Rightwingwatch

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I posted one article from the organization known as peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch, but maybe it would be good to have a discussion about some of the things that these extremists are saying. If nothing else, if you're not already familiar with this organization, I hope you will check it out. It includes speeches along with the videos of the primarily White Christian Nationalists who want to form a Christian Theocracy. It's depressing but we must be informed. They want to take away women's voting rights, ban birth control, take away the rights of the LBGTQ folks etc. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen in my lifetime. I was born during the McCarthy era, but I'm not sure that was as bad as what these people want to do to the country.

Some of us here disagree over some political things, but I think all of us would be horrified if much of this comes to fruition.

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch

I'll start with one.

While the MAGA coalition is currently fracturing over the prospect that President Donald Trump might join Israel in taking military action against Iran, religious-right activists have been nearly unanimous in their demand that the Trump administration lend its full support to Israel in the growing conflict.

The reason for this is that Trump's evangelical base believes that the Bible commands them to support Israel in order to bring about the return of Jesus Christ and the End Times, as former Rep. Michele Bachmann explained during a recent "World Prayer Network" program.

"This is the one thing a president can't get wrong according to the Bible, according to Joel 3," Bachmann said. "A president can't get Israel wrong. They can't. This is the one most decisive issue that will either take down a presidency or it will lift up and create great promise for a presidency."

"This is a spiritual battle," she continued. "Israel's at her greatest hour of need right now, every nation on Earth should thank Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu. We should all kiss the ground and be so grateful that Benjamin Netanyahu is prime minister and that he had the guts to take on this greatest evil terror state that has defined plans. And so the United States, in my opinion, we need to be decisive. This is not a negotiation. It can never be a negotiation."

I'm against us getting involved in the Iran/Israel conflict but these Christian extremists who are pushing for our involvement are frightening. They really believe it will inspire the so called insanity known as the Rapture. WTF!

Here's one more:

Last month, Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson announced that he is establishing a church in Washington, D.C. to take advantage of the "numerous evangelicals who will be present both in and around the Trump administration."

The purpose of Wilson's new church, according to Joe Rigney, an associate pastor at Wilson's main church in Idaho, is to properly "calibrate the Christians" in and around the Trump administration according to Wilson's far-right Christian nationalist worldview.

Wilson himself put that worldview on open display during a recent appearance on "The Auron MacIntyre Show" about the importance of establishing an "American ethnos," by which Wilson meant a set of beliefs and values rooted in a shared culture, language, and history.

Within his desired "American ethnos," Wilson made it clear that non-Christians will be second-class citizens.

"Would you be comfortable with deporting people of Muslim faith in the United States knowing that its practice is fundamentally incompatible and if they have their own communities, they would ultimately never assimilate into the United States?" MacIntyre asked.

"I would recognize that that's a very severe problem that we have to solve," Wilson responded. "I don't think that we can solve it by deporting them, but I would want to solve it by other means."

"This going to sound; well, I'll just say it anyway," Wilson continued. "If we continue to push for a Christian nation, I think we ought to say, 'Yes to church bells, no to minarets.' The public space belongs to Jesus. [Muslims] can't have a prayer tower calling for prayer. I don't think a Muslim should be able to hold political office."

"With the people who are already here, I'd want to address it in a way that would encourage abandonment of Islam, encourage evangelization and, in the cases of some, encourage them to voluntarily deport themselves," Wilson concluded.

If they feel that way about Muslims, what will they try to do to atheists? What can we do to fight this?

 

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Here's one more:

Last month, Christian nationalist pastor Douglas Wilson announced that he is establishing a church in Washington, D.C. to take advantage of the "numerous evangelicals who will be present both in and around the Trump administration."

The purpose of Wilson's new church, according to Joe Rigney, an associate pastor at Wilson's main church in Idaho, is to properly "calibrate the Christians" in and around the Trump administration according to Wilson's far-right Christian nationalist worldview.

Wilson himself put that worldview on open display during a recent appearance on "The Auron MacIntyre Show" about the importance of establishing an "American ethnos," by which Wilson meant a set of beliefs and values rooted in a shared culture, language, and history.

Within his desired "American ethnos," Wilson made it clear that non-Christians will be second-class citizens.

"Would you be comfortable with deporting people of Muslim faith in the United States knowing that its practice is fundamentally incompatible and if they have their own communities, they would ultimately never assimilate into the United States?" MacIntyre asked.

"I would recognize that that's a very severe problem that we have to solve," Wilson responded. "I don't think that we can solve it by deporting them, but I would want to solve it by other means."

"This going to sound; well, I'll just say it anyway," Wilson continued. "If we continue to push for a Christian nation, I think we ought to say, 'Yes to church bells, no to minarets.' The public space belongs to Jesus. [Muslims] can't have a prayer tower calling for prayer. I don't think a Muslim should be able to hold political office."

"With the people who are already here, I'd want to address it in a way that would encourage abandonment of Islam, encourage evangelization and, in the cases of some, encourage them to voluntarily deport themselves," Wilson concluded.

That sounds like a way to infiltrate the administration.

I remember David E. Davis. Once the editor of Car and Driver. Then he created his own magazine, Automobile, specializing in high end and exotics. No better way to rub elbows with the rich and famous and therefore become rich and famous yourself then to market to the rich and famous.

Works the same with the connected evangelical crowd.