Friday Reads

 These dominionists are showing their true colors, but then again they never were real Christians in the first place.  These charismatic and pentecostal churches are basardizations of Christianity, created in the 19th and the 20th centuries as a pushback against the modern world.  They aren't real evangelical churches, either.

They coopted that word to hide their real agenda.

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. And so an insurrection in the name of Jesus Christ broke out in tandem with the Trump voter fraud putsch. The action is also, in all likelihood, a prophetic foretaste of where this group might go once Trump is finally out of office. 

 Never mind the Book of Revelation has nothing whatsoever to do with the "end times."

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There is no doubt in my mind Stone, Bannon, and Flynn were up to their eyeballs in planning the January 6 insurrection of the U.S. Capitol.

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The National Rifle Association has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

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No surprise that the colleges and universities traditionally the schools of the rich and powerful (i.e., Ivy League) have turned out a lot of right-wing whack jobs.

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