a “social justice warrior.”
source: MIT Technonoly Review
That's from an article titled "Evangelicals are looking for answers online. They’re finding QAnon instead"; I suggest you read it in its entirety. It's the sad story of how these people's religiosity is used against them to draw them into the conspiracy theory holding that Donald Trump is fighting a secret Satanic pedophile ring run by liberal elites. I mean, these people believe that Tom Hanks eats babies! Compared to that, believing that the election was stolen is fairly mild. I personally can't think of any other reason for people's belief in such wild and unfounded claims than a lifetime of preparation for believing without evidence. Believing that everything is neatly divided into Good and Evil, and that everything that's not Good must be Evil and therefore Satanic. And somehow children are always central to these apocalypse-level beliefs: homosexuals are child-groomers, Democrats eat babies and rock bands poison the minds of youths with their Satanic music.
I've written about this topic several times now, but maybe I'm not the best person to tell this story as I've never been raised in faith and have never been inclined to believe anything without good reasons to believe it. So maybe watch the below linked video by someone who has been raised in faith. And of course all this isn't to say that this is all Christians or all Evangelicals, or all QAnon believers for that matter. It's just that there's always been, or at least since the 1980s, a significant overlap between deeply religious Christians and belief of conspiracy theories, one that can't be ignored.
Why Do Evangelicals Fall For Conspiracy Theories? | Belief It Or Not
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Just an overwhelming majority.. @lighteye why keep giving this unabashed racist your support?
Because I need someone who can coherently explain their apology of the satanic neoliberalism, without anger and quarrel. And because I think he still can listen and learn, which means his soul is not completely lost yet.
Where has he indicated anything of the sort?
Here’s our last communication:
https://steemit.com/hive-122315/@zyx066/rhrfsu
It is very hard to find on Hive earlier ones @baah
You're mistaken. He's clearly arrogant and willfully ignorant and dismissive. You're literally supporting faggotry. More than that, you try to meet him half way by pandering to him, unless you believe that Trump is a fascist and he wants a civil war.
Please @baah, don’t tel me you think Trump is a saviour:
You think that means anything? Learn more about Trump before implicating him with the criminals he's being photographed, who were at the time, Mr. President and Mrs. First Lady.
The photo is from 2005. And here is video just before the elections 2016.
Tell me again they are not friends playing in the globalist puppet theater.
You really don't know anything about the man do you? The picture was with a Ex President, that's your proof?
You'd do yourself a great service if you bothered to read Art of the Deal and Surviving at the Top to understand what a boss and straight up man you're implicating with Scum. It's as egregious as calling Putin a Globalist, in any way shape or form.
Don’t do that @baah. Trump is a fascist. He is the one who chose Mike Pompeo, thief, liar, cheater (by his own admission) as the State Secretary. He chose Elliott Abrams, convicted criminal in Contra Affair to plan a cue against Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela. He chose John Bolton, worst possible war hawk, for his National security counselor. He bombed Syria twice and steal oil throughout his tenure. He chose torture-loving ‘Bloody’ Gina Haspel for CIA director. He is the one who praised torture. He was the one with the ‘warp-speed vaccination program’… Comparing him to Putin is insulting.
You may not share my opinion, but you must not try on me such low manipulation.
So what? Did he steal for Trump, fight for Trump even?!
You mean the fake conservative who served under Ronald Reagan and GW, that makes Trump a fascist how?
And what of the coup, the same thing the US has been doing with every single administration? Last I checked Trump was the only one not to enter into any new conflicts.
And what happened? More woo by association? Spell it out, at least make a tentative connection, he chose Y to do X which makes him a fascist because of Z.
A decent man chose decent people to do the job. His choice is his image – a fascist. Are you not aware of that?
Huh? He chose the best he thinks for the job. Do you chose a decent body guard or the best? Will the best Ever be decent?
Sword of Damocles.
Go pick up the book so you can understand how Trump thinks. Watch his show, fired or whatever it's called even.
He might as well been running the Guantanamo water boarding, I'd still consider him a honest guy and a patriot, and more than anything someone who put America First.
He's a fascist? That's your qualification for Fascist? From a picture with the President, to he appointed criminals and torturers?
How so? He's a patriot like Putin, he's conservative like Putin, he has brought up his country and it's interests first like Putin, he has stood up to the globalists like Putin.
If you can’t see after everything I have told you, I can’t help you @baah. Good luck.
If I can't see what exactly? All you've told me is that he's fascist because the people he chooses are like him, fascist? All the people, or those you cherry picked only? He's still the only US president since ever not to enter into any new conflicts, and the one who made this country energy independent, and you have nothing to even suggest criminality or overextending his authority, so how can you qualify him as a Fascist?
Every man supporting torture is a fascist and every man or woman involved in torture is a nazi scum – like Gina Haspel.
Every man who pushes deadly vaccines is a criminal and potential mass murderer.
Every man who continues inherited wars is no better then the one who started them.
You are in love with Trump, and you can’t see simple facts. I am afraid we don’t have a point of understanding on this topic any more.
Interrogation of terrorists, like ISIS, is what GITMO is for.
Sure bro, even if they think they are life saving and safe.
O really? Trump is no better than Obama.
Facts like pushing deadly vaccines and sUpPorTiNg tOrTuRe?
Facts like being the only president not to enter any new conflicts is as bad as starting new conflicts?
Facts like that.
You can never get any info by torture, @baah, it shows your ignorance. Torture is made for breaking a spirit, not interrogation. You didn’t even read ‘1984’.
Yes, no better at all. He would be better if he withdrew troops at least from Syria. Go ahead, show everybody that Trump is better than Obama knowing that in Obama mandate there were one bomb over Middle East every 15 minutes, and during Trump every 12 minutes.
Pushing forcefully anything on a belief is a crime. You don’t know even that.
Too bad for you.
Fiction isn't reality. Interrogation isn't torture, but some see it as such. The bible talks extensively about torture btw. Jesus talks about torture, didn't you read his words?
He is, he made America a energy exporter and energy independent. He, unlike Obama, didn't enter into any new conflicts.
Too bad for Putin and everyone else who believed in their scientists and doctors, not just me. And you have a funny definition of crime. He didn't force people to get injected.
If you had any shame you'd feel it for mocking an honest and real patriot, denouncing with shameless implications and speaking out the corner of your mouth, not even able to be straight forward and correct.
Lololol Beast Putin!