We’re hearing reports to certain American military commanders viewing the Iran attack as ordered by Jesus. The need to revisit the account of Satan’s temptation of Jesus (along with Milton’s version).
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Tag Archives: Christian nationalism
MAGA’s “Get Out of Sin Free” Pass
Browning poem on the antinomian thinker Johannes Agricola helps us understand some of Trump’s Christian followers.
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On Claiming Christ While Hating the Poor
A Joe Fasano poem calling out “Those Who Call Themselves Christian but Seek to Divide and Conquer the World”
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The Late Tom Robbins on Jezebel
Tom Robbins, who died last week, has a take on the Biblical figure of Jezebel that helps explain some of the hatred against Kamala Harris.
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The Founders vs. Dostoyevsky’s Inquisitor
Christian nationalists have the same objections to democracy that Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor has to Christ’s vision.
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Pullman and White Christian Nationalists
In “The Secret Commonwealth” Pullmans description of the Magisterium sounds a lot like White Christian Nationalism.
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The False God of Christian Nationalists
Christian nationalists, as Milton would note, worship power, not the god of love.
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When Millenarians Meet a Pandemic
Mandel’s “Station Eleven” predicts the kind of religious language we can expect to hear from some as the pandemic deepens. It’s not pleasant.
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