Christian Nationalists are mad at reporter Heidi Przybyla for accurately covering them (Livestream)
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- POLITICO reporter Heidi Przybyla has written multiple articles about the dangers of Christian Nationalists heading into the 2024 elections.
After describing Christian Nationalists using what she called "clumsy words" during an MSNBC interview, conservative Christians are now targeting her, in an attempt to muzzle coverage of their harmful movement.
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So basically, the US christian nationalists were so impressed with the Iranian theocracy, they decided to replicate it.
They would never admit as much, but that's a good description. Any oppressive theocracy would fit the same bill.
They are not only impressed, they are outright jealous. They want the absolute power like the imams have, they want their slaves, sorry, "believers" to be mindless drones, bowing to every whim they have.
American Taliban
@@dca4840 "Talibangelists."
Take my up vote and go sir.@@TimeSurfer206
Let us not forget that the nazis also called themselves Christian nationalists.
Didn't they burn bibles ?
@@ericbeech2652Only certain ones, but if you read the N*zi mission statement they're founded on Christian ideas. They had "Gott mit uns", God is with us, inscribed on their belts. The first treaty the party signed was the "Concordat" with the Catholic Church.
@@ericbeech2652 Never heard of that. But they did wear belt buckles with the phrase "God is with us". Keep in mind, the vast majority of Germans of the time were Catholic or Lutheran and they didn't just abandon their religion. Fact is, most Nazi's were also Christians.
But, then again, most Europeans of any particular social or political affiliation over the past 1500+ years were also Christian, so really it's more like a "couldn't be helped" sort of thing and not some proof that Christianity must lead to Nazi-like behavior.
It just shows that it's possible and Christianity/religion doesn't prevent it.
Wrong,
National
Socialists
@@arbitrarysequence
Never heard of that?
C'mon man!
Bubba done slept through history class
They are mad at Heidi because she is actually doing her job.
She's not part of the Fanfiction Community.
@@Xylospring exactly
Notice, too, that the Theocrats did not also go after Alexander despite the fact that he co-wrote the original article. The whole thing smacks of misogyny.
No she is not doing her job because the muslim are left out, bias, she got problem
@@timestorm0dreams291 true
A Mormon friend once stated that we are a Christian nation. I asked him what flavor of Christianity. He answered well, Christianity. OK, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, whatever. They all have significant differences. I said once established, the "Christians" in control will start to weed out bad Christian "sects". Do you know the history of your church?
Yeah, conveniently forgot why some fled to the Americas.
Yep, and those in the past who went against their own beliefs won't be allowed in heaven
Don't forget to ask about Orthodox Christianity as well. And clarify it as Ethiopian, Russian, or Greek. And what about the Coptic Church of Alexandria? There are a lot of varieties of Christianity around the world.
If someone uses "Christian" as a standalone identifier, it's often a keyword that tells me they only believe that modern evangelical churches are "true Christians" and all others should be excluded.
Being part of a religious minority, that boy oughta know better.
Mormons would be the first sect of christianity weeded out. Your friend needs to think it through.
"GIVE US POWER OVER YOU! GIVE US POWER OVER YOU! GIVE US POWER OVER YOU!"
-- Christian nationalists
I decline
@@occamraiser The problem is, many people won't.
No. Oh, why not? Because you are completely potty!
They're not asking, they're trying to take it.
@@onedroprule they've always been this way.
The "spiritual" aspect of religion has always been just a way to control other people.
Any legal brief or ruling citing the bible as justification for the ruling should automatically be dismissed.
And any religious person should be banned from government.
@@witebatman If they can 'keep it in their pants' when doing their job I don't see any reason currently to bar anyone from office due to religious beliefs or lack thereof.
@@witebatman Government should be a representation of the people so when the people are Christian it's completely okay for government officials to be Christian.
But government also has rules that need to be followed and some of those rules concern religion.
Banning religious people from government would also be a religious test and violate the US constitution.
@@witebatman
That's a bit much. People can believe whatever they want as long as they don't force their beliefs on the rest of us.
"...the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion..." - Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli
They don’t want to ban only same sex marriage. They want to ban interracial marriage also.
And then they will ban desegregation/integration ... gotta make sure those "bloodlines" stay pure at all costs , PLUS segregation also helps to reinforce the othering/dehumanizing of all their perceived enemies.
I wonder where they'd stand on the question of brothers and sisters marrying each other?
@@clickrickThey want it.
Another lie
@@lestercarvin4422
Tennessee didn't repeal the interracial marriage ban until 1978; this law explicitly removes protections on the right of citizens to get a public service in the state, across the board, with the justification in the original draft being discriminatory beliefs. Now public servants can refuse to do their job marrying people for whatever reason they fancy, after an amendment, because they said the quiet part out loud. Oh, and just in 2013 a big church pastor was openly talking about how nasty chocolate and vanilla go together, in a good ol boy drawl like he's got an IQ of awshucks. Fun fact, that pastor is in line with Branham-ism, which says original sin was Eve being naughty with the serpent and birthed half-evil-dna Cain who happens to be the ancestor of a certain race...
I'd like you to point out how you know it's a lie that they want to be able to refuse to marry different races. Cause if they wanted to prevent that they'd have made that part of the law.
They want religious freedom. they want the freedom to impose their beliefs on every aspect of your life.
The want the freedom to force their religion, and their is no right to be protected from religion
That’s called the government making an establishment of religion.
Nonsense.
@@saphireblue3563 As a Christian myself, my observation, and infact stated policy or a number of the conservative Christian organisations in the US is to turn the US into a theocracy.
That's exactly what they mean when they say "religious liberty". What they actually mean is Christian privilege. And what this video doesn't say is that these are the views of the average Christian...actually, yeah they are. They are in the south anyway. They think non-Christians should be second class citizens. I've literally had my sisters preacher say so. They think religious freedom means the freedom for THEM to impose their religion onto everyone else. It's 1984 stuff-freedom is tyranny and tyranny is freedom.
They are also attacking for being a woman that spoke out.
Yup
Seen and not heard, unless they are spreading the evangelicals bs, that is.
Behind every good man is a woman...just stay there, be quiet and nod in agreement with whatever I say.
@@tonyfanfarone sad but true. Religion sure does suck.
Bingo. I was thinking the same thing. In this patriarchy, women are easy targets since not a many people would defend its and we're socialized to cave and apologize.
Poor thing
If she makes them upset, she's doing it right.
The thing that kills me is that people are willing to leverage the actual personification of sin to drive Christian Nationalism.
very true
"I have accepted Jeethuth ath my Lord and Saviour, that meanth I can never thin again!"
Christ-Stain "Logic," at its best.
They are trying to bring the "end times" even if they side with the "anti-Christ" and hurt everyone. They think the rapture will happen before bad shit so they will do anything since they won't be here for it later.
Not surprising, considering religion is a hoax and a grift. They can make up the rules, as they go.
There is nothing christian about them or their movement - it's a fig leaf for fascism.
Hey, one of the Michigan voters here that protested Biden. I am absolutely voting for him if it comes down to it to keep trump away!
Thank you for your protest vote, hopefully Biden takes the message to heart. Thank you also for choosing to vote for Biden in the general election, because the alternative is far far worse.
Good! Thats how it should be!
Biden isnt the best but he damn sure is worlds better than trump. I dont know how u didnt see that in 2016 or 2020.
Thank you for participating in democracy and making your voice heard.
Thank you! Please convince others too.
Ok not American here, living about 9 or so thousand miles away... It's not about Biden, he's just the head figure. No party is perfect, by the way. It's about the party and more particular, it's about people behind too, that are not of the batshit dangerous ignorant variety. These evangelical nutters are dictators and are itching to install theocracy upon all. Vote well, for all our sakes!
Why do we "Atheists" get accused of not caring, when it appears that we care more than them?
We're also not supposed to know FuckAll about the Bible either, but guess which demographic scores higher with bible/theology questions?
@@kellywalker1664 Yes. I'm not saved, yet my Catholic friend doesn't know Mark from Mathew.
@@ericl447 Roman Catholics hate the Bible.
@@ericl447 Cheers! I'm going to start using that. "You don't know Mark from Matthew." 😂
Sorry but you are absolutely 100% wrong. If you knew anything about the Bible you guys are actually, from Revelations the first to openly reject Christ and the Bible. Revelations dictate that is one of the first signs of the end times !!! Good luck with that. I would say God bless but you might get offended.
"She didn't slander the nationalists, I do, but se didn't" love you man
Slandering someone holding us at gunpoint may not get us the result we desire.
@@CMA418 they ain't the only ones with guns to our heads and theirs isn't even the biggest, and also, no fear here what they gonna do take our rights and send out squads of armed men to kill us, they already are, the true powers that be won't let them gain power not good for profits, the God of profits is the gun you should be worried about these psychos are small potatoes, profits over people have been pressing its boot in our throats for 5000 yrs religion is just one of its tools
@@CMA418 They can only kill you once.
@@CMA418 Not slander. What Hemant said was tongue-in-cheek. Truthful reporting can never be slander unless you intentionally broaden the usage of the word, which is what they are doing.
@@CMA418 freedom ain't free. It takes courage to speak truth to power, even wanna be power.
Since when don't people have the right to be hostile toward religion?
these vile people want to destroy the constitution
You do realize that the practice of religion is very broad spectrum of ideas, and is mostly personal. As an example, charity is a very important part of religious practice. it is only the exceptions that make it to the news. Going to funerals helped me to find warmth and comfort, in times of emotional pain. I came to an understanding in recent years, that the Love, that the deceased expressed in their life, was a topic at every funeral. So now I understand, that the purpose of every one is to be a channel for some sort of Love. Religions should open the doors to express greater love. But that is not news.
@@yurei8 sadly, religions spend most of their time trying to enforce their rules on people whether they are believers or not and to oppress people who don't fit their image of what people should be like.
Anyway, whatever you get out of it doesn't justify the sheer hate and hostility they spread. That they're nice to dead people is supposed to move me?
They do have that right.
@@yurei8 I think I know what "love" is, but what the hell is "Love"?
Is your phone capitalizing it randomly, or are you doing that on purpose?
It's annoying.
Anyway, what's the big deal about the love that a dead person expresses? Was that person such a prick that they need to point out that he felt love too?
"Billy, as everyone know, was a huge asshole, but he did love his poodle."
"Channel"? What does that even mean?
I don't know about you, but I don't find talking about love to be so exciting or moving, because everybody loves something. What's the big deal?
Yeah- the red states, as in the case of abortion, have absolutely said they want to force their beliefs on other states like New York, California, and Illinois…
The fact that any women vote for trump blows my mind.
Just like the pre-Civil War South. Hmmm. 🤔
What about the rights of the precious , innocent , living unborn babies .
@@user-ki1un4jg2d A fertilized egg is not a person.
Quite a lot of women don't think abortion should be used as a form of birth control. It's not all men, don't over simplify it.
A murderer , like the guy who was recently executed in Alabama , is a sub - human .@@nsbd90now
Christian Taliban.
'Nuf said
Y'all Qa'ida.
More than 'nuff. No need to be redundant.
Get the correct terminology! TALIBANGENITALS
Like BLMers and auntie teefa
@@FQofNambour Talibangelists is the word I like to describe them. Love the "ban genitals" bit, though. LOL
"they don't know their own history"
They do. They're lying and they hope to enough people are ignorant about it that they can rewrite the past in their image, not just the future.
Facts!
History is not facts. History is a story told by a person or a group of people to support a point of view.
Rewriting history like it's 1984.
History is not about facts. History is a story that a person or a group of people tell to support a point of view.
"just one judge" is already not ok. we don't need ANY of them making absurdly harmful precedents
Exactly not one of these fanatics should have any position of power or influence
"HOW DARE YOU SHINE THE LIGHT OF TRUTH ON US???
"WE ARE DOING THE WORK OF GOD.
"THAT IS WHY WE HAVE TO HIDE, BECAUSE WE ARE PROUD OF WHAT WE DO.
"Oh, wait..."
"ARE WE THE BADDIES?!?"
oh if only, if only it were possible to expect self awareness from those explicitly running away from their inconvenient thoughts.
@@IndigoWhiskeySatan himself could tell them how he has led them astray, and they'd say he was lying.
That's Blmers and auntie teefa.
Your buddies
@@lestercarvin4422 No, these are your cohorts whining about the reporter
Vote blue 2024 like your life depends on it because it does. Vote for democracy. Vote for America.
Came to say the same thing. I’m not American, but this is horrifying, not only for the good reasonable people in America, but for the knock on effects on the rest of the world.
We survived both Biden and Trump presidencies .
We thrived during Reagan's presidency .
Mondale was the most dangerous candidate to run for the President , because he was so soft and would have let Gorbachev and the Soviet Union take over the world , and today we would all be in Siberian prison camps .
Reagan HAD to win the 1984 election .
This year's election is no big deal at all .
I may not even vote , but if you think Bernie is the best candidate to be the President , i urge you to vote for him .
@@user-ki1un4jg2d
We survived Trump because he had opposition and he had a great economy to coast on (that he destroyed) from Obama. Reagan did more damage to the country during his presidency than basically any other president in history except Trump and one or two others.
@user-ki1un4jg2d You say it enough you'll eventually be right
Jesus is returning soon
The recession is coming soon
@@user-ki1un4jg2d.........WHAT?! 😅I'm didn't understand... really half of that.
This is ALWAYS what happens when you allow unfair tax breaks to religion but not to science.
Once you make them pay taxes, then they'll demand to be heard and served.
@@jenna2431they already get heard and served.
@@jenna2431
So... it will be the same thing as right now, but we have more tax funds we can use?
@@jenna2431"Corporate America" has been demanding to be heard and served for as long as there have been corporations.
Actually, the tax breaks are not unfair. Every 401(c) organization, scientific or religious, gets the same tax breaks.
The problem is scientific organizations don't have a unifying ideology that can create a massive cult following of people whipped into religious frenzy. I guess that's unfair, but probably for the best.
Tax breaks are actually a good thing, because it gives the government a means of control. Churches are supposed to stay out of politics, or they lose their tax exemption. If you deny the tax exemption entirely, there will be no incentive for these people to behave.
I'm not, nor have I ever been a Christian (I was raised Jewish, and I have both Hindu and Chinese-Buddhist family members). While I've LONG had problems with some people, primarily on the right, have spoken about non-Christian and atheist Americans, it's only in recent years that I've feared for my own status as an American, as well as the safety of my niece and nephew (who are biracial). The right invited overtly racist and theocratic people into their party. I'm sure that they were clueless enough to simply use that as a tactic to win elections while thinking 'what possibly could go wrong?'. I've had people on the right ask me if I understood that not all Republicans are fascist or theocratic. I simply replied with the quote 'The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." Tolerating these dangerous and hateful people in your own party has the same result as promoting it.
My problem is i have seen and known far too many people on the "other side" with their own dictatorial, hypocrirtitical madness and they're never called out. You can badmouth the GOP all you want, but so much as try and critique their opposition, and social media engines delete it.
Well they have a right to SPEAK about them, but that is different from imposing will upon them.
The Republicans who claim they are not like the racist, fascist, bigots, but still vote for them, are holding the door open for them. And above that door it reads "Arbeit Macht Frei".
Surround yourself with safe people only. 💙
According to their Bible, if a person in your congregation is committing a sin and you do nothing to correct them then you are a participant in that sin.
😆 They are upset that someone exposed their plans. They need to be called out at every turn.
This is wholly fictitious, made up by the left.
Project 2025 sounds like a plan to institutionalize the next 'dark age!'
It's worse than that.
The original Dark Ages happened because of the collapse of the Roman Empire by enemies from the outside. The church was the only organized institution left after the secular institutions disappeared.
These guys want to destroy our secular institutions and replace them with religious ones. They have become enemies from the inside.
Project 2025 is actually just a new name for nazism! If you pay attention to what Hitler said & did during his run to power, it’s very similar to what tRump has been saying & doing! Really dig into the treasonous Project 2025 to see!
explicitly and exactly that.
It is.
It's exactly that.
"We'd like you report this person for slander! They called us evil, immoral child graping deaf cultists!"
-"My, that's horrible! What caused them to say such lies?"
-"What? No. We ARE all those things. PROUDLY."
-"Then... what's the problem?"
-"Well, we CAN'T let people KNOW we are those things! That makes us LOOK bad!"
Exactly this. 💯
Some of these folks would crucify Jesus again if he spoke against their oddball creeds
That's probably why he's taking his time returning to Earth. 😂
I doubt you will find ANY Christian that won't get upset if you criticize their faith.
Bur, we MUST do so.
Jesus Christ didn't get upset with those whom killed him.
HE SAID, "Forgive them father, for they know not what they do."
He asked for forgiveness from a RUTHLESS AND VENGEFUL GOD.
Maybe if he had said to his father to smite the evil bastards, we would not have an idolater tRump parading around acting as though he is God, these days....
I'd prefer to criticize people's problematic actions and words; if the people whose problematic actions and words are being criticized, then say that their actions and words are because of their faith, _then_ criticize their faith, or at least their interpretation of it.
No person who has breathed a million breaths should have their right to medical choices put below the rights of an entity that has yet to breathe one breath.
No person who is going through IVF treatment, and has created embryos with the person of their choice, should be denied the right to carry those embryos to term if they can possibly do so; if the sad event of a miscarriage happens, there should be NO PUNISHMENT AT ALL for the loss of any embryo(s). No one goes through the difficulty of IVF treatment for unwanted children; the embryos are wanted, the parents _want_ the embryos to become children, and due to medical circumstances no one asked for, IVF is medically their best hope of becoming parents. Don't the christian nationalists want people to become parents??? I wonder what the statistics are on how many christian nationalists have undergone IVF treatment?
Not really.
Christian Nationalism is not about your soul. Christian Nationalism is not about a relationship with God. Christian Nationalism is about your relationship with the government. Christian Nationalism is about power on earth. Christian Nationalism IS Christo-Fascism.
The god idea is about a lack of reason. Nationalism is its own subreligion. Nationalism can exist outside the god idea. My friends will divide Christians, as if that is a worthy process, into good and bad Christians, not stopping at, they all have the same thinking disorder. The god idea is ridiculous. So the label Christian is all encompassing when evaluating rationality. We don't need to know their political ideology to understand, they lack reasoning skills. We can just accept, some humans are quite gullible and do not require evidence to accept ideas. The god idea is just something that can be accepted like invisible Universe Farting Pixies. The god idea is just empty, fill in the blank, whatever you wish it to be. So we have crazy humans pretending their own personal god idea is true, real, and gives them the ability to tell you what their personal god wants from you. The god idea is the problem. Humans are stupid, it isn't their fault. If you want bad human ideas to go away, you attack the ideas. The god idea is the most dangerous idea in strong need of attack. Look at what the god idea is doing in Israel/Gaza. Without the god idea, none of that would be happening.
OK. So, when does the First Amendment come into play? "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion", which I see as there can be no laws passed based upon religious principles.
Fascists simply ignore it. Laws don't matter when enough fascists are in enough positions of power.
@@Julez60 lets get something straight - beyond all the fuzzy understanding all that fascism is - is turning the activity of government into a criminal organization . That is all it is - sometimes you hear the term mafia - state - same thing . Forget all the symbols and references - it is handing your society to criminal thugs to run - what could go wrong ?
A Christian think tank. That's hilarious. 😂
😂😂😂
It's definitely a contraction in terms.
Like the term "military intelligence" -- it's an oxymoron.
(oxy)moron
If religion doesn't have a monopoly on morality, then, science, atheism and secularism don't have a monopoly on thought, either. Christians can think.
"There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government." - Trotsky
Didn't one of his communist comrades pick his brain?
I remember watching Christian Nationalism coming into the church back in the 80s. It never quite sat right with me when they talked about "manifest destiny", where the Christian god had chosen the white believers to brutally subdue natives and expand across the continent, like they read that Israel did in the Bible with many stories of absolute genocide, mass rape, and slavery. Even the founding fathers also describe how much the church wanted to force their beliefs into the government back then, and how the founders had to push back hard. It's a cult that changes the faith from a personal journey of transformation and good deeds into an authoritarian government that will please their god by being an army that destroys their perceived enemies. The letters from these groups to Politico are "gaslighting", a favorite Trump approach of throwing up a wall of flak to distract from their own ick.
So many monarchs had contentious relationships with the church, as they felt that they needed the 'mandate of heaven' to convince the masses of the righteousness of their authority, but were constantly battling to ensure that they weren't 'merely' a puppet for their religious handlers.
Religious intrusion into politics has been a constant theme for thousands of years.
Exactly historical accurate accounting is exactly , what their always trying to change the actual history..into the white washed Christian nationalists Theocracy Dominionism minded political leaders extremists are always trying to white wash it every time.
If you haven’t already, read Jesus and James Dean . It fleshes this out.
That was wrong. It’s Jesus and John Wayne. Sorry.
@@knittylane3016 I was wondering what was going on. Couldn't find nuthin' for Jesus and Jimmy Dean ;)-
This response is straight from the religious right's playroom. Anyone who tries to check their efforts to impose control over others is attacking them.
They actually do believe in Sharia Law, they just spell it differently.
My favorite comment today!!
Not even remotely.
@@saphireblue3563 How is a society legislated and controlled by religion not akin to Sharia?
@@jon_r_gilbert That's a very broad question. If the two religions are widely different, it is not the same at all. Islamists say that in fact, sharia has nothing to do with their religion. There is a big difference between a culture or religion that says women who commit adultery should be stoned to death and one that says women should have equal rights.
Christianity is not based on the old testament, which is very brutal.
@@saphireblue3563 So much for your 10 Commandments then, I suppose.
6:45 Question: If our rights "come from God", why do we need a constitution?
To paraphrase Captain James T. Kirk: What need does "God" have for a gun?
First, it's "why does God need a starship"
Second, the point of saying "rights comes from God" in the Constitution is to legalize the 18th century liberal idea that rights are inherent and not granted by Kings, which was a radical idea at the time.
@@dukebanerjee4710 The Constitution doesn't say that.
@@dukebanerjee4710Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that rights come from any deity.
@@Positive916technically, "the Creator" is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, but that's what many of the Founders, being 18th century liberals, would have thought.
@@dukebanerjee4710 you might want to look up the word paraphrase in the dictionary
Why don't the middle eastern peeps do enough to stop SIS? Why don't Americans do enough to stop Christian Nationalists? FELLOWSHIP
I never thought in my lifetime that I would see us go so backward.
I know, right? :/
We've been going backward since the '70s. Sure there have been progressive social movements since then, but the ones actually acquiring power have been regressive.
@@kellywalker1664 Since 1950, actually.
The Republican Party has been slithering down the slippery slope towards installing a christo-fascist dictatorship in America for decades. In 1950 Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph R McCarthy used fear-mongering about communists and socialists to attempt to install an authoritarian regime in America. This was all of 5 years after Americans had fought and died to help protect the world from Adolf Hitler's totalitarian dictatorship.
Then Republican president Nixon literally tried to steal an election, and was pardoned by his vice president instead of facing justice.
Then Republican president Reagan undermined America's middle class and lower class citizens in favor of moneyed interests and corporations.
Then Republican president George Dubya Bush stated IN PUBLIC, TWICE, that "This'd be a whole lot easier if this was a dictatorship, just as long as I'm the dictator!"
And now the Republican Party and Mitch McConnell have dumped Trump upon America.
i don't think people ever change - they just change tactics.
@@hm5142 Depends. 🤦🏿♂️ Can't believe I just used that word.
Anyway, honest people who realize that their personalities could use some tweaking usually can make needed changes.
Unfortunately the sociopaths and malignant narcissists are frequently delusional about their toxicity, and absolutely, deliberately refuse to be honest with themselves.
Those toxic types don't change, and worse yet they throw frequent temper tantrums trying to force people and the world around them to change to fit their cancerous egos' fantasies.
Trump is basically a toddler throwing frequent temper tantrums, and it's sickening to watch the Republican Party acquiesce to his squalling, yowling and whining.
Tax the church
Tell us why churches should be taxed or not taxed.
@@lindahoganson8721 "Bob" pays all his taxes, therefore his church is the only true false religion. Praise "Bob".
@@lindahoganson8721 When a church starts pushing politics from their pulpit, telling people to vote a particular way, when they encourage people to be bigoted against LGBTQIA+ people or against interracial marriage, when they teach that women should be subservient to men, yeah they should be fucking taxed. No one should be tax free if they teach bigoted garbage like that.
When churches involve themselves in secular politics while televising to millions of tithing believers, they should be taxed like other businesses, because in effect, that's what they've chosen to become. The church's tax-free status draws con-men like flies to a honey-pot.@@lindahoganson8721
Wow, a letter accusing her claim of inaccuracy, all of two sentences later affirms that they believe rights came from God.
The lies about their persecution are over the top.
Welcome the coming oligarchy based on "The Handmaid's Tale".
They don't care what type of authoritarianism just as long as they get rid of all the democracies.
Under His eye. Blessed be.
@@shaggywannabe Blessed be the fruit. May the Lord open.
From the UK. It's insane what is happening in the USA .
It's not happening. This is pure left wing propaganda.
Down right scary for us all. We have to fight together. Keep speaking up, we want to help each other, or we may lose somehow. They are already in play for another attack when democrats win. Project 2025 is a joke
It’s embarrassing to those of us who live in the United States and can see it is crazy.
I'd also worry about the UK....
I grew up with Christian nationalist rhetoric. At the time it made sense to me, because it was posed as effectively Jesus running the government, and what could possibly be better than that? When I got older, I realized there is a substantial difference between a government actually run by God and the government run by people who claim to be God's representatives, which is what we actually have in the real world, and even as a Christian, I saw how incredibly dangerous that was. I think the majority of Christian Nationalists are a Christians who never had that revelation. Being led around by a lot of political actors who never needed it, because they always knew that they were the ones that wanted power.
Hey, if God shows up, most people would probably be okay with a religious government. Until then, I'll go on assuming politicians are just as human and fallible as I am.
Well said. It's frustrating to me how difficult it is to point this out to people.
I think part of their rejection of this (in some cases) stems from it brushing dangerously close to other admissions.
One person told me that she didn't think God would allow someone corrupt to speak in His name and falsely leverage His authority like that. I tried to explain to her that this happens _all the time._
It makes me wonder if the reason why this is rejected because it brushes too close to the acknowledgment that there might not actually be ANYONE genuinely speaking for God. That it might be people pretending, all the way to the top.
@@leyrua Yes, it can definitely set you down a scary path, I can say from personal experience. I still consider myself a Christian, but I've had to deconstruct a lot of the narrative I grew up with. At the beginning I considered myself to be on a dangerous path, but eventually I realized there was never any special safety in "following God's commands" because it was always people just trying to figure stuff out. I've now accepted that taking responsibility for my beliefs and actions and using real-world resources to inform them is the only reasonable thing to do, despite how dangerous or scary it might have felt to my former self. But it's a difficult journey to get to that point.
@@leyruaHe didn't write one character of "His" Book!
@@leyruaThey have not one lick of concern about how destructive that may be: To others--or, even themselves.
They like being led: Unfortunately, that's coming from a bunch disguised T-Rexs!
“[T]he enslaved African race were not intended to be included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration; for if the language, as understood in that day, would embrace them, the conduct of the distinguished men who framed the Declaration of Independence would have been utterly and flagrantly inconsistent with the principles they asserted; and instead of the sympathy of mankind, to which they so confidently appealed, they would have deserved and received universal rebuke and reprobation.” Chief Justice Roger Taney, 1857
Rules and laws for thee and thine, but not for me and mine. (A majority of the American founding fathers)
Taney's opinion in "Dred Scott" was one of the factors ultimately leading to the Southern states starting the War of the Southern Rebellion. And, for her part, the ex-governor of South Carolina (itself a Rebel state) chooses to ignore this fact. Given the opportunity, she would take what Taney wrote (which words you quoted) and make them the rallying cry for a new Rebellion. Only this Rebellion would be expanded in terms of both geography (as the postmodern Rebels are, regrettably, not limited to the South) and scope (as the targets would also include women, atheists, humanists, progressives and members of the LGBTQIA community, in addition to people of color-in other words, everyone who is not a Theocrat). Let Taney's words stand as a warning to all of us.
@@thomash.schwed3662 Chilling, but sadly true in many of their minds.
I'm an atheist. I believe in religious freedom because it protects both people's right to believe, and my right not to. Government and religion both work better when kept separated.
For Christian Nationalists, the phrase "religious freedom" only means that religion should have the freedom to tell the rest of us what to do.
I’ve got no problem with people being religious, or even going to services (though in my experience the Catholics do like to talk) but being forced on people? Nope. And I’m in England where we have a state religion (who go on slightly less than the Catholics).
@@gregmark1688 That is not true. They are big on religious freedom for everyone. And no, they do not tell us what to do.
@@saphireblue3563 They're big on freedom for the SAME religion.They're not so fond of Islam, now are they? That's not "religious freedom', it's religious bigotry. And ALL they talk about are all the laws they want to pass to prevent sinful behavior. They want to tell everyone how to live.
But then, you clearly do not understand the phrase "Christian Nationalism".
@@gregmark1688 No that is not true. They are big on freedom for ALL religions, they just don't agree with them. They might want to convert them, but they do not want to punish or ban them. I personally disagree with them. I don't respect any religion that sacrifces animals to God. The Christians are more liberal about that than I am.
I do understand the phrase "Christian Nationalism". According to what she said, it means they think their rights come from God, not from the government. That is ALL Christians, and, by the way, all Muslims and Jews also.
Probably safe to assume that they wouldn't have seen it as a real apology unless it was just her talking meekly with her head down, tearful, laced with statements of faith and parroting of propaganda.
And they would STILL want her to lose her job.
It wasn't an apology. It was a clarification of her reporting and a rebutting of the criticisms.
That being said, I don't think that she should have done so, because anyone reading the article in good faith would realize that her language was only clumsy if her purpose was to completely avoid any potential misinterpretation or gaslighting by the Christian Right. There was no need for her to go on the defensive and she had nothing to apologize for.
As an ex-Christian, this isn’t surprising.
As social creatures we are hard-wired to feel empathy, and are inclined towards altruism and compassion. That is the foundation of moral-ethical thinking and development. Nothing supernatural or metaphysical needed. To not feel empathy is a significant pathology-- a sociopath. The whole "Original Sin/we are ontologically inclined towards the bad" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. And frankly, it seems like a type of child abuse to raise one thinking that of themselves.
I agree.
Mutated--badly....
I love how extremists that are being spoken out against suddenly become the crusaders for "misrepresentation" about the whole group. Lol "You cant smear all of Christianity because of a few bad Christian actors," said the bad Christian actor! WTF.
A portion of their power is dependant on this stuff staying secret
There are several Christian claiming religions that honestly believe they are meant to take over the US Government so this should not really be a surprise. I don't know if they are still teaching it, but the mormons taught this during the 70s and early 80s as part of regular Sunday services. No caps for them, they don't deserve that much recognition or respect.
We need more people to talk about project 2025. I would love for a CZcams personality to go through it point for point. And every day do a segment on another bulletpoint of it. My hunch is that there's a lot of people who don't understand everything that Christian nationalism constitutes. Fun fact, Tony Perkins believes black people are a retrograde species of humanity and follows teachings of Rousas Rushdoony who believed slavery was "benevolent" and believed in the reimplementation of the slave trade. Tony Perkins has had a consequential influence on Mike Johnson as well. Oh, also! Do not applaud those uncommitted voters. They have no intention of voting for Biden in November. I live in the county the majority of them are from and some of them see a path for voting foe him but under the conditions he stop supporting Israel. Which he's not gonna do. And he's the foreign policy expert, not them. But a lot of them say they're not gonna vote for him. We'll see how November goes but Rashida Tlaib said "there's plenty of names at the top of the ticket". These people aren't to be applauded.
You paint with quite a broad brush ... perhaps the same brush I use to paint the democrats?
It's funny how much the Christian Right overlaps with white supremacists. So much for religious "morality."
@@ron88303 Since when is pointing out the actions these christ nationalists ‘painting with a broad brush’?
@@ron88303 that's a stretch. I'm not even sure where that line of thinking came from in response to what I said. The "broad brush" came out as a buzz thing a little while ago though so I'm guessing it comes from that
@@AuntieMamies every opposition is a mirror image with this crowd. They'll scream about post modernism and nakedly embrace it at the same time.
If there Is a GOD, there should be no GOP. If you love GOD, get rid of the GOP. Vote .
DNC, too: Later on, I'm going independent--given that our system somehow stays intact
A news reporter should camp out at Mar-a-Lago for 2-3 months every Sunday an observe if Trump leaves to attend Church.
There is a thing in the Bible about praying in the closet or something. Idk if that's the best use of time and resources
@@jamesonrosen1773 Well Sunday is the day to praise the Lord, right? I mean he did make a day to worship him in the week, so which rule supersedes the other rule?
@herbtapp3031 there is another thing in there about wherever two Christians are that's enough or something.
It's a big book of pick and choose. There are a lot of loopholes.
And the sabath is actually Saturday, just as an underline to how easy it is to do or say whatever based on their book.
@@jamesonrosen1773 I quit going to church at 16. I read the Old Testament all the way through twice. Bunch of Fables put together in a Book. In my opinion
@@herbtapp3031 fables, legends, stories told to others for generations...it'd be funnier if it held less influence
Hemant. You need to look into the 7 Hills Theology and the NAR movement. These are the groups leading Christian Nationalism today.
Yup or what I s known as the 7 mountains mandate doctrine..
Hemant knows about the 7 mountains, he's spoken on it before.
"…endowed by their Creator…" Quetzalcoatl? Brahma? Shiva? There’s just sooooooooooo many to choose from!!
The Dagda
Nah, they were created by My Mom. He's a cool guy.
Hail Saoshyant LOL
Flying Spaghetti Monster. Have you been touched by his noodley appendage? 😊
I still find the great green arkleseizure the most logical and consistent explanation for the creator of the universe.
"I can't be smearing Christians because you're not Christians."
I mean, I'd say that. But I don't have a job at Politico.
Can the Declaration of Independence be used in court?
The Declaration of Independence is not used as a legal precedent, as it is not a case or decision of the courts.
A lot of Christians
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Don't forget ISIS?
They’re like stop telling the truth about us, it doesn’t look good. 😂😂
I met God.
She's Black.
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God seems to be taking an unhealthy interest in America.He seems to be ignoring the rest of the world
Great video, they need to be called out like this more!👏👏👏
These people don't understand that "natural god" and "natural law" are philosophical terms. It means that rights or values are inherent by virtue of human nature, and can be universally understood through human reason. It does not refer to the Christian god.
Several of the Founding Fathers were Deists. They believed in a higher power, but that power could be understood through examining nature and reasoning from that. The Bible was not required.
(It does not refer to Aquinas' version of the term. It refers to the Enlightenment version of the term. They are very different.)
To me natural law refers to something like the law of gravity. Gravity is what makes you fall, you can't defy that law.
@@stevengarman4848 there are many definitions to that phrase, I just wanted to point out that they had a definition that is uncommon today.
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
"The government of the United States of America is not, in any sense. founded on the Christian religion."
"Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man."
"Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies."
"The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation"
Thomas Paine
James Madison
"Christianity neither is. nor ever was a part of the common law."
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."
"Religion and government will both exist in greater purity the less they are mixed together."
"The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries."
Thank you for this information. 😊
Christan Nationalists need to be reminded that our ancestors came here for religious freedom. Not only their beliefs but all other religions. Also, according to the First Amendment, government shall not establish a national religion and cannot force one religion over others onto the American people. If politicians apply Christianity over other beliefs, they need to be removed from office. And, any religious "leaders" (and I use the term ironically) who push their religion onto others, especially minors, should be stopped or defrocked or whatever term applies. Although minors, they are still American citizens whose First Amendment rights are being trampled. Fight back, parents and minors!!
The Puritans, the source from which christian nationalism originates, lived in Holland, where they were free to practice their religion. They came to America because that was not enough - they wanted to be free to persecute everybody who did not belive as they did.
@@MartijnHover nice to hear the non grammar school narrative. 🫡
It's a myth the Puritans were fleeing religious persecution. No one wanted their theocratic garbage, so they left Europe & came here. They wanted to establish a theocracy, & almost did, in the first colonies.
@@DrachenGothik666 Their idea of "religious freeedom" was indeed that they should be free to persecute others.
The Declaration of Independence has *four* references to some sort of divinity, not tons of them. They're all deistic in nature--not explicitly Christian. None of them actually matter as the Declaration is not law or even legally binding in any way. This will probably annoy some people, because the Declaration is normally considered a "founding document", but it's worth considering its true nature for a moment... The purpose of the Declaration was to galvanize colonists who might have been on the fence to join the cause of independence. That makes it propaganda. no matter how revered it is as part of our history.
The Declaration of Independence isn't legally binding, the Constitution is legally binding.
"How dare you accurately describe reality!?! My bookclub is dedicated to never doing that!"
"Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four."
We all know the hymn "Onward Xtian soldiers…" Now all these people need is generalissimo Trump.
All the more reason slander and mockery may not be the most effective approach.
@@CMA418 So appease them? These people have a goal set in mind and they have made it a zero sum game.
He's coming ... thank god.
@@1MarkKeller It doesn’t have to be viewed in such binary terms as “mock” or “appease”.
It won’t matter if we are right if we are not effective at communicating it to anyone other than those who agree with us.
@@ron88303 You mean the ruler of this world? Yes, he wants fake Christian Trump to win too. He also wants you to make more babies, as that increase his chances of getting souls. 👹
This is important work that you are doing.
3rd parties causing harm is wild to me as an Australian, our preferential voting system is just way to logical for the US i guess.
The “God Squad” is gonna have a problem if they come knockin’ at my door.
Perhaps you don't notice, they're already in your house. And they start changing things from the bedroom onwards.
Judges need to be censured for quoting the bible in their proclomations and removed if they use the bible as precedent for any decisions.
I almost welcome this battle. If these holyrollers think most people are like them, they are in for a big surprise.
I'd settle for a secession that they keep threatening us with.
I am with you in spirit - if you study history - expect to be horribly disappointed .
@@pjpredhomme7699 there is a difference now. A LARGE amount of people, at least in this country, are not "religious". Look into the "nones".
Every Nat-C's (Nationalistic Christians, rhymes with "Nazi") accusation is a confession
I knew Sharia law was coming. Didn’t think it was going to be Xtian Sharia law.
America has had Christian BS law for the last 500 years and NO Sharia law is not coming, Xenophobia alive in this channel, pathetic.
Mosaic Law
You knew Sharia law was coming where? It has zero chance of happening in the US and the fear of it happening is coming exclusively from American Islamophobes. In the US, it was always going to be some sort of Christian authoritarianism. They are the only religious extremists in the US that have any number or power.
Canon Law. The Christian version is called Canon Law.
@@DivianceCanon law is applicable to only the Catholic Church. Since Christian Nationalists are for the most part Protestant, Canon Law isn’t it either.
Religions are all just dying to tell you how to live your lives. Oh its for your own good. Its what god wants. Whether they're doing it right now or not, thats their aim. Always. So keep a firm boot on the neck of religion.
my personal favourite is the question of why someone would expect respect and civility for knowingly and willingly associating with organisations literally responsible for mass murders and in many cases the mass graves of children.
when you inevitably pop the cult information bubble you give them the receipts.
surprisingly effective on the ones not personally profiting from the grift at least.
even got a knock on deconversion using just the crusades, apparently they conveniently skip that bit in revisionist history.
at least there is hope that not all of them are actually knowingly cruel, apathetic, sociopaths.
I experienced the same thing when I lived in Spain, but it was less about religious crazies and more about the lack of universal healthcare.
They really don't like the truth about themselves.
Honestly that just sounds like Slavery.
Let turn time back to 15th century shall we?
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
But they will get it.
The term Hemant is searching for about the Constitution is that it is a "governing document", and the Declaration is not.
Thanks for this excellent report, I read the original Politico article and will now look for the follow up that you talk about.
As to a definition of Christian nationalism Wiki has an excellent article on Dominion Theology which lists this:
1) Dominionists celebrate Christian nationalism, in that they believe that the United States once was, and should once again be, a Christian nation. In this way, they deny the Enlightenment roots of American democracy.
2) Dominionists promote religious supremacy, insofar as they generally do not respect the equality of other religions, or even other versions of Christianity.
3) Dominionists endorse theocratic visions, insofar as they believe that the Ten Commandments, or "biblical law," should be the foundation of American law, and that the U.S. Constitution should be seen as a vehicle for implementing Biblical principles
I am a gay transman and this whole thing scares the crap out of me. I spent 8 years as a Evangelical Christian and they believed many of this.
The DoI is NOT a modern legal document. It was, in essence, a letter to the King of England telling him to bugger off.
Did Paula White’s African angels ever turn up?
They're on strike. An'strike an'strike an'strike an'strike an'strike an'strike.
@@kellywalker1664 😂😂😂 Maybe they didn't understand the instructions because she was “speaking in tongues.”
Question for Christian nationalists: which one? Which version of Christianity is the law of the land?
Theirs, of course.
@@soriac2357 Baptist? Protestant? Catholic?
@@shizuwolfsome foul, debased, twisted mutation of the “protesting” variety.
They don't want a pope.
@@shizuwolf whatever the specific christian nationalist follows. Of course it varies with every person you ask, that's the punchline...
Love this story. Too bad the greedy, selfish billionaires in the US could not be just as generous.
They're actually very generous, just to their own interests. The Kochs have actually donated quite a bit to WNC groups over the decades. Just because they don't believe that stuff doesn't mean they don't find it useful.
Reminds me of "Yeah, I'm a radical feminist, and I exclude trans people, but saying that in an acronym is a slur"
She nailed her response. Fully support her. Go Heidi
Galatians 3:27-28 (KJV): "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." If you believe that this passage is true, then you must recognize that "Christian Nationalism" is an oxymoron.
That's all fine and good but these people don't actually read the Bible.
There is no love like Christian hate
Subscribed - As a former christian I was impressed at your depth of knowledge of christianity. Good stuff.
It’s the kicked dog that howls loudest.
0:00: ⚠️ Conservative Christians upset over accurate coverage of Christian nationalists' beliefs and influence in politics.
4:33: ⚠️ Danger of Christian nationalism in US politics highlighted by reporter's coverage.
9:04: 📰 Coverage on Christian nationalists sparks controversy among right-wing groups.
14:13: 🔥 Outrage over misrepresentation of Christian beliefs by reporters sparks heated debate and accusations.
18:51: ⚔️ Reporter stands by coverage of Christian nationalists, refuses to apologize for accurate reporting
23:20: 🔍 Reporter accurately covers Christian nationalists, facing backlash for connecting policy positions to desire for Christian theocracy.
27:57: ⚠️ Reporter faces backlash for exposing Christian nationalists' influence on potential government decisions.
32:25: ⚠️ Importance of voting for Biden to prevent conservative Christian nationalists from gaining power.
36:45: ⚠️ Challenges with religious fundamental nationalism in politics and skepticism towards certain political figures.
Timestamps by Tammy AI
WOW I remember as a young teen watching Hemant’s videos! Deconstructing a lot of the religious beliefs I was taught. It’s awesome that more than 10 years later he’s still doing it, and calling out the awful Christian Nationalist movement that’s picking up steam. Props to you man!
I just had a good laugh, got up to grab a coffee while watching when an ad break started. The ad? For a christian pastor. I did a spit take at the irony.
oh no. well it's technically ironic but it's deliberate, calculated and entirely geared at hearding "useful idiots".
they literally pay google to follow people around to target known non believers with targeted ads regardless of how disconnected from reality they are.
it's no less stalking people because it's automatic.
it's no coincidence that openly athiest material of almost any kind is algorithmically surpressed into oblivion.
whilst there will be spammed "recommendations" to any shmuck using jesus to grift a collection plate.
i had to make it statistically significant to the ai before i conditioned that bit out of my feed.
and if the move it again i will find a way to describe self awareness in fcking binary if i have to.
waaaaaay past wasting mercy on this willing evil tripe.
I think she should have said, ‘these people should apologize to me for intentionally taking me out of context.”