Posted on 05/29/2022 7:39:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The victory party took on the feel of an evangelical worship service after Doug Mastriano won Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial primary this month. As a Christian singer led the crowd in song, some raised their arms toward the heavens in praise.
Mastriano opened his remarks by evoking Scripture: “God uses the foolish to confound the wise.” He claimed Pennsylvanians’ freedom would be “snatched away” if his Democratic opponent wins in November, and cast the election in starkly religious terms with another biblical reference: “Let’s choose this day to serve the Lord.”
Mastriano, a state senator and retired Army colonel, has not only made faith central to his personal story but has woven conservative Christian beliefs and symbols into the campaign — becoming the most prominent example this election cycle of what some observers call a surge of Christian nationalism among Republican candidates.
Mastriano has rejected the “Christian nationalist” label. In fact, few if any prominent candidates use the label. Some say it’s a pejorative and insist everyone has a right to draw on their faith and values to try to influence public policy.
But scholars generally define Christian nationalism as going beyond policy debates and championing a fusion of American and Christian values, symbols and identity.
Christian nationalism, they say, is often accompanied by a belief that God has destined America, like the biblical Israel, for a special role in history, and that it will receive divine blessing or judgment depending on its obedience.
That often overlaps with the conservative Christian political agenda, including opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage and transgender rights. Researchers say Christian nationalism is often also associated with mistrust of immigrants and Muslims. Many Christian nationalists see former President Donald Trump as a champion despite his crude sexual boasts and lack of public piety.
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Always tell ya what they fear, don’t they.
Yes, yes they do.
“Christian nationalism, they say, is often accompanied by a belief that God has destined America, like the biblical Israel, for a special role in history, and that it will receive divine blessing or judgment depending on its obedience.”
I’m not seeing a problem here...
Like white nationalism? It’s just another attempt to smear conservatives.
The new MSM angle of attack.
I like how the left invents new terms and then acts like they’re a thing.
“Christian Nationalism” huh?
Another totally made up wedge issue, manufactured by the AP to help the Democrats in their increasingly desperate, hopeless fight to hold majority’s in the congress in November?
Not gonna work.
As apposed to Godless communist democrats.
Here we go.
It’s as if Naton of Islam has been systematically embedded into america and the DNC campaigns.
Or , looked at another way,,
Social nationalism ( nazi) on the rise in all DNC campaigns
Marxist nationalism on the rise in all DNC campaigns
Secular Humanism nationalism on the rise in all DNC campaigns
Bat Crap Crazy Nationalism on the rise in all DNC campaigns
Baby Parts R Us Nationalism on the rise in all DNC campaigns
Globalism Nationalism on the rise in all DNC campaigns
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Prophet Jeremiah, told God’s PEOPLE, ‘to seek the welfare of the place you are going, it’s welfare and its security will make you dwell safely.’. That would make it a 3,000 year tradition for godly people to seek to help the nation where they live be secure, peaceful and built upon values.
Globalism Nationalism on the rise in all DNC campaigns
Yes, that’s an oxymoron
,,so is everything else that passes for prog logic.
Related...
Okaaaay...
Christianity was woven into the foundation of the US from the beginning. All the founders acknowledged this and celebrated it. America cannot exist as a self-governing republic without it, that’s why the Left hates and wants to destroy it.
And if his fellow candidate Dr. Oz wins the senate and wants to blur the line between his Muslim faith and state? What will Mastriano's response be?
"Merry Christmas" and "Saint Valentine's Day" are being erased from the public vocabulary. Easter Break is now Spring Break. A.D. is now C.E.
Every other religion is amplified as part of "diversity" and "inclusivity." Whereas Christianity is being shoved into the closet, the religion that dare not speak its name.
Thus any "Christian nationalism" is merely defensive pushback. When a group is under assault, it's natural for them to become conscious of their identity.
That same is true with "white identity." Anti-white racism is making whites feel more defensive about being white. Anti-Christian bigotry is making Christians more defensive about Christianity.
The anti-white, anti-Christian bigots are empowering the people they hate.
(“Christian Nationalism”)
People are setting themselves up to receive Satan’s anti-messiah.
One can watch the momentum build nearly every day.
All the cool kids will have the Mark of the Beast so they can buy and sell with all digital money.
Those fundamentalists with their Bible-thumping...
2 Peter 3:4-6
King James Version
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Peter%203%3A4-6&version=KJV
Wait. Is that supposed to be bad news?
America is not mentioned in the bible but the last clause goes for any country.
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