And finally, some reporting on things the counter-Christian-Nationalist community has been reporting on since 2006: Namely, how Christian Nationalist groups in the US have cozied up to anti-LGBTQIA groups in Russia, including within Putin's innner circle.
1/x
@brucewilson has been sounding the alarm bells loud and clear for a LONG time, including in 2014 warning how Christian Nationalist groups were in with Putin's #2 at the time, Vladimir Yakunin, particular WCF and New Apostolic Reformation groups:
6/x
twocare.org/pro-revolution…
In fact, he's been sounding the alarms since *2006* on this, noting how Christian Nationalists in the US were partnering with Vladimir Yakunin even back then, and targeting the Russian Orthodox Church for partnership:
7/xweb.archive.org/web/2006112910…
@RTabachnick has likewise been sounding the alarm early, noting how the Christian Nationalist-controlled GOP in Texas has made overtures with New Apostolic Reformation types that have targeted Jewish people in Russia and Ukraine for conversion:
8/xtalk2action.org/story/2011/6/6…
They also wrote very early on how the Prince and DeVos families (longtime Christian Nationalists and intimately connected to the Trump admin) worked with the Putin admin and NAR groups to found Christian Nationalist universities in Russia:
9/xtalk2action.org/story/2011/5/1…
And again, they sounded the alrm all the way back in 2009 on how conversion of Jewish people in Russia and Ukraine to "Messianics" was one way they were ingratiating themselves with the Russian government:
10/xtalk2action.org/story/2009/12/…
Mother Jones magazine noted how Christian Nationalist anti-LGBT Holocaust-revisionist Scott Lively (he'll show up later...) and WCF were deeply connected with people in the Putin govt in 2014 and how WCF had international links as early as 1995:
11/xmotherjones.com/politics/2014/…
The Nation also wrote an article in early 2014 on how the WCF basically was the core of the liason between Christian Nationalists in the US (particularly New Apostolic Reformation) and the Russian Orthodox Church and Putin admin
12/xthenation.com/article/archiv…
@billberk was sounding the alarm about Franklin Graham loud and early as well, noting how he was ingratiating himself with the Putin regime and friendly members of the Duma back in 2014:
13/xtalk2action.org/story/2014/3/2…
@Barthsnotes (of Bartholomew's Notes on Religion) was sounding the alarm as early as *2008*, noting how Paul Cameron (an anti-LGBT Christian Nationalist promoting degaying "therapy") was pushing conspiracy theology at Moscow State University:
14/xtalk2action.org/story/2008/6/2…
And in fact @Barthsnotes noted as early as 2006 how Christian Nationalists in the NAR were actually targeting Russian prisons--and possibly recruiting (and being recruited by) members of the Russian mob:
15/xtalk2action.org/story/2006/12/…
And in 2007, @Barthsnotes did an article on how an obscure NAR group did a liason between Christian Nationalists in the US, a friendly in the Israeli Knesset connected to the Russian mob...and a certain Oleg Deripaska.
Yes, *THAT* Oleg Deripaska:
16/xtalk2action.org/story/2007/9/2…
Yes, the very self-same Oleg Deripaska intimately connected to the Trump-Russia Affair, the same one who got Magnitsky Act sanctions removed personally by Trump, the same one who got his houses in the US raided a month ago by the FBI:
17/xcnbc.com/2021/10/19/fbi…
And again, @brucewilson comes in noting just HOW EARLY Christian Nationalists targeted Russia.
It started almost from the moment that Boris Yeltsin entered office, courtesy Campus Crusade for Christ *nee* Cru
18/xtwocare.org/how-antigay-am…
And, yet again, Scott Lively--holocaust-revisionist Scott Lively, "gay Illuminati" Scott Lively--shows up again, as a bestie to Cru's Bill Bright, and also to a group called The Gathering dedicated to exporting Christian Nationalist hate worldwide
19/xtwocare.org/the-gathering-…
Seriously, there's been a LOT of documentation early on about how Christian Nationalists, particularly *NAR linked* Christian Nationalists, have been trying to foment an anti-LGBTQIA genocide and got VERY cozy with the Putin admin:
20/xtwocare.org/?s=russia
And yes, I'm one of those who've tried to sound the alarm too as an #exvangelical and escapee from the NAR. Including on how a NAR-linked hate group was attacking LGBTQIA people in Russia and Russian emigre communities worldwide:
21/xdailykos.com/stories/2007/1…
And how they had active support from New Apostolic Reformation supporters in the States ("Joel's Army" is an earlier branding NAR groups used):
22/xdailykos.com/stories/2007/1…
And again...you're seeing Scott Lively show up (who not only helped ghost-write Russia's anti-LGBTQIA legislation but also Uganda's "kill the gays" bill), who....has QUITE the history of not only Holocaust-revisionism but even frank anti-Semitism
23/xrationalwiki.org/wiki/Scott_Liv…
(I am unfortunately quite familiar with Lively's work. It was heavily promoted in the NAR group I escaped, which actually was so anti-LGBT that they managed to shock my city into passing a Fairness law.
It's also why I never came out to my folks when they were alive.)
24/x
Another lovely fellow in that den is Joseph Fuiten, who supported the violent Watchmen on the Walls, and also called (on national TV, in 2007) for non-Christian-Nationalists to be stripped of citizenship and deported or put in concentration camps
25/xdailykos.com/stories/2007/8…
And Fuiten pretty much would love to see Russian style anti-LGBTQIA laws in the US, if not a full on Ugandan "kill the gays" act:
26/xdailykos.com/stories/2007/1…
And, well, the Russo-Latvian head of the violent Watchmen on the Walls...apparently would speak regularly to anti-LGBTQIA Assemblies of God pastors who'd spread the hate (and the Russian connections) far and wide:
27/xdailykos.com/stories/2008/3…
So yeah, this stuff has been documented...for a WHILE by those of us who research. We've been trying to sound the alarm for at least 15 years now that Christian Nationalists in the US are using their playbook to turn Russia into Gilead:
28/xtwocare.org/the-religious-…
And it's entirely possible that (thanks to the Trump maladministration and *those* links with Russia) that the doors were opened as far back as 1994 by Christian Nationalists for what would ultimately be the greatest act of seditious conspiracy since 1861.
29/end
@unrollthread
@KEES1204 @UnrollThread They literally do not care, as long as they get their Gilead (and they figure that any heretics can be destroyed after they take over, assuming they're not converted from within). And the WCF and its anti-LGBTQIA activities are EXACTLY the camel's nose NAR groups have used
2/2
@KEES1204 @UnrollThread ...are more than happy to play along on THEIR end, so long as they get some state (preferably with nuclear weapons) that can go *FULL* Gilead, actually do a violent anti-LGBTQIA genocide and religious war/purge (a la Efrain Rios Montt)
2/2
@threadreaderapp unroll
Share this Scrolly Tale with your friends.
A Scrolly Tale is a new way to read Twitter threads with a more visually immersive experience.
Discover more beautiful Scrolly Tales like this.