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[edit]- Introduction
- Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963) read by William Barber II.
- January 6
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- Andrew Seidel: "I was at home. I was watching and I noticed on the screen attackers had finally reached the Senate and were on the floor of the Senate. And as I was watching, I saw one of the assaulters carry a Christian flag. And it really became obvious to me, having written books about this threat, having talked about this threat for years, that it had been realized". (0:02:41-0:03:12)
- Establishing bona fides
- Christian nationalism
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- MTGs claim is not supported. Most Americans are not CN
- Lauren Boebert's opposition to separation of church and state
- Founders
- Formation of US government was not based on Christianity, but one of secularism. First Amendment protects freedom of religion and freedom from religion
- Antecedents
- Opposition to desegregating religious schools
- Use of abortion as a wedge issue to raise money
- Trump
- Evangelical support for Trump, "ordained by god"
- Abandonment of Christian principles for political power
- Trump as an archetype of the televangelist
- Racism
- Christian media
- Information silo
- Conservative, Republican agenda
- "Discipling" Americans as Christian nationalists
- Extremism, cultivation of outrage, fear
- Fundraising
- Fear and anger; highest donations
- 40 years of fear and anger have led to Christians being afraid of the external world
- Paradox and persecution
- CN claim country is both a Christian nation and yet under attack by the government and secular society
- Persecution narrative (Martydom of St. Sebastian)
- Faith validated by suffering (Martyrdom of John the Evangelist)
- Excitement of persecution (The Last Judgment)
- Christians lied to about persecution for political purposes
- No evidence they have lost freedoms
- Despite lack of evidence, Trump persisted in the rhetoric
- Trump played up tribalism, sword and the shield, us against them, politics of resentment
- Political violence
- Unite the right
- Armed violent movement
- Opposed to core Christian values
- Rise of warrior Christ
- Not spiritual per Bible, but physical violence
- CN play up violence of book of revelation
- "righteous use of force"
- violence used by CN to protect church
- Historical examples: Protestants drive Mormons from Missouri; mountain meadows massacre; first crusade; st. Bartholomew’s day massacre;
- Christian terrorism
- KKK. Cross as symbol of terror
- Religious racism. "God ordains injustice"
- Christian support for Trump
- Fanaticism supported by prophecy (Cyrus the Great)
- media failed to call it out
- Trump as the new messiah in dialogue with god
- Election denial
- facts don’t matter, secret source of knowledge
- CN leads directly to religious defense of stolen election
- Jericho March
- Stop the steal
- Became a Christian tenet
- January 6 attack
- CN believe god called them to storm the Capitol
- Jan 5, Rally to Revival (Jericho March)
- Christians marching around the Capitol like Israel marching around Jericho
- Walls of Jericho come tumbling down
- Symbolic message to government by CN-March around Capitol to bring the government down and reinstate Trump as their god-ordained leader
- Well organized, not spontaneous
- People went to churches, got on buses, drove across the country, and were taken to the Capitol
- TurningPoint sent 80 buses to the Capitol
- Alex Jones advertised it as "Fight for Trump!"
- Charlie Kirk tweeted mass invitation
- Primed to believe it was a religious war between good and evil
- Brian Gibson: "we’re going to take our nation back"
- People went to churches, got on buses, drove across the country, and were taken to the Capitol
- Parallels between CN and Nazi movement
- American religious historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez studied 20th century Germany in grad school, with a focus on the German Christian movement
- How could Christians participate in the Third Reich as Christians so that it was compatible with Nazism?
- Pastor Rob Schenck noted that Hitler was declared a "gift and miracle from god".
- Schenck later learned that when he was being trained as a minister, he was told to always consult the theological dictionary of the New Testament when he prepared a sermon.
- He wasn’t told that the editing author, G. Kittel, was Hitler’s theologian who gave him the justification for genocide
- Schenck later learned that when he was being trained as a minister, he was told to always consult the theological dictionary of the New Testament when he prepared a sermon.
- Reza Aslan: "One doesn’t derive one’s values from scripture, one inserts one’s values into scripture."
- Religious elements of Jan 6
- Prayers before the attacks
- Charlie Sykes: people were there to defend god, faith, and defend democracy while also overturning it
- Crowd carried crosses, Bible verses on signs, pictures of Jesus, Christian flags
- Historian Jemar Tisby: "They are praying in the name of Jesus Christ. They were using religion as a way to justify overturning democracy."
- Russell Moore: "Christian nationalism uses Christianity as a means to an end. That end being a form of authoritarianism."
To be added
[edit]- Berghoef, Christy (March 20, 2024). "Reviews: God and Country". ReformedJournal. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
- Callahan, Mary (February 26, 2024). "'God & Country’ explores rise of Christian Nationalism, seeks to activate audiences". The Press Democrat. Retrieved March 24, 2024.
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