• three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social
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      3 days ago

      At this point, I think it’s pretty safe to call MAGA a religion, specifically an offshot of American Evangelism. I don’t think you can call its faithful Christians anymore, because while they’re happy to borrow all the trappings and symbols of Christianity, every place where Christ and Trump conflict, Trump wins, including who gets to be Godhead. I’m really not exaggerating, I think a lot of people have walked into an entirely new faith without yet realizing it. If you’re looking for a modern anti-christ, it’s hard to do better than Trump.

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        This is 100% correct. Evangelicals Christianity, never a beacon of rationality or clarity of doctrine, has now been fully captured by MAGA. There is no functional difference between Christian Nationalism and Evangelical American Christianity.

        I worry this is only the beginning. I genuinely believe that Evangelicals will also embrace AI and incorporate it into their beliefs somehow. I also believe Trump will be divinized before his term is up - at least within Evangelical Christian Nationalism.

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        Yup and they way they talk—with made up terms and repeating eventually meaningless words like woke and DEI—it’s exactly how cults like Heaven’s Gate, Jim Jomes, and Branch Davidians talked and controlled their followers.