In a White Christian Nationalist World, Salvation Belongs to the Government Not God
A far-right political plan aims to make the federal government an engine of ultra-conservative Christian policy.
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In a White Christian Nationalist World, Salvation Belongs to the Government Not God
In an MSNBC article from Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, author of Just Faith: Reclaiming Progressive Christianity, he states that “the government does not need to worry about saving souls.”
For many, this seems like a self-evident truth, but Graves-Fitzsimmons is sounding the alarm about the white Christian nationalism embedded in Project 2025. I wrote about this far-right plan to be a “government-in-waiting” for Trump, or whoever the next Republican president might be, last week.
But, as Graves-Fitzsimmons points out, “the plan’s theocratic elements have gone unscrutinized.”
The plan takes aim at COVID-19 restrictions as a nefarious attempt on the part of the a liberal government to attack the ability of religious institutions such as churches to meet in-person.
One section asks, “how much risk mitigation is worth the price of shutting down churches on the holiest day of the Christian calendar and far beyond as happened in 2020? What is the proper balance of lives saved versus souls saved?”
