Why Christian nationalists love Trump

[turbinetree]

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Source: Think Progress

This is the first in a series on Christian nationalism and the religious groups supporting Donald Trump. Stay tuned for further entries in the coming weeks.

It was a Saturday, but Donald Trump was already at church.

Technically, he was at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., preparing to address the crowd at a “Celebrate Freedom” concert on Independence Day weekend. But the July 1 event, which was designed to honor veterans, accented its patriotism with a distinctly religious flare: it was hosted by megapastor (and vocal Trump devotee) Rev. Robert Jeffress, and shortly before the president took the podium, a Southern Baptist church choir burst into a rendition of “Make America Great Again”—an original composition based on the president’s campaign slogan.

Trump loved it (he tweeted a music video of the song on July 4), and echoed its sentiment a few minutes later by invoking his go-to ideology when speaking to his base: Christian nationalism.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-christian-nationalism/

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Did these "christians " give a sexual predator a pass , just so that they can have a theocratic state , and don't have to pay any taxes from the pulpit spreading there dogma, and violating the constitution now in place

[onecaliberal]

1. They're NOT Christians

[PdxSean]

2. I could NOT have said it better, onecaliberal.

However, wouldn't it be great if they were all taken up in the rapture by midnight tonight?

[onecaliberal]

3. Yes, that would probably be the single greatest thing that ever happened to America.

[Hieronymus]

5. Yes

[not fooled]

4. The answer to your questions

re embracing (no pun intended) a sexual predator in order to have a theocratic state--is "yes"

Fake Xtian nationalists are a natural fit for the con--a preselected group of brainwashed low-information voters who believe in authoritarian rule--after all, they have been trained to believe the buy-bull and what they think of as Jay-sus.

Hence easy marks for the con.

A pox on all of them.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. Locking - this is a feature story, not news

It says it's the first in a series that will appear over weeks, and talks about what Trump did on July 1st. Please repost in Editorials and Other Articles, GD, or the Religion group. Thanks.