Are Christians trying to turn US into a theocracy?

[Fake Messiah]

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/

[Brian37]

Yes, they are. But it doesn't have to be a "theocracy", Stalin and Hitler pandered to a majority Christian base to gain power. And even Cuba is a Catholic majority even today. Religion is always useful to the powerful.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Since when have they NOT tried to turn the US into a theocracy?

Boru

[Cecelia]

*looks at Amy Coney Barrett*

Yes?

[no one]

Christards want nothing less.

[onlinebiker]

Ever seen The Handmaids Tale?

Scary shit, that....

[Rev. Rye]

Since when have they NOT tried to turn the US into a theocracy?

Boru

The Nixon era?

[The Grand Nudger]

There's never been much distance between us and a theocracy.

[Pat Mustard]

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/

Certain christians are, such as the slavery advocating southern baptists or the opus dei and related groups in catholic circles. And most mainstream christian organisations wouldn't object to a theocracy, at least up until their leaderships are carted off to a KZ.

Which is the ironic thing about a US theocracy, most of its victims will be christians because either they'll not be members of the right sect or, if they are, they either won't jesus hard enough or they'll do something proscribed by the Leader.

[Aegon]

....trying?