If Your Grip is Slipping . . .

Christian nationalists are trying to drag ordinary Christians into their mire. When people like me attack Christian nationalists, those folk say that it is an attack upon Christianity and scream “Rally around the Cross, boys!” which it is not. They are attacks upon a movement to force people to adopt a religion not of their choosing, which separates them from Muslim extremists not at all.

Ex-President Trump spoke to the National Religious Broadcasters convention recently and promised the audience filled with Christian nationalists that if he returns to the White House, they’ll have political power “at a level that you’ve never used it before.”

So, the Christian nationalists want the power to make this a Christian nation, which would make all other religions unwelcome, and there are politicians who will suck up to them to acquire the voting power to get into a position to do such things. This is hardly surprising (see Jefferson on the topic below).

Clearly Christian power mongers are losing their grip. Church attendance is declining. Those saying they adhere to no particular religion are increasing, now to a level of almost 30% of people polled. Rather than roll up their sleeves and do the hard work of proselytizing, they would rather curry favor among the powerful elites and get them to do the hard work for them.

Can you spell corruption, boys and girls?

“. . . in every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the Despot abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them.”– Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 17 March 1814