Mercedes Schneider read Project 2025 and concluded that its unifying goal is to turn the American people into white evangelical Christians. This “conservative” vision of a different America doesn’t give much thought to those who are neither white nor evangelical not Christian.
She writes in summary:
Free the churches, imprison the librarians.
Roberts was in the news for stating that an “ongoing American Revolution” will “remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” According to The Hill, that comment caused “blowback” for Roberts and the Heritage Foundation.
None of Jesus’ ministry involved any political agenda, much less the government-driven denigration of “other” or the imposing of His will on any human being.
Yet here we are.
It behooves every literate American to read this extremist document before casting a vote in November.
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And, by, combining church and state, the freedom of religion will be, NO more, there would NOT be, any respect for people who don’t believe in the same things that we do, which will only, create, MORE, conflicts in the world than the world had already, seen.
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I got to thinking about policy trends in Republican campaigns during the last 40 years.
From Reagan to Bush II, the mantra was private enterprise beats incompetent government. The less government the better. Nirvana lies just south of privatization. Then all that went to pot in 2008, leading to Obama in that election and democrats in both houses. It looked like 1932 all over again.
Then the Tea Party magically formed in 2011, seemingly out of nowhere. Suddenly, the Republican Party was the party of patriotism, Christianity, old time values, and little guys. This emergent strain of populism dwelled uncomfortably with libertarianism in the GOP until the party was in such philosophical shambles that it nominated a man who was a political charlatan, not to mention s moral reprobate.
Now that man has convinced the Party that he is the path to a new philosophy, based on the ideas of the 2025 project, which promote a Nationalist agenda that threaten to compromise fundamental concepts of freedom laid down in the Enlightenment and incorporated into the Constitution.
How far we have come.
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Correction:
“. . . which promote AN XTIAN Nationalist agenda. . . .”
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Whatever candidate that debates JD Vance should use the teachings of Jesus to show that Project 2025 is an expression of total hypocrisy. The New Testament is about helping the poor, marginalized and the maligned. It has been said the Jesus was largely a socialist, although his teachings were largely apolitical. The Romans were threatened by such tolerant ideas so they labeled him a traitor.
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The Roman opposition to Christianity seems to have arisen largely from the need to demonize the minority in order to keep absolute power. Persecution of Christians came and went as did emperors. During one period, becoming emperor was a death sentence, and more emperors died at the hands of assassins than diseases. Then as now, visible minorities were a convenient scapegoat for any incompetence on the part of what was a new form of government for Rome.
Christians largely lived in communitarian arrangements and supported each other through donations. Since socialism arose in response to industrial society, I am more comfortable describing early Christianity as communitarian. The degree to which emperors saw these enclaves as actually threatening is a matter I am not sure of.
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That communitarian principle was clearly written in the book of Acts before Romans understood Christianity was to become a movement they saw as a threat. Jesus was a local threat to Romans in Jerusalem because of the way he challenged the Jewish elite. It would be another 30 years before he really got the attention of Rome, through Peter and Paul. The Christian Nationalist movement we see now has no real relationship to Jesus’ teachings just as the Spanish Inquisition was not a theological rebuke to protestants but an assertion of political power. Project 2025 comes from the same tradition as slavery and genocide of Native Americans. Assertion of White male dominance is the goal. Absolute suppression through caste and violence. In one since, Trump is honest in his assertion that he knows little of 2025. I’m sure he hasn’t read it, nor does he intend to. Should he become President he will quickly be confronted by a group he exploited to gain power that has bigger and darker plans than getting him to the White House.
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No! While I understand why one might think that bringing in more of two millennia old Middle Eastern desert mythologies would be a good thing (since around 80% percent of Americans believe that nonsense), we need to excise that nonsense from public discourse as it only serves to reinforce the absurdities of the three Abrahamic religions that currently plague the world.
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Hear here, Duane. Resting the hand upon the book of Middle Eastern mythologies, (swearing in) requires belief in nonsense. Pinballing between D/R saviors, starts with belief. The system is, what the system does. Excising nonsense from public recourse wouldn’t reinforce speaking in terms of what was, as a method to change what is. Today is proof that history doesn’t teach..
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Not sure what you are saying No to. Are you questioning whether early Christians lived in largely communitarian societies? Or perhaps that they were scapegoats of Roman emperors who wanted to keep power?
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I’m saying no to using xtian mythology to counteract the xtian theocratic nationalists. It just serves to reinforce that fantastical faith belief thinking. We need far less of that thinking not more.
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That would be all well and good, but mythology is a part of human cultural DNA. I think Joseph Campbell had something to say about that. Religion is a complicated piece of a social survival mechanism. Yes, it creates conflict and is profoundly exploited by charismatic sociopaths, but dismissing it gives more power to those who so effectively manipulate the masses. As the myth of the Garden is really an explanation of humans moving from hunter gathering to organized states, so the arrival of such figures as Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed is an important, often flawed, challenge to the role of the state. The human search for meaning, whether through religion or scientific enlightenment, will always confront a duality of power, good and bad, yen and yang. There is a big difference between myth and fairy tale. If we simply dismiss why people are drawn to belief then we are missing an important way to seek reason.
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No, mythology is not a “part of human cultural DNA,” whatever that may mean. It may seem that way only because those Abrahamic religions have done a good job in eliminating (literally) those who challenge them. . . even to this day.
I disagree and stand by my saying that we need less, not more faith belief systems.
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I had a fun experience yesterday that speaks to this.
I was in target and a white lady with a trump/vance shirt walked by me. I couldn’t help but let her know how excited I was to be getting my Kamala shirt! She told me not to do that as she will destroy our country…to which I replied that it’s the other way around and I asked if she had heard of project 2025….she looked at me and said…it’s all lies…that is a lie. Then she either called me demonic or the movement demonic!
I moved on. I know there is no point in arguing but I just couldn’t help it! It was fun but really interesting to hear her so adamantly tell me that I’m listening to lies and it’s all demonic!
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Thanks, Stef. People like that woman in Target don’t believe that Project 2025 exists. They are masters of denial, like denying that Biden was elected.
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I knew she and I weren’t going to see eye to eye but the fact that project 2025 is not real in her mind and she quickly went the demon route…so weird!
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“. . . an agenda prepared by and for conservatives. . . ”
They may call themselves conservatives, but conservative they are not. They are xtian reactionary revanchists who wish to take America back to an imaginary time that never was nor will be. The main stream media refuses to say that out loud.
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CORRECT, Duane!
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They are hypocrites on all fronts. They are fake Christians and fake believers in a meritocracy while they ride on the coattails of the wealthy.
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Who determines, what valid authority determines what is fake or not in xtian faith beliefs?
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I agree. I even refuse to call these people with the Christian label, even though they claim it. They are just White Nationalists. As the KKK claimed Christianity, so claim their modern descendants.
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I can’t whitewash the xtianity out of their “nationalism”. It’s an inherent part.
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JESUS FAILED — Christian nationalists see Jesus as a worldly failure.
Jesus preached His Way of living throughout the New Testament, as in The Sermon of the Mount [Matt 5:3-12] where He declared that “Blessed are the meek [meaning, the gentle; the considerate; the humble]” — but Christian nationalists view such teachings of Jesus as not having worked to make the world into the world they want.
So, Christian nationalists have a “better” way: Instead of the humility that Jesus taught and lived, the Christian nationalists have decided on pride, as in The Proud Boys.
Jesus told Peter to put away his sword and that “those who take the sword shall die by the sword” (Matt 26:52). But Christian nationalists view Christ’s teaching of putting away the weapons as having failed, so they have turned to arming themselves with more and more guns.
What today’s Christian nationalists fail to understand is that if God had wanted Jesus to conquer evil with force, He would have sent Jesus to Earth, descending from the heavens on a golden throne amid clouds with flashing bolts of lightning and surrounded and backed up by a heaven-filling army of terrifying and unkillable angels.
Instead, God sent Jesus to Earth to be born in a stinking stable to poor, totally obscure parents of total unimportance in a world dominated by the mighty Roman Empire.
Christ’s Gospel of meekness, repentance, forgiveness, love, and service to others has failed: God got it wrong.
Today’s Christian nationalists think that it is now up to THEM to make the world right — no more meekness, no more putting away the sword.
Instead, Christian nationalists arm themselves with pride and guns and political power to intimidate and to force others to live the “right” way.
Christian nationalists have sidelined the teaching of Christ and have turned instead to follow a person of pride, boasting, deceit, and trickery to show God and Jesus how saving the world should have been done.
Blinded by their own self-righteousness, Christian nationalists have been unable to read the warning from Jesus in MATTHEW 7: 21-23 which reads: “And Jesus said: ‘Many of you will say to Me on Judgment Day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name and in Your name drive out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly: ‘I never knew you. Depart from Me, you evildoers’!”
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Well said. Jesus said, In Matthew 19:24, “I’ll say it again-it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of A needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!” Jesus eschewed worldly possessions. He was a humble carpenter. I doubt any members of the GOP will be citing this verse.
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Well said. There is really only one biblical book that guides these Dominionists. It is the Book of Revelations that advocates for a Jesus who comes down to cause horrific suffering upon most of humanity for the salvation of a few. It ends with an elevated city lined in gold much like Trump Towers. That explains a lot, huh.
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Isn’t it a bit strange that the party that used to advocate less government wants to install an oppressive one?
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Sowing the seeds of violence.
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