The Capitol Riot Revealed the Darkest Nightmares of White Evangelical America

Guno צְבִי

Guno צְבִי

We fight, We win, Am Yisrael Chai
How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection

While Americans around the country watched an inflamed mob overrun the Capitol on January 6, the evangelical participants in that mob saw something else: a holy war. Insurgents carried signs that read “Jesus Saves,” “In God We Trust,” “Jesus 2020,” and “Jesus Is My Savior, Trump Is My President.” One man marched through the halls of Congress carrying a Christian flag, another a Bible. They chanted, “The blood of Jesus covering this place.”

As law enforcement authorities and media outlets track down and identify these insurrectionists, we are beginning to understand who they are and what they wanted. Amid the QAnon adherents, antisemites, neo-Confederates, and revolutionary cosplayers were the evangelical faithful: those who see themselves as the vanguard of God’s end-times army. Their exultant participation in the riot represented some of the most extreme political action that any group of evangelicals has taken in recent history.

https://newrepublic.com/article/160...-darkest-nightmares-white-evangelical-america
 
For the last 150 years, white evangelicals have peddled end-times conspiracies. Most of the time their messages have been relatively innocuous, part of the broader millenarian outlook shared among most major religious traditions. But these conspiracies can have dangerous consequences—and sometimes they lead to violence. Every evangelical generation throughout American history has seen some of its believers driven to extreme conspiracies that blend with other strains of militant political faith. This has meant that in the Trump era, with the destabilizing impact of a global pandemic and a cratered economy, white evangelical Christianity has become enmeshed with, and perhaps inextricable from, a broader revolution against the government.
 
white evangelicals sees itself as a besieged minority, surrounded on all sides by the forces of darkness, sin, and secularism. They believe that, in the last days, governments will turn against them and their religious liberty will be quashed. Their reading of current events, from Covid-19 shutdowns to alleged election fraud, tells them that the end times have begun.
 
guno said:
How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection

While Americans around the country watched an inflamed mob overrun the Capitol on January 6, the evangelical participants in that mob saw something else: a holy war. Insurgents carried signs that read “Jesus Saves,” “In God We Trust,” “Jesus 2020,” and “Jesus Is My Savior, Trump Is My President.” One man marched through the halls of Congress carrying a Christian flag, another a Bible. They chanted, “The blood of Jesus covering this place.”

As law enforcement authorities and media outlets track down and identify these insurrectionists, we are beginning to understand who they are and what they wanted. Amid the QAnon adherents, antisemites, neo-Confederates, and revolutionary cosplayers were the evangelical faithful: those who see themselves as the vanguard of God’s end-times army. Their exultant participation in the riot represented some of the most extreme political action that any group of evangelicals has taken in recent history.

https://newrepublic.com/article/160...-darkest-nightmares-white-evangelical-america
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Trump really does scare the shit out of you counts doesn't he?
 
guno said:
white evangelicals sees itself as a besieged minority, surrounded on all sides by the forces of darkness, sin, and secularism. They believe that, in the last days, governments will turn against them and their religious liberty will be quashed. Their reading of current events, from Covid-19 shutdowns to alleged election fraud, tells them that the end times have begun.
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This is the way these white evangelicals are herded into the cult. By fear. And using religion is the most effective way to do it. This has been going on for millennia.
Use religion to control the masses. Pretty damn effective.
 
Joe Capitalist said:
This is the way these white evangelicals are herded into the cult. By fear. And using religion is the most effective way to do it. This has been going on for millennia.
Use religion to control the masses. Pretty damn effective.
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Exceptionalism came to America from Europe. Pilgrims escaped the establishment of Europe only to murder their own women with the same ease as they murdered natives. It's more to do with masculinity than religion. Government has squeezed masculinity to its breaking point. Those defending government are part of the problem.
 
guno said:
white evangelicals sees itself as a besieged minority, surrounded on all sides by the forces of darkness, sin, and secularism. They believe that, in the last days, governments will turn against them and their religious liberty will be quashed. Their reading of current events, from Covid-19 shutdowns to alleged election fraud, tells them that the end times have begun.
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The definition of an imbecile is an individual that keeps answering his/her/alphabet's own OP three or more times in a row. You can relax a bit because there is one nut job here who currently holds the record at six but you are a close second.
 
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My favorite, trump trying to figure what side is the front of the Bible :laugh: (perhaps he is looking for Coruptinians two two)

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Hello guno,

guno said:
How 150 years of apocalyptic agitation culminated in an insurrection

While Americans around the country watched an inflamed mob overrun the Capitol on January 6, the evangelical participants in that mob saw something else: a holy war. Insurgents carried signs that read “Jesus Saves,” “In God We Trust,” “Jesus 2020,” and “Jesus Is My Savior, Trump Is My President.” One man marched through the halls of Congress carrying a Christian flag, another a Bible. They chanted, “The blood of Jesus covering this place.”

As law enforcement authorities and media outlets track down and identify these insurrectionists, we are beginning to understand who they are and what they wanted. Amid the QAnon adherents, antisemites, neo-Confederates, and revolutionary cosplayers were the evangelical faithful: those who see themselves as the vanguard of God’s end-times army. Their exultant participation in the riot represented some of the most extreme political action that any group of evangelicals has taken in recent history.

https://newrepublic.com/article/160...-darkest-nightmares-white-evangelical-america
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"They believe that the Bible demands that they go to war against the Antichrist and all of his minions. If Joe Biden and the other leaders of the U.S. government—now including even staunch Christian conservatives like Mike Pence—represent the forces of the Antichrist, the faithful have no choice but to organize against them. They need to stop the Antichrist by any means necessary. God demands no less than insurrection."

How mixed up can they get?

What a dangerous religion.

And they think MUSLIMS are bad.
 
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