The religion of the political right is Pseudo-Christianity

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/03/pseudo-christianity-is-political.html

Jerry Falwell and Pat Roberston formed nationwide political groups, the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition, primarily as a means of opposing abortion rights, with an appeal to the Republican party. It became difficult to distinguish partisan political positions from the brand of Biblical theology preached by Evangelicals, including open endorsements of Republican candidates from pulpits. It is a blend of partisan politics, fundamentalist theology and the white, Christian nationalism that has been part of Evangelical eschatology for a little over a hundred years.

Stephanie Messina, whose story about her exodus from the MAGA cult is linked above, provides insights as to what most of the pseudo-Christians on the political far right believe that not only identifies them as a cult, but sets them aside from mainstream Christianity, placing them into a category that I call "pseudo-Christian," because they use a lot of the language and the structure, but have actually abandoned the Christian gospel, the core teachings of Jesus.

Messina says, of her church and pastor, "We were told Trump had been chosen by God, that he was a disheveled man like David, who was also an adulterer. Trump was a 'baby Christian', meaning he had just gotten saved, so we should give him grace because we're all sinners. Since he was a new creature in Christ, you couldn't hold anything against him."

"We saw Trump as the persecuted white savior," Messina goes on. "We believed Trump's critics were just blinded by Satan, and he was fighting for us."

The problem with this is that Trump is not "a baby Christian who had just gotten saved." Trump has repeatedly rejected the Evangelical interpretation of Christian conversion. He cannot get past the step requiring acknowledgement of being a sinner in need of God's grace. He has repeatedly and publicly declared, in media interviews where he is asked, and by several of the right wing evangelists who have been at great pains to try and make him look converted.

"I haven't done anything that requires God's forgiveness," has been Trump's repeated response. So Trump is not, by his own admission, a Christian at all. So he can't be "fighting for Christians."

[Karadeniz]

1. Love this site!!!!!

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2. Some Evangelicals

[Norrrm]

3. Times change

[blm]

4. Mammonism

[lees1975]

5. If you've ever watched this clip from "The West Wing,"

Where the President humiliates the unqualified radio talk host for her literalist opinion of homosexuality, you get a glimpse into exactly the kind of thing that Christian nationalists are planning. They can't distinguish between ancient, Old Testament practice, the Christian gospel, and the humanitarian view of the latter, even though the Bible's writers, in quoting Jesus, make that completely clear.

This is where we are headed if we don't do something.

[Mariana]

6. Christianity is as Christianity does.

In 2024 63% of Protestant voters and 59% of Catholic voters cast their ballots for Trump, according to the exit polls. Trump represents Christianity as it is currently practiced in the US.