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Swaddled in sanctimony, bigotry and mawkish nostalgia for a time in America when white men ran everything, right-wing evangelical fabulists gathered this weekend at a Faith and Freedom confab to celebrate the "privilege twins" of Christian nationalism and white supremacy, the triumphant revoking of women's bodily autonomy, and their tawdry Jesus stand-in and cult leader, affirming, per Kari Lake, "With God on our side, nothing can stop us from taking back this country." Good God, save us.
The "nation's premier pro-faith, pro-family event," the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to MajorityConference was held over three fire-and-brimstone-and-bunkum days at the Washington Hilton. Coalition founder Ralph Reed opened the General Session by proudly noting that, thanks to SCOTUS hacks' junk jurisprudence, "Roe v. Wade (is) in the ash heap of history where it belongs." Reed also briefly addressed accusations the group has become "a cult of personality around the former president." Not so, he insisted: "The truth (is) we are a cult of only one personality, (and) that is Jesus Christ of Nazareth who is our Lord and savior” - a reassuring message, indeed, to the rest of us godless heathens. Attendees wore "Walk With Jesus" caps, declared "We do not co-parent with the government" and "Family is the greatest weapon known to mankind against tyranny," flocked to a book signing with Judge Jeanine, applauded godly wingnut Mike Huckabee for winning the Winston Churchill Lifetime Achievement Award, and attended an earlier anti-abortion rally at the Lincoln Memorial where Mike Pence decreed, “Save the babies, and we will save America."
We may have the principled, eloquent Schiff, Raskin, Sanders, AOC et al, but the predicants of Faith and Freedom summoned an impressive army of over 50 speakers, including almost a dozen GOP presidential candidates and the august likes of Hawley, Haley, Lake, D'Souza, Trey Gowdy, Ben Carson, Kayleigh McEnany, Tim Tebow, Oliver North, "America's comic" Brad Stine, the founder of Auntie Anne's Pretzels, Former Army officer Steve Russell, who wrote a book about the capture of Saddam Hussein titled "We Got Him!" and many other notables. "It is so good to be in a room with happy, warrior, freedom fighters,” said Sen.Marcia Blackburn of the crowd. "To those who believe there is no role for the unborn in Washington: You are wrong,” said Lindsey Graham. “We will restore sanity to this nation," said Ron DeSantis. "This is a time to proudly put on the full armor of God." In other words, notes Noah Berlatsky, it's time to reaffirm white Christian hegemony "as righteous and natural," and Christians as a cultural group "defined, not by belief or ethics of virtue, but by power." "The core truth of white Christianity is not the word of Jesus," he writes. "It's that they believe, first and foremost, that they should rule."
Aptly if insanely, little wonder the event's keynote speaker was a twice-impeached, twice-divorced, multi-indicted, lying, babbling, philandering, Biblically illiterate, legally-liable- for-sexual-abuse, shameless, bonkers former "president" who's declaimed "we have to bring religion back into our country" though he doesn't even know how to holda Bible, professed "no president has ever fought for Christians as hard as I have" though there's zero evidence except his vile appointment of enough SCOTUS zealots to obliterate women's right to choose, and laughably painted himself as a Christ-like victim whose enemies are God's as well. “I’m being indicted for you,” he told the devout crowd, calling each charge "a badge of honor." "Together, we’re warriors in a righteous crusade to stop the arsonists, the atheists, globalists and Marxists." In a 90-minute rant, he also vowed to "keep foreign Christian-hating Communists (and Socialists) out of America." Wild cheers for doing God's work. "Our allegiance is to our country and our Creator," said Trump, who momentarily forgot Her name but did once try to fuck her.
Badly burned Kim Phuc and other terrified Vietnamese children run from a napalm attack in1972, when Nikki Haley recalls "how simple life was." The iconic image helped turn public opinion against the war.Photo by Nick Ut
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Swaddled in sanctimony, bigotry and mawkish nostalgia for a time in America when white men ran everything, right-wing evangelical fabulists gathered this weekend at a Faith and Freedom confab to celebrate the "privilege twins" of Christian nationalism and white supremacy, the triumphant revoking of women's bodily autonomy, and their tawdry Jesus stand-in and cult leader, affirming, per Kari Lake, "With God on our side, nothing can stop us from taking back this country." Good God, save us.
The "nation's premier pro-faith, pro-family event," the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to MajorityConference was held over three fire-and-brimstone-and-bunkum days at the Washington Hilton. Coalition founder Ralph Reed opened the General Session by proudly noting that, thanks to SCOTUS hacks' junk jurisprudence, "Roe v. Wade (is) in the ash heap of history where it belongs." Reed also briefly addressed accusations the group has become "a cult of personality around the former president." Not so, he insisted: "The truth (is) we are a cult of only one personality, (and) that is Jesus Christ of Nazareth who is our Lord and savior” - a reassuring message, indeed, to the rest of us godless heathens. Attendees wore "Walk With Jesus" caps, declared "We do not co-parent with the government" and "Family is the greatest weapon known to mankind against tyranny," flocked to a book signing with Judge Jeanine, applauded godly wingnut Mike Huckabee for winning the Winston Churchill Lifetime Achievement Award, and attended an earlier anti-abortion rally at the Lincoln Memorial where Mike Pence decreed, “Save the babies, and we will save America."
We may have the principled, eloquent Schiff, Raskin, Sanders, AOC et al, but the predicants of Faith and Freedom summoned an impressive army of over 50 speakers, including almost a dozen GOP presidential candidates and the august likes of Hawley, Haley, Lake, D'Souza, Trey Gowdy, Ben Carson, Kayleigh McEnany, Tim Tebow, Oliver North, "America's comic" Brad Stine, the founder of Auntie Anne's Pretzels, Former Army officer Steve Russell, who wrote a book about the capture of Saddam Hussein titled "We Got Him!" and many other notables. "It is so good to be in a room with happy, warrior, freedom fighters,” said Sen.Marcia Blackburn of the crowd. "To those who believe there is no role for the unborn in Washington: You are wrong,” said Lindsey Graham. “We will restore sanity to this nation," said Ron DeSantis. "This is a time to proudly put on the full armor of God." In other words, notes Noah Berlatsky, it's time to reaffirm white Christian hegemony "as righteous and natural," and Christians as a cultural group "defined, not by belief or ethics of virtue, but by power." "The core truth of white Christianity is not the word of Jesus," he writes. "It's that they believe, first and foremost, that they should rule."
Aptly if insanely, little wonder the event's keynote speaker was a twice-impeached, twice-divorced, multi-indicted, lying, babbling, philandering, Biblically illiterate, legally-liable- for-sexual-abuse, shameless, bonkers former "president" who's declaimed "we have to bring religion back into our country" though he doesn't even know how to holda Bible, professed "no president has ever fought for Christians as hard as I have" though there's zero evidence except his vile appointment of enough SCOTUS zealots to obliterate women's right to choose, and laughably painted himself as a Christ-like victim whose enemies are God's as well. “I’m being indicted for you,” he told the devout crowd, calling each charge "a badge of honor." "Together, we’re warriors in a righteous crusade to stop the arsonists, the atheists, globalists and Marxists." In a 90-minute rant, he also vowed to "keep foreign Christian-hating Communists (and Socialists) out of America." Wild cheers for doing God's work. "Our allegiance is to our country and our Creator," said Trump, who momentarily forgot Her name but did once try to fuck her.
Badly burned Kim Phuc and other terrified Vietnamese children run from a napalm attack in1972, when Nikki Haley recalls "how simple life was." The iconic image helped turn public opinion against the war.Photo by Nick Ut
Swaddled in sanctimony, bigotry and mawkish nostalgia for a time in America when white men ran everything, right-wing evangelical fabulists gathered this weekend at a Faith and Freedom confab to celebrate the "privilege twins" of Christian nationalism and white supremacy, the triumphant revoking of women's bodily autonomy, and their tawdry Jesus stand-in and cult leader, affirming, per Kari Lake, "With God on our side, nothing can stop us from taking back this country." Good God, save us.
The "nation's premier pro-faith, pro-family event," the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to MajorityConference was held over three fire-and-brimstone-and-bunkum days at the Washington Hilton. Coalition founder Ralph Reed opened the General Session by proudly noting that, thanks to SCOTUS hacks' junk jurisprudence, "Roe v. Wade (is) in the ash heap of history where it belongs." Reed also briefly addressed accusations the group has become "a cult of personality around the former president." Not so, he insisted: "The truth (is) we are a cult of only one personality, (and) that is Jesus Christ of Nazareth who is our Lord and savior” - a reassuring message, indeed, to the rest of us godless heathens. Attendees wore "Walk With Jesus" caps, declared "We do not co-parent with the government" and "Family is the greatest weapon known to mankind against tyranny," flocked to a book signing with Judge Jeanine, applauded godly wingnut Mike Huckabee for winning the Winston Churchill Lifetime Achievement Award, and attended an earlier anti-abortion rally at the Lincoln Memorial where Mike Pence decreed, “Save the babies, and we will save America."
We may have the principled, eloquent Schiff, Raskin, Sanders, AOC et al, but the predicants of Faith and Freedom summoned an impressive army of over 50 speakers, including almost a dozen GOP presidential candidates and the august likes of Hawley, Haley, Lake, D'Souza, Trey Gowdy, Ben Carson, Kayleigh McEnany, Tim Tebow, Oliver North, "America's comic" Brad Stine, the founder of Auntie Anne's Pretzels, Former Army officer Steve Russell, who wrote a book about the capture of Saddam Hussein titled "We Got Him!" and many other notables. "It is so good to be in a room with happy, warrior, freedom fighters,” said Sen.Marcia Blackburn of the crowd. "To those who believe there is no role for the unborn in Washington: You are wrong,” said Lindsey Graham. “We will restore sanity to this nation," said Ron DeSantis. "This is a time to proudly put on the full armor of God." In other words, notes Noah Berlatsky, it's time to reaffirm white Christian hegemony "as righteous and natural," and Christians as a cultural group "defined, not by belief or ethics of virtue, but by power." "The core truth of white Christianity is not the word of Jesus," he writes. "It's that they believe, first and foremost, that they should rule."
Aptly if insanely, little wonder the event's keynote speaker was a twice-impeached, twice-divorced, multi-indicted, lying, babbling, philandering, Biblically illiterate, legally-liable- for-sexual-abuse, shameless, bonkers former "president" who's declaimed "we have to bring religion back into our country" though he doesn't even know how to holda Bible, professed "no president has ever fought for Christians as hard as I have" though there's zero evidence except his vile appointment of enough SCOTUS zealots to obliterate women's right to choose, and laughably painted himself as a Christ-like victim whose enemies are God's as well. “I’m being indicted for you,” he told the devout crowd, calling each charge "a badge of honor." "Together, we’re warriors in a righteous crusade to stop the arsonists, the atheists, globalists and Marxists." In a 90-minute rant, he also vowed to "keep foreign Christian-hating Communists (and Socialists) out of America." Wild cheers for doing God's work. "Our allegiance is to our country and our Creator," said Trump, who momentarily forgot Her name but did once try to fuck her.
Badly burned Kim Phuc and other terrified Vietnamese children run from a napalm attack in1972, when Nikki Haley recalls "how simple life was." The iconic image helped turn public opinion against the war.Photo by Nick Ut