The goal is to make the state Christian controlled enforcing church doctrine with laws, then move that same thing to the federal level. Force the entire country and everyone in it to be their brand of Christianity. “Patriot Academy,” a far-right group that offers “biblical citizenship” training programs that encourage the Christian nationalist belief that government should be run according to Christian values. They forget how this works in the Islamic countries that are theocracy. There can no divergence from rules written by warlords in the deep past. It stops all progress of the modern age. Science must conform to what was known then, same with medical advances. It retards, slows, regresses society while the rest of the world moves forward. In the US due to religion, stem cell research was made mostly illegal. The rest of the advanced world kept finding ways to solve medical issues with stem cell treatments. Those treatments wealthy US legislators that past the laws against that research use when they need that treatment. Hugs. Scottie
Utah Speaker Appeared At Far-Right “Patriot” Event
The Salt Lake Tribune reports:
Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, who has made increasing trust in government a focus of his tenure as a legislative leader, is giving conflicting reasons for keeping his calendar of speaking engagements from the public after speaking at a Christian nationalist event last month.
In January, Schultz was a featured speaker at an event sponsored by “Patriot Academy,” a far-right group that offers “biblical citizenship” training programs that encourage the Christian nationalist belief that government should be run according to Christian values.
Rick Green, who headlined the event, is a close ally of pseudo-historian David Barton, who claims the authors of the U.S. Constitution did not intend for the separation of church and state and wanted to create an explicitly Christian country.
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Does this matter for a party which has fully embraced White Supremacy?
I really hate how these people have commandeered the word “patriot” and drained it of any real meaning.
And “Christian”. And “freedom”. And “liberty”.
I like JCF’s term “Christianist” for these people who claim to be Christian but don’t recognize the Sermon on the Mount. They refuse to read that squishy “red letter” stuff (those who don’t have any familiarity with the Bible, the words uttered by Jesus are often highlighted in red, at least in older Bibles).
And family and parental rights and states rights
Nowadays, *patriot* means TERRORIST .
A devout Mormon should be very wary of christian nationalists.
You’re right Nic, Mormons are only considered “christians” since Romney ran against President Obama. The mormons don’t acknowledge Jesus Christ as the savior, blah, blah, blah, just yet another “prophet” of god. Christianists can turn on them as quickly as they adopted mormons.
They like moving goalposts to get their way.
It doesn’t seem to hurt the devout Mormon Mike Lee.
I can’t think of a more christian nationalist than when he compared Trump to BoM hero Moroni. But I’m glad to add: most of my Mormon neighbors/friends laughed out loud when they heard about this comparison. And yet, Mr.Lee was reelected. (sigh)
Close enough,
I remember listening to evangelicals claiming Hitler was an atheist
Oops
Even were that somehow true, all Nazis were required to be christian.
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