"If a politician comes along at just the right moment and says – I stand with you, I will restore you to the status quo ante, I will overturn the changes you do not like – it seems to be the most natural thing in the world for these reactionary Christian populations to be all about such politicians."
#Hitler #Nazis #Christians #Trump #BishopBudde #ChristianNationalism #authoritarianism
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"Looking again at the Nazi years, we have much evidence that can help us think ahead to worst-case scenarios and scenarios just less than worst case.
We can anticipate that reactionary majority-church Christians will applaud all kinds of steps that could be taken to set back LGBTQ+ dignity and rights. Ater all, that’s what many of these groups have been pressing for over many years time."
#Hitler #Nazis #Christians #Trump #BishopBudde #ChristianNationalism #authoritarianism #LGBTQ
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"Bystanders who are not anti-LGBTQ+ zealots but are frightened of the state and its most aggressive partners – for example, in online spaces – will do what bystanders do. They will try not to get in the way, try not to attract negative attention, will keep quiet."
#Hitler #Nazis #Christians #Trump #BishopBudde #ChristianNationalism #authoritarianism
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A.R. Moxon contrasts how Trump voters dealt with Musk's Nazi salute, and how they dealt with Bishop Budde's sermon"
"There was a quick and vigorous response to this homily from many of the same people who had just days before rushed to defend the Nazi billionaire. Their response was far less confused about the bishop's meaning than it had been about the billionaire's: As far as they were concerned, it was a vicious attack."
#BishopBudde #Musk #Nazi #salute
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