Thread by @bonhoefferchild

1/ "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

We're going to see a lot more of this kind of thing in the weeks and months to come. Here's the thing: It's not just a reaction to CK's murder. And it's not just a crass and gross grift using scripture. It isn't just rank idolatry.

2/ It also is a realignment of the MAGA/CN zeitgeist. For a decade, the MAGA/CN world has held on to Trump's molesting hands and called them holy. But oh ... how heavy those hands are and how difficult they are to defend.

3/ Make no mistake, it has been difficult for many of the compromise MAGA Christen and MAGA followers to defend Trump's idiocy, his sexual crimes, his horrific invective, etc. Some of them (not all) have grown weary of defending him so blindly and fully.

4/ It's why many of them refuse to engage when valid discussion and critiques are brought up. They simply shut down. They know they can't defend a rapist, pedophile protector, etc. But ... they CAN defend a murder victim. They can wrongly make him a demigod.

5/ Charlie, while a heavy load because of his racist comments, his dive into white christian nationalism and white cultural supremacy is a lighter load to carry that a pedophile protector and self-confessed molester. Even more, his murder gives him a cachet of innocence.

6/ Now, those that have actually read his words and heard him speak know that innocence is not what his followers make it out to be. There are inexcusable things he's done and said. But ... again ... they are far easier to ignore than anything Trump has done or said, to them.

7/ When you see these kinds of things come down the media pipe (and you will see MANY of them in the months to come) know they aren't just a grift, they aren't just a blasphemous use of scripture, they are also an attempt to sanitize MAGA in the waters of victimhood.

8/ PS: The issue with using scripture for something like this is that it destroys the witness of scripture and the Gospel. Charlie, for all his good as a person (and everyone is inhabited by both good and bad) ... was demonstrably racist.

9/ He openly used the same arguments against Jews that were used against them by Streicher in the 1930s. He belittled people from time to time, etc. To tie scripture to open racist comments is not only an act of bad faith, but an insult to the Cross.

10/ Better to celebrate that Charlie was a Christian. I'm glad he was. Now he is with the Lord and whatever hurts caused him to speak vile things from time to time has been healed within him. I wish they had been healed in him on this Earth, but evil exists and evil killed him.

11/ All the above aside, watch the MAGA/CN sphere closely for the few months. You'll probably notice many attempts to sanitize the movement, Trump, and CK using his murder as the brush. His murder was a tremendous evil, but don't let that be a cover for MAGA.

/ENDS