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One correction: the autocracy these fascists are attempting to establish is not Christian at all.

Look at classic fascism and authoritarian regimes all along the way.

True Christians oppose such false Christianity but are silenced repeatedly.

Look at the peace movements, civil rights movements, and the anti-militarism and anti-nuclear movements in the USA through out the years. There you will find the Christians - often called progressive Christians.

Be careful not to cede to the fascists one of the most powerful mytho-poetic stories of struggle against imperial oppression that we know.

Seek out the Christians who - like the Confessing Church during the Third Reich - made common cause with many others to oppose oppression and evil.

This is a time for those who oppose fascism to be united - not divided and weakened by those who have co-opted and weaponized religion for the purposes of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism.

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Until there's a nation wide repudiation of the fascists' Christianity and the promotion of a non-fascist way to be Christian, it's just a no-true-Christian argued from both sides.

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Yes. Many people are Christians who are not fascist, but in a culture where Christofascism dominates, progressive Christians are dismissed. Media and public discourse focuses on those with some form of great wealth or institutional or populist leverage for power.

I think that while progressive and radically leftist Christians are a relatively significant group, they are small enough to have been institutionally suppressed and shut down, while also being ignored or perhaps despised by mainstream media and political or public discourse.

This seems to be changing in that progressive, leftist, or anarchist Christians are gaining in number and persist in efforts to connect with others. Much of my effort is one-on-one or in small groups. I don’t sense that many mainstream religious or secular institutions have any respect for Christianity, and prefer to focus on the demonic Christofascism which has stolen, distorted, and weaponized the Christian stories.

Epistemicide is the most important aspect of imperialism - allowing no story but the imperial story. And so all stories are emptied out of meaning, distorted, and the imperial story is trotted out in the quiescent of other religions or worldviews.

Of course the Democrats are as ecocidal and genocidal as the Republicans, but they dress fascism up in different drag for a different audience. The Republicans may bring the whole reality show to a screeching halt.

Frank Zappa had it right: politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.

And Ike Eisenhower has it right when he stated that the folks in charge were on course to”crucify humanity upon a cross of iron” in his 1953 “Chance for Peace” speech. Now we can more accurately say that we have crucified life on planet earth upon a cross of iron.

Even so, as Ram Dass pointed out: whether this day is the first day of the Apocalyspe or the first day of the Golden Age, the work remains the same…. To love each other and ease as much suffering as possible.

Of course love includes speaking truth to power, and fierce defense of all the more-than-human and human beings who have no voice at all in the self-terminating ecocidal machine of Modernity.

Thoreau was no Christian, but he had it right, too: we do not so much ride the railroad as the railroad rides us.

There is a better way….

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Yes, the Christian Nationalists began taking over the country in the 1970’s as the Moral Majority - and got Reagan elected. He opened the door for their ascendancy to power on many levels. Then an Opus Dei priest converted Newt Gingrich and he destroyed collaboration within Congress - it never recovered from his brutal divisiveness. Please see Gareth Gore’s recent book - “Opus - the Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church”.

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The word combination "religious advisor to Trump" used to cause me to guffaw, now it makes me retch from the looming doom of secular democracy in the US thanks to the impending Christian Nationalist Taliban takeover of the federal government.

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The media, Dems specifically, I'm not disagreeing but don't box them in, until nomination hearings, and anyone not supporting, what Vought calls, the present we're now living in, a post-constitutional era, to report the basic facts, conflicts, and agenda. The fkn website of PROJECT 2025, ya' know the one Trump knew nothing about? LOOK IT/THEM UP.

MAGA is pissed at the nominee for Surgeon General still freaking on masks and vaccines. I mean FFS. If you don't have a job, healthcare, or money, why? Just why go there?

Timothy Snyder's Thinking About....Substack has a three post Handmaiden Fails series and it's interesting to say the least. Worth your time.

Irony isn't lost on the religious zealots who are among the pedos, rapists, Your Body, My Choice, families only, excuse me while I go F my porn star friend...God is busy and he/she isn't interested in this mess and MAGA has nothing, to offer, that would entice him/her to be supportive, in the least, should he/she exist in whatever form you apply him/her.

Bondi is an arsenal of conflicts. Hegseth should stick to his tattoos and be OUT, hedge fund managers just seem not to be my idea of "working class" supportive, Gabbard will just toss Russia what Trump probably already gave them...OUT. It is a clown car but wait until one of them steps out of line with Trump's overall genius. It will get ugly fast.

Vought is five years younger than me and If he's all religious and family and all that good stuff I'll stick with what is working better. Yeah, I'm bitchy, right now. Thanks for the post.

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Jesus On A Jetski! UGH

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Who worked on Project 2025? Where are they now? How many are connected to Leonard Leo, Christian Nationalism or Opus Dei? Check this app.

https://thedemlabs.org/2024/11/23/trump-taps-project-2025-authors-app-maps-them/

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Yes, Opus Dei is a huge thorn in the side of democracy. Democrats need to read Gareth Gore’s recent book “Opus - the Cult of Dark Money, Human Trafficking, and Right-Wing Conspiracy inside the Catholic Church”. Leonard Leo is with Opus Dei and they have destroyed the Supreme Court with their corrupt appointments.

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Democrats (and journalists) are afraid of criticizing anything with "Christian" associations lest they be branded as "woke" godless communists. This is now the third rail of politics.

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For a long time, I'd say!

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Corporate media understands Christian theology, history, or denominations just about as well as they understand science. Neither topic is something you can cover in tiny sound bites in between ads. And when it comes to religion in the general sense, they're even more clueless. Frank Zappa has a mroe accurate take on the issue, and how many decades ago was that? I appreciate TFN for covering this.

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Thank you, Sharon.

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MSM has failed miserably. It has sane-washed Trump’s ascent throughout, ignored the really important issues, and never taken a stand against disinformation

It is now fragmenting and will likely not survive in its present form

We're living in an era where competing versions of reality clash daily, as digital bubbles and algorithmic feeds fragment our shared understanding of truth. Traditional authorities struggle while "reality entrepreneurs" market alternative frameworks, creating a battlespace where information warfare and normal discourse have become indistinguishable.

The other side has a lot more money and power

Only truth is not on its side. But truth can be easily masked by power, it seems

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Yes, we are sleepwalking toward an authoritarian "Christian" theocratic, kleptocratic state and The Fucking News is doing better reporting on it than the legacy media. Nicely researched and reported.

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Thank you, Robert.

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The billionaire media has zero interest in flagging anything. They hope to gain back the eyeballs and clicks that are fleeing now by pumping up the Greatest Shitshow On Earth™. This is the Talibangelicals collecting on their promissory note of delivering votes to Trumpov. For years these terrorists for Jebus have mouthed that "Donald's not a perfect man..." argument because he was perfect for exactly this: elevating them to the place where they can do actual damage. I'm left with only the foolish hope that he'll blow himself up with his arrogance and ineptitude and take them with him.

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If history's any guide, they'll martyr him then claim his message was whatever serves their goal.

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Honestly, I think a good first step would be to rebrand it to something other than Christian nationalism. Low info Christian voters probably think that sounds like a good thing.

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Christian Taliban has a nice ring to it.

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I think every term that includes the word 'Christian' is still confusing for the politically uninvolved Christian.

Excluding them from Christianity is the only way to be sure there's no confusion.

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Love that!

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That's while I always say "Christian" nationalism

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Unfortunately, air quotes don’t translate as effectively in print.

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I've called them Talibangelicals for years.

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We invented the term Televangeli$t$ back in the 80s when online was a 1200 baud modem and a bbs lol

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