#CapitolSiegeReligion @plmanseau

via Luke Mogelson's video report at @NewYorker, person holding up a Bible while storming the Capitol

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"Jesus Christ, we invoke your name, amen."

#CapitolSiegeReligion
"Let's say a prayer... Thank you heavenly father, for gracing us with this opportunity"

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"thank you for this opportunity for us to stand up for our God-given inalienable rights..."

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they further thank their "heavenly father" for being "the inspiration needed for these police officers to allow us into this building"

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They further thank God for allowing them "to send a message to all the tyrants, the communists, and the globalists, that this is our nation, not theirs"

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Then they thank God for

"filling this chamber with your white light and love"

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They thank God for filling the chamber with "patriots" who love him "and that love Christ."

#CapitolSiegeReligion
#whitechristiannationalism
"Thank you for allowing the United States of America to be reborn..."

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#whitechristiannationalism
"In Christ's holy name we pray..."

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