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lees1975

(5,165 posts)
Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:33 PM Jul 11

Project 2025 is the product of the merger of Christian fundamentalism and charismatic spiritualism with MAGA Trumpism.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/07/evangelicals-are-directly-connected-to.html

Those Democrats who have either never paid much attention to religious beliefs, or who have abandoned it after being raised in it and coming to the conclusion that it was not what it claimed to be, and did not "save their soul," should probably make themselves very familiar with the political movement that has developed out of this infiltration and blending of Evangelicalism with Republicanism that has created an extremist movement with the intention of destroying the America that the founders established when they wrote and ratified the Constitution. It is a movement which has effectively abandoned the Christian gospel but which still uses terminology and methodology lifted from it, but distorted and interpreted in a way that would not be recognizable to Jesus or his apostles who preached it and established the Christian church.

They've made a deal with the devil when it comes to Trump. They have a Christian nationalist agenda, they want the power and control over people's lives that they do not now have, and they see him as a useful tool in achieving their goal, and they couldn't care less whether he's one of them or not, because being Christian is just a means to an end for them, as well. Their ends are the wealth that comes from the power of control over people's lives. That's quite visible in the fact that many of the leaders of churches and movements within Evangelical and Charismatic Christianity who are the biggest supporters of a Christian nationalist agenda run their churches in exactly that way, to direct the wealth into their own pockets without accountability and to have control over the congregations of people who bow at their feet and surrender their loyalty.

Project 2025 breaks down that wall by using the state to enforce religious principles and doctrine by law. It makes the government, rather than the church, the primary vehicle of Christian evangelism, though the consequences for exercising personal religious liberty are anti-Christian in their execution. Christianity that is enforced by punitive consequences of the law, not by conviction of conscience, is not Christianity.

Examining those individuals connected to the Heritage Foundation and what the Evangelical Christianity from which they have emerged actually looks like, it is also pretty easy to conclude that a Christian spiritual revival is the furthest thing from their own intentions. These are people who have made themselves fabulously wealthy off their peddling of the Christian gospel and their salesmanship of power and "bigness" and Trump is a useful and willing politician in their scheme to get the wealth and power they are after.
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Project 2025 is the product of the merger of Christian fundamentalism and charismatic spiritualism with MAGA Trumpism. (Original Post) lees1975 Jul 11 OP
So fascist bigotry in a Jeezuz Beard? LuvLoogie Jul 11 #1
White Christian nationalism Blue Full Moon Jul 12 #2
Project 2025 is designed to keep all the power with white MAGA men. ONLY. flying_wahini Jul 12 #3
The phrase "unholy alliance" comes to mind. Intractable Jul 12 #4

Blue Full Moon

(640 posts)
2. White Christian nationalism
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 08:42 AM
Jul 12

Is what some Catholics are calling it and it goes against Catholic teachings.

But getting project 2025 horribleness out there and getting people to see it is how this is going to be won. This gets under tfg skin. Make them own this.

flying_wahini

(7,717 posts)
3. Project 2025 is designed to keep all the power with white MAGA men. ONLY.
Fri Jul 12, 2024, 09:16 AM
Jul 12

If women show up at the polls we can take this over the top.

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