The Antichristianity of Trumps Base

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The Return of FDR’s

Democratic Socialism and Bernie Sanders

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The Fascistic Theocracy of the Southern Evangelicals and Donald Trump

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The Fall of the Southern Evangelicals and the Rise of the Neo Nazi South,

the Neo-Confederacy Shadow of the Beast and his Image:

Donald J. Trump

A Refresher Course: Even Now

The End of the Separation of Church and State in America by the GOP

 

The End of democracy in America occurred unknown to the American people because it happened in secrecy in a Government Federal building in Washington DC, in a carefully orchestrated and cunningly devised Invisible Coup against the US Government itself,  aided and abetted by the GOP leadership, in collusion with Speaker Hastert, who allowed the heavenly deception to be completed by the illegal and unconstitutional Crowning of Mr. and Mrs. Moon on Government Property, in Violation of Federal Law,

and a successful plot to destroy the Constitution of the United States of America.

 

It was done so quickly no one had time to blink they said,

but the planning of this “Crowning” of Moon and his wife was in reality

an act of Treason against the Nation of America itself.

 

The Breaking of the Bond of Integrity: the Corruption of the Senate

“……But Section 9 of the Constitution  forbids giving out titles of nobility,

setting a certain tone that might have made the Congressional hosts

shy about celebrating the coronation on their websites.

They included conservatives,

the traditional fans of Moon’s newspaper:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.),

Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA.),

Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah),

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.)

and Republican strategy god Charlie Black,

whose PR firm represents Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress……”

 

It’s just beginning to dawn on folks how much Donald Trump’s presidency relies on religious support. All the scandals surrounding Trump have brought intense attention to the 81 percent support he received from evangelical Christians in the 2016 election. New research by Andrew Whitehead, meanwhile, explicates such support in the context of Christian nationalism, and historian John Fea has published an important new book, “Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump.”

But the power of the presidency isn’t the only way Christian nationalism is advancing its agenda in America today. As researcher Frederick Clarkson reported at Religion Dispatches, a coalition of Christian right groups — including the Congressional Prayer Caucus Foundation, Wallbuilders, the National Legal Foundation and others — have organized a major legislative initiative called  “Project Blitz.” Its goal is to pass an outwardly diverse but internally cohesive package of Christian-right bills at the state level, whose cumulative impact would be immense.

The agenda underlying these bills is not merely about Christian nationalism, a term that describes an Old Testament-based worldview fusing Christian and American identities, and meant to sharpen the divide between those who belong to those groups and those who are excluded. It’s also ultimately “dominionist,” meaning that it doubles down on the historically false notion of America as a “Christian nation” to insist that a a particular sectarian view of God should control every aspect of life, through all manner of human institutions. Christian nationalists are not in a position to impose their vision now, and to be fair, many involved in the movement would never go that far. But as explained by Julie Ingersoll in “Building God’s Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction” (Salon interview here), dominionist ideas have had enormous influence on the religious right, even among those who overtly disavow them.

“The authors of the Project Blitz playbook are savvy purveyors of dominionism,” Clarkson told Salon. “They are in it for the long haul and try not to say things that sound too alarming. ​But they live an immanent theocratic vision, and they sometimes cannot help themselves, such as when they describe the resolutions as seeking to ‘define public policies of the state in favor of biblical values concerning marriage and sexuality.’

“Among the ways they are seeking to implement ‘biblical values,’” Clarkson continued, “is by seeking religious exemptions from civil rights laws and professional licensing standards.” The two-tiered society this would create reflects the essence of Christian nationalism, as Whitehead describes it.

Whitehead told Salon: “Our work shows that believing that the United States is a ‘Christian nation’ and desiring a close, symbiotic relationship between Christianity and civil society is significantly associated with a number of stances like opposition toward same-sex marriage, antipathy toward religious minorities and a tendency toward endorsing stricter racial boundaries in romantic and family relationships.” So it makes sense, he continued, “that these groups who advocate for a formal recognition of the ‘Christian nation’ narrative are also seeking to formalize support for particular definitions of marriage, gender identity and family structure” — definitions that elevate some people and effectively subjugate others.

So far, supporters of this initiative have introduced 71 bills nationwide this year (or carried them over from last year), according to tracking by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Most have innocuous or feel-good names like the National Motto Display Act (23 bills), the First Amendment Defense Act (10 bills), the Child Protection Act (four bills), the Bible Literacy Act (eight bills) and the Clergy Protection Act (six bills). The goal is to come across as apple-pie Americans, while copying the conservative pro-corporate model of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has been strikingly successful. But the guiding vision behind Project Blitz is heavily influenced by pseudo-historian David Barton, a leading propagandist for the myth that America was founded as a “Christian nation.”

But that’s not the whole story. “Having said that, he is one of the most important people in American politics today,” Fea continued. “Why? If Andrew Whitehead and his colleagues are correct, evangelicals supported Trump because they believe America was founded as, and continues to be, a Christian nation. No one has promoted this narrative more effectively than David Barton.”

The war injury conjured up by the name “Project Blitz” is no accident. This is religious war in the minds of those waging it, and they’ve got specific goals and strategies in mind. But it’s not easy for outsiders to see what’s going on here, as Clarkson explains in his story:

The bills are seemingly unrelated and range widely in content — from requiring public schools to display the national motto, “In God We Trust” (IGWT); to legalizing discrimination against LGBTQ people; to religious exemptions regarding women’s reproductive health. The model bills, the legislative strategy and the talking points reflect the theocratic vision that has animated many in the Christian Right for some time. In the context of Project Blitz’s 116-page playbook, however, they also reveal a highly sophisticated level of coordination and strategizing that echoes the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which infamously networks pro-business state legislators, drafts legislation, and shares legislative ideas and strategies.

The Right Wing Coup in the Dirksen Building in Washington DC

The bills are organized into three tiers, “according to the degree of opposition they anticipate — 1 being the least,” Clarkson reports. “The general plan is to begin with the less controversial measures to get legislators comfortable with the subject matter; to seek small victories first.” The full meaning and significance of the earlier measures will not become readily apparent until later measures build on them and covertly synergies are revealed.

The first tier, “Legislation Regarding Our Country’s Religious Heritage,” aims at importing the Christian nationalist worldview (including Barton’s bogus history) into public schools and other aspects of the public sphere. It starts simply with display of the motto, “In God We Trust,” a Cold War replacement for “e pluribus unum” — out of many, one — which better reflects America’s pragmatic, pluralist foundations. The second tier, “Resolutions and Proclamations Recognizing the Importance of Religious History and Freedom,” aims at making government increasingly a partner in “Christianizing” America. The third tier, “Religious Liberty Protection Legislation,” has three subcategories, one dealing with “public policy resolutions,” the other two with specifically targeted but sweepingly conceived “protections” for religious practices.

“Category 3’s focus on religious liberty is especially relevant today,” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s historic Obergefell decision, said Daniel Bennett, author of “Defending Faith: The Politics of the Christian Conservative Legal Movement.” With same-sex marriage a settled issue, right-wing Christian groups “will want to prioritize protection for religious liberty, defined in their specific way. The Christian legal movement is fighting these battles in the court, but these sorts of legislative proposals show how wide-ranging the broader movement’s strategy is.”

It’s a defensive fight now, but it’s also laying the groundwork for a possible future counter-offensive. “Although Category 3 is divided in three parts, you could also see it as having two main underlying intentions,” said Clarkson. “First to denigrate the LGBTQ community, and second to defend and advance the right to discriminate.

This is one way that the agenda of theocratic dominionism is reframed as protecting the right of theocrats to discriminate against those deemed second-class, at best. As the late theocratic theologian R.J. Rushdoony said, ‘Only the right have rights.‘”

Bills protecting the “right” to discriminate against the LGBTQ community are the most salient example of how Project Blitz aims to produce a radically altered “Handmaid’s Tale-style America. But even the most innocent-seeming proposal — introducing the motto “In God We Trust” into schools — has a divisive, discriminatory, damaging impact, sharply at odds with its presentation.

“To an ex-evangelical such as myself, Project Blitz is deeply concerning,” Christopher Stroop told Salon. Stroop is a scholar, writer and Twitter personality with a history and humanities Ph.D. from Stanford, who is currently senior research associate with the Postsecular Conflicts project. As he says, he spent many years in the evangelical world.

“When I was growing up in the 1980s,” Stroop said, “two issues that were frequently lamented in my evangelical community were the legalization of abortion and the supposed banning of prayer in school — ‘supposed’ because the right-wing evangelicals I grew up with usually failed to note that the Supreme Court had only ended officially school-sponsored prayer, and had not outlawed private prayer in schools. Extreme exaggeration of the ostensible persecution we supposedly faced as Christians was prevalent in my childhood milieu.”

The attempt to reverse that imagined persecution can have real damaging effects, as Stroop notes. In examining the goal of requiring “In God We Trust” to be displayed in public schools, he said, “I cannot help but associate this goal with evangelical resentment over legal limitations on prayer in school, and to see it as an attempt to take a step toward the Christianization of public schools. On its own, posting the motto ‘In God We Trust’ in schools would already embolden Christian nationalists present in those schools, leading Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, liberal and atheist children to feel alienated and pressured to conform.”

The End of Democracy in America:

the Seduction of the GOP and Religious Right in the Conservative South

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For those who were there on March 13th, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, saw the opening ceremony, with a rabbi blowing a ram’s horn.

“…….Most Jews would hold off on this until the High Holy Days, but it probably counts if the Moshiach shows up in a federal office building at taxpayer expense. Then we see the man of the hour, Moon, chilling at a table at the Dirksen in a tuxedo, soaking all this up. He claps. He’s having a ball.

Cut to the ritual. Eyes downcast, a man identified as Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) is bringing a crown, atop a velvety purple cushion, to a figure who stands waiting austerely with his wife. Now Moon is wearing robes that Louis XIV would have appreciated. All of this has quickly been spliced into a promo reel by Moon’s movement, which implies to its followers that the U.S. Congress itself has crowned the Washington Times owner…..”

 

The Breaking of the Bond of Integrity: the Corruption of the Senate

“……But Section 9 of the Constitution  forbids giving out titles of nobility,

setting a certain tone that might have made the Congressional hosts

shy about celebrating the coronation on their websites.

They included conservatives,

the traditional fans of Moon’s newspaper:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.),

Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA.),

Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah),

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.)

and Republican strategy god Charlie Black,

whose PR firm represents Ahmed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress……”

For those who think the Democrats were virgins in this matter I sadly point out this:

“………But there were also liberal House Democrats like Sanford Bishop (D-Ga.) and Davis. Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) later told the Memphis Flyer that he’d been erroneously listed on the program, but had never heard of the event, which was sponsored by the Washington Times Foundation.  ( Now run by my “almost an acquaintance” Larry Moffitt ) 

Rep. Curt Weldon’s office tenaciously denied that the Congressman was there, before being provided by The Gadflyer with a photos quite accurate that the Washington Timeshost, but we have nothing to do with the agenda, the organization, the scheduling, and our role would be limited explicitly to the attendance of the Congressman…..”

Heavenly Deception Strikes Again

 

“…….The spokeswoman for one senator, who asked that her boss not be named, said politicians weren’t told the awards program was going to be a Moon event.

The senator went, she said, because the Ambassadors promised to hand out awards to people from his home state, people who were genuinely accomplished. When the ceremony morphed into a platform for Moon, she said, people were disconcerted.

“I think there was a mass exodus,” she said.

“They get all these senators on the floor, and this freak is there.”

A New World Order

“……The last time someone declared himself Emperor of the United States, it was the Gold Rush’s Joshua Norton, a sort of failed dot-commer of the 1850s. But he was broke, whereas a random sampling of Moon’s properties might include a healthy chunk of the U.S. fishing industry, the graphic tablet company Wacom, and swaths of real estate on an epic scale. The money-losing Times is paid for by the $1 billion he’s sunk into it, along with untold funding for conservative policy foundations like the American Family Coalition.

George Soros has recently gotten lots of coverage as a supposedly eccentric billionaire influencing U.S. politics. But Soros is no Moon. In Moon’s speeches, a “peace kingdom” is envisioned, in which homosexuals – whom he calls “dung-eating dogs” – would be a thing of the past.

He said in January: “Gays will be eliminated, the three Israel’s will unite. If not, then they will be burned. We do not know what kind of world God will bring, but this is what happens. It will be greater than the communist purge but at God’s orders.”

TRUMP…and the “REAL DEAL”

Trumpery derives from the Middle English trompery and ultimately from the Middle French tromper, meaning “to deceive.” (You can see the meaning of this root reflected in the French phrase trompe-l’oeil – literally, “deceives the eye“-which in English refers to a style of painting with photographically realistic detail.) 

Trumpery first appeared in English in the mid-15th century with the meanings “deceit or fraud” (a sense that is now obsolete) and “worthless nonsense.” Less than 100 years later, it was being applied to material objects of little or no value.

The verb phrase trump up means “to concoct with the intent to deceive,” but there is most likely no etymological connection between this phrase and trumpery.

The Real Deal and the Kingdom of Justice

The Dream Ticket: Bernie and Tulsi

The Real Advent of Bernie in the position of Elijah as the Messenger of Universal Justice

Harvey Lewis

“….Perhaps there isn’t much difference between religion and politics. At the heart of every religion, you can find the principle of Love obscured by doctrine and dogma. Similarly, at the heart of every political movement, you can find the truth obscured by strategy and agenda.

In this era of tribal politics, we each have our affiliation that demands our blind obedience and serves to divide us into separate camps. As long as we remain divided, our democracy will continue to be an illusion of choice, unity will carry on as an unrequited dream and freedom will remain an unfulfilled promise…”

The Corporate Point of View in Fascist Economic ◊◊Terms

The Real Issues

“And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them,

“It is written, ‘

‘My house shall be called the house of prayer‘,

but ye have made it a den of thieves.”  

Matthew 21:12-13

The Banks

1.) … Jesus                                                                                                                

“….One cannot serve both God and Mammon…”                                       

“…Verily I say unto you, that a Rich Man will hardly enter the Kingdom of Heaven…”                                                                                                                         

1.) … Bernie

“…If a bank is to to big to fail: it is too big to exist..“…The greed of the 1% seems unlimited: but enough is ENOUGH!! It is time to tell the millionaires and billionaires “…You can’t have it ALL..!!!...”

Healthcare

2.) … Jesus                                                                                                                   

“…I was sick, and ye visited ( treated) me..”                                                                                                                

2.) … Bernie

“…It is time we joined the rest of the civilized nations of the earth and made free healthcare a basic human right…”

Prison

3.) … Jesus                                                                                                                   

“…I was in prison, and ye came unto me…”                                                                                                              

3.) … Bernie

“…The tragedy of our country is that we have more people in prison than any other nation on earth. The prison-for-profit industry is a morally bankrupt policy: we should be building more schools and libraries, but we are doing exactly the opposite..”

Poverty

 4.) … Jesus                                                                                                                  

“….I was naked, and ye clothed me…”                                                                                                                

4.) … Bernie

“…It is high time time we raised the minimum wage  from a starvation wage of $7.25 an hour to a living wage of $15.00 an hour. No one who works 40 hours a week in American should be living in poverty…”                                                                                                                                      

Hunger

5.) … Jesus                                                                                                               

“…For I was hungered, and ye fed me…”                                                                                                        

5.) … Bernie

 “..It is incomprehensible that in the richest nation on earth we have 40 million children who do not get enough to eat. We need to expand the foodstamp programs for the unemployed and underemployed, not cut them, because no child in this nation should go to bed hungry…”                                                                                                                                                                                            

Immigration Reform                                                                                                   

6.) … Jesus                                                                                                                                     

“..I was a stranger, and ye took me in…”   

6.) … Bernie

“…America was built by immigrants seek who came to America to seek the promise of a better life: that is the promise of this great country, and we should be building bridges; not walls…”                                                                                                

Water                                                                                                               

7.) … Jesus                                                                                                                                                      

“….I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink…”   

7.) … Bernie              

“…The Fracking that poisons our groundwater  should be banned: period. The wisdom of our Native Americans teaches us that “Water is life”, and that we all should have clean water to drink,  pure air to breath, and uncontaminated earth to grow our food…”   

A Comparison in Perspectives

Harvey Lewis                                       

“….The current investigation into Russian involvement in our election process is a perfect illustration of how the political climate obscures the truth.

The DNC rigged their own primary election in favor of their pre-selected candidate of choice, a corrupt corporate establishment puppet. Their covert strategy and secret agenda were revealed when an insider leaked emails from the DNC server. As a way to divert attention from the content of the emails, the DNC created a narrative involving Russian hackers, although no evidence to support the story was ever presented.

When the DNC lost the general election for a variety of reasons including the rigging of their primary, their fraudulent convention, their corrupt candidate, a sloppy campaign, and the alienation of their progressive base, they decided to use the fabricated Russian narrative as the reason for their failure.,,,”

Christopher Witt Diamant

“….During his presidential run in 2016 I watched in horror as Sanders character was continually smeared by the bought-and-paid-for Establishment Press as worthless, and others of the dead-on-it’s-feet National Enquirer school of Rabid Yellow Journalism as witless; that is all that remains of the Fourth Estate now almost totally defunct in America, due to its incremental silent takeover by the CIA, ( with an able assist by President Bill Clinton ), and put straight into the corrupt hands of 6 men cravenly bent on subverting free speech as plutocratic betrayers of the Public Trust and treasonous Guardians of the Public Weal, abandoning all principle to uphold as sacred all that was established in the 1st Amendment; as the craven and corporatist owners of virtually all Media and it’s outlets in the US…..”

Harvey Lewis

“…The Corporate Neo-Liberals supported by the corporate owned mainstream media have vigorously pursued the investigation into Russian involvement in our election process. Most Republicans who have been paying attention believe that the DNC-fabricated Russian narrative is political fiction.

Trump, however, has personal reasons for wanting to kill the story. Back when he was a businessman with no political aspirations, Trump developed deep business ties to Russia. During the recession, Russia was a viable source of funding for his hotels, golf courses, and other businesses.

You know those tax returns that Trump doesn’t want you to see? Those returns may have their own dirty little Russian stories to tell. If those stories were to go public, the Trump power trip would come to a screeching halt and the Republican Party would be swiftly kicked to the curb.

The American people continue to be divided by politics as the truth is hidden just below the surface. Tell me this: What are you waiting for?….“

Christopher Witt Diamant

“…Over the last few years I have watched as the Independent Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont has been viciously attacked, his personal beliefs and spiritual concerns questioned and denigrated; as well as hearing him be described by Alex Jones and others like Thomas Hartmann as a “crazy communist”, or an amoral and ideologically bankrupt Marxist Jew who wants; in the mocking venomous words of Hillary Clinton; “…to give everyone a free pony..“, all because he dares to state that America should give healthcare to all of it’s people as a human right; just like every other developed and industrialized nation on earth already does.,,,”

Harvey Lewis

“….Are you waiting for impeachment?

Are you waiting for Trump’s tax returns?

Are you waiting for the FBI to find the evil Russians who stole our election?

Are you waiting for Bernie to rise from the Establishment graveyard and lead us to the Promised Land?

Are you waiting for Jesus to return and make Love cool again?

Breaking News: All roads lead back to you.

The political parties are not going to save your democracy for you. The FBI is not going to discover the truth for you. The Justice Department is not going to hold the corporate criminals accountable for you. And your savior is not going to teach you how to Love.

This is the good news. You have the power to claim your freedom, save your democracy, establish unity, and demand justice for all….”

“…Greater works than these, you, too, shall do…..”

said My Father,

Jesus of Nazareth

NowThis added a new video: Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony Gives Firey Speech To NAACP. 20 hrs · 

Bernie Sanders and the Gospel of my Father Jesus:

Matthew 25:31-46 King James Version

³¹ When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory:

³² And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:

³³ And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

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³⁴ Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand,

Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

³⁵ For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

³⁶ Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

³⁷ Then shall the righteous answer him, saying,

Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

³⁸ When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee?

³⁹ Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

⁴⁰ And the King shall answer and say unto them,

“Verily I say unto you,

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.“

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⁴¹ Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand,

Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

⁴² For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink:

⁴³ I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

⁴⁴ Then shall they also answer him, saying,

Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

⁴⁵ Then shall he answer them, saying,

“..Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me…”

⁴⁶ And these ( the goats at the left hand ) shall go away into everlasting punishment:

but the righteous ( the sheep at the right hand ) into life eternal.

A Comparison in Perspectives – continued

Harvey Lewis

To The 99%, Your Mission, Should You Decide To Accept It, Is To Remain Oblivious to The To Politics that Affect Your Life, and Just be Consumers of Whatever the 0.1%, Allows You to Receive, Be That Pollution, Shorter Life Spans, Lower Quality of Life, and Diminishing Capabilities of Awareness of What’s Going on Around You.