The hand-wringing of my Catholic friends after Charlottesville showed how the progressive wing poisoned their Christian enemies into thinking losing was virtuous. It's not. Losing is losing. Luckily, the "principled" Never Trump religious I know have become very quiet in the last couple years, which shows most are now unwilling to play by their enemy's rules, and there is immense fatigue in supposed "allies" tut-tutting mean words.
For two generation Christians have gotten the football pulled away by people i power, and now they want to win. Charlemagne may not have always been a nice guy, but he got results.
Christians like any other Religion or Group should definitely Vote, and Vote for those that espouse their beliefs. However Others are Free to do the same. Some Christians openly Do Not Vote as part of their belief. So there is that.
Enforcing specific religious practices on others via government authority is Obviously flawed as in Muslim countries. So there must be an adherence to a Government Of the People and By the People, not by Any Central Controlling Authority. A Republic offers the best Choices, though No System is Perfect. I would also add no Church of Man is Perfect either, just look at the disagreements over practices, and even "within Christian beliefs. Communists and Muslims have solved the "Disagreement" problem by Enforcing their Beliefs on their Slave populations to a greater or lesser degree depending on the "Strictness" of their applied dogmas.
So I'm not going to agree to live in that extreme either under Any Religion or Dogma.
I think I agree with you in general but I think you don't frame the problem correctly. Support for Trump/MAGA Republicans isn't a move from neutral liberalism to illiberal Christianity. It's a move from the pseudo-satanic authoritarianism that characterizes the current regime to genuine liberalism. There is nothing neutral about the status quo; it's just that Democrats are extremely capable liars. And in the alternative, there's a big difference between using Christian values as a basis for law vs. theocracy.
So it's very important to reframe the debate away from neutrality vs. theocracy (the dem/RINO lie) toward the actual debate, which is whether we continue down the path of depraved anarcho-tyranny or return to foundational American values and common sense
The hand-wringing of my Catholic friends after Charlottesville showed how the progressive wing poisoned their Christian enemies into thinking losing was virtuous. It's not. Losing is losing. Luckily, the "principled" Never Trump religious I know have become very quiet in the last couple years, which shows most are now unwilling to play by their enemy's rules, and there is immense fatigue in supposed "allies" tut-tutting mean words.
For two generation Christians have gotten the football pulled away by people i power, and now they want to win. Charlemagne may not have always been a nice guy, but he got results.
Yes, I am an authoritarian Christian Nationalist, and that is a good thing and you will be happier under my rule.
Christians like any other Religion or Group should definitely Vote, and Vote for those that espouse their beliefs. However Others are Free to do the same. Some Christians openly Do Not Vote as part of their belief. So there is that.
Enforcing specific religious practices on others via government authority is Obviously flawed as in Muslim countries. So there must be an adherence to a Government Of the People and By the People, not by Any Central Controlling Authority. A Republic offers the best Choices, though No System is Perfect. I would also add no Church of Man is Perfect either, just look at the disagreements over practices, and even "within Christian beliefs. Communists and Muslims have solved the "Disagreement" problem by Enforcing their Beliefs on their Slave populations to a greater or lesser degree depending on the "Strictness" of their applied dogmas.
So I'm not going to agree to live in that extreme either under Any Religion or Dogma.
I think I agree with you in general but I think you don't frame the problem correctly. Support for Trump/MAGA Republicans isn't a move from neutral liberalism to illiberal Christianity. It's a move from the pseudo-satanic authoritarianism that characterizes the current regime to genuine liberalism. There is nothing neutral about the status quo; it's just that Democrats are extremely capable liars. And in the alternative, there's a big difference between using Christian values as a basis for law vs. theocracy.
So it's very important to reframe the debate away from neutrality vs. theocracy (the dem/RINO lie) toward the actual debate, which is whether we continue down the path of depraved anarcho-tyranny or return to foundational American values and common sense