#WhiteChristiansMatter

https://www.yahoo.com/news/rejecting-christian-nationalism-jesus-083840366.html 

In 1915, the Ku Klux Klan found revival at Stone Mountain in Georgia in a ceremony that included a U.S. flag and a Holy Bible placed on an altar before a burning cross.

More than a century later, today’s generation of white supremacists are following in their political ancestors’ footsteps, explicitly and proudly embracing the label of “Christian nationalist.” Some are even going so far as to sell merch, with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) hawking “exclusive” shirts emblazoned with “Proud Christian Nationalist.”

Even before she began advertising the shirts on Instagram with the call to stand against the “Godless Left,” Greene told an interviewer that the Republican Party needs “ to be the party of nationalism and I’m a Christian, and I say it proudly, we should be Christian nationalists.”

It’s not the first time she has embraced the label. And it’s a dangerous turn of events that requires active, loud opposition from all of us, especially from American Christians, for whom Greene and her allies claim to speak.

As a pastor, if there’s one thing I understand, it’s that Christian nationalism is unchristian and unpatriotic. Academic researchers define the authoritarian ideology as a political worldview—not a religion—that unconstitutionally and unbiblically merges Christian and American identities, declaring that democracy does not matter because America is a “Christian nation” where only conservative Christians count as true Americans.

If there’s any doubt that this is the heart of Christian nationalism, consider these two examples. First, last fall former Trump aide Michael Flynn stood in a Texas megachurch known for its antisemitic pastor and told a crowd chanting “Let’s Go Brandon” that America should have only “one religion.” Then only last month, America First Legal—whose board includes top Trump allies Stephen Miller and Mark Meadows—issued a statement asking the Supreme Court to let the 50 states create official state churches and “establish religion within their borders,” claiming that the First Amendment only applies to the federal government.

The clear goal of Christian nationalism is to seize power only for its mostly white evangelical and conservative Catholic followers, no matter who else gets hurt or how many elections have to be overturned. This is the unholy force that incited the failed coup of Jan. 6, 2021, brought us the recent spate of theocratic Supreme Court opinions, and has inspired multiple wave upon wave of dangerous misinformation about elections, climate change, and COVID-19—all in direct contrast to Jesus’ teachings of love, truth, and the common good.

Whether they speak from the halls of power or the front of a sanctuary, Rep. Greene and her ilk know exactly what they are doing when they so proudly embrace the label of Christian nationalist. Each explicit declaration of Christian nationalism is a blatant attempt to pull the wool over people’s eyes and make the anti-democracy extremist ideology seem safe and more palatable, distracting us from the right’s project of seizing power to remake America into a theocracy in their image—a nation where the LGBTQ community, people of color, and non-Christians all lose rights while evangelicals and conservative Catholics are put permanently in charge.

Keep in mind that this is a Christian pastor that is writing this. He would much rather see a country ran by the "Godless Left" than one by white Christians. Is that weird to you?

This "pastor" is more worried about the "rights" of gays, atheists and blacks than he is about white Christians. How does that make any sense?

What about the "rights" of white Christians? Why don't they matter?

A Christian pastor rejecting the concept of a Christian nation would be like homosexuals taking flamboyant pride in their voluntary elimination of the gene pool.

I wonder if the good pastor would have an issue with Christian Nationalism if it were spearheaded by black lives matter. Or by feminists. Or homosexuals.

Yahoo is essentially an anti-white tabloid, so the fact that they are running this pastor's critiques of Christian Nationalism (2nd article they have posted of his in the last week) shouldn't be surprising. But the language he uses in his critiques made me suspect that he wasn't the average Christian pastor. I assumed he was homosexual, or perhaps Jewish. Thus, I decided to look him up:

The Rev. Nathan Empsall is a justice-focused Christian organizer, the executive director of Faithful America, the founding editor of Episcopal Climate News, a priest associate at an Episcopal parish in New Haven, CT, and a member of the Episcopal Church’s Task Force on Care of Creation and Environmental Racism.

Rev. Nathan’s motto is “God loves you. Accept it, and spread it!” For Rev. Nathan, “spreading love” means focusing his ministry on social, environmental, economic, and racial justice. We love the victims of oppression and discrimination as Jesus loves them by doing everything we can to lift up and echo their voices, end that oppression and discrimination, and create space for healing. As the Mother of Christ sang, God “has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty.”

Rev. Nathan affirms the equality and God-given dignity of all LGBTQ persons, and believes that no one can truthfully say all lives matter until we have achieved a society where Black lives matter.

Apparently, the pastor loves everyone.... except white Christians who advocate for a Christian society. Or those who reject climate change, diversity, homosexuality, BLM, feminism, abortion and/or the godless left.

It doesn't surprise me that he is Episcopalian. I attended an Episcopal church once. The pastor was reading scripture from the new testament. He was reading the very words of Jesus. In those words Jesus was critical of Jews, so the pastor censored that part.

It's not up to me judge people's souls. But I find it hard to believe that Jesus would leave us his word and want it censored by those who claim to represent him. The term used to describe that is blasphemy. 

Nathan Empsall isn't just an anti-white hypocrite; he's a blasphemer, too. 

Leviticus 18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.