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The most important public religion story in the US right now may be the realignment of white Christians around values of justice, love of neighbor & the common good. A short thread on the #RevolutionOfValues that often doesn’t make headlines…
Folks who’ve been driven to extremism by the propaganda of the religious right get a lot of attention. Patriot churches. Capitol rioters w/ Jesus flags. White #ChristianNationalism is dangerous & deserves attention, but its extremism is the desperation of a shrinking minority.
As @robertpjones has noted, @PRRIpoll’s latest data shows that white evangelicals as a percentage of US population have shrunk from roughly a quarter of Americans to less than a 7th. Why?
It’s outrageous that GA’s voter suppression bill makes it illegal to give food & water to voters waiting in line. But read on, b/c it gets much worse...
Folks in Atlanta will bring their own water bottles & vote en masse in response to this assault on democracy. But if this law stands, a state board can override their county board & throw out their ballots if they don’t like the results.
This is the state-level control of local elections that ALEC began lobbying for last spring, long before false claims of “widespread fraud” & a “stolen election” in Nov. See @anelsona’s reporting on this: billmoyers.com/story/the-shad…
John Eastman, who’s emerged to petition SCOTUS w/ Trump’s lies, is a fellow at the Christian nationalist Claremont Institute, which pays him $130k a year to work 15hrs/wk. Trump’s other lawyer, Jenna Ellis, is a fellow at Falkirk Center for “faith & liberty.”
Trumpism was defeated at the ballot box, but it’s myths are sustained by a well funded Christian nationalist network of Institutes, radio & TV shows, & orgs that send emails to millions of Americans every day.
This Lost Cause religion isn’t new. It feeds on decades of resentment that have been cultivated, esp in white faith communities. Biden will be President in 2021, but this movement & the money behind it will not go away.
At the WH conference on American history today, Allen Guelzo warns against the imagined dangers of the @ZinnEdProject. It’s a glimpse into what Trump & Co are doing w/ the culture wars, but I wanted to share b/c Guelzo was my college professor...
At the Christian liberal arts school I chose b/c they were publicly committed to faith, reason & social justice, a wealthy donor who’d worked in the Reagan administration endowed an honors college. Guelzo was its 1st dean. We read classics & the neocons of the 90s.
In that context, we learned to talk about reactionary conservatism as the faithful practice of the Christian life of the mind. Those conversations were always dismissive of the very people Christ blessed—the poor & rejected.
On this anniversary of MLK’s most well known speech, it’s sad @AllenWest would go to this extreme to argue that Christianity is only about individual salvation & has nothing to say to society about justice, health care & breaking systems of poverty.
His arguments sound like the preachers & politicians who argued against Dr. King & those who challenged Jim Crow. As an evangelical, Prayerfully & in love, I want to challenge you, @ralphreed & others to read the Bible & some solid books on theology. fortresspress.com/product/libera…
Dr. King also left us a clear call to a #RevolutionOfValues that centers racism, poverty, peace & the well-being of creation as moral issues. amazon.com/Where-Do-We-He…
I was grateful to share the #PoorPeoplesCampaign’s call for a #RevolutionOfValues w/ @TheDemocrats & pray the @GOP will accept request to hear our demands too. We can’t revive American democracy w/out 43% of us who are poor & low wealth.
And we can’t tackle poverty w/out challenging the systemic racism that has kept black, white & brown people from coming together in fusion coalitions.
We know how to come together thru moral fusion organizing. It’s the only thing that’s ever pushed this nation toward a more perfect union. #PoorPeoplesCampaign. Join us! poorpeoplescampaign.org
Trump 2020 knows that the single most determinative indicator of a voter’s support for this administration is whether they are a Christian nationalist. This “day of prayer” is a campaign rally. 
I’ve spent the past couple of years researching the rise of religious nationalism in America via the pro-life/pro-family “values voter” movement.
While Trump certainly didn’t start this movement, he has benefited from 40 yrs of political extremists cultivating relationships w/ religious conservatives to build a coalition to push back against the gains of the civil & women’s rights movements.
