House Liberals Use Hearing on Global Religious Persecution to Decry ‘Christian Nationalism’ in America

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At a congressional hearing about global religious persecution last week, some House Democrats hijacked the event to fearmonger about a small school of political thought that espouses a position that its proponents call “Christian nationalism.”

The Oct. 25 hearing was held by the House Oversight subcommittee on national security, the border, and foreign affairs. Yet, rather than remain focused on the many urgent crises facing religious believers around the world—in Armenia, Nigeria, North Korea, and China, to name a few—Democrats chose to highlight the contrived problem of Christian nationalism in the United States.

Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee, an organization known for supporting unconstitutional bans on public symbols of faith such as the Bladensburg Peace Cross, a World War I veterans memorial in Bladensburg, Maryland, was Democrats’ witness at the hearing.

According to Tyler, the “single greatest threat to religious liberty in the United States today” is “Christian nationalism.” She defined it as “a political ideology and cultural framework that seeks to fuse American and Christian identities.”

 

Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., ignored the topic of global persecution entirely in his questioning of witnesses, instead pointing the finger at Christians in the United States.

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Speaker Mike Johnson responds to liberal media attacks on his Christian faith: 'Disgusting'

Newly elected Speaker of the House Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., responded to liberals and those in the media trashing him for his Christian faith Tuesday.

 

Johnson, an Evangelical Christian who has proudly invoked his faith in God and said the Bible is his "worldview" since being elected as the new speaker, responded to MSNBC host Jen Psaki, HBO host Bill Maher and others who trashed him for his faith, saying the attacks don’t bother him.

"Media wasn’t always so friendly to someone with a Judeo-Christian worldview, and in your case, some of the things that had been said, Politico interviewed a historian about your worldview, and this historian said you’re a Christian nationalist, it comes from that of Christian supremacy," Fox News' Kayleigh McEnany said to Johnson.

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Feds Keep Harassing Successful Christian University

It is rare to see a university publicly complain about regulatory harassment, but Grand Canyon University has good reasons to do so.

One of the largest universities in the country, GCU has 25,800 students in person and 92,000 online. It’s a Christian university, but in the eyes of intolerant federal regulators, its brief period as a for-profit university is GCU’s unforgivable sin—one that poses an existential threat to the university. In fact, the U.S. Department of Education has just announced a whopping $38 million fine that GCU is credibly disputing.

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1 hour ago, Geee said:

Daily Signal

At a congressional hearing about global religious persecution last week, some House Democrats hijacked the event to fearmonger about a small school of political thought that espouses a position that its proponents call “Christian nationalism.”

 

Oct 3, 2023

Christian Nationalism has been in the news a lot lately, but what exactly is it, what's the real problem it poses, and what does pudding have to do with it??? Skye Jethani answers these questions and shows that Christian Nationalism and the Prosperity Gospel have a lot more in common than what we might think - Jesus isn't the goal, but a means to receive what they really want. For more information about Christian Nationalism, check out these past Holy Post episodes

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A Longer take

Sep 15, 2023 #christiannationalism #sovereignnations

With Liberty & Justice For All, Session 7 Christian Nationalism is a divisive movement within evangelical circles, with some seeing it as a stabilizing force in a turbulent society while others argue it blurs the separation between Church and State, resembling totalitarian regimes. Defining Christian Nationalism is challenging, as various factions offer local interpretations, leaving room for manipulation by progressive movements through linguistic tactics. Some Reformed Christian Nationalists criticize the Woke movement's subjectivity but inadvertently adopt their own form of subjective epistemology. Popular expressions of Christian Nationalism often mix elements of Scholastic Reformed Protestantism with Hegelian social and governmental ideas and draw influence from theonomists seeking to impose ancient Israel's laws, even advocating for new blasphemy laws. These positions ignore America's foundations of religious freedom and free speech. Some segments of the movement risk undermining the Reformation's core principles in pursuit of political expediency, forgetting that the Reformation emphasized grace, faith, Christ, Scripture, and the glory of God alone, not compromising these principles for political gain. -Dr. William Roach.

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Christian Nationalism makes The Same Mistake The Social Gospel made. They put The Cart before The Horse. Is The Goal to Spread The Good News (The Gospel) Or is it to make society more amenable to Christianity? Now A Society amenable to Christianity, That's a Good Thing.

BUT That is not our primary job/goal.

"Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Matthew 28:16-20