Anonymous A started this discussion 3 months ago#129,869
It sounds like a hodgepodge of prosperity gospel, ultranationalism, “we hate gays,” and a general lack of empathy or actual Christian values.
It also doesn’t make sense of the U.S. There’s no state church. Clerical fascisms found in Portugal, Austria, Eastern Europe, and Turkey are aligned to the state faith and national church.
Even if the secularists and the other enemies are crushed, wouldn’t these guys all turn on each other? Baptist vs. Pentecostal vs. Catholic vs. Calvinist?
A black dude joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 2 minutes later[^][v]#1,395,103
The church already is a nation, it’s called the Vatican. "Christian nationalism" is some evangelical Protestant bullshit made up by racists who never read the Bible so they don’t know all the stories in the Bible take place in the Middle East and Africa.
boof joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,395,106
Well the movement in the US has been bubbling for many decades, being obvious in the 1960s enough for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater to remark on it and its menacing quality. President Reagan's win began the major foothold that it gained. Several propaganda factories (euphemistically referred to as "think tanks") worked and continue to work on the project to steer the US to effectively being a theocracy. By the way, the money did not used to have "in God we trust" on it. Today, one of those propaganda factories, the Heritage Foundation, is in control of the government.
> Well the movement in the US has been bubbling for many decades, being obvious in the 1960s enough for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater to remark on it and its menacing quality. President Reagan's win began the major foothold that it gained. Several propaganda factories (euphemistically referred to as "think tanks") worked and continue to work on the project to steer the US to effectively being a theocracy. By the way, the money did not used to have "in God we trust" on it. Today, one of those propaganda factories, the Heritage Foundation, is in control of the government. > > This music video is from 1993. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJly8Qk5sso
The Moral Majority flames out only because of scandals, sexual and theft, and infighting. It didn’t die. Nor did Christian Coalition after Ralph Reed’s felony conviction. They’ve gotten smarter and changed tactics. They had women front the anti PornHub and anti-escort sites crusades claiming trafficking and exploitation. So the escort sites went to completely out of bounds “.ch” domains.
If you look at the 1960s you had the evangelists, the Minutemen militia, the John Birch Society, and the National Review types. They weren’t as cohesive and fought in public. GOP politicians of the time tolerated the fringe but didn’t openly embrace it.