Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) went after New York Judge Arthur Engoron, demanding he be “disrobed” for his $355 million business fraud verdict against Donald Trump last week.
“She was assailed for selling “Proud Christian Nationalist” T-shirts” What does “Christian nationalism” means, when Christianity is religion and not nationality?
Well first, “Christian nationalism” is a compound noun- the two words together have a different meaning than taking the definition of both and smashing them together. It’s similar to how a “grand jury” refers to a specific jury called for a specific purpose separate from a regular jury, not an extra-large one.
In this case, a “Christian nationalist” is a person who does not believe in the separation of church and state. They (erroneously) believe that America was founded on explicit “Christian” principles and that no other religious or secular thought should be tolerated.
Given the uneducated foundation of those beliefs, it’s wholly unsurprising that Christian nationalists also support the eradication of all conflicting religions (because “Christians” founded America), the elevation of white people over other races (because white “Christians” founded America), the subjugation of women through removal of reproductive and other equal rights (because white “Christian” men founded America), and the elimination of any kind of social safety nets (because rich white “Christian” men founded America).
I think you have it backwards. Christian nationalism is something they arrived at after already setting the foundation of political opinions.
They start by wanting to eradicate all conflicting religions, elevate white people over other races, subjugate women, and eliminate social safety nets in order to reverse engineer the ideology and history they need to support what they already want.
The idea that facism rallies around an idea society has grown decadent, corrupt an alienating to the everyman and must return to a country’s mythic golden age when everything was better. It applies a “true inheritor” logic that describes a model citizen of the nation which is distinct from those who are it’s corrupting influence that must be subjugated or expunged by a country’s “rebirth” .
While Christian nationalism is distinct it still shakes hands with others served by this model.
Embattled QAnon congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘openly cheated’ on her husband of 25 years with a polyamorous tantric sex guru and then moved on to another affair with the manager at her gym.
you are attractive by dressing nice and feminine, and you can be beautiful and modest at the same time
I wonder if Christians like her would consider this outfit modest? I mean I do, but would they? The neckline is low, the skirt is pretty short and the shoulders are bare.
Wild. It was only just yesterday that I’d learned of the phrase “caused me to stumble” within a religious context, courtesy of the “in my super-fundamentalist church back in the nineties” guy on IG.
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