Thread by @dogemperor

If your church invited Lauren Boebert to lead imprecatory prayers against Biden hoping his "days are few", they not only need taxed retroactively but outright investigated re potential involvement in hate crimes and domestic terrorism (and yes, I am serious)

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https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1536077018282004480

And the specific reason they need to look at those churches with hairy eyeballs...is because there is actually a documented history of *some* Christian Nationalist churches that use a "cell church" structure having at least *some* of those cells linked to domestic terror

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Christian Nationalist terrorist groups tend to operate on a "leaderless resistance" framework, which *in practice* is set up like cell churches or MLM downlines (and ultimately the concept was borrowed from revolutionary groups that operated in similar methodologies,

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both on the left ("people's revolutionary cells") and on the far right (Francisco Franco's concept of the "fifth column").

Army of God is one of these groups as is Missionaries to the Preborn, and honestly *most* far-right groups use this model

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And cross-recruitment has been a thing for a LONG time in the NAR groups using a "cell church" model (first with recruitment into MLMs, and more recently with recruiting people into "Christian Patriot" paramilitaries, as well as into QAnonsense as well)

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And honestly any church that crosses over into frank imprecatory prayers targeting the POTUS *usually* has a history (if you dig in deep enough) of "special interest" groups that tend to be promoting various kinds of conspiracy theology, promoting sovereign-citizen crap,

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and (more often than not) even some frank neo-Confederacy stuff and/or at least *cheerleading* Army of God and QAnonsense related terrorism (even to the point of promoting their actions as justifiable homicide) and, more recently, even cheerleading J6 itself

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As to the particular church Boebert talked about the imprecatory prayer stuff--Charis Christian Center (which is in Colorado Springs) is...pretty infamous to those of us who've researched NAR stuff (and who are #exvangelical survivors of the NAR).

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It's literally within Lance Wallnau's network (and Wallnau has been calling for a Christian Nationalist coup for quite a while). And yes, Boebert's had connections with these lovely folks (/s) for a while

rightwingwatch.org/?s=charis

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The head of Charis' Bible college, among other things, literally has claimed opposing Trump is a literal sin and a sign of demonic possession (yes, seriously):

rightwingwatch.org/post/andrew-wo…

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Hell, Wommack has QUITE the history: rightwingwatch.org/people/andrew-…

And yes, he's among those who claimed BLM was evil (and accusing folks of the "Say Their Names" movement of engaging in diabolism by mentioning Breonna Taylor somehow)

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Mind, that may be in *small* part because of close partnerships with the Family Research Council, which is *very* connected to Putinists (via World Congress of Families) *and* to neo-Confederate Christian Nationalists.

Or it could just be Wommack being full on racist

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I mean, this guy LITERALLY says one of the quiet parts out loud (that Christian Nationalist evangelicalism does have some of its roots in pro-Slavery preachers, though he goes even more blatant about it than even historians of American religion)

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1270770104918257665

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And yeah, pretty much they are *full on* 7 Mountains New Apostolic Reformation types, the sort that see QAnonsense as external confirmation of their own theology, and who have a literal religious mandate to establish a violent dictatorship rightwingwatch.org/post/david-bar…

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And yeah, Boebert's actually also separately taken that line, AT Charis: rightwingwatch.org/post/lauren-bo…

It's also worth noting a few things re J6, and Christian Nationalist terrorism, and Boebert

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So, it's not unknown for extremely hardline Christian Nationalist churches to be openly tolerant of, if not outright heralding, Christian Nationalist terrorism (Army of God attacks against women's clinics and LGBTQIA nightclubs, even other terror attacks targeting LGBTQIA)

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And one of the things that came out *relatively* early in investigations of those who were involved in the Great Sedition was that at least *some* known Army of God terrorists were involved, including clinic bombers:

vice.com/en/article/z3v…

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And there's actually been some good writeups specifically on how Christian Nationalists, and *especially* New Apostolic Reformation types, REALLY riled up their members leading up to the Great Sedition

bjconline.org/wp-content/upl…

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(And while the present DOJ investigation seems to be particularly focusing on two other known far-right terrorist groups--one actually banned in Canada as a terrorist org--there were associates of other "Christian Patriot" paramilitary groups as well as QAnonsense types.)

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The NAR has *heavily* used QAnonsense as a recruiting front (and has, as I noted, embraced QAnonsense, as about 85% of the QAnonsense mythos is based on NAR Satanic Panic narratives), and there has been crossover of Christian Nationalist terrorism related to QAnonsense

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And it's come out that a non-negligible number of Congresspersons apparently asked Trump for preemptive pardons before he left office, in many cases asking specifically for pardons relating to J6: news.yahoo.com/news/members-c…

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While there has been, to date, one specific Congressperson who's been implicated definitively (Scott Perry), there are names that have come out as well in press (though yet to be confirmed in the J6 Hearings).

One of these names: Lauren Boebert.

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And that gets *really* interesting, considering that...as early as a few days after the Great Sedition, there were multiple Congresspersons who noted they had tried to raise concerns about whether Boebert led persons on recon tours of Congress washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01…

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My own Congressman was one of the first to actually sound the alert on this, especially as tours of Congress had been suspended at the time due to covid.

So it was pretty damn weird, especially as they were apparently going into areas not open on normal congressional tours

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34 members of Congress asked for a formal investigation.

One of the Congresspersons from GA implicated in these surprise tours lied to the J6 committee re tours given on the day before the Great Sedition.

coloradonewsline.com/briefs/jan-6-i…

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And in apparent snarky commentary on the accusations, Boebert went on to accuse an Orthodox Jewish group (who were doing authorized tours, after Congressional tours had opened back up) if they were "doing reconnaisance" businessinsider.com/boebert-asked-…

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There are also still questions regarding Boebert apparently live-tweeting Speaker Pelosi's location: coloradonewsline.com/2021/01/11/rep…

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And there were enough concerns re Boebert's possible assistance to the Great Sedition that the J6 Commission has subpoenaed nearly all electronic records (including phone records, Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) re her comms on and near J6

thehill.com/policy/nationa…

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And so I expect we're probably gonna hear a lot on national TV re Christian Nationalist terrorism, but the point remains:

If your church is pushing imprecatory prayers (particularly Psalm 109:8) re POTUS, someone probably needs to be investigating y'all's asses

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