I would, at the outset, like to express a general opinion:
THE RADICAL MAGA RIGHT WANTS TO ESTABLISH A RIGHT WING RELIGIOUS DICTATORSHIP IN THE UNITED STATES.
Several people have noticed this.
The Republican party wants to turn America into a theocracy
According to a new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution, more than half of Republicans believe the country should be a strictly Christian nation – either adhering to the ideals of Christian nationalism (21%) or sympathizing with those views (33%).
Christian nationalism is also closely linked with authoritarianism. According to the same survey, half of Christian nationalism adherents and nearly four in 10 sympathizers said they support the idea of an authoritarian leader powerful enough to keep these Christian values in society.
During an interview at a Turning Point USA event last August, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (a Republican from Georgia) said party leaders need to be more responsive to the base of the party, which she claimed is made up of Christian nationalists.
“We need to be the party of nationalism,” she said. “I am a Christian and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists.”
The Theocratic Blueprint for Trump’s Next Term
For adherents of actual democratic self-governance, [Former Trump official Russell] Vought’s administrative theory of maximum executive power is plenty unnerving on its own. But an even fuller picture of the sort of substantive policy agendas that it would serve emerges in the theocratic mission of the think tank Vought launched after his tour at the OMB, the Center for Renewing America. This group is a partner in Project 2025, but it’s also a policy shop positioned firmly in the vanguard of the Christian nationalist movement, fiercely dedicated to shoring up a militant right-wing culture-war agenda and based on the lie that the United States was founded as an exclusionary, Christian nation. “Our mission is to renew a consensus of America as a nation under God with unique interests worthy of defending…where individuals’ enjoyment of freedom is predicated on just laws and healthy communities,” the CRA’s website announces.
America is facing a threat of biblical proportion: The rise of Christian nationalism
This week [February of this year] brought two chilling reminders that, despite America’s constitutional commitment to secular government, Christian nationalism is thriving in the Trump era. From the Alabama Supreme Court’s stunningly theocratic ruling on the legal status of embryos to the MAGA-aligned groups designing Donald Trump’s Christian nationalist second term, it has never been clearer that Republicans are at war with our fundamental separation of church and state.
The resurgence of Christian nationalism will come as no surprise to anyone who has watched Trump’s MAGA movement merge with a constellation of extremist preachers and apocalyptic prophets. Many of them, including prominent Mississippi Pastor Shane Vaughn, believe Trump was anointed by God to rule America. A growing number of evangelical voters now view the former president as the second coming of Jesus Christ and frame the 2024 election as a battle not just for America’s soul but for the salvation of all mankind.
This nightmarish scenario has been deliberately cultivated by the so-called “Religious Right”:
The Bogus Historians Who Teach Evangelicals They Live in a Theocracy
The vile PSEUDO HISTORIAN David Barton is the worst of them:
Throughout his decades of public life — working for the Republican Party, becoming a darling of Fox News, advising politicians such as new House Speaker Mike Johnson, launching a small propaganda empire, carving out a niche as the American right’s chosen peddler of nostalgic alternative facts — Barton had never been shy about his ultimate aims. He is an avowed Christian nationalist who favors theocratic rule; moreover, he is a so-called Dominionist, someone who believes Christians should control not only the government but also the media, the education system, and other cultural institutions. Barton and his ilk are invested less in advancing individual policies than they are in reconceiving our system of self-government in its totality, claiming a historical mandate to rule society with biblical dogma just as the founders supposedly intended.
This is what the “American Restoration Tour” was all about: restoring a version of America that never existed.
In a baggy dark suit and bright orange tie, clicker in hand, Barton droned through a slide show that patched together quotes and dates and bygone events to make his case that America is a good nation because it was founded as a godly nation. Inconvenient episodes such as slavery were relegated to a footnote. Barton assured us that America’s misdeeds were relatively minor — “All races, all people, all nations, have had slavery and been slaves at some point themselves,” he said nonchalantly — and that secular progressives were deliberately amplifying them to diminish that goodness and godliness of America. [My emphasis]
Some people really don’t want to believe this, but it’s true. THE RADICAL MAGA REPUBLICANS WANT TO FORCIBLY IMPOSE THEIR BELIEFS ON EVERYONE ELSE. They really, truly, actually do, The leaders of the “Religious Right” are evil, deeply corrupt, profoundly immoral human beings who ardently wish to control this nation not only to crush the beliefs of anyone they hate but also for their personal benefit. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY’RE NOT ONLY RELIGIOUS FANATICS, THEY’RE CROOKS.
ONLY THE WORST PEOPLE: CHARLATANS, HYPOCRITES, FALSE APOSTLES, AND OTHER CHILDREN OF A DYSFUNCTIONAL GOD
Paula White, Trump’s “spiritual advisor:, is one of them:
“Dr. Paula,” as she identifies herself, has no doctoral degree and no seminary degree and no college degree. You can’t argue with White when she gushes she’s “pro family.” She’s so pro-family she’s been married three times.
In 2010, White was photographed leaving a Rome, Italy, hotel room, and holding hands with married televangelist Benny Hinn. Hinn was later sued by his publisher for having an “inappropriate relationship” with White.
It’s anyone’s guess what an appropriate relationship with White would be.
Top 10 Evangelical Sex Scandals of 2022
In May, something bizarre happened. The Southern Baptist Convention released a report on its handling of sexual abuse over the years. Christianity Today called it the “Southern Baptist Apocalypse.”
It turns out that many pastors were well-known for sexual assault and rape. The SBC had worked with them to minimize and contain the stories, and limit legal liability. Reports of rape had been revised into consensual encounters, or ignored. Victims were called crazy or “satanic.”
One former SBC president, Johnny Hunt, was described sexually assaulting a woman—then coercing everyone around him to remain silent by saying Christianity would be ‘harmed’ if they reported him. Hunt denied it. But strangely, nobody seemed to believe him.
A few months later, Hunt was back in “ministry” after being “restored.”
Another evangelical abuse scandal: It's a big reason why they worship Trump
Another week, and another prominent Christian right pastor gets outed for alleged or apparent sexual abuse. Robert Morris, the founder of Gateway Church in the Dallas suburbs, was accused last week by a woman who says he first molested her when she was 12 years old. The abuse continued for the next five years, she said, until she finally asked adults for help. At the time, Morris was a married man in his mid to late 20s….
Morris served on Trump’s Evangelical Executive Advisory Board during the 2016 campaign and has been a relentless MAGA cheerleader ever since. He has been repeatedly accused by tax experts of violating the law that prohibits churches from endorsing political candidates. Gateway hosted Trump during the 2020 campaign, where Morris explicitly offered thanks to God "for this administration."
If anything, being a sexual predator can bolster a man's reputation with evangelicals, according to sociologist Samuel L. Perry, author of "Addicted to Lust: Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants." As he told Politico in May, evangelicals can be suspicious of men who adhere too closely to the stated values of chastity and purity. In fact, Perry said, evangelical churches teach that "God gave men tremendous sexual appetites because he wanted them to be leaders and initiators and people who take charge." If that will to dominate sometimes leads to molesting a 12-year-old, well, that's just "a risk of those appetites" they so admire. Blame for that kind of sexual abuse tends to be shifted to the victims, who may find themselves — as the woman in this case says she did — accused of tempting those poor, vulnerable men with their uncontrollable desires.
Naturally, the Orange Shitgibbon has been happy to embrace all of this:
And his disciples are eager to get to work subjugating the rest of us:
And J. D. Vance (who does NOT fuck couches!) is in the thick of it as well:
Um, right wingers want SCOTUS to overrule the 1947 SCOTUS decision in Everson, which has prevented states from establishing & enforcing an official state religion (SCOTUS puppet master Leonard Leo co-chairs the Federalist Society.) 7/3/24 1/ https://t.co/T1GMkxFZBg pic.twitter.com/aFRWG5tPdx
— jennycohn@toad.social ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) August 21, 2024
Dear Leader himself has some occasional thoughts:
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