Do you think that Christians are trying to overthrow democracy and replace it with Christian theocracy or is that just overblown?
Of course, these are sometimes called Christian Nationalists because many Christians are for democracy, but then there are those like Mike Pence and Amy Coney Barrett who are considered to be corporate theocrats.
For instance, days after the November 2016 election, Jeremy Scahill wrote that Trump is “a Trojan horse for a cabal of vicious zealots who have long craved an extremist Christian theocracy, and Pence is one of its most prized warriors.”
So it's not just a small number of Christianits that want to overthrow democracy when they were able to implement the VP.
He also quoted Jeff Sharlet, author of two books on the radical religious right in saying: “The enemy, to them, is secularism. They want a God-led government. That’s the only legitimate government. So when they speak of business, they’re speaking not of something separate from God, but they’re speaking of what, in Mike Pence’s circles, would be called biblical capitalism, the idea that this economic system is God-ordained.”
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/mike...s-history/
Of course, these are sometimes called Christian Nationalists because many Christians are for democracy, but then there are those like Mike Pence and Amy Coney Barrett who are considered to be corporate theocrats.
For instance, days after the November 2016 election, Jeremy Scahill wrote that Trump is “a Trojan horse for a cabal of vicious zealots who have long craved an extremist Christian theocracy, and Pence is one of its most prized warriors.”
So it's not just a small number of Christianits that want to overthrow democracy when they were able to implement the VP.
He also quoted Jeff Sharlet, author of two books on the radical religious right in saying: “The enemy, to them, is secularism. They want a God-led government. That’s the only legitimate government. So when they speak of business, they’re speaking not of something separate from God, but they’re speaking of what, in Mike Pence’s circles, would be called biblical capitalism, the idea that this economic system is God-ordained.”
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/15/mike...s-history/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
