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Anti-Christian Nationalist Progressives seem to aim their invectives at American Christian Nationalism, but they actually strike pain into evangelical Christians. Even if our evangelical friends strongly denounce Christian nationalism, they still get scapegoated by the progressives. All this is due to anxiety stirred up by Republican Party politics. It's sad that these Christian groups fell for the sucker punch. Anti-Christian Nationalist Progressives scapegoat evangelicals

In this 2024 election cycle, I'm worried. Why? Here's Ted's Timely Take: when it's power vs goodness, most people will choose power. When it's power vs goodness, what do you elect?

No! No! UFO. That's what the U.S. Senate said to scientists clamoring for passage of the UAP Disclosure Act. But, take heart. Secretly, we know or at least hope that the Pentagon has become omnipotent by harnessing the more advanced technology reverse engineered from crashed alien spacecraft. No! No! UFO saId the US Senate.

What curdles the fibers of my soul is symbol stealing.  Christian symbols are meant to mediate divine grace to forlorn and sin-sick souls. The cynicism endemic to American Christian nationalism subverts symbols of divine grace and redirects their energies to bolster not just patriotism but also manifest destiny, jingoism, militarism, and most importantly, the dominance of the Republical Party. What we may be witnessing is the theft of the human soul by powers that could become as destructive as...