NOTE: Especially in this election year, we CANNOT be deterred from knowing who we are and what our cultural and political responsibilities are.
Don’t Let The ‘Christian Nationalist’ Slur Shame You Into Hiding Your Faith
BY: KYLEE GRISWOLD
The aim of the ‘Christian nationalist’ smear is to bully — so that when you count the cost of faithfulness, you conclude it is too high.
A concerted effort is underway among leftist and self-styled progressive Christians to take faithful believers out of the game culturally and politically.
Politico came out swinging on Tuesday with the tired “Christian nationalist” slur in an article about a second Donald Trump term. It intended to shame conservatives who “believe that the country was founded as a Christian nation and that Christian values should be prioritized throughout government and public life” — in other words, mainstream Christians.
The Politico article closely followed last week’s release of the Rob Reiner-backed “God and Country” documentary, which also uses the “Christian nationalist” moniker and B-roll of so-called “ultra-MAGA Republicans” to scare viewers away from basic Christian beliefs.
Just before that came the “He Gets Us” Super Bowl foot-washing ad, which twisted Jesus’ teaching on the cleansing of sin to paint politically engaged conservative Christians, such as vocal pro-lifers, as hateful. As The Daily Wire’s Megan Basham wrote on X, “[E]very foot washer in the scenes where a political subtext was present was someone who would be perceived as conservative (including the one that differentiated the foot washer from prolife protestors outside an abortion clinic). And this was juxtaposed against the message ‘Jesus Didn’t Teach Hate.’ So the inference seems to be that the stereotypical conservative Christian in those scenarios practices hate, unlike Jesus.”
These aren’t the first three examples, and they won’t be the last. For much more tangible attacks, look at how Joe Biden’s Justice Department has gone after Christians as “domestic terrorists” and targeted pro-life parents like this father of 11, who was recently convicted for praying outside an abortion facility and now faces up to 11 years behind bars and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines.
The goal of all these assaults, whether verbal or legal, is the same. It’s to bully faithful Christians out of participation in public life.
If you defend traditional marriage, unborn human life, national sovereignty, the immutability of the sexes, the importance of virtue in self-government, the risks of oral contraception, or the divine origins of life and liberty — Politico attacks all of these — you’re a “Christian nationalist.” Don’t oppose pro-abortion Democrats or protest Planned Parenthood’s profit- and eugenics-motivated killings, or you could be ripped from your newly impoverished family for a decade. If you take your faith seriously, you’re on par with bombers and mass shooters.
The aim is to threaten and harass and shame — so that when you count the cost of faithfulness, you conclude it’s too high.
I’m not talking about necessarily a formal and total renunciation of the faith. Those hurling the “Christian nationalist” insult aim not immediately to apostatize but first to neuter you, to make you think twice before you protest pornography in your library, run for school board, post about border security on Facebook, or vote for Republicans. The amount of embarrassment you feel about your religious beliefs shares an inverse relationship with your ability to convert those beliefs into political realities.
So how are Christians to react to these attacks? First, if it’s not clear already, reject your ideological opponents’ mischaracterization of you. Frankly, the “Christian nationalism” label is lazy and meaningless.
Politico Reporter Embarrasses Herself Attempting To Defend ‘Christian Nationalism’ Smears
Politico reporter Heidi Przybyla is in meltdown mode after receiving much-deserved blowback for penning a scaremongering report about how a second term of Donald Trump will bring about a wave of so-called “Christian nationalism.”
In their lengthy diatribe published Tuesday, Przybyla and co-author Alexander Ward warned that Christians close to Trump are secretly plotting to advance America’s founding Judeo-Christian values should the former president defeat Joe Biden this November.
These “Christian nationalists” (A.K.A. mainstream Christians), the two wrote, represent an existential threat to the republic because they believe America “was founded as a Christian nation and that Christian values should be prioritized throughout government and public life.”
Every member of every other religion can do so, but it’s horrible when Christians support policies that align with their faith! Also, it’s evil to love what made America great: its Founders repeatedly acknowledging that without Christianity, there can be no self-government.
Given her clear inability to understand basic facts about the American founding and Christianity, it wasn’t shocking to witness Przybyla present her lunacy to MSNBC viewers on Friday.
“The one thing that unites them as Christian nationalists — not Christians by the way, because Christian nationalists is very different — is that they believe that our rights as Americans, as all human beings, don’t come from any earthly authority; they don’t come from Congress; they don’t come from the Supreme Court — they come from God,” Przybyla said.
Her full remarks on the subject are just as morally and intellectually disqualifying.
Gee, if only there were a historical document instrumental to the American founding and written by a Founding Father that contained the words: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Christian groups send letter to Politico demanding apology over reporter’s viral comments: ‘Deeply disturbing’
Politico’s Heidi Przybyla went viral for saying ‘Christian nationalists’ believe rights ‘come from God’
By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News
EXCLUSIVE – Prominent Christian groups sent a letter to Politico demanding an apology for what they call the “smearing of the Christian faith” following comments made by one of its top reporters.
In the letter addressed to Politico’s leadership on Wednesday, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Brian Burch of Catholic Vote slammed Politico national investigative correspondent Heidi Przybyla’s “disqualifying lack of knowledge of the United States of America’s founding documents and a profoundly prejudicial view toward American religious groups.”
The letter, first obtained by Fox News Digital, was in response to Przybyla’s viral remarks last week on MSNBC bashing “Christian nationalists.
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Commander, Biden’s banished German shepherd, had at least 25 biting incidents in a year
President Biden’s now-banished German shepherd Commander inflicted more damage with bite incidents than previously known.
Newly released records from the United States Secret Service to USA TODAY reveal the aggressive dog was involved in at least 25 biting incidents in less than a year.
This month, the Secret Service released 269 pages related to a Freedom of Information Act request that included email traffic with anecdotes of bites.
It included a table with the 23 incidents from October 2022 to July 2023. That doesn’t count two more incidents in September and October that finally prompted Commander’s removal.
The list showed bites to agents’ arms, hands, thighs, back, wrists, elbows, waist, chest and an agent’s ammunition magazine pouch. At least 11 of the incidents required medical attention.
Records show the dog bit White House staff, Secret Service agents and Navy staff.
In Graphics:Biter-in-chief? A timeline of Biden’s dog Commander’s biting incidents this year
In one case last summer, Commander bit an agent in the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, south of the White House’s East Colonnade. It was captured on surveillance footage, which showed the dog racing at the agent and tackling him to the ground. He received a deep laceration that required stitches.
East Wing tours were suspended that June day while maintenance crews mopped up the puddles of blood near the Booksellers Room.
In October, White House staff decided to relocate the 2-year-old dog. Previously, the conservative group Judicial Watch had revealed a tally of 10 biting incidents.
Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi reiterated this week that the department “takes the safety and wellbeing of our employees extremely seriously.”
“The incidents involving Commander were treated as workplace injuries, with events documented in accordance with Secret Service and US Department of Homeland Security guidelines,” Guglielmi wrote in an email. “While Secret Service personnel neither handle nor care for the first family’s pets, we work continuously with all applicable entities in order to minimize any adverse impacts from family pets.”
Details on biting incidents
Commander’s bites over the year happened not only on the White House grounds but also on trips to Camp David, Nantucket and Rehoboth Beach.