Damned Christians

[Fake Messiah]

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

An article/plea by a Christian.

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/

[The Grand Nudger]

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?

[Mister Agenda]

Pretty sure progressive Christians mostly voted for Harris.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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:

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

[Fake Messiah]

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

[Fake Messiah]

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/

[Mister Agenda]

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.