Matthew Chapman
August 15, 2024
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Former Rep. David Jolly (R-FL) tore into the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, and the organization's director Kevin Roberts, for their effort to reimpose Christian nationalism on the country.
Roberts and his ilk fundamentally misunderstand the American idea, said Jolly, a longtime Trump skeptic, on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Thursday evening — and just as important, they misunderstand the religion they claim to preach.
"Roberts expresses similar disdain like, J.D. Vance, for childless Americans," said anchor Joy Reid. "He rails against public schools. He says we need to cultivate children's souls. That public schools cultivate children's souls into godless assembly lines meant to shape obedient little comrades who think morality is a construct and nature is an illusion and saying America's teachers have gone insane. He's dead-set on the notion that America is due for a second revolution ... your thoughts on the fact that they're trying to take his very loopy ideas and make them into law?"
"Yeah, in some ways the evolution of Republican ideology, from the party of less government to the party of no government, and to get to the party of no government, you have to crush it, you have to kill it so that you can rebuild it," said Jolly. "And in rebuilding it, they currently see today's government as this agnostic force that is perverting American exceptionalism and it needs to be restored to its Christian orientation, its Christian ethos."
In reality, he said, it's Roberts and his compatriots who represent the "perversion of faith in the public square."
"The greatest empowerment to any faith in America would be a government that grants the most amount of freedom to practice that faith, not to dictate it from the courthouse, but to empower the churchhouse," said Jolly. "[The Bible] does not say go and build state capitols. It says go and build churches. Plant churches. It's not a calling to change the government. It's a calling to change hearts and minds toward the faith you choose to practice. A government that suggests — and this goes back to the Muslim ban that Donald Trump declared in December of 2015 — a government that suggests we're going to prioritize certain faiths and we are going to institute the dictates of certain faiths in our government, ultimately undermines that faith and undermines all faiths, because it delegitimizes the practice of faith in the country."
"That's the perversion of faith of Project 2025 and all these leaders that have Donald Trump's ear," he added.
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