Yet again, Christianity is useless as some sort of moral guide.

An article/plea by a Christian.

Quote:How do white Christians ignore Trump’s obvious racism?

The question is not if President Trump is a racist.

That question was settled long ago.

The receipts are in hand.

The real question is how white Christians can possibly choose to ignore the most obvious and simple explanation. Your baptism included no requirement to defend the emperor and his propaganda. The bread and wine Christians consume at the Table never includes a commitment to ignore the emperor’s racist and dehumanizing videos and memes to pledge our allegiance to him. That never was part of the deal.

I never will allow myself to normalize the racism of Christians. It doesn’t have to be this way. We could choose to believe that racism from the social media feed of our president is disqualifying. That shouldn’t be a controversial position for baptized believers who believe every human being is created in the image of God.

But for 81% of white Evangelicals, it is not disqualifying.

I never will normalize that. I will spend the rest of my life doing all I can to maintain my belief in God despite that reality.

It is never too late to change your mind.

https://baptistnews.com/article/how-do-w...us-racism/

Socially progressive Christian are being unchristianed as minorities and race traitors. This is what happens when we put god in the statehouse. I dont have any sympathy. They’re the dog that caught the car. What did they think would happen?

Pretty sure progressive Christians mostly voted for Harris.

(February 10, 2026 at 11:44 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Pretty sure progressive Christians mostly voted for Harris.

Probably the best way to determine if a particular Christian is evangelical or progressive (especially in the current climate) is to find out how they feel about this bit from Leviticus:

Quote:And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.

But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: 

Boru

First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress 'honored' by inclusion in 'Melania' film

Jeffress told The Christian Post on Monday he didn’t even know he was in the movie until after its release. The night of the premiere for “Melania,” Jeffress said he was attending a private event in West Palm Beach when his “phone started blowing up with text messages from people who had been at the premiere the first night of the film, saying, "You're in it. You're in it."

Jeffress recalled asking them, "’What are you talking about?’ And they said, ‘The new documentary on Melania.’"

Despite being caught off guard by the news, Jeffress said his inclusion in the film was an honor.

On Jan. 31, Jeffress urged his followers on social media to go see “Melania” and called it a “great movie everyone who loves our country should see!”

Jeffress said wherever she may be on her journey, he believes both the president and first lady are “very sincere in their belief in the power and the importance of prayer,” adding, “I’ve had the opportunity to pray for them publicly and in smaller gatherings, and they have always welcomed that and sometimes have requested it.”

He recalled one candid encounter in the Oval Office with Trump and an unidentified “highly decorated general” in which the president referred to Jeffress as “General Robert.”

“He said to the general, ‘You know, General Robert is more powerful than you are.’ And the general kind of had a funny look on his face, and the president continued. He said, ‘No, think about it. Every day Robert talks to the one who controls everything that happens in this universe,'” said Jeffress. “And I believe the president believes that. I believe he believes in a God who is in control, who is sovereign, and a God whose assistance we all need.”

https://www.christianpost.com/news/pasto...-film.html

Evangelicals won’t dump Trump over his racist Obama video

Most white evangelical leaders copied Rev. Franklin Graham, who ignored the racist post while praising Trump for “turning to God.” Others, like televangelist Lance Wallnau, reminded their followers that they love the president because “he says the quiet parts out loud.”

Plenty of other prominent preachers and pundits from the evangelical right chose to defend Trump outright. Minister Sean Feucht retweeted a post claiming Trump did it by accident. (While the White House initially deflected on the video before deleting it and blaming the incident on a staffer, the president has refused to apologize.) Turning Point USA executive Benny Johnson called the widespread outrage a “hoax.” Christian podcaster Matt Walsh denied the video was racist, claiming it was merely “edgy.” Instead they all spent far more energy freaking out over Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl, revealing they share Trump’s hostility to non-white people in positions of prominence and esteem.

The video clip’s content was “immediately familiar” to Robert P. Jones, the founder of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), who also studies racism and white evangelicalism. In his newsletter, Jones wrote that the “dehumanizing imagery” evoked a long history of “cartoons, jokes, and serious arguments about the superiority of white people.” As he told Salon last year, a large part of the reason why white evangelicals have long been Trump’s strongest base of support is that they support “the preservation of white supremacy.”

On Monday, the Pew Research Center published extensive polling data showing that white evangelicals remain Trump’s strongest base of support, with 69% saying they approve of the president. This admittedly is down from his 78% approval rating with this group in April, but there’s no reason to think his racism is a factor in the decline.

White evangelical leaders have been among the most enthusiastic in its support of Trump’s mass deportation policies. William Wolfe, the founder of the Center for Baptist Leadership, tweeted last week that Jesus “would support ICE and mass deportations,” adding, “If we want to save Western Civilization, we must become immune to the tears of liberal women,” who supposedly have too much empathy for immigrants. Popular Christian podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey has been scolding her followers not to be “duped by the anti-ICE propaganda” while noting that she also thinks the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 were “nonsense.” Right-wing Christian influencer Riley Gaines also insisted that people should “not let compassion” get in the way of supporting ICE — even as they were seizing five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and taking him to a detention center 1,300 miles away from his home.

As Peter Wehner recently wrote in the Atlantic, “Much of today’s evangelical world sees Trump’s viciousness not as a vice but as a virtue, so long as it is employed against those they perceive as their enemies.” It is increasingly obvious, I would add, that anyone who threatens white supremacy is among those enemies.

Animus toward racial diversity has been an unspoken but just as powerful motivator for the white evangelical movement as opposition to feminism and LGBTQ rights. They don’t like to admit it these days, and so some of their followers will occasionally get embarrassed when Trump says the quiet parts out loud. But no one should mistake the Christian right’s wish that the president would be more subtle about his racism for a larger moral shift against him. He is the same bigot he was when they first fell in love with him.

https://www.salon.com/2026/02/11/evangel...ama-video/

Most of them don't read their Bibles; they just know they're on Team Jesus, and they only really care about their team winning.

DoW Christian Service Draws Dozens of Complaints from Members, Contractors

Dozens of defense contractors and other active-duty service members received invitations from the Pentagon to attend a Christian prayer service next week, Military.com has learned, with sources saying that such gatherings have become the norm for the past year and change.

Recipients of the correspondence told Military.com that the latest email is especially concerning due to the image included in the email, which shows a cross situated above the words “SECWAR’S PRAYER SERVICE” on a dark background.

One defense contractor who has received these Christian prayer service invitations since last summer told Military.com that their concerns and others of their ilk are genuine. That includes potentially losing out on government work.

They said that even if the Pentagon claims there’s no rebuke for not attending, individuals who are invited still feel like they’re between a “rock and a hard place” and potentially could lose out on bonding and networking opportunities.

“I did find today’s email stark, depressing, almost threatening. Horror movie vibes,” said the source, who requested anonymity.

“You don’t actually need evidence of retribution to find fault with the leader of a government agency inviting his employees for a prayer service. It’s inherently discriminatory. It provides an opportunity for Christians to get face time and be in the room with higher-ups, perhaps interacting on a social level. Jews, Muslims and other non-Christians are not provided this opportunity,” they added.

Another U.S. Air Force veteran and military member previously assigned to the Pentagon told Military.com that they have seen numerous emails about such religious-centric services, “wondering if they ever intend to hold service from another faith during duty time.”

“It hasn't happened,” said the veteran, who also wanted their identity withheld. “Even for a 30-minute service the amount of manpower wasted across the Pentagon during these events is notable due to the inherent rank held by those assigned to the duty station.”

Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), told Military.com in January that about eight contractors expressed worry with such invites from the Pentagon.

On Friday, however, MRFF received more than 50 emails and phone calls from concerned contractors and service members who are among the organization’s 100,000-plus member clientele—roughly 95% of whom are Christians. It was the quickest influx of complaints MRFF has received in such a short time period, Weinstein said.

“Every time [Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth] does this, we get more and more people screeching,” Weinstein told Military.com on Friday. “Today, I had someone tell me that their section chief, who was an SES [Senior Executive Service]-level civilian, said, ‘Look, the boss wants it. You don't have to be a Christian. Why don't you give it a try?’"

One of the emails sent Friday to MRFF, and shared with Military.com, was from an Air Force veteran who served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and is currently a government contractor supporting the National Guard Bureau.

"I served, proudly, because I believe in the values espoused by the Constitution and that the United States strove, albeit imperfectly at times, to uphold," the individual said.

The veteran added: “I have watched with grown frustration as blatantly unqualified lickspittles are put in positions of authority based on loyalty to the would-be king and use those positions to strong-arm subordinates into taking part in quasi-religious (mostly White Christian Nationalist, if we’re being honest) activities with the implied message that failure to comply will cost careers.”

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2026...ctors.html

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Mott Community College president accused of 'proselytizing' for Christianity

A nonpartisan organization that advocates for the separation of church and state has accused Mott Community College President Shaunda Richardson-Snell of trying to convert others to Christianity while serving as president of the public college.

The letter from Americans United staff attorney Ian Smith said the organization had received a complaint claiming that Richardson-Snell made "proselytizing religious comments" on multiple occasions while serving in her official role at the public college. The letter cited one example, where Richardson-Snell asked a guest if he'd accepted "Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior," at an Oct. 13, 2025 event hosted by the college.

Perez Booth, a prominent Mexican-Indigenous cultural preservationist, said she was concerned about a statement Richardson-Snell made to their guest, Wayne Wilson, a member of the Navajo tribe, during the 33rd Annual Peace & Dignity Observance Sacred Ceremony.

Richardson-Snell asking Wilson if he'd accepted Christ was "despicable," Perez Booth said.

"It is disgusting to us, as people of the First Nations, that more than 500 years later, we as American Indians have to endure a Christian's continued intrusion on our spiritual rights," Perez Booth said during the board meeting. "And, I suspect, attempts of conversion."

During the October board meeting, Reyes raised a student's concerns about comments by Richardson-Snell regarding the standards for students' use of artificial intelligence.

"The president asked him if he was aware there was 'one truth,'" Reyes said during the board meeting. "She then started espousing her beliefs as they pertained to what that one truth was ... then further went on that there’s a struggle for the world and the devil was involved."

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...703018007/

Pentagon Pete Deploys Misogynist Pastor for Worship With Troops

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has invited a controversial pastor with misogynistic views to speak at the Pentagon’s monthly worship service.

Pastor Doug Wilson has pushed for a return to patriarchal values, including scrapping women of the right to vote. He told CNN in 2025 that females should focus on being mothers, noting “it doesn’t take any talent to simply reproduce biologically.”

In a Politico profile last May, Wilson said that American society, and government, should be governed by a conservative take on Biblical law and he wanted to see America transform into a Christian republic.

The deeply religious Hegseth is a member of a church affiliated with Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC), and the pastor is now opening a branch in Washington, D.C.

Wilson built his Evangelical church in Moscow, Idaho and now has a 150-strong network, as well as running a Christian publishing company, a Christian school and college. He spoke at the Pentagon on Tuesday, with the Pentagon’s X account sharing photos of Hegseth with Wilson.

Hegseth, who has been married three times, has made no secret of his support for Wilson and his extreme views. Last August, he shared a CNN profile on Wilson where he advocated for the return of laws against homosexuality and claimed that women’s priorities should be starting families and raising children.

“Women are the kind of people that people come out of,” Wilson said. “It doesn’t take any talent to simply reproduce biologically.”

In the clip, which Hegseth captioned “All of Christ for All of Life,” one of Wilson’s female congregation members admits she “submits” to her husband, while Executive Pastor Jared Longshore said he would support the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, to be repealed.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-p...th-troops/

Blaming 'Paganism' for Trump's Violence Fails to Reckon with Christian History

In a recent New York Times op-ed called “Donald Trump, Pagan King,” journalist and filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse highlights the apparent contradiction between the Trump administration’s violent “might makes right” mentality and Christian ethics that prioritize protecting the weak and oppressed. Woodhouse tells us that before Christianity “civilized” the West, Greeks and Romans—i.e., “pagans”—wouldn’t have seen anything wrong with harming people they had enslaved or allowing social outcasts to die. The Trump administration, in this portrayal, acts like pre-Christian and non-Christian people: brutish, unapologetic, savage—pagan.

This portrayal of the civilizing transformation of human morals as dependent on the spread of Christianity is a tale as old as time—but it just isn’t accurate. Christians have often been, and still are, involved in the forceful oppression of people across the globe; a fact that many don’t see as an abdication of Christian values, but rather its fulfillment. Alongside this reality, claiming that Christians universalized the moral message of the Jewish God, or civilized Greeks and Romans who enslaved, murdered, and raped those they conquered, furthers age-old narratives of Christian supremacy.

As scholars of religion (on RD and elsewhere) have been screaming from the mountaintops for years, religion is what people do; there’s no monolithic “Christianity” that we can point to that transformed the world. The narrative of a single, essential, universal Christianity is itself a myth, often deployed by Christians hoping to absolve Christianity of any wrongdoing, or by those in power seeking to enforce a specific “orthodoxy.” Christian proximity to, and exploitation of, power stretches from its origins to today. Other Christians may disagree vehemently, but that doesn’t mean they’re “doing Christianity wrong.”

We’ve seen this recently, when—echoing Trump’s first-term Attorney General, Jeff Sessions—Speaker of the House Mike Johnson evoked Romans 13—a famous passage from the Apostle Paul that encouraged his Roman audience to be subject to the imperial government. By claiming that immigrants are “expected to assimilate” and that “borders and walls are biblical,” Johnson wasn’t being un-Christian as so many have claimed; rather, he was enacting one of many strands of Christian thought and practice that already has a long history.

Christians in political power have often not sought to end oppression of the weak, but instead to legalize and justify Christian supremacy. The famous North African theologian Augustine, in his City of God, argued that empire was necessary and permitted by God so as to keep order until the end times. Laws enacted in the late Roman Empire by Christian emperors like Theodosius and Justinian restricted non-Christians and anyone else considered “unorthodox” from making wills, inheriting property, or seeking justice in court—unless they became a Christian. Christian Roman elites sought to do exactly what the Trump administration aims to do: urge cultural and religious assimilation, demonize perceived outsiders, and make a flourishing life impossible for those they deem un-Christian.

To claim that pre-Christian Greeks or Romans would have been bewildered by Christians telling them not to abuse enslaved persons, for example, overlooks important historical realities. Christians didn’t become abolitionists overnight, and most Christians were, in fact, deeply complicit in the perpetuation of slavery for centuries without seeing it as antithetical to Christian morality. Christian Roman emperors like Constantine passed laws allowing, for example, enslavers to murder their enslaved persons with impunity if they were abusing them in an attempt to improve their behavior.

If MAGA Christians are deemed heretics and treated as though they exist outside of the religious tradition, it becomes easier to dismiss their Christianities and overlook how they build their religious justifications or practices on a long, variegated, and (perhaps most importantly) shared Christian history.

Moving forward will likely require a reckoning with the racist and violent Christian histories that made our current political moment possible.

https://religiondispatches.org/2026/02/1...an-history