Trump Admin “Pro-Christianity” Policies | Some Christians are more equal than others

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Attacks on Catholics, Lutherans suggest new Trump approach on religion​

Allies of the president are leveling attacks on religious groups, including Catholics and Lutherans, and questioning their efforts to help migrants.

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“… One Republican president later, high-level members of the Trump administration and allies of the president are leveling attacks on religious groups, including Catholics and Lutherans, who do the same work Bush praised, questioning their efforts to help migrants.

These attacks may signal a new political approach toward religion, some experts say, one comfortable belittling faith groups — despite President Donald Trump’s self-described brand as a champion of Christians. More broadly, it has aligned some Republicans against religious groups that in some cases propelled their rise to power, Trump’s included. …”
 
“… Last month, Vice President JD Vance criticized the U.S. Catholic Church’s efforts to help immigrants and refugees, suggesting the Church is motivated by money, and alleged without evidence that it works with millions of “illegal immigrants.” (Catholic groups spend more money on immigrant services than they receive from the federal government, according to an annual financial audit.) …”
 
“… On Sunday, on the social media site X, right-wing Trump ally Mike Flynn accused Lutheran organizations that receive federal grants to help the needy of committing “money laundering.” Flynn put quote marks around the word “Lutheran” — one of America’s largest Protestant groups — in the post.

Billionaire Elon Musk’s then shared Flynn’s post, calling “illegal” multiple Lutheran organizations that work in the United States to provide health care to homeless people, run food pantries, and help migrants and refugees. “The @DOGE team is rapidly shutting down these illegal payments,” Musk said, referring to his U.S. DOGE Service, also known as the Department of Government Efficiency.

Flynn and Musk did not provide evidence to back up their allegations. A spokesperson for Musk’s DOGE office didn’t respond to a request for comment. …”

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Meanwhile, Trump has appointed a far right televangelist who speaks in tongue, Paula White, to head a newly established White House Faith Office



 
nycfan said:

Attacks on Catholics, Lutherans suggest new Trump approach on religion​

Allies of the president are leveling attacks on religious groups, including Catholics and Lutherans, and questioning their efforts to help migrants.

GIFT LINK 🎁 —> https://wapo.st/42GQ7OO

“… One Republican president later, high-level members of the Trump administration and allies of the president are leveling attacks on religious groups, including Catholics and Lutherans, who do the same work Bush praised, questioning their efforts to help migrants.

These attacks may signal a new political approach toward religion, some experts say, one comfortable belittling faith groups — despite President Donald Trump’s self-described brand as a champion of Christians. More broadly, it has aligned some Republicans against religious groups that in some cases propelled their rise to power, Trump’s included. …”
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Or, basically, some Christian groups are going to be seen as better than others. Mainline Protestant groups that are seen as more liberal - Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Quakers, etc. - will be ostracized and criticized, while more conservative churches, like Southern Baptists and many megachurches, will be favored by the new regime as long as they toe the party line and don't criticize Dear Leader or his pals like Musk. Given the size and power of the Catholic church, there might be more of an attempt to come to some kind of accommodation, but even there I doubt that Trump 2.0 will be willing to tolerate much in the way of opposition. But I'm sure that folks like Franklin Graham and Robert Jeffress will be happy to support Dear Leader from their pulpits and in public statements. America is effectively about to get an official state religion and church - the very thing that most of the Founders wanted to avoid.
 
CarolinaFever said:
Trumpers are the modern day Pharisees.
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Jesus was more or less a Pharisee. His arguments with the Pharisees--to the extent that they're historically accurate--reflect the narcissism of small differences.

The idea that being a Pharisee is bad is just another example of Christian anti-Jewishness.
 
breepf said:
Jesus was more or less a Pharisee. His arguments with the Pharisees--to the extent that they're historically accurate--involve the narcissism of small differences.

The idea that being a Pharisee is bad is just another example of Christian anti-Jewishness.
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I don't think you're getting what I am saying.
 
breepf said:
Jesus was more or less a Pharisee. His arguments with the Pharisees--to the extent that they're historically accurate--reflect the narcissism of small differences.

The idea that being a Pharisee is bad is just another example of Christian anti-Jewishness.
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I guess when Jesus called the Pharisees a "brood of vipers", he was just giving them a pet name.
 
SnoopRob said:
I guess when Jesus called the Pharisees a "brood of vipers", he was just giving them a pet name.
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Who knows? The gospel writers sure as fuck didn't know because exactly zero of them were there. Maybe Jesus did dislike the Pharisees, but it wasn't because he didn't think and act like them in 98 million ways.

And, in any case, if you're part of a movement decades later that's pissed about ongoing Jewish intransigence towards messianic and divine claims, and you're writing a biography of your founder, you're going to start throwing potshots at surrogates for the other side. It's not rocket science.
 
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