#Christian nationalism is racism

[thevoidscreamer]

To all the US-based Christian Nationalists…

You say the founding fathers made the US to be a Christian nation. So why, then, does our constitution not establish Christianity as our national religion?

You say the Bill of Rights was based on the commandments of your deity. So why, then, does the first amendment to the BoR say that congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion? Does the Bible say that no religions (and, by proxy, their gods), none at all, should be respected?

The US is not a Christian nation. It is not founded on Christian ideals. It is, in a problematic sense and for reasons we should not be proud of, Eurocentric. US-based Christian nationalists conflate Europeanness, whiteness, with their own faith. When they see cultures other than White™️ existing near them, they get angry and call it a violation of their sacred state. They call it “uncivilized,” “not of god,” “sinful,” “ungodly,” “evil.”

Read that again. Christian nationalists, who idolize and aspire to whiteness, who are proud of the (ongoing) whitewashing of the continents and who, at best, ignore, and at worst cheer for the genocide of indigenous cultures, view non-whiteness as evil. In the United States, Christian nationalism is inseparable from white nationalism.

I won’t purport to know what the founding fathers were thinking. I won’t pretend to know what the founders of Christianity were thinking. But, as a person who was raised in a house where the language of Christian white nationalism was woven into every conversation and every experience, I do know what Christian nationalists are thinking.

What we’re witnessing is the distillation of that righteous persecution complex, the revival period, the political weaponization of a group’s beliefs, and the toxic mix of conspiracy theories into the minds of an emotionally compromised and logic-shunning people. Were they always this extreme? Not out loud. It was never about religious freedom, it was about building an army for their deity.

This group has been isolated in an echo chamber by their own religious exceptionalism for decades. What we are experiencing of them now is an extreme and mutated breed of Christian that is finally too violent to be ignored. They’ve been outing themselves for a while now, because they think they’re gods special people. They think they’re untouchable, and whenever the law cracks down on one, new martyrs rise up, inspired by their holy persecution.

I have hope that their absurd bullshit will cause Christians everywhere to see the colonizer mindset that is built into their faith. Catholicism wiped out cultures everywhere it went, and Protestantism is doing the same. It was never about religious freedom, or saving the sinner, or any of that bullshit. It has always been about purifying the globe to an ultimate state of whiteness.

[odinsblog]

No Action, No Peace

Republican lawmakers in Tennessee have been accused of overt racism after expelling two Black Democrats from the state legislature in an act of unprecedented retaliation, for their role in a peaceful protest calling for gun control in the aftermath of a massacre at a school in Nashville.

The Republican-controlled legislature voted on Thursday to spare a white Democratic lawmaker who participated in the same protest.

Justin Jones, representative for Nashville, and Justin Pearson, who represented Memphis, gave rousing speeches in the chamber before the majority-white legislature voted to oust them, leaving tens of thousands of mostly Black and brown Tennessee residents without representation.

Justin Jones, 27, said he had “no regrets” and would “continue to speak up for Tennesseans who are demanding change”, in an interview with CNN on Friday,

“What happened yesterday was an attack on our democracy and overt racism. The nation got to see clearly what’s going on in Tennessee, that we don’t have democracy especially when it comes to Black and brown communities. This is what we have been challenging all session, a very toxic, racist work environment.”

Jones said Republican lawmakers were trying to take Tennessee backwards, and pointed to the state’s history of white supremacy, the birthplace of the ultra-violent Ku Klux Klan.

After the vote to expel them, Jones and Pearson, the two youngest Tennessee lawmakers and former community organisers, were greeted with rapturous chants and songs of resistance by a huge crowd outside the state capitol building. During the vote, the visitors’ gallery exploded in angry shouts of “Shame!” and “Fascists!”

Pearson, 27, told reporters that in carrying out the protest, the three had broken “a house rule, because we’re fighting for kids who are dying from gun violence and people in our communities who want to see an end to the proliferation of weaponry in our communities”.

He later tweeted: “We will not stop. We will not give up. We will continue working to build a nation that includes, not excludes, or unjustly expels. People power will always prevail!”

Gloria Johnson, the white Democrat spared expulsion by a one-vote margin, was asked by reporters about the split vote as she left the chamber on Thursday.

“I’ll answer your question; it might have to do with the color of our skin,” said Johnson, a retired teacher.

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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The federal indictment of 68 defendants accused of being members of (or being associated) with a criminal gang driven by race-based hate followed an investigation that led to the seizure of Nazi paraphernalia, including Adolf Hitler posters, and 97 pounds of fentanyl, federal officials said Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada, who announced the charges, called it one of the “largest takedowns in the history of the Department of Justice against a neo-Nazi, white supremacist, violent extremist organization.” That announcement landing in the final weeks of a presidential election prompts us to contrast the facts of our crime problem with the fiction that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, would have us believe.

The dismantlement of the group that called itself the Peckerwoods, a San Fernando Valley arm of the notorious Aryan Brotherhood white supremacy organization, came in the form of charges for alleged racketeering, firearms trafficking, drug trafficking and financial fraud. If convicted as charged, some members, who adorn themselves with tattoos of swastikas and other hate symbols, could face life behind bars. The group was so heavily armed and so violent that the FBI deployed its elite Hostage Rescue Team from Quantico, Virginia, to support the arrests. According to the U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, the Peckerwoods, a derogatory name historically used against white people, “has as its mission to plan attacks against racial, ethnic, religious minorities.”

Agents seized an arsenal of illegal guns, “bomb-making components” and dozens of kilograms of fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin, according to law enforcement officials.

The details of this multifaceted investigation reveal a significant component of America’s crime problem: hardened, U.S.-born criminals who traffic in the drugs, guns and violence plaguing our country.

[thexphial]

New research being done at University of Washington regarding using "anti-Christian bias" to talk about white grievance.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A reactionary speech that exhorted a return to “biblical truths” is coming under fire after the keynote speaker at an annual prayer breakfast used anti-LGBTQ2 tropes and denied that horrors of more than a century of Indian Residential Schools even existed. Thursday morning at the Westin Calgary, Nigel Hannaford took the lectern at the Calgary Leadership Prayer Breakfast to decry an apparent move away from Christian values in the country. “Christians in Canada, we’ve had it pretty easy for a couple of hundred years. Christian belief and Canadian law lined up quite well most of the time,” Hannaford said.

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada @abpoli

[this-flight-tonight]

U.S. Election 2024

As a librarian, I'm tired of hearing about proposed book bans and legislation to jail or fine us merely for allowing access to information, and the efforts to label media that simply depicts queer people being human beings as "obscene." As a cis woman, I'm so tired of my bodily autonomy being seen as less important than that of a corpse. As a queer person, I'm tired of hearing about legislation that limits how kids can learn about queer people, knowing I was left all too ignorant as a young person and the confusion only exacerbated my depression and suicidal thoughts. As a non-religious person, I'm tired of religion being hurled at my face at every turn, not to mention someone who looks like anything but a spiritual figure signing Bibles and invoking Christianity, but only a specific brand of it, of course. (Certainly not the kind that espouses reserving judgement). I'm scared for my trans brothers and sisters and enbies as they continue to be singled out and targeted for just trying to live their day-to-day lives. As someone in an interracial relationship, I'm tired of hearing hateful language referring to anyone who looks different. Actually fuck that--as a human being living in a country of immigrants on stolen land, I'm tired of that deadly rhetoric. I'm scared for family, friends, and co-workers who don't have the luxury of hiding their differences, whether they're based on skin color, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity. I'm scared for people who aren't even members of minority groups but based on someone else's assumptions, will be perceived that way and also discriminated against as a result. I'm tired and I'm scared for us, and that doesn't even begin to touch on the implications beyond our borders.

[violottie]

this is the way of the world, if you havent realised it yet:

human rights ❌ white rights ✅

diversity and inclusion ❌ white nationalism ✅

intersectionality ❌ white feminism ✅

anti racism ❌ white supremacy ✅

cultural appreciation ❌ white western colonialism ✅

equality ❌ oppression ✅

this is the world we live in. it never got better. it has always been this way. it still is this way.

[commiepinkofag]

Report Ziklag to have their 501c3 status removed.

[onenakedfarmer]

[panspanther]

Bad Faith

Saw a documentary called "Bad Faith" - it's about Christian Nationalism, how it has grown over many years into a well oiled machine bent on the destruction of our government.

This is a HOSTILE take over, and they advocate violence.

Watch it

[lordrakim]

Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term

Last month, Russell Vought sat in a five-star Washington, DC, hotel suite, bowing his head in prayer with two men he thought were relatives of a wealthy conservative donor. Continue reading Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term

[odinsblog]

Don’t get me wrong, I hope Trump loses, but it’s always worth noting how deeply and overtly racist Trump’s Christofascist base is

Far-right supporters of former President Donald Trump are having a racist meltdown after realizing that Usha Chilukuri Vance, the wife of Trump’s running mate J.D. Vance, is not Caucasian.

Usha and J.D. Vance first met at Yale Law School and married in 2014. She is the daughter of Telugu-speaking Indian Hindu immigrants who hail from Andhra Pradesh.

She previously attended the University of Cambridge and served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh, the latter when he was still a judge on the District of Columbia Circuit.

But none of these accomplishments—let alone her long relationship with her husband—matter to the MAGA faithful, whose votes J.D. Vance continues to court.

Almost immediately after J.D. Vance was named Trump's vice presidential pick, they showed their racist colors, with one person expressing shock that the Ohio Republican is married to “a brown.”

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[lgbtally4ever]

GEE, I wonder why so many of the younger gens don’t want to have anything to do with their parent’s religion?

[skeletonpandas]

[inthefallofasparrow]

How (And Why) The Right Stole Christianity |  SOME MORE NEWS

[rubyeyebabybat]

Had a conversation with my mother about the election. She had NO IDEA people were actually SCARED. She had no idea people (several I know personally irl) were now looking to get emergency tubal litigation or deciding to get a marriage certificate before their rights get taken away. She had no idea that people were genuinely afraid what this would mean for their lives. She was shocked that (although I have an IUD) I would ask my husband (who is super chill about it, btw) to get a vasectomy just in case the birth control fails. She had NO IDEA people were genuinely afraid. To her, it's just another election. It never even occurred to her that right wing Christian nationalism (she's agnostic, btw) would be fucking terrifying to people. How many people are blissfully ignorant? How many are actively malicious? It doesn't matter. The point is, I'm scared. For myself. For my friends. For this country.