Religion Dispatches
…the first modern pope” had to say amounted to nodding approval (“That your Republic is progressing and developing by giant strides is patent to all…”), which at times seemed to take credit for the success it praised. In a rhetorical flourish, the pope even laid claim to the nation’s neonatal survival: “When America was, as yet, but a newborn babe, uttering in its cradle its first feeble cries, the Church took it to her bosom and motherly embrace.”…
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…ther words, their interests fused—to create the biggest coalition in the history of presidential elections to defeat Trump and, consequently, save the American republic. Will that lead to a Third Reconstruction? Let’s just say there’s now reason to hope….
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…fight ahead of us… when I started in politics a few years back, it was the Republicans versus the Democrats, and then it changed into something totally different, it became conservatives against liberals, and now we’ve gone beyond that, and I’m convinced today, that it’s patriots versus the traitors. And I’m a patriot, what about you?” That kind of rhetoric was only amplified by the display that preceded Trump’s speech, with the former president p…
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…camp and ceremony knew what meaning war gave them in the reunited American republic. Narratives of destruction which fascinated Americans during the war itself had turned to parables of triumph. But it was a particular form of triumph that allowed the heroes of Gettysburg, North and South, to cry together, USA! USA! Americans cried that together during the great national reconciliation of the Spanish-American War, when, as the press widely reporte…
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…d—very sadly—Bayard Rustin in his older age) were able to unleash upon the Republic and the world. Neuhaus himself became centrally involved in the formation of the Institute for Religion and Democracy, a kind of infernal machine that was programmed to tamp down or stamp out liberationist voices within mainline Protestantism. As a progressive mainline Protestant myself, I know firsthand how hugely successful this operation has been. Neuhaus also s…
Read More…nalist organization whose ultimate goal is a free and independent Southern republic,” when it became an embarrassment to the Maryland Republican Party as Peroutka vied for the council seat last year. Moore is a hero to Peroutka and his Constitution Party/IOTC followers, and is greeted there like a celebrity. When I saw Moore speak in Maryland at an IOTC gathering in 2011, it happened to be the birthday of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Conf…
Read More…is say: “Jesus Christ said to render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and in a republic, that is participation,” said [Retired Lt. Col. Courtney] Rodgers, who served 28 years in the Air Force and the Air National Guard. “So you have a Christian and a civic duty to make your Christian voice heard in the ballot box, by your legislators and in the public square where you would address freely any constitutional wrongs or moral wrongs by your representativ…
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…in institutional Christianity has opened space for a new brand of American Republicans anchored by “non-college-educated, middle- and lower-middle-class white people,” who “unapologetically place citizens over foreigners, majorities over minorities, the native-born over recent immigrants, the normal over the transgressive and fidelity to a homeland over cosmopolitan ideals.” Hochman concludes that declines in church attendance mean that the influe…
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…of the Republican Party. In the 1980s, the Christian leaders who dominated Republican Party politics called themselves a “moral majority” and brought an old version of evangelical Baptism to bear on the media. The power of men like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson was their ability to turn the TV into the greatest collection plate in history, thereby amassing enough financial and political capital to build new institutions, including mega-churches…
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…n after the election. With President Trump being seen as the savior of the republic in the White House, one who’s poised to usher in the collapse of the deep state, his defeat in the election could very well be seen as the ultimate failure of prophecy. As such, the theoretical framework presented above is important to keep in mind once the election is decided. If Trump loses the election, we foresee potentially three responses from QAnon followers…
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