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How White Evangelical Christians Fused With Trump Extremism
A potent mix of grievance and religious fervor has turbocharged the support among Trump loyalists, many of whom describe themselves as participants in a kind of holy war.
Supporters of President Trump stormed the United States Capitol building.Credit.Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post, via Getty Images
WASHINGTON Before self-proclaimed members of the far-right group the Proud Boys marched toward the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, they stopped to kneel in the street and prayed in the name of Jesus.
The group, whose participants have espoused misogynistic and anti-immigrant views, prayed for God to bring “reformation and revival.” They gave thanks for “the wonderful nation we’ve all been blessed to be in.” They asked God for the restoration of their “value systems,” and for the “courage and strength to both represent you and represent our culture well.” And they invoked the divine protectio
Before self-proclaimed members of the far-right group the Proud Boys marched toward the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, they stopped to kneel in the street and prayed in the name of Jesus. The group, whose participants have espoused misogynistic and anti-immigrant views, prayed for God to bring “reformation and revival.” They gave thanks for “the wonderful nation we’ve all been blessed to be in.” They asked God for the restoration of their “value systems,” and for the “courage and strength to both represent you and represent our culture well.” And they invoked the divine protection for what was to come.
But in 1962 she left Hollywood behind and became a nun.
Her story was also the subject of an Oscar-nominated short film on HBO, titled God Is the Bigger Elvis, released in 2012. Today, Hart receives hundreds of letters from people across the country seeking guidance on having a closer relationship with God.
As you age,
When I finally get on the phone with Sanjay Gupta, M.D., in March, after he has rescheduled three times because he’s prepping for CNN’s first COVID-19 town hall, he’s relieved to be talking about something positive: brain science. “We’re seeing evidence that lifestyle changes can significantly improve brain health and even reverse brain disease,” he says. “That may not sound that significant, except that we really never thought of the brain that way until recently. We thought of the heart that way, and some other organs, but the brain was always this black box.”
Nashville Tennessean
Two conservative Tennessee pastors were among the throngs of people gathered Wednesday in Washington, D.C. when a pro-President Donald Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, disrupting Congress while the certification of Joe Biden as the country s next commander in chief was underway.
Pastor Steve Berger, who leads Grace Chapel in Williamson County, and Pastor Greg Locke, of Global Vision Bible Church in Wilson County, denounced the riot that shocked the nation and the watching world, but they repeated unsubstantiated claims that supporters of the antifascist protest movement, Antifa, were the instigators. I m all for peaceful protests, Berger said in a Wednesday night Facebook live video. Peaceful protests: yes; violence: no. There s no reason for it.