'Fake Christian is mad': Trump mocked over his national prayer service criticism
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks next to Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman after delivering remarks on AI infrastructure, at the Roosevelt room at White House in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
January 21, 2025
Critics are blasting President Donald Trump following his reaction to the inaugural national prayer service in Washington Tuesday.
C-SPAN shared a video of the MAGA leader leaving the service — which took place at the Washington National Cathedral — writing: "President Trump following National Prayer Service: 'Not too exciting, was it. I didn't think it was a good service. No...They can do much better.'"
Former CNN political analyst Marc Lamont Hill replied: I thought this was a joke at first.
host Roland Martin commented: "Awww. Fake Christian is mad he was told the truth by a Christian woman"
Ron Fournier, former Washington bureau chief at The Associated Press, wrote: "This is not a Godly man.
Critics are blasting President Donald Trump following his reaction to the inaugural national prayer service in Washington Tuesday.
C-SPAN shared a video of the MAGA leader leaving the service — which took place at the Washington National Cathedral — writing: "President Trump following National Prayer Service: 'Not too exciting, was it. I didn't think it was a good service. No...They can do much better.'"
Former CNN political analyst Marc Lamont Hill replied: I thought this was a joke at first.
host Roland Martin commented: "Awww. Fake Christian is mad he was told the truth by a Christian woman"
Ron Fournier, former Washington bureau chief at The Associated Press, wrote: "This is not a Godly man.
One segment of the service that the president likely "found especially offensive," according to The Intelligencer's Ed Kilgore, was when Episcopal bishop Marian Edgar Budde looked directly at Trump, and pleaded for him to "have mercy" on immigrants and LGBTQ children "who fear for their lives" now that he has taken office again.
Alarm raised about 'unholly alliance' between Christian nationalists and billionaires
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Alex Henderson
January 20, 2025
ALTERNET
Journalist/author Katherine Stewart is known for her in-depth reporting on the Religious Right, which she has been highly critical of over the years. The titles of her books — among them, "The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children" and "The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism" — underscore her view that far-right white evangelicals and Christian nationalists pose a major threat to religious freedom in the United States.
In her book, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" — which has a February 18 release date on Amazon — Stewart warns that an alliance between Christian nationalists and billionaire oligarchs is pushing "an end to pluralistic democracy."
The Guardian's Adam Gabbatt examines the book in an article published on January 19.
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Stewart, according to Gabbatt, warns, "Money is a huge part of the story, meaning that huge concentrations of wealth have destabilized the political system. Second, lies, or conscious disinformation, is a huge feature of this movement. And third, God, because the most important ideological framework for the largest part of this movement is Christian nationalism."
Gabbatt notes that although "billionaire oligarchs" and Christian nationalists "may not seem to have much in common," the "aim" of their "unholy alliance" is "the same: bringing an end to democracy in the U.S. as we know it."
According to Stewart, "The best label I can find for the phenomenon — and I do not pretend it is a fully satisfactory label — is 'reactionary nihilism.' It is reactionary in the sense that it expresses itself as mortal opposition to a perceived catastrophic change in the political order; it is nihilistic because its deepest premise is that the actual world is devoid of value, impervious to reason, and governable only through brutal acts of will."
Stewart adds, "It stands for a kind of unraveling of the American political mind — a madness that now afflicts one side of nearly every political debate."
Gabbatt points out, however, that Stewart, in her book, "insists the situation is not hopeless."
Stewart argues, "There's no feature as of yet in the American political system that would ensure that the MAGA movement is going to rule indefinitely. And frankly, I take heart from the fact that those of us who believe in democracy and its core principles probably represent a majority and not a minority of the population. I continue to believe more Americans support a democratic political system over some sort of cronyistic, kleptocratic and theocratic system that has authoritarian features."
Read The Guardian's full article at this link.
ALTERNET
Journalist/author Katherine Stewart is known for her in-depth reporting on the Religious Right, which she has been highly critical of over the years. The titles of her books — among them, "The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children" and "The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism" — underscore her view that far-right white evangelicals and Christian nationalists pose a major threat to religious freedom in the United States.
In her book, "Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy" — which has a February 18 release date on Amazon — Stewart warns that an alliance between Christian nationalists and billionaire oligarchs is pushing "an end to pluralistic democracy."
The Guardian's Adam Gabbatt examines the book in an article published on January 19.
READ MORE: Trump’s second term could face the 'same disastrous end' as Grover Cleveland’s: presidential historian
Stewart, according to Gabbatt, warns, "Money is a huge part of the story, meaning that huge concentrations of wealth have destabilized the political system. Second, lies, or conscious disinformation, is a huge feature of this movement. And third, God, because the most important ideological framework for the largest part of this movement is Christian nationalism."
Gabbatt notes that although "billionaire oligarchs" and Christian nationalists "may not seem to have much in common," the "aim" of their "unholy alliance" is "the same: bringing an end to democracy in the U.S. as we know it."
According to Stewart, "The best label I can find for the phenomenon — and I do not pretend it is a fully satisfactory label — is 'reactionary nihilism.' It is reactionary in the sense that it expresses itself as mortal opposition to a perceived catastrophic change in the political order; it is nihilistic because its deepest premise is that the actual world is devoid of value, impervious to reason, and governable only through brutal acts of will."
Stewart adds, "It stands for a kind of unraveling of the American political mind — a madness that now afflicts one side of nearly every political debate."
Gabbatt points out, however, that Stewart, in her book, "insists the situation is not hopeless."
Stewart argues, "There's no feature as of yet in the American political system that would ensure that the MAGA movement is going to rule indefinitely. And frankly, I take heart from the fact that those of us who believe in democracy and its core principles probably represent a majority and not a minority of the population. I continue to believe more Americans support a democratic political system over some sort of cronyistic, kleptocratic and theocratic system that has authoritarian features."
Read The Guardian's full article at this link.
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