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If history repeats itself, this is where Project 2025, Christian Nationalism, Trump and Presidential Immunity is headed.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2024/07/voting-for-trump-is-voting-to-turn.htmlMost of the history of western civilization since the Roman Empire is an illustration of multiple failed attempts at establishing Christian nationalism and the rule of the church over the political state, resulting in a whole lot of failure and the massive oppression and suffering of people who had to live under it. Starting with the rule of Constantine, through all of the history of feudalism, European monarchies, the institutional church, with political power behind it to enforce its creeds and practices, was one of the most brutal, cruel, inhumane and godless institutions on the face of the earth.
Even after centuries of struggling against oppression, the resulting Renaissance, which produced the Age of Enlightenment, and the subsequent Protestant Reformation did not put an end to the bloodshed and violence produced by various forms of Christian nationalism. The largest branch of Christianity, the Roman Catholic Church, negotiated a political treaty with Hitler's National Socialist government in Germany and Austria in order to protect its property, influence and the intellectual property of its schools, known as the Reichskonkordat, and essentially turned its back on the evils perpetrated by the Nazis, including the Holocaust.
Don't think that Project 2025 will be any less violent, cruel, oppressive or disruptive to the lives of millions of people as past attempts at enforcing Christian nationalism have been. It won't be. When people have convinced themselves they are fighting for a righteous cause, on God's behalf, and they think he's right there holding their coat-tails and cheering them on, those who think they're doing God's work will ignore, or justify, abandoning core principles of the Christian gospel like turning the other cheek or loving one's enemies. They've got a whole set of heretical doctrine aimed at nullifying the core values of the Christian gospel in order to be the beneficiaries of political dominion.
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If history repeats itself, this is where Project 2025, Christian Nationalism, Trump and Presidential Immunity is headed. (Original Post)
lees1975
Jul 2024
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dobleremolque
(896 posts)1. Edudite observations and all the more reason
that I, and thousands of others are working to make sure that history does not repeat itself in this respect.
appalachiablue
(42,927 posts)2. K/R
orthoclad
(4,728 posts)3. Just look at pics of
the Nuremberg rallies. Says it all.
Poster for the Nazi film The Victory Of Faith. Sound familiar?
Pic of a Nazi rally
lees1975
(5,978 posts)4. You know, it's considered in poor taste to use this as a comparison,
but there are multiple similarities that validate the comparison. And we've already seen the violence.
orthoclad
(4,728 posts)5. It's way too late for "taste"
that's our very possible future.